{"id":22592,"date":"2025-09-04T15:25:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T19:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/?p=22592"},"modified":"2025-09-04T15:25:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T19:25:30","slug":"volunteer-with-tappy-guide-udm-students-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/2025\/09\/04\/volunteer-with-tappy-guide-udm-students-needed\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteer with Tappy Guide, UDM students needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tappyguide.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-22591\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2025\/09\/Tappy.jpg?resize=300%2C148&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A graphic of several people, one in wheelchair and one in walker, some are volunteers, under the text: Volunteers needed.\" width=\"300\" height=\"148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2025\/09\/Tappy.jpg?resize=300%2C148&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2025\/09\/Tappy.jpg?w=748&amp;ssl=1 748w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>Tappy Guide<\/a> is seeking\u00a0Detroit Mercy student volunteers\u00a0to support their mission of making communities more accessible and inclusive.<\/p>\n<p>Tappy Guide is a smart city solution revolutionizing mobility and accessibility for people with disabilities and older adults. Their cutting-edge app connects people with disabilities and older adults to live human agents (Tappy guides) to assist them in navigating public spaces safely and confidently.<\/p>\n<p>If you are looking for consistent and flexible volunteer opportunities, this could be the perfect fit! Tappy Guide needs volunteers to serve as agents guiding the public while the program runs seven days a week, morning until the evening.<\/p>\n<p>To get involved or for more information, please email John at <a href=\"mailto:john@tappyguide.com\">john@tappyguide.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volunteer positions are available at Tappy Guides, where students can assist older adults and those with disabilities with navigating publics spaces safely and confidently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":677,"featured_media":22591,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4404],"tags":[3104,7050,7052,7051,3815,3817,15],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2025\/09\/Tappy.jpg?fit=748%2C368&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbwnTV-5So","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22592"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22592"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22594,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22592\/revisions\/22594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}