Congratulations to the NextGen Innovation Award winner, Streetlives for launching GoGetta!

Congratulations to the NextGen Innovation Award winner, Streetlives for launching GoGetta! 

Streetlives, a non-profit that builds tech resources with and for vulnerable communities in New York City, launched their first tech resource this week.  GoGetta is a community-built mobile website that provides real-time, peer and provider validated social service information. Essentially it is a “yelp for social services” that enables people with lived experience of homelessness to share what they know about resources and services and find what they need.

Streetlives founder, Adam Bard credits the $5,000 NextGen Innovation Award he received in January at Celebrating Innovation for enabling the team to launch GoGetta during the pandemic. The award money was used, in part, to build a paid, part-time team of service verifiers.  

Mr. Bard shared that moving up the launch date once the pandemic hit became important because “people don’t want to get on the subway right now and so they need to find service providers that are closer to them.”  

Since the launch earlier this week, a young man let the Streetlives team know that he needed shoes and didn’t know where to get them. With the help of GoGetta he learned that there is a clothing pantry right around the corner from him that he hadn’t known existed. The man now has new shoes! 

Congratulations to the entire Streetlives team on the launch of GoGetta. We look forward to partnering with them for years to come.