Identifying Local Opportunities

• Helping hands, hearts
• http://www.gadcotimes.com/content/helping-hands-hearts
• A Catholic church in Quincy, FL does a drive, run by a woman named Huapilla, to collect items for families in Immokalee that were affected by Hurricane Irma. They wanted to collect any and everything a family would need to start over.
• The Problem: Hurricane Irma destroyed business and a plethora of homes in South Florida, leaving families to start all over again from scratch.
• The People: Everyone affected by Hurricane Irma has this problem.
• Lawsuit: Walmart worker fired after caring for sick child
• http://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2017/08/24/lawsuit-walmart-worker-fired-after-caring-sick-child/598485001/
• After calling into work to take his sick child to the hospital, which would have fallen under FMLA, without notice, a Walmart cashier was terminated from the job two weeks later. He even presented a doctor’s note after he was wrongfully terminated to provide proof of his story.
• The Problem: One of its former Tallahassee Walmart cashiers is suing Walmart. They are firing employees for calling out to take care of family emergencies that would fall under FMLA.
• The People: The company of Walmart as a whole has the problem because the cashier is suing Walmart
• Whataburger sued over alleged racial discrimination
• http://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2017/09/22/whataburger-sued-over-alleged-racial-discrimination/694535001/
• A Whataburger manager was “pressured” to hire only applicants. Instead, the restaurant general manager to hire the most qualified applicants. This restaurant general manager was repeatedly hounded, verbally and emotionally abused, to the point where she felt as if she had to resign. U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sought to make Whataburger to keep from engaging in in such acts and ruled on the side of the general restaurant manager ask that they give her back pay, reinstate her, and pay her retributive damages.
• The Problem: Whataburger violated the 1964 Civil Rights Act having employment discrimination.
• The People: Whataburger has the problem.
• Parents divided in opinion after gender neutral teacher sends note home with 5th graders           
• http://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2017/09/20/parents-divided-opinion-after-gender-neutral-teacher-sends-home-note-5th-graders/685061001/
• A teacher at Canopy Oaks elementary school sent home a welcome letter with her students that asked students to address her using gender-specific pronouns.
• The Problem: Some of the parents do not as if the teacher is addressing gender issues or even bringing them to the forefront by stating her preference in how she is addressed.
• The People: The parents of the students in Bressack’s, the teacher, classroom are the ones who have the problem.
• With Irma lurking, Tallahassee shoppers empty stores of hurricane supplies
• http://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/money/2017/09/05/panic-sheer-panic/633974001/
• While Hurricane Irma was on its way towards its capital, people running into stores emptying the stores of hurricane supplies so that they could be reedy when the storm hit. It cost lots of chaos and caused gas prices to increase significantly.
• The Problem: Stores in Tallahassee were being emptied of hurricane supplies quicker than they could get more shipments in and on the shelves.
• The People: The stores and their vendors have the problem, but the customers of those stores are also affected.