Accenture supports 2024 Mission Possible Award recipients in identifying a software application to enhance their ability to protect children and empower parents
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The Lantern Project is dedicated to eradicating human trafficking, enslavement, and exploitation by fostering community empowerment through education and identification. According to the organization, human trafficking and exploitation – including sex trafficking, forced labor, and debt bondage – is the fastest-growing criminal activity worldwide. The Lantern Project is on a mission to protect children and empower parents as men, women, and children are subjected to trafficking and exploitation for sex work, pornography, forced domestic and agricultural labor, organ harvesting, surrogacy, ova harvesting, and debt slavery.
The Lantern Project’s awareness and education initiatives are primarily conducted via in-person presentations, supplemented by video content on their website. However, the content is not sufficiently customizable for their diverse audience segments, which include families, businesses, and churches. Additionally, they face challenges in content utilization tracking and obtaining prompt user feedback for content enhancement. Feedback mechanisms are limited to monthly email polls, which may not capture timely responses. To address these challenges, The Lantern Project proposed adopting a Learning Management System (LMS). They hope this platform will enable them to reach a wider audience, customize content for specific demographics, gather immediate training feedback, and conserve staff resources by minimizing the need for in-person sessions.
2024 Charlotte Mission Possible Award Winner
As the recipient of Apparo’s 2024 Mission Possible Award, The Lantern Project will partner with an Accenture skilled volunteer team to assess their current state of managing the organization’s education and training, identify and document business requirements for a learning management system, schedule and attend vendor demos and evaluating potential solutions. Through this Community Impact Project, volunteers will empower The Lantern Project to make the best decision for their organization and assist with implementation of the new software.
The team anticipates that a new learning management software will fundamentally change how The Lantern Project reaches their audience while reducing the staff time required. Additionally, the LMS will enable the organization to tailor content more granularly to specific target groups. The LMS will also allow The Lantern Project to better measure the use of content by these groups, measure engagement with the content, and get more structured feedback immediately after content has been used. The Lantern Project expects to shift a significant amount of their in-person presentations to online content delivery through the LMS.
The Lantern Project Nonprofit Team: Simon Arkley
Accenture Skilled Volunteer Team: Simon Pfister, Marcel Verolme, Aran Belady
Sponsor: Accenture
