How GRADIENT BUILDERS works: from a community need to deployment
We explain the model: why we do not hand out money for other people’s projects but assemble teams around a specific task.
We opened a survey of veterans' needs
Before building technology for veterans, we want to hear the people we are building for. The survey is anonymous.
We opened a survey about the needs of veterans. Before building technology for people, we want to hear those people.
Anonymous · a few minutes · results will be published
Why we start here
The easiest way to build something nobody needs is to invent the need from a desk. In technology for veterans this happens constantly: applications appear that nobody uses, because they solve a problem that does not exist and miss the one that does.
How it works
- Anonymity
- The survey runs in Google Forms without collecting contact details.
- Time
- A few minutes.
- Results
- We will publish the aggregated answers openly. They may be useful to other organisations working with the same audience.
If you represent a veterans' community, please share the survey. Write to hello@gradientcenter.org and we will send ready-made text and a banner.
What happens next
The results will shape the priorities of our health and accessibility work — telerehabilitation, digital mental health, assistive technology. That is clause 3.2.4 of the Statute, and it is where the need is greatest and the supply smallest.
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Statute and five policies — published in full
We published the statute and internal policies in their entirety, not as extracts. Why do this before the first grant.
Share the survey
If you represent a veteran community, write to us and we will send ready text and a banner.