Stage 4 Cancer Led Her to Build a Search Engine for Good with Dvora Inwood
Dvora Inwood is co-founder and Head of Product at Samaritan Scout, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that built the first AI-powered search engine dedicated to connecting people with local, in-person volunteer opportunities.
The idea started with her daughter, a high school freshman who kept running into a wall trying to find real, nearby service hours, only to find Google surfacing large national organizations and outdated directories with nothing local. When Dvora was diagnosed with stage four colon cancer in 2022, the recovery gave her the time and urgency to finally build it.
She launched Samaritan…
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