News BallotReady to Reach 50 Million Voters in All 50 States More than 15 million Americans have turned 18 since the 2016 election, and 63% of Americans ages 18 – 29 plans to vote in the 2020 General Election, according to...
News Voter Education Platform BallotReady Will Expand to All 50 States by 2018 BallotReady, the voter education platform cofounded by Aviva Rosman and Alex Niemczewski out of University of Chicago, is ready to be the go-to voting guide across 50 states by 2018. This...
News SNVC Alum BallotReady is Helping Prepare Voters for the 2020 Election To celebrate Women’s History Month, an annual declared month that highlights the contributions of women to events in history and contemporary society, the Polsky Center is highlighting women in its...
News BallotReady Goes National with New Election Guides on 20,000 Candidates While some voters already know who they’ll support for president come November, the rest of the ballot is a mystery for many. Chicago startup BallotReady wants to help voters fill in the...
News Breaking Down the Election With BallotReady On this week’s podcast, Karis heads to the Polsky Exchange North in Hyde Park to catch up with Aviva Rosman and Alex Niemczewski, cofounders of BallotReady, a voter education platform...
News BallotReady Raises $1.5M to Expand Its Voter Guide Platform Nationwide BallotReady announced that it has raised $1.5M in a seed round that will help the company expand its service to all 50 states by the fall midterm elections. Investors in the round...
News BallotReady Wants to Help Decode Your Intimidatingly Long Voting Ballot In 2012, Alex Niemczewski was a recent University of Chicago graduate with a background in nonprofit community work—young, well-educated, civic-minded. As you might expect, she went to cast a ballot....
News The 10 Days of Polsky: Looking Back at 2020 The past year was unlike any we’ve experienced before. Despite the many challenges caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic, we stayed focused on advancing our Polsky Center mission. We authored...
News Polsky Center Receives $30,000 National Science Foundation Grant for Female STEM Entrepreneurs Yesterday, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced that the University of Chicago was one of eight Innovation Corps (I-Corps™) sites and nodes across the nation that have been selected for their Inclusive...
News 20 in Their 20s 2017 Crain’s 20 in their 20’s | 2017 features BallotReady co-founders Alex Niemczewski and Aviva Rosman. Read their profile here.
News Polsky Center Announces 2017 Summer Accelerator Cohort The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is pleased to announce the latest cohort of the Polsky Accelerator, a 10-week intensive summer program designed for both for-profit and not-for-profit startups to...
Page 2014-2015 I-Corps Teams Autumn 2014 ExplORer Surgical has developed a real-time operating room workflow management software, designed to optimize surgical team performance, communication, and coordination. Game Changer Chicago Design Lab uses game play and game...
