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Women entrepreneurs face greater challenges in accessing financial capital than men.\n- **Crowdfunding** is a viable alternative of funding for women entrepreneurs as trustworthiness is an important factor and people are more likely to support **female entrepreneurs**.\n- **Gender lens scores** should be included in companies' weighting in indices, including ESG-based indices. **As female-run startups generated 78 cents in revenue for every dollar of investment raised**, outperforming their male counterparts despite raising less money.\n\n## Who can use FairShare?\n1. Entrepreneurs looking for crowdfunding as an alternative of traditional funding.\n2. Investors/mentors looking to invest or give back to the community.\n\n## What it is capable of?\n1. **Crowdfunding:** FareShare is a crowdfunding platform (both equity and reward) for women-led businesses who seek alternative funding and an investment gateway for gender lens investing.\n2. **Gender Lens Investing Gateway:** Apart from investing in crowdfunding campaigns, investors are given avenues to diversify their investment via the gender equality funds list(source: genderequalityfunds.org, which is ranked by gender equality scores).\n3. **Gender Toolkit:** The app has a gender lens toolkit with three features:\n    - Gender Lens Scorecard Test\n    - Investor Risk Profiler\n    - Media Analyzer using Natural Language Processing\n4. **Benchmarking (Gender Equality Funds and Equity Index):** The Gender Lens Mutual Fund features a list of mutual funds with their performances over the years and ranked based on the gender lens score.\n5) **Dashboard and Login:** The dashboard keeps track of and updates the user's crowdfunding campaigns and investments. The user can log in securely using an encrypted password or Google login.\n\n## Technology Stack\n\u003cp align=\"center\"\u003e\n  \u003cimg src=\"https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/77505989/226122941-ad557186-a081-4d67-91bc-04a68d6135e9.png\" alt=\"TECH\" /\u003e\n\u003c/p\u003e\n\n## Setup\n\n### Dependencies\n\n- Run `npm install` in project directory. This will install server-related dependencies such as `express`.\n- `cd client` and run `npm install`. This will install client dependencies\n\n### Database Prep\n\n- Access the MySQL interface in your terminal by running `mysql -u root -p`\n- Create a new database called fairsharedb: `create database fairsharedb;`\n- Create a `.env` file in project directory and add\n\n```bash\n  DB_NAME=fairsharedb\n  DB_PASS=YOURPASSWORD\n  JWT_SECRET=YOURSECRET\n```\n\n- Replace `YOUR_PASSWORD` with your actual password\n\n- Run `npm run migrate` in the main folder of this repository, in a new terminal window. This will create 4 tables (applications, events, organizations and users) in your database.\n\n### Run Your Development Servers\n\n- Run `npm start` in project directory to start the Express server on port 5000\n- `cd client` and run `npm start` to run your development build. The app will run on `http://localhost:8080` as the default port.\n\n\n\n## Future Prospects\n- AI-advising which can be iterated on the gender lens scorecard and investor profiler.\n- AI/ML modelling that uses the quantitative data gathered from the platform and trains these models using unbiased data so women in finance have equal opportunity.\n- A networking platform for our app members to connect with bigger NGO/ other organizations with community projects\n\n## Creators\n- [Manasvi Singh Chauhan](https://github.com/Alcyone713)\n- [Kartik Mehta](https://github.com/kartikmehta8)\n\n\u003ch2\u003e\n    \u003cp align=\"center\"\u003e\n        Invest in gender equality, change the world.\n    \u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/h2\u003e\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fkartikmehta8%2Ffairshare","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fkartikmehta8%2Ffairshare","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fkartikmehta8%2Ffairshare/lists"}