Thursday, June 11, 2020
Slingshot Aerospace Creates Online Mapping Tool For Food Help
Los Angeles-based Slingshot Aerospace, a startup which normally develops situational intelligence software, is helping to address some of the major issues to emerge out of the global COVID-19 pandemic, by helping to create an online mapping tool for finding food help. The company said it has partnered with 211 Los Angeles County, the official information and referral source for health and human services in LA County, to launch an online mapping tool helping LA county residents in need locate over 2,000 free or low-cost food resources. The tool--211 LA FoodFinder--lets residents of LA County find child food resources, meal services, grocery and food pantries, senior food programs, and also government food benefit programs. The company said it used a customized version of its Slingshot Earth mapping tool to provide all of those resources.