Lucas Fernández, a 17-year-old boy, has developed an innovative tool that allows event organizers (such as birthdays or anniversaries, among others) to design personalized invitations in just a few steps and manage attendees.
This is ‘Small Foundation Solidarity Gift’, a 100% digital social entrepreneurship project that totally benefits the Small Foundation for childhood cancer. Behind, there is more than a year of work to achieve the final result.
As he explained the project in a statement, it was born from Lucas’ solidarity experience. From his first birthdays, “the invitations not only indicated the details of the birthday such as the place or the time” but also had a message indicating that “if they were going to give him a gift, that this be a donation to a foundation”.
To complete this objective, the boy left a shoe box next to the chips or sandwiches that made the party lively. And so he celebrated his birthday, like his brothers, “who year after year accumulated gifts for others.”
Over the years, the young man wanted to embrace new challenges, “and combining his altruistic spirit with his capacity for work and perseverance” he transformed, thanks to technology, this solidarity experience “into an innovative tool at the service of the community, and for the benefit of the Small Foundation and children with cancer”. This is how ‘Small Foundation Solidarity Gift’ was born.
Once the project was designed and had its feasibility plan, Lucas presented it to various associations, being the Small Foundation the one that supported it financially.
Founded in 2007, the Small Foundation is dedicated to the fight against cancer. All of its income is allocated to social projects and it has carried out numerous actions since its creation, “with important projects” in hospitals in Barcelona.
According to the statement, the development of the project between the young man and said foundation “has meant intense work defining all the steps, functions, texts, designs of the tool, in coordination with the programmers and designers”.
Lucas took care of incorporating the legal aspects, including tax aspects, and the payment gateways that allow the gift, a donation, to be made “in a safe and practical way.” He also used some social networks, in addition to traditional media, to publicize the initiative, including the production of a video created by Borja Zausen’s production company.
In the case of the Small Foundation, Laura Lucaya and Nacho Mercade were the coordinators of the financial support for the project. For their part, Joaquin Ozores and Carlos Monge from the 101 agency participated in the technical development of the website.