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awesome-techforgood
A selection of projects, organisations and useful tools for social-impact tech
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Accelerators, incubators and fellowships
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Accelerators
- Bethnal Green Ventures - for tech for good startups, invests £20,000 for 6% equity.
- CARE ScaleXDesign - to combat and reduce the underlying causes of poverty and social injustice.
- Digital Impact - 10-month programme for tech for good startups 3 years old or younger.
- Bethnal Green Ventures - for tech for good startups, invests £20,000 for 6% equity.
- CARE ScaleXDesign - to combat and reduce the underlying causes of poverty and social injustice.
- Climate KIC - 18-month programme for cleantech startups.
- Digital Impact - 10-month programme for tech for good startups 3 years old or younger.
- Dotforge - for startups and social enterprises in the North of England.
- EPIC Cambodia - Phnom Penh, Cambodia - 1-year Impact Hub programme supporting Cambodian tech for good startups with $20,000.
- Fast Forward - equipping tech nonprofits with the financial and human capital necessary to scale
- Fuse - product accelerator for established nonprofits, run by CAST.
- Tech for Good Asia - four-month tech for good startup accelerator.
- The Engine - MIT's startup accelerator offering comprehensive support for entrepreneurs committed to societal impact through scientific and technological breakthroughs.
- Zinc - 6-month programme for social tech innovators to create and launch new businesses that tackle a specific mission.
- Digital Impact - 10-month programme for tech for good startups 3 years old or younger.
- Tech for Good Asia - four-month tech for good startup accelerator.
- Thinktech - €1 million fund backing tech based solutions to Ireland’s critical social issues, from Social Innovation Fund Ireland and Google.org.
- Climate KIC - 18-month programme for cleantech startups.
- Tech for Good Asia - four-month tech for good startup accelerator.
- Digital Impact - 10-month programme for tech for good startups 3 years old or younger.
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Incubators
- Blue Ridge Labs - incubator for tech for good ventures in NYC.
- Liberte Living Lab - collaborative workspace for tech, civic and social innovation.
- Norrsken Foundation - tech for good incubator established by Niklas Adalberth, founder of Klarna.
- Léman Innovation Numérique - a regional consortium of actors/orgs for sustainable change and responsibility in technical and digital innovations.
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Fellowships
- CAST Digital Fellowship - for CEOs and Directors of nonprofits.
- New America Public Interest Technology Fellowship - applying civic tech knowledge and skills to public service and policymaking
- SCVO One Digital Senior Leadership programme - for leaders of Scottish nonprofit frontline service providers and digital inclusion organisations.
- Stanford PACS - annual post-doctoral fellowship with the Stanford Digital Civil Society Lab.
- Outlandish - grants of £5k-£25k for Fellows to develop their own tech for good projects.
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Funders
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Angels and impact investors
- ClearlySo
- ClearlySo
- ClearlySo
- Growth4Good
- Mustard Seed
- Invest-in-Change - Mailing list connecting angel investors with impact companies.
- Mustard Seed
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Grants
- Comic Relief - for charities who want to build digital products and services.
- Digital Impact Grants - formerly Good Data Grants. Supports research and innovation to strengthen the safe, ethical, and effective use of digital resources in civil society.
- Elrha's Humanitarian Innovation Fund - supports organisations to develop, test and share new technologies, products and processes that will make humanitarian aid more effective and cost-efficient in the future.
- DotEveryone Grants for Fairer Tech Events - £500 grants to promote diversity and accessibility of tech event speakers, organisers and attendees.
- ICO Grants Programme - for research and solutions focused on privacy and data protection issues.
- NESTA Innovation Lab - funds and challenge prizes for innovation in education, local and central government, the arts, the collaborative economy and civil society.
- Social Innovation Fund - grants of between £30,000 to £50,000 for partnerships between at least one social economy organisation and one academic/research institution.
- UNICEF Innovation Fund - for startups in emerging markets building open-source technology that can benefit children.
- ICO Grants Programme - for research and solutions focused on privacy and data protection issues.
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VC
- Ascension Ventures - early-stage VC backing social tech businesses. Creating a new £15m 'Fair By Design' fund (June 2017) to eliminate the 'poverty premium' by 2027.
- Fifty Years - an entrepreneur-run early stage VC, funding companies that, if successful, will be both massively profitable and make a serious dent in achieving one of the Sustainable Development Goals.
- NESTA Impact Investments - investing in ventures with inclusive and scalable innovations run by outstanding entrepreneurs.
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Awesome tech for good projects
- GitHub's Social Impact Showcase
- Code for America - making Government work for the people, by the people, in the 21st century.
- Humanitarian Open Street Map - open, free map data for humanitarian aid and development.
- KoBoToolbox - Simple, robust and powerful tools For data collection in demanding contexts.
- Luftdaten.info - International citizen science project to build particulate matter sensors cheaply and network the results. [Map](https://maps.luftdaten.info), [GitHub](https://github.com/opendata-stuttgart)
- Open Bionics - open source initiative for the development of affordable, light-weight, modular robot and prosthetic hands.
- Open Data Kit - Free and open-source set of tools for collecting data in challenging environments
- Open Knowledge Foundation - helping civil society groups access and use data to take action on social problems.
- Smart Elect - SMS voter registration, plus web and mobile tools that improve data accuracy, transparency, and visual reporting across the elections process.
- Wayfindr - open standard of audio navigation for vision impaired people (+ demo iOS app).
- Wevolver - hardware projects repository hosting service. Robotics, drones, 3D printers etc.
- WikiHouse - an open-source, collaborative R&D project to bring about a digital revolution in the way we make homes.
- A11Y - community-driven effort to make web accessibility easier.
- Alidade - open source interactive tool that guides users to fit tech strategically into social change projects, and creates a structured PDF document for project planning.
- CharityBase - comprehensive database of 350,000 charities + an open source API.
- Chayn DIY Online Safety Guide - open source guide to help protect online accounts against harassment and stalkers.
- Find That Charity - search engine for UK charities, with elasticsearch back end.
- HelpText - open source app for SMS managment in nonprofit organisations.
- Rapid SMS - open source framework for building interactive SMS applications, integrating with Django to provide a rich reporting interface. Created by the Innovation Team at UNICEF.
- SoGive - database of charities (mostly but not exclusively UK based at present) with models of the impact they achieve, with a donation-tracking / fund-raising web-app. SoGive has links with the Effective Altruism (EA) movement.
- Tech Forward - collection of tech-focused projects organisations and tools working for social progress.
- Find That Charity - search engine for UK charities, with elasticsearch back end.
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Online directories
- +SocialGood - global community inspired by the Social Good Summit.
- Beehive Giving - funder recommendation and eligibility-checking platform.
- Digital Social Innovation EU - showcase your project, meet collaborators and find funding.
- Global Innovation Exchange - marketplace connecting funders, innovators, users and solution seekers.
- Humanitarian Data Exchange - open platform for sharing humanitarian data.
- Newspeak House Unmailing List - collection of links to civic tech open forums, groups and mailing lists.
- Social Tech Guide - largest database of global tech for good.
- Tech for Good Global - shining a light on the people & technology making our world better.
- The Toolbox - curated list of digital tools for humanitarian work.
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Agencies and consultancies
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Consultancies
- Super Global - matches social enterprises with creatives/technologists around the world to amplify impact.
- The Engine Room - helps activists and social-impact organisations make the most of their data.
- CITA - IT consultancy and tech surgeries for charities.
- GRID Impact - Collective of behavioral science & Human Centred Design specialists focused on social impact
- The Engine Room - helps activists and social-impact organisations make the most of their data.
- Wonderwerk - combines design-thinking, strategy, technology, and organisational expertise to deliver creative excellence and innovation for social impact.
- Fabriders - helps advocates use technologies as part of long-term strategies, on issues including empowering marginalised communities and improving governmental transparency and accountability.
- The Dot Project - supports social impact projects and organisations to strengthen their approach by integrating effective and appropriate digital solutions.
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Agencies
- 3 Sided Cube - mobile app studio, makers of Charity Kit app builder.
- Aptivate - bandwidth. See our open source contributions at https://github.com/aptivate and https://github.com/trademapper. We are a not-for-profit worker owned and managed coop.
- Agile Ventures - UK charity delivering crowdsourced agile software development and training for nonprofits.
- DEV - The Developer Society, a not-for-profit co-op digital agency working exclusively with charities, NGOs, activists and changemakers across front end, back end and design. Formerly Blanc Ltd.
- DWYL - community of people dedicated to helping people solve real problems with technology.
- Neontribe - tech for good product agency.
- Outlandish - co-op of designers and developers working on projects that make a difference.
- Podnosh - helps government, housing and third sector orgs use social and digital media to create civic good.
- Rareloop - digital studio specialising in websites, mobile apps and bespoke software.
- Reason Digital - websites and digital for charities and public sector orgs.
- Shift - designs consumer products and builds social ventures to help solve social problems.
- SimpleWeb - digital studio specialising in SaaS and mobile.
- Snook - design agency solving problems that matter, with people at heart.
- Squareweave - full-service digital agency specialising in social good.
- Super Being Labs - creating social impact using entrepreneurship, creativity and technology.
- Thoughtbot - Ruby on Rails and iOS development studio, offer pro bono dev work to charities.
- Agile Ventures - UK charity delivering crowdsourced agile software development and training for nonprofits.
- Super Being Labs - creating social impact using entrepreneurship, creativity and technology.
- SimpleWeb - digital studio specialising in SaaS and mobile.
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