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Learn more about the [https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdgs UN Sustainable Development Goals]. Trying to figure out which of the UN Sustainable Development Goals is the best fit for your product? The [http://sdgfunders.org/wizard/ SDG Indicator Wizard] can help. | Learn more about the [https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdgs UN Sustainable Development Goals]. Trying to figure out which of the UN Sustainable Development Goals is the best fit for your product? The [http://sdgfunders.org/wizard/ SDG Indicator Wizard] can help. | ||
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| − | ''' | + | '''Appolition''' is a platform where users opt-in to automate the savings of their daily spare change to help pay bail for those who due to their inability to post bail, are at risk for losing their homes, jobs and abliity to defend themselves. |
| − | Their Mission: | + | Their Mission: Helping those who are unable to pay bail |
| − | Founder(s): | + | Founder(s): Dr. Kortney Ziegler and Tiffany Mikell |
| − | Location: United States | + | Location: United States |
| − | Learn More: [ | + | Learn More: [https://appolition.us Appolition] [https://twitter.com/appolition twitter] [https://vimeo.com/345955993 video] |
| − | + | '''MyMAF''' is a mobile application that enables Mission Asset Fund (MAF) Lending Circle participants to easily monitor their loan status, including payments in real-time, input savings and spendings, and create short-term budget goals. App users receive notifications from MAF staff if there are any payment issues or program updates. | |
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| + | Their Mission: Help people to stay up to date and informed about their loans and finances, reduce debt, establish or improve their credit score, and achieve their full economic potential | ||
| + | Founder(s): Mission Asset Fund (MAF) | ||
| − | + | Location: United States | |
| − | + | Learn More: [https://github.com/CodePath-MAF Github] [https://missionassetfund.org/lending-circles/ Mission Asset Fund (MAF)] | |
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| + | '''Link-SF''' is designed with three user groups in mind: 1) A growing population of low-income San Franciscans who rely on mobile technology to meet their basic needs, 2) Service providers who can use the most real-time data to direct clients in need, and 3) Everyday people who can use this information as a way to help refer San Francisco’s homeless population to a social service agency nearby. Link-SF is a free software which can be downloaded here: [http://github.com/zendesk/linksf/ GitHub] | ||
| + | Their Mission: Connect homeless and low-income residents with important nearby services such as food, shelter, medical care, hygiene, and technology access | ||
| − | + | Founder(s): St. Anthony Foundation, Zendesk, and user testing expert Kimberly McCollister | |
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| − | + | Location: United States | |
| − | + | Learn More: [http://www.link-sf.com/ Link-SF] | |
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| + | '''Uptrust''' seeks to assist people who are in the pre-trial process and at risk to miss their first court date. A missed court date often results in jail time for the defendant, even if they are non-violent offenders. UpTrust works with trusted public officials to connect with defendants. The app removes barriers providing customized text message reminders, free transportation to court, and free childcare for parents attending court. | ||
| − | + | Their Mission: Assist clients in overcoming barriers to appear in court to reduce the rate of incarceration for technical violations without placing additional work on public defenders or court staff | |
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| − | + | Founder(s): Jacob Sills & Elijah Gwynn | |
| − | + | Location: San Francisco, California, United States | |
| + | Learn More: [https://www.uptrust.co/ Uptrust] | ||
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| − | + | ==[[File:E SDG goals icons-individual-rgb-02.png |70px|left|]]Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture == | |
| + | Learn more about [https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdg2 SDG 2]. | ||
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| + | '''FarmRaiser''' is a mobile app that through partnership with local farmers and food artisans gets you amazing products and great prices for your next fundraiser. | ||
| − | + | Their Mission: Support healthy, local, sustainable fundraising | |
| − | + | Founder(s): Mark Abbott and Lauren Smith | |
| − | + | Location: United States | |
| − | + | Learn More: [https://www.farmraiser.com/ FarmRaiser] [https://vimeo.com/260145503 video] | |
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| + | '''Feedie''' is a mobile app that allows you to turn your shared food photos from participating restaurants into a donation to the Lunchbox fund equal to one meal. Take a picture of your meal from one of the hundreds of participating restaurants, post the photo on Feedie, and that restaurant will make a donation to The Lunchbox Fund. | ||
| − | + | The Lunchbox Fund provides nutritionally fortified meals to vulnerable and food insecure children in schools throughout South Africa, helping them get the education they desperately need to build a life free of poverty for themselves and their families. | |
| − | Their Mission: | + | Their Mission: Provide at-risk school children with nutritious meals |
| − | Founder(s): [ | + | Founder(s): Mario Batali and [https://www.thelunchboxfund.org/ The Lunchbox Fund] |
| − | Learn More: [http://www. | + | Learn More: [http://www.wethefeedies.com/ Feedie] |
| − | ''' | + | '''Foodspace / Lunch Box''' is a consumer food and grocery management tool that allows you to find, organize, and shop ingredients from any blog you love, anytime you need it |
| − | Their Mission: | + | Their Mission: Help you save both time and money on your food journey |
| − | Founder(s): | + | Founder(s): Ayo Oshinaike, Dan Yags and Zach Van |
| − | + | Location: United States | |
| + | Learn More: [https://www.foodspaceapp.com/ Foodspace] [https://vimeo.com/260145503 video] | ||
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| − | Their Mission: Help food | + | '''FreshEBT''' makes it easy to check your EBT balance, and locate grocery stores, corner stores, and farmers markets near you that participate in the SNAP benefits program and accept food stamps. You can also see an overview of where you spend your food stamps and view your history of EBT transactions, month by month. |
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| + | Their Mission: Help EBT users check food stamps and benefits balance | ||
| − | + | Founder(s): [https://www.joinpropel.com/ Propel] (who build software for low-income Americans who are often overlooked by traditional tech innovation) | |
| − | + | Location: United States | |
| − | + | Languages: English, Spanish | |
| + | Learn More: [http://www.freshebt.com/ FreshEBT] | ||
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| + | '''Fresh Food Connect''' helps urban growers to easily donate their surplus food to local food pantries without leaving their home and allows them to track donations through the application | ||
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| + | Their Mission: Solve the problems of excess garden produce, and food insecurity | ||
| + | Location: United States | ||
| − | + | Learn More: [http://freshfoodconnect.org/ Fresh Food Connect] [https://vimeo.com/260145503 video] | |
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| − | + | '''GetCalFresh''' is a mobile and desktop platform that supports applicants through the CalFresh eligibility and enrollment process . An online application for CalFresh takes 45 minutes or more—GetCalFresh has managed to reduce the application process to about 8 minutes. Once someone has applied through GetCalFresh, they receive a text message to confirm that their application was submitted, as well as any important reminders related to the application process. | |
| + | CalFresh is California's food stamps (SNAP) program. Today, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (also known as SNAP, or food stamps) provides $70 billion to food eligible Americans each year. Historically, California has had one of the lowest participation rates in the program, and there are nearly 2 million Californians who qualify for SNAP but are not receiving benefits. | ||
| + | Their Mission: Fully close the CalFresh participation gap, and ensure that every eligible Californian can have a dignified experience accessing much-needed food benefits | ||
| − | + | Founder(s): [https://www.codeforamerica.org/programs/getcalfresh Code for America] | |
| − | + | Location: United States | |
| − | Learn More: [https:// | + | Learn More: [https://www.getcalfresh.org/ GetCalFresh] |
| − | ''' | + | '''Giving Garden''' provides microclimate growing recommendations and an online community platform for knowledge and produce sharing. Through their app, they bring local food and gardening into the 21st century. |
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| + | Their Mission: Grow communities around food and food around communities | ||
| − | + | Location: United States | |
| − | Learn More: [https:// | + | Learn More: [https://givinggarden.io/ Giving Garden] [https://twitter.com/GivingGardenIO/ twitter] [https://vimeo.com/315588020 video] |
| − | ''' | + | '''Planet Murple''' hopes to redesign our broken food culture starting with kids and education. |
| − | Their Mission: | + | Their Mission: Teach kids to cook, so they build curiosity and self-sufficiency around food |
| − | + | Founder(s): Emily Yao and Dave Resnick | |
| − | + | Location: The Bay Area in California, United States | |
| + | Learn More: [https://www.planetmurple.com/ Planet Murple] [https://twitter.com/PlanetMurple/ twitter] [https://vimeo.com/193842768 video] | ||
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| − | + | '''Range''' lists safe places as all libraries in the US for youth in need of summer meals. Summer meals are the locations of USDA funded meal service sites that are available during the school year. Range will help us get to [https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdg2 zero hunger] (SDG 2). | |
| − | + | Their Mission: Help US school-age youth find safe places and meals in the summer | |
| − | + | Founder(s): [https://www.caravanstudios.org/ Caravan Studios], a division of TechSoup [a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in the U.S.A.] | |
| − | + | Location: United States | |
| + | Learn More: [https://www.rangeapp.org/ Range] | ||
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| − | + | '''Replate''' matches extra food with food insecure communities in need. Replate manages the food donations of caterers, offices with meal services, brands with product overrun, restaurants, and other surplus food generators. Every food donation is taken to local nonprofits serving neighbors experiencing food insecurity. | |
| − | + | Their Mission: Reduce food waste and food insecurity in the community | |
| − | + | Founder(s): Maen Mafoud | |
| + | Location: United States | ||
| + | Learn More: [https://www.re-plate.org/ Replate] [https://twitter.com/replateyourmeal twitter] [https://vimeo.com/287615355 video] | ||
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| − | + | '''Spoiler Alert''' is a B2B trading platform that addresses inefficiencies in food supply chains. Born out of MIT in June 2015, Spoiler Alert was a 2015 winner of MassChallenge and member of the Spring 2016 cohort of Techstars Boston. | |
| − | + | Their Mission: Help food businesses, farms, and nonprofits to create or recover value from food surplus and organic waste | |
| − | + | Founder(s): Ricky Ashenfelter, Emily Malina | |
| + | Location: Boston, Massachusetts | ||
| + | Date Started: June 2015 | ||
| − | + | Learn More: [https://www.spoileralert.com/ Spoiler Alert] | |
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| − | + | ==[[File:E SDG goals icons-individual-rgb-03.png |70px|left|]]Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages == | |
| + | Learn more about [https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdg3 SDG 3]. | ||
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| + | '''Anonymous Medical Social Network''' is a medical record hosting service, which allows for professionals to collaborate and keep track of their information while keeping their patients’ identity hidden. | ||
| − | + | Their Mission: Protect patient privacy | |
| − | + | Founder(s): Roberto Baldizón and Alexandra Goodwin | |
| − | + | Learn More: [https://mysterious-headland-90957.herokuapp.com/ MD -Anonymous] | |
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| + | '''Atlas Run''' is the running app that gives back, with every mile you run raising money for charity. | ||
| − | + | Their Mission: To develop a community which creates positive awareness around social & environmental issues and accelerates impactful change | |
| − | + | Learn More: [https://atlasgo.org/ Atlas Run] [https://vimeo.com/256025762 video] | |
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| + | '''Cognivive''' is building treatment games to ease the burden of stroke recovery. Cognivive develops products that provide targeted stimulation to specific cognitive processes to help improve important brain functions. | ||
| + | Their Mission: Reduce patient recovery time and cost | ||
| − | + | Founder(s): Tony J Simon, PhD and Ted Aronson | |
| − | Their Mission: | + | Learn More: [https://www.cognivive.com/ Cognivive] [https://twitter.com/cognivive twitter] [https://vimeo.com/315588019 video] |
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| + | '''EWG’s Healthy Living App''' helps consumers make healthier decisions by looking at ingredients in food, cosmetics, sunscreens, and household cleaners. The app allows you to scan items by barcode and get nutrition facts, ratings, and more info on the ingredients within those foods. The app has product health and safety ratings for over 200,000 food and cosmetics products. | ||
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| + | Their Mission: Helping consumers protect their health by providing information about nutrition and product ingredients | ||
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| + | Founder(s): [http://www.ewg.org/ Environmental Working Group] app created by [https://exygy.com/ Exygy] | ||
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| + | Location: United States | ||
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| + | Learn More: [https://www.ewg.org/apps/ EWG's Healthy Living App] [https://www.ewg.org/ EWG] [https://twitter.com/ewg EWG twitter] | ||
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| + | '''First Derm''' will find a top board-certified dermatologist in your area to help you with your skincare problems. Together the dermatology team speaks 6 languages and has helped users from 160 countries. They are advised by globally recognized leaders in digital health, tele-dermatology and startups. | ||
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| + | Their Mission: Provide direct access to a dermatologist for first steps & guidance on skincare concerns | ||
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| + | Founder(s): Alexander Börve | ||
| − | + | Location: United States, Sweden, Norway, and the United Kingdom | |
| − | + | Learn More: [https://www.firstderm.com/ First Derm] [https://twitter.com/FirstDerm twitter] | |
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| + | '''GiveFit''' helps to make health and fitness activities more accessible to more people. GiveFit offers workouts for people 55+ designed by movement specialists that they can do at their convenience from their homes. | ||
| − | + | Their Mission: Make health and fitness activities more accessible to people | |
| − | + | Founder(s): Jake Tunney | |
| − | + | Location: United States | |
| − | Learn More: [ | + | Learn More: [https://givefit.net/ GiveFit] [https://twitter.com/Give_Fit twitter] |
| − | '''LGBT MD''' is an open-source app in beta that connects people in the LGBTQ community to find medical help closest to them. The app allows | + | '''LGBT MD''' is an open-source app in beta that connects people in the LGBTQ community to find medical help closest to them. The app allows users to bookmark favorites, contact info, and contribute reviews to help others find the care they need. |
Their Mission: Connect lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people to well-trained medical providers | Their Mission: Connect lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people to well-trained medical providers | ||
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| − | '''Medic Mobile''' | + | '''Medic Mobile''' builds open-source software that supports health workers to help improve health in the hardest-to-reach communities. Medic Mobile helps health workers ensure safe deliveries, track outbreaks faster, treat illnesses door-to-door, keep stock of essential medicines, communicate about emergencies, and more. In collaboration with Community Health Toolkit (CHT), a collection of open-source technologies and open access resources, Medic Mobile works to advance universal health coverage. |
Their Mission: To deliver equitable care that reaches everyone | Their Mission: To deliver equitable care that reaches everyone | ||
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Location: The Bay Area in California, United States | Location: The Bay Area in California, United States | ||
| − | Learn More: [http://www.openhealth.cc Open Health Network] | + | Learn More: [http://www.openhealth.cc Open Health Network] [https://twitter.com/openhealthn twitter] |
| − | '''Pink Cloud''' is a companion app that connects you to over 225,000 12 steps meetings worldwide. The app helps to stay on track in the program using the daily checklist, taking inventory and recording possible resentments. | + | '''Pink Cloud''' is a companion app that connects you to over 225,000 12 steps meetings worldwide. The app helps you to stay on track in the program using the daily checklist, taking inventory and recording possible resentments. |
Their Mission: To help manage your sobriety and track your journey to addiction recovery | Their Mission: To help manage your sobriety and track your journey to addiction recovery | ||
| − | Founder(s): | + | Founder(s): Jason Varughese and Justin Fraga |
Location: United States: California, Texas, New York, Illinois | Location: United States: California, Texas, New York, Illinois | ||
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Location: Sao Paolo Brazil | Location: Sao Paolo Brazil | ||
| − | Learn More: [ | + | Learn More: [https://www.suatrans.com/lermais_materias.php?cd_materias=1062#.WIuiw7YrKHp/ Information on Pró-Química Online] |
| − | ''' | + | '''The PRIDE Study''' is the first large-scale, long-term national health study of people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ), or another sexual or gender minority. |
| − | Their Mission: | + | Their Mission: Learn more about how being an LGBTQ person influences physical, mental, or social health |
Location: United States | Location: United States | ||
| − | Learn More: [https://www.pridestudy.org | + | Learn More: [https://www.pridestudy.org The PRIDE Study] [https://twitter.com/thepridestudy twitter] [https://vimeo.com/345871551 video] |
| − | '''PulsePoint''' | + | '''PulsePoint''' is a mobile app that alerts CPR-trained bystanders about a nearby Sudden Cardiac Arrest event and the location of the closest AED. |
| − | Their Mission: | + | Their Mission: Ignite the lifesaving potential of CPR-trained citizens and improve cardiac arrest outcomes |
Location: United States | Location: United States | ||
| − | Learn More: [ | + | Learn More: [https://www.pulsepoint.org/ PulsePoint] [https://twitter.com/PulsePoint twitter] |
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| − | ''' | + | '''RedRover''' has developed a set of 3 apps as part of its RedRover Readers program which uses stories, illustrations and question strategies to help kids ages 7-11 practice the three steps of empathy: recognize emotional states, share emotions and regulate emotions to make better decisions and build positive connections with others. |
| − | Their Mission: | + | Their Mission: Provide educators the tools they need to teach children empathy skills |
| − | Founder(s): | + | Founder(s): Nicole Forsyth, RedRover President and CEO |
| − | Location: United States | + | Location: United States |
| − | Learn More: [https:// | + | Learn More: [https://redrover.org/Readers/ RedRover Readers] [https://redrover.org/resource/empathy-app/ download the app] |
| − | ''' | + | '''Ria Health''' removes the barriers of care for the more than 20 million adults in the US that are struggling with alcohol misuse. Ria Health provides private, effective, affordable, and convenient treatment for people who want to change their relationship with alcohol. |
| − | Their Mission: | + | Their Mission: To provide an effective alcohol addiction treatment to help people reduce or stop drinking alcohol |
| − | Founder(s): | + | Founder(s): David Deacon, Phd |
| − | Location: United States: | + | Location: United States: California, Florida, Georgia, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia |
| − | Learn More: [https:// | + | Learn More: [https://riahealth.com Ria Health] [https://twitter.com/RiaHealthSF twitter] [https://vimeo.com/363560290 video] |
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| − | ''' | + | '''VEText''' is an interactive mobile solution that reminds Veterans of upcoming health care appointments via text messaging and allows Veterans to easily confirm, cancel or reschedule their appointments. |
| − | Their Mission: | + | Their Mission: Improve health care access for Veterans |
| − | Founder(s): | + | Founder(s): Veterans Health Administration (VHA) |
| − | Location: | + | Location: United States |
| − | Learn More: | + | Learn More: [https://www.oit.va.gov/news/article/?read=va-employee-technical-innovation-reduces-nationwide-appointment-no-shows DigitalVA] [https://www.va.gov/HEALTH/VEText.asp VEText] |
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Location: United States | Location: United States | ||
| − | Learn More: [https://www.yeshealth.com YesHealth] [https://twitter.com/YesHealthNow twitter] and [https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/yes-health-diabetes-prevention/id1031370166?ls=1&mt=8 | + | Learn More: [https://www.yeshealth.com YesHealth] [https://twitter.com/YesHealthNow twitter] and [https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/yes-health-diabetes-prevention/id1031370166?ls=1&mt=8 download the app]. |
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==[[File:E SDG goals icons-individual-rgb-04.png |70px|left|]]Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning== | ==[[File:E SDG goals icons-individual-rgb-04.png |70px|left|]]Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning== | ||
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| − | ''' | + | '''Bookshare''' is an ebook library that makes reading easier. Bookshare is an initiative of [http://benetech.org/ Benetech] developed to address the challenges faced by people with reading barriers. An estimated 285 million people worldwide are visually impaired, 90% of whom live in developing countries. An even higher number of people have dyslexia or a language-based learning disability that makes it difficult or impossible to read printed text. UNESCO has reported that if all students in low income countries left school with basic reading skills, 171 million people could be lifted out of poverty, equivalent to a 12% cut in world poverty. Through Bookshare, members can access a huge collection of ebooks and read their way with customizable ebooks. |
| − | Their Mission: | + | Their Mission: Remove barriers to equitable quality education |
| − | Founder(s): | + | Founder(s): Jim Fruchterman |
| − | Location: | + | Location: United States |
| − | Learn More: [ | + | Learn More: [https://www.bookshare.org/cms/ Bookshare] |
| − | ''' | + | '''FASTalk''' a powerful tool for schools to engage families and improve student academic achievement. FASTalk makes it easy for teachers to send academic text messages to families in their home language and is proven to improve literacy outcomes for high-need students. |
| − | Their Mission: | + | Their Mission: Help teachers engage diverse families to improve student outcomes |
| − | Founder(s): | + | Founder(s): [http://benetech.org/ Benetech] |
Location: United States | Location: United States | ||
| − | Learn More: [ | + | Learn More: [https://www.fastalk.org/ FASTalk] [https://vimeo.com/320901225 video] |
| − | ''' | + | '''Moneythink''' has an app built by mobile development partner, [http://causelabs.com/ CauseLabs], that challenges you to improve your financial skills. Moneythink Mobile empowers under-resourced students to achieve college success by supporting financial decision-making through coaching and technology. |
| − | Their Mission: | + | Their Mission: Reduce the opportunity gap by providing a financial education to all students |
| − | Founder(s): | + | Founder(s): Ted Gonder, Greg Nance, and Shashin Chokshi |
| − | Location: United States | + | Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States |
| − | Learn More: [http:// | + | Learn More: [http://moneythink.org/ Moneythink] [https://twitter.com/moneythink twitter] |
| − | ''' | + | '''Open Schools!''' is a web app that supports family decisions with data. The right school for children is based not only on standardized test scores, but by teacher turnover, parent involvement, special programming, community, and much more. The company plans to gradually add information collected from the city, NGOs, the private sector, and users. |
| − | Their Mission: Help | + | Their Mission: Help parents choose a school for their children in Washington, D.C. |
| − | Founder(s): [ | + | Founder(s): [http://www.meetup.com/Code-for-DC/ Code For DC] |
| − | Location: United States | + | Location: Washington, D.C., United States |
| − | Learn More: [ | + | Learn More: [http://edu.codefordc.org/ Open Schools] |
| − | ''' | + | '''Qalaxia''' is a Q&A platform closing the STEM achievement gap arising from unequal access to experts. Qalaxia creates equity of access by connecting students underrepresented in STEM with industry experts who want to help. |
| − | Their Mission: | + | Their Mission: To awaken and strengthen the inquirer in every child and the mentor in every individual |
| − | Founder(s): | + | Founder(s): Mahesh Godavarti |
| − | + | Learn More: [https://www.qalaxia.com/getStarted Qalaxia] [https://twitter.com/qalaxiaco twitter] [https://vimeo.com/256027494 video] | |
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| + | '''Talking Points''' connects teachers, parents and students across tech and language barriers through a multi-lingual texting platform (free for teachers) | ||
| − | + | Their Mission: Support children in their education, empower families to be partners in their children's education and for teachers and schools to be successful in supporting families. | |
| − | + | Founder(s): Heejae Lim & Nancy Lee | |
| − | + | Location: San Francisco, California, United States | |
| − | + | Learn More: [https://talkingpts.org/ Talking Points] [https://twitter.com/TalkingPointsEd twitter] | |
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| + | '''Vana Learning''' is a "Coaching Management Platform" developed to improve academic outcomes for students by providing evidence-based recommendations and day-to-day performance feedback. | ||
| − | + | Their Mission: Save academic coaches time, deliver more targeted support to their students, and improve academic outcomes for students | |
| − | + | Founder(s): Rob Trone, Josh Stafford, and Rachel Sanders | |
| − | + | Learn More: [https://www.vanalearning.com Vana Learning] | |
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| + | '''wESL (We ESL)''' is a filterable, mapped, community-sourced listing of available English Language Learner classes in the Nashville area. | ||
| + | Their Mission: Provide easy access to individuals who want to learn or improve their English | ||
| − | + | Founder(s): Nick Lorenson (of Code for Nashville) | |
| − | + | Location: Nashville, Tennessee, United States | |
| − | + | Learn More: [http://www.eslmap.com/ ESL Map] | |
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| + | ==[[File:E SDG goals icons-individual-rgb-05.png |70px|left|]]Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls== | ||
| + | Learn more about [https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdg5 SDG 5]. | ||
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| − | + | '''Aspire News App''' is a potentially life-saving app from When Georgia Smiled Foundation that allows victims of abuse to call for help at the touch of a button. The app provides resources for victims of domestic violence. | |
| − | + | Their Mission: Help save the lives of victims of domestic violence | |
| + | Founder(s): Robin McGraw and Dr. Phil | ||
| + | Location: California, United States | ||
| − | + | Learn More: [https://www.whengeorgiasmiled.org/aspire-news-app/ Aspire News] [https://twitter.com/WGSFoundation twitter] [https://vimeo.com/369913500 video] | |
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Their Mission: Remind women to take their birth control on time | Their Mission: Remind women to take their birth control on time | ||
| − | Founder(s): [https://www.bedsider.org Besiders] | + | Founder(s): [https://www.bedsider.org Besiders], operated by [http://thenationalcampaign.org/ The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregancy] |
Location: United States | Location: United States | ||
| − | Learn More: [https://www.bedsider.org/reminders_app Besiders App] | + | Learn More: [https://www.bedsider.org/reminders_app Besiders App] [https://twitter.com/Bedsider twitter] |
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| + | '''Direc: Trauma Recovery App''' informs, educates, and helps victims of domestic violence, rape and sexual assault crimes to recover and be safe by providing appropriate crime specific information and community resources. The mobile app acts as a case management tool and can be sent directly to a victim’s phone or safe phone. The app was developed to help achieve a higher conviction rate for sexual assault predators and repeat offenders by equipping law enforcement, educating victims, and providing evidence collection on the day of an assault. | ||
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| + | Their Mission: Lessen crimes against women and children | ||
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| + | Founder(s): Jon Lindgren | ||
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| + | Learn More: [https://www.direcedu.org/causes/a-recovery-and-resources-app-for-victims-of-violence-in-houston Direc: Trauma Recovery App] [https://vimeo.com/369869513 video] | ||
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| − | Learn More: [https://malalai.com.br/ Malalai] | + | Learn More: [https://malalai.com.br/ Malalai] [https://www.facebook.com/malalai.startup facebook] |
| − | '''PLP 2.0''' | + | '''PLP 2.0''' application is focused on assisting women in situations of domestic, family or sexual violence. Integrated with a support network, it registers five trusted people that can help the user if the emergency call button is activated. The app panic button triggers the military police and sends a warning to PLPs - community leaders who have participated in training courses on women's rights and who are able to share information and support for victims of domestic and sexual violence. [https://juntas.geledes.org.br/ platform] is a place for women to access resources on issues of gender inequality, breast cancer, violence, abuse and feminicide. |
Their Mission: Prevent and eradicate violence against women | Their Mission: Prevent and eradicate violence against women | ||
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Location: Porto Alegré, Brazil | Location: Porto Alegré, Brazil | ||
| − | Learn More: [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=br.com.beelieve.plp&hl=pt_BR/ | + | Learn More: [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=br.com.beelieve.plp&hl=pt_BR/ PLP 2.0 app] |
| − | ''' | + | '''Purple Patriot''' is a mobile platform for women to reinvent government, driving equality and inclusion, using our Voices, Votes and Wallet. |
| − | Their Mission: | + | Their Mission: Build a pipeline of women engaged and active in politics |
| − | Founder(s): | + | Founder(s): Jean Templin & Christine Templin |
| − | Location: United States | + | Location: Oakland, California, United States |
| − | Learn More: [https:// | + | Learn More: [https://purplepatriot.com/ Purple Patriot] [https://twitter.com/thepurplepatri1 twitter] [https://vimeo.com/287610722 video] |
| − | ''' | + | '''The Sanctuary App''' serves domestic violence survivors, as well as first responders, providing a tool that links existing resources together and allows existing agencies to better assist those in need. |
| − | Their Mission: | + | Their Mission: Provide immediate safety options to domestic violence survivors who have been turned away from their local shelter and placed on a wait list |
| − | + | Founder(s): Courtney Santana, [https://www.survive2thrivefoundation.org/ Survive2Thrive Foundation] | |
| − | + | Location: United States. | |
| + | Learn More: [https://sanctuaryishere.com/ The Sanctuary App] [https://twitter.com/s2tfoundation Survive 2 Thrive twitter] [https://vimeo.com/233780396 video] | ||
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| + | '''Stronger Than Espresso App''' is a free domestic violence tool designed to offer basic relationship evaluations, safety planning resources and help information when needed. Built in partnership with Advance Net Labs. | ||
| + | Their Mission: Empower survivors of domestic abuse and gender based violence to reclaim what abuse took away. | ||
| − | + | Founder(s): Dr. Brooke Jones | |
| − | + | Location: McKinney, Texas, United States | |
| − | + | Learn More: [https://www.strongerthanespresso.com/stronger-app Stonger Than Espresso app] [https://www.strongerthanespresso.com/ Stronger Than Espresso] [https://twitter.com/strongrespresso twitter] [https://vimeo.com/369884521 video] | |
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| + | '''We Said Enough''' app creates a community of survivors, volunteers, and activists who can provide immediate social support to victims of sexual harassment, abuse, and bullying. The app provides needed restorative resources to begin the healing process. | ||
| − | + | Their Mission: To end harassment, bullying, discrimination, and abuse | |
| − | + | Location: United States | |
| − | + | Learn More: [https://www.wesaidenough.com We Said Enough] [https://twitter.com/WeSaidEnough twitter] [https://vimeo.com/316624120 video] | |
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| + | ==[[File:E SDG goals icons-individual-rgb-06.png |70px|left|]]Goal 6: Ensure access to water and sanitation for all == | ||
| + | Learn more about [https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdg6 SDG 6]. | ||
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| − | + | '''Adopt a Drain''' web application allows residents to adopt a drain in their neighborhood, committing to clearing leaves and trash and other debris from their drain's surface at least twice a month. This volunteer work helps to keep land based pollutants out of local waterways and reduce risks of street flooding. The app was developed using open data (drain locations) and was inspired by Boston's Adopt a Hydrant Program. | |
| − | + | Their Mission: Improve local waterways and foster community engagement | |
| − | + | Founder(s): [https://codeforsanfrancisco.org/ Code for San Francisco], a non-profit volunteer group and local chapter of Code for America | |
| − | Learn More: [https:// | + | Learn More: [https://adoptadrain.sfwater.org/ Adopt a Drain] |
| − | ''' | + | '''Clean Water AI''' is an app that employs CNN (Convolutional Neural Network) and computer vision to detect dangerous particles and bacteria in water. |
| − | Their Mission: Help | + | Their Mission: Help people to determine if water is clean and drinkable or contaminated and a potential health risk |
| − | Founder(s): | + | Founder(s): Peter Ma |
| − | + | Learn More: [https://cleanwaterai.com/ Clean Water AI] [https://twitter.com/cleanwaterai twitter] [https://vimeo.com/293968679 video] | |
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| + | '''The Human Utility''' (formerly Detroit Water Project) believes everyone needs running water and water is a human right. Water companies are turning off the tap in cities across the U.S., forcing low-income families, seniors and single parents to live without basic necessities. Families without water are forced to go elsewhere to take showers, clean dishes and get a drink. The Human Utility lets people donate money, services, or partnerships to help those who are without or in danger of having no water in Detroit and Baltimore. Through their online platform they verify individuals who need assistance. | ||
| − | + | Their Mission: Provide running tap water to those in need | |
| − | + | Founder(s): Conscientious Utility Project, Inc and was fiscally sponsored by the Social Good Fund, an IRS 501(c)(3) nonprofit | |
| − | + | Learn More: [https://www.detroitwaterproject.org/ The Human Utility] | |
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| − | + | '''MoMo''' is a mobile device with physical sensors and an integrated GSM cellular connection that collects data (such as water flow rate or electricity usage) about remote infrastructure to improve accountability in the developing world. Designed to be low-cost and low-power, MoMo is intended for long-term deployment in rural environments. The app was developed by WellDone International, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that works to improve global access to clean water and other basic services essential to human health, productivity, and well-being. | |
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| + | Their Mission: Empower resource-constrained communities with the data they need to create or maintain critical infrastructure that lasts | ||
| + | Founder(s): Jim Yoon and Josh To | ||
| − | + | Location: United States and international | |
| − | + | Learn More: [https://momo.welldone.org/ MoMo] [https://welldone.org/ WellDone] | |
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| − | + | '''Water Tracker''' is an app that tracks how much water you use every day. Track showering, driving, eating, and drinking your morning coffee and compare your use of water with your Facebook friends. The app is currently being piloted with Colorado State University and UNAM in Mexico City to compare the water usage of students at each university. | |
| + | Their Mission: Reduce water consumption | ||
| − | + | Founder(s): Fidan Karimova, Dmytro Malakhov, and Vitalii Starush | |
| − | + | Location: Washington, D.C., United States | |
| − | + | Learn More: [https://www.thewatertracker.com/ Water Tracker app] | |
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| + | ==[[File:E SDG goals icons-individual-rgb-07.png |70px|left|]]Goal 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all== | ||
| + | Learn more about [https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdg6 SDG 7]. | ||
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| − | + | '''Cartido''' is an app that makes crowdmapping and GPS tracking simple and fast for public or private projects. Cartido was developed to help the underserved navigate the resources they need for survival including accessible power outlets and public bathrooms. | |
| − | + | Their Mission: Help local communities crowdmap resources | |
| − | + | Founder(s): Ehb Teng | |
| − | + | Location: United States | |
| + | Learn More: [https://diginido.com Cartido] [https://twitter.com/DiginidoLabs twitter] [https://vimeo.com/329027371 video] | ||
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| + | '''Fractracker''' mobile app lets you help track oil and gas activity in the U.S. Individuals can contribute meaningful insight into potential impacts of the industry through crowdsourcing. The app allows users to submit oil and gas photos or reports regarding drilling near them. You can also view a map of nearby wells drilled and save your submissions for future reference. | ||
| + | Their Mission: Provide access to gas and oil data to the public | ||
| − | + | Founder(s): [https://www.fractracker.org/ Fractracker Alliance] | |
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| − | + | Learn More: [https://www.fractracker.org/apps/ Fractracker] [https://twitter.com/FracTracker twitter] | |
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| + | '''SF Environment''' contains an Energy Benchmarking Dashboard that displays building-specific energy, GHG, and EUI metrics and measures building performance over time. | ||
| + | Their Mission: Visualize building energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions to encourage owners and building managers to make proper changes | ||
| − | + | Founder(s): Project of the Data Science Working Group at Code for San Francisco, for the [https://sfenvironment.org/ San Francisco Department of Environment] | |
| − | + | Location: San Francisco, California, United States | |
| − | + | Learn More: [https://sfenvironment.org/ SF Environment] | |
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| + | ==[[File:E SDG goals icons-individual-rgb-08.png |70px|left|]]Goal 8: Promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment and decent work for all== | ||
| + | Learn more about [https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdg8 SDG 8]. | ||
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| − | + | '''CareerHub''' is an app developed to help the workforce development agency CareerHubUS to increase client job placement, improve data collection, and increase engagement. CareerHub clients include schools and job training programs, which work with low-income earners to get a living wage through better employment. The app creates an interactive relationship between career resource centers and job-searchers, by sending people messages, and creating incentives such giving out digital gift cards in exchange for sending photos of a pay stub. CareerHubsUS is used by Workforce Development, Human Services, K-12, Youth Development, and Community Colleges. | |
| − | Founder(s): | + | Their Mission: Improve the struggles of workforce professionals to verify employment and provide meaningful retention services |
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| + | Founder(s): Kim Coulthurst and Amanda Gerrie of [https://pathwaysconsultants.com/ Pathways Consultants], a workforce development consulting firm in the San Francisco Bay Area in the United States | ||
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| + | Location: United States | ||
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| + | Learn More: [https://www.careerhubus.com/ CareerHub] [https://twitter.com/CareerHubUS twitter] | ||
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| + | '''CaringCent App''' provides donors with the option to direct their change at check out to the non-profit they select | ||
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| + | Their Mission: Modernize philanthropy to virtuously personalize generosity across consumers, causes and companies | ||
Location: United States | Location: United States | ||
| − | Learn More: [ | + | Learn More: [https://www.caringcent.com/ CaringCent] [https://twitter.com/caringcent twitter] |
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| − | '''CleanSlateDC''' is a | + | '''Chomoka''' is a smartphone-enabled mobile application that digitizes Savings Group transactions and offers a market place of financial services. It was developed in partnership with Care International, Exygy to digitize financial services to low-income women in Tanzania. Chomoka operates offline and data flows link through SMS, making it accessible in low connectivity settings. The digitized records create a financial profile and credit history that may be leveraged to access formal services. The app is currently being piloted in Tanzania, and CARE plans to scale it to 7 million people worldwide. |
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| + | Their Mission: Bridge financial inclusion to millions of people, helping some of the world's most vulnerable rise | ||
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| + | Founder(s): [https://www.care-international.org/ CARE] | ||
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| + | Location: Tanzania | ||
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| + | Learn More: [https://mangotree.org/Technology-Post/Chomoka Chomoka] [https://twitter.com/exygy twitter] [https://vimeo.com/352197104 video] | ||
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| + | '''CleanSlateDC''' is a web app to help people with criminal records find success in their futures. It was developed in partnership with legal aid clinics and non-profits to address issues with sealing criminal records. | ||
Their Mission: Help individuals with a criminal history determine their eligibility to have a record sealed | Their Mission: Help individuals with a criminal history determine their eligibility to have a record sealed | ||
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| − | '''Clear My Record''' is a free online tool that helps people in California navigate the complicated process of clearing their record. It's a Code For America project which helps to | + | '''Clear My Record''' is a free online tool that helps people in California navigate the complicated process of clearing their record. It's a Code For America project which helps to remove a significant barrier to work, education, and housing for people with a criminal record. |
Their Mission: Create a blueprint for automatic record clearance of all eligible criminal records in California and across the country | Their Mission: Create a blueprint for automatic record clearance of all eligible criminal records in California and across the country | ||
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| − | Learn More: [https://www.codeforamerica.org/programs/clear-my-record Clear My Record] [https://www.codeforamerica.org Code For America] | + | Learn More: [https://www.codeforamerica.org/programs/clear-my-record Clear My Record] [https://www.codeforamerica.org Code For America] [https://twitter.com/codeforamerica twitter] |
| − | '''Empower Work''' provides immediate, confidential support for tough work issues via SMS. Anyone in the U.S. can connect with a trained peer counselor to feel heard, supported, and if needed, connected to additional resources, so they can take | + | '''Empower Work''' provides immediate, confidential support for tough work issues via SMS. Anyone in the U.S. can connect with a trained peer counselor to feel heard, supported, and if needed, connected to additional resources, so they can take next steps that work for them. |
Their Mission: Create healthy workplaces where employees are valued, supported, and empowered | Their Mission: Create healthy workplaces where employees are valued, supported, and empowered | ||
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| − | Learn More: [ | + | Learn More: [https://www.empowerwork.org/ Empower Work] [https://twitter.com/empowerwork twitter] [https://vimeo.com/320901223 video] |
| + | '''ENVision Mobile''' helps nonprofits and microfinance institutions that struggle to collect financial performance data of their micro entrepreneur beneficiaries / borrowers through a shared data analytics platform | ||
| − | + | Their Mission: Empower both the entrepreneur and the organization through a shared data analytics platform | |
| − | + | Founder(s): Aneri Pradhan | |
| − | Learn More: [https:// | + | Learn More: [https://twitter.com/envision_mobile ENVision] [https://vimeo.com/329028043 video] |
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| − | Learn More: [http:// | + | Learn More: [http://themis.org.br/laudelina/ Laudelina] [https://twitter.com/ThemisONG twitter] [https://web.facebook.com/aplicativolaudelina/ facebook] |
| − | ''' | + | '''Symba''' is dedicated to removing barriers of entry to the workforce by simplifying the management of contingent workers. Symba works to enable organizations to hire the best short-term talent, and allows employers to design best practices around their gig employment. |
| − | + | Their Mission: Making it easy to manage your contingent workforce | |
| − | + | Founder(s): Ava Sadeghi & Nikita Gupta | |
| − | + | Location: San Francisco, California, United States | |
| − | + | Learn More: [https://symba.io/ Symba] [https://twitter.com/symba_io Twitter] [https://vimeo.com/342863861 video] | |
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| − | + | '''Worker Connect''' is a worker engagement app that in close collaboration with migrant workers, worker welfare staff, and support networks in the Persian Gulf, helps workers to learn about their rights, share information about their experiences, and provide anonymous feedback to worker welfare supervisors. Workers send anonymous feedback on their living and working conditions via mobile app, and the app provides a dashboard where the company can analyze anonymous data to highlight areas of concern and intervene when necessary. | |
| − | '''Worker Connect''' | ||
Their Mission: Empower workers to share information about their experience and provide anonymous feedback to welfare supervisors | Their Mission: Empower workers to share information about their experience and provide anonymous feedback to welfare supervisors | ||
| − | Founder(s): [ | + | Founder(s): [https://www.caravanstudios.org/ Caravan Studios], a division of TechSoup. TechSoup is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization |
Location: United States | Location: United States | ||
| − | Learn More: [https://www. | + | Learn More: [https://www.workerconnect.org/ Worker Connect] |
| − | + | ==[[File:E SDG goals icons-individual-rgb-09.png |70px|left|]]Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization and foster innovation== | |
| + | Learn more about [https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdg9 SDG 9]. | ||
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| − | + | '''4Bells''' helps organizations shift some of the process from white boards to the volunteers. Volunteers are notified about tasks and can claim them and check in, reducing the time spent over the phone and tracking activity on white boards. 4Bells is supported by a generous grant from Microsoft Citizenship. | |
| − | + | Their Mission: Help deploy known volunteers to complete urgent, time-sensitive tasks | |
| + | Founder(s): Caravan Studios, a division of TechSoup | ||
| + | Learn More: [https://www.4bells.org/ 4Bells] [https://vimeo.com/257968563 video] | ||
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| + | '''Beam''' is an app that lets you donate part of your everyday purchases at partnered brands to causes you believe in — at no extra cost to you. | ||
| − | + | Their Mission: Make every day meaningful, turning your purchases into a way to tangibly impact the current social issues that matter to you | |
| − | + | Founder(s): Viveka Hulyalkar and Alex Salvatore | |
| − | + | Location: United States | |
| − | Learn More: [ | + | Learn More: [https://beamimpact.com/ Beam] [https://twitter.com/beam_impact twitter] |
| − | ''' | + | '''CallBot''' calls a group of contacts in minutes to deliver a personally recorded voice message right from your phone. |
| − | Their Mission: Help | + | Their Mission: Help nonprofits and organizations manage their volunteers, send reminders, and notify employees |
| − | Founder(s): | + | Founder(s): [http://www.gravityfish.com/ Gravity Fish], a small developer team |
| − | Location: | + | Location: United States |
| − | Learn More: | + | Learn More: [http://www.callbotapp.com/ Callbot] |
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| + | '''The Digital Reserve''' Network (DRN) is an open source network protocol that uses its own cryptocurrency to enable peer-to-peer payments, sustainable lending, and collateral free borrowing | ||
| − | + | Their Mission: Create a sustainable model for financial inclusion while producing economic incentives for network stakeholders | |
| − | + | Founder(s): Jomari Peterson and Joshua Rittenberg | |
| − | + | Learn More: [https://www.thedigitalreserve.org/ The Digital Reserve] [https://twitter.com/DigitalReserve twitter] [https://vimeo.com/293975266 video] | |
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| + | '''Feito na Biblioteca''' (Made at the Library) is a collaboration with library staff and library users to develop mobile apps that solve local problems using open government data. Working in two capital cities, Belo Horizonte (Minas Gerais) and Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul), library users and library staff from nine libraries can participate in community events that spark creativity and spur development. | ||
| + | Their Mission: Bring community together to develop technology solutions to local problems | ||
| − | + | Founder(s): Caravan Studios, a division of TechSoup. This project was supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. | |
| − | + | Location: Brazil | |
| − | + | Learn More: [http://www.feitonabiblioteca.org/ Feito na Biblioteca] | |
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| + | '''Flourish Savings''' is an engagement platform that empowers individuals to manage their finances and build positive financial habits by providing games that make saving fun and entertaining, and celebrating milestones and goals. | ||
| + | Their Mission: Help people establish savings habits and achieve financial security by making saving feel like play | ||
| − | + | Founder(s): Jessica Eting, Pedro Moura | |
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Location: United States | Location: United States | ||
| − | Learn More: [https:// | + | Learn More: [https://flourishsavings.com Flourish Savings] [https://twitter.com/FlourishSavings twitter] [https://vimeo.com/342852388 video] |
| − | ''' | + | '''Gather Voices''' (formerly Propelit) is a platform that helps nonprofits create quality, inexpensive short videos for giving campaigns, social outreach, and advocacy. Gather Voices makes it easy for organizations to push their video as a call to action via social sharing, helping to increase member engagement. |
| − | Their Mission: | + | Their Mission: Revolutionize how organizations create and use video |
| − | Founder(s): | + | Founder(s): Michael Hoffman |
Location: United States | Location: United States | ||
| − | Learn More: | + | Learn More: [https://gathervoices.co Gather Voices] |
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| − | ''' | + | '''GoodSocial''' is a new platform that supports cause-aligned social impact. The platform features a double-sided marketplace to attract and engage volunteers, streamline communications, and support community engagement. |
| − | Their Mission: Help nonprofits and | + | Their Mission: Help nonprofits engage supporters and amplify their voice in the communities they serve |
| − | Founder(s): | + | Founder(s): Trisha Bright |
Location: United States | Location: United States | ||
| − | Learn More: [ | + | Learn More: [https://www.goodsocial.com Good Social] [https://twitter.com/good__social twitter] [https://vimeo.com/342853378 video] |
| − | ''' | + | '''Goodworld''' allows you to use the #donate hashtag to instantly give to causes that matter on Facebook, Twitter and the web. |
| − | Their Mission: | + | Their Mission: Create a financial system that enables charitable giving at all levels |
| − | Founder(s): | + | Founder(s): Dale Nirvani Pfeifer |
| − | Location: | + | Location: United States |
| − | Learn More: | + | Learn More: [https://goodworld.me/ Goodworld] [https://twitter.com/Goodworld twitter] |
| − | ''' | + | '''Kandou''' is a volunteer recruitment and management platform that helps non-profits to expand their volunteer base, automate volunteer event workflows and increase their impact on the community. It is also a CSR platform that connects employees to non-profits and civic organizations, enabling teams to easily volunteer and give back, track impact and turn team building into community building. |
| − | Their Mission: | + | Their Mission: Better the world by making volunteering simple and social |
| − | Founder(s): | + | Founder(s): Garrett Houghton and Monte Thakkar |
Location: United States | Location: United States | ||
| − | Learn More: | + | Learn More: [https://www.kandouapp.com Kandou] [https://twitter.com/kandouapp twitter] [https://vimeo.com/329029374 video] |
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| − | + | '''Kricket''' is a crowd mapping platform for people and organizations to create efficiencies organically. | |
| − | + | Their Mission: Help people and organizations work towards a common goal towards building a community and coordinating the distribution of humanitarian aid by crowd-mapping | |
| − | + | Founder(s): Tom Nassr | |
| + | Location: United States | ||
| + | Learn More: [https://app.kricket.co/ Kricket] [https://twitter.com/Kricketorg twitter] | ||
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| − | + | '''Martus''' is an app that focuses on the needs of grassroots organizations and human rights defenders as well as information management. The app is for desktops that focus on structured data collection and helps circumvent Internet blocking in various countries. This project focuses on an open source Secure App Generator that will allow users and partners to create custom “Powered by Martus” write-only applications (where the user can only submit data, but not read it post-submission, so as to reduce risk for untrained data collectors), making it easier for organizations to distribute secure, easy-to-use data collection tools and for users to collect and secure information in the field. Previous support focused on the creation of a mobile version of Martus for the Android mobile OS to allow for secure information transmission in the field. | |
| − | + | Their Mission: Provide journalists and defenders of grassroots organizations and human rights a means of transmitting information while protecting their sources and themselves | |
| + | Founder(s): [http://www.benetech.org/ Benetech] a nonprofit 501(c)(3) that empowers communities in need by creating scalable technology solutions | ||
| + | Location: Palo Alto, California, United States | ||
| − | + | Learn More: [https://www.opentech.fund/project/martus-project Martus] on the [https://www.opentech.fund/ Open Tech Fund] platform | |
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| − | + | '''Miradi''' is an open source adaptive management software that allows nature conservation practitioners to design, manage, monitor, and learn from their projects to more effectively meet their conservation goals. The software provides a simple, step-by-step process for conservation teams to implement the Conservation Measures Partnership's Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation. | |
| + | Their Mission: Empower environmental practitioners to succeed in their efforts to protect and restore species and ecosystems | ||
| + | Founder(s): [http://www.benetech.org/ Benetech], Conservation Measures Partnership (CMP), and Foundations of Success (FOS) | ||
| − | + | Location: United States | |
| − | + | Learn More: [https://www.miradi.org/ Miradi] | |
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| − | + | '''OneRelief''' holds crowdfunding fundraisers within hours after a disaster has struck and invites smartphone users through social media to make a small donation via the OneRelief app. Collected donations are forwarded to emergency response funds and support certified humanitarian NGO’s in the affected area(s). | |
| + | Their Mission: Collect micro-donations (US$1-$5) for humanitarian relief aid | ||
| + | Founder(s): Peter Prix | ||
| − | + | Location: United States | |
| − | + | Learn More: [https://beta.one-relief.org/ OneRelief] [https://twitter.com/OneRelief twitter] | |
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| − | + | '''Open Garden''' is dedicated to connecting the next 5 billion mobile devices with peer-to-peer connections. Many call them the pioneers of peer-to peer mesh networking. They also created FireChat, the first messaging app to enable people to communicate even without any Internet connection or cellular data. | |
| + | Their Mission: Enable communities, orgs, and app developers to create resilient, people-powered networks | ||
| + | Founder(s): Paul Hainsworth, Ben Teitelbaum, and Christophe Daligault | ||
| − | + | Location: San Francisco, California, United States | |
| − | + | Learn More: [https://www.opengarden.com/ Open Garden] [http://twitter.com/OpenGarden twitter] | |
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| − | + | '''Open Shelf / Estante Aberto''' is an app for book lovers to share books with others. | |
| + | Their Mission: Promote free access to books to create a worldwide collective bookshelf where everyone can pick up and share books | ||
| + | Location: Brazil | ||
| − | + | Learn More: [https://www.comuny.com.br/open-shelf/ Open Shelf] [https://www.facebook.com/openshelfapp/ facebook] | |
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| − | + | '''Polis''' generates canvassing routes, load scripts and questions for volunteers to follow, and track the locations and conversations of those you have visited. It displays data analytics for each campaign, and helps to target who you should visit the next round. The app has been used successfully in many civic issue campaigns such as school district polls, and for social issue cause-building uses. Polis is perfect for door-to-door sales organizations (i.e. construction, solar, energy, home repair, retail, cable, insurance, etc.), non-profits, church groups and political campaigns. | |
| − | + | Their Mission: Help harness the power of door-to-door offline advocacy | |
| + | Founder(s): Kendall Tucker | ||
| + | Location: Boston and Virginia, United States | ||
| − | + | Learn More: [http://www.polisapp.com/ Polis] | |
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| − | + | '''TaroWorks''' is an app designed specifically for non-profits and social enterprises working in the most remote and difficult places on the planet where connectivity is limited. TaroWorks helps organizations manage offline field services, enhancing data collection, monitoring, sales and inventory management in the field. | |
| − | + | Their Mission: Improve product and service delivery to the poor by bringing real-time data to any organization, anywhere. | |
| + | Founder(s): Emily Tucker | ||
| + | Location: San Francisco, California, United States | ||
| − | + | Learn More: [https://taroworks.org/ TaroWorks] [https://twitter.com/TaroWorksApp twitter] [https://vimeo.com/329029990 video] | |
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| − | + | '''TextTrainer''' is a dialogue system that crisis counselors can practice counseling while they are training. Counselors are able to gain experience in a low-risk environment without putting anyone in danger. | |
| − | + | Their Mission: Train crisis counselors on how to intervene and de-escalate crises in a low pressure setting | |
| + | Founder(s): Orianna Demassi | ||
| + | Location: Berkeley, California, United States | ||
| − | + | Learn More: [https://blumcenter.berkeley.edu/projects/texttrainer-a-dialog-system-to-train-crisis-helpline-counselors/ TextTrainer] | |
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| − | + | '''Track it Forward''' is a volunteer time tracking app that allows volunteers to track their own time and see their progress. | |
| + | Their Mission: Help organizations maintain forward momentum in recognizing volunteer achievements and tracking the number of hours a volunteer works | ||
| + | Founder(s): Anca and James McBryan | ||
| − | + | Location: Oakland, California, United States | |
| − | + | Learn More: [https://www.trackitforward.com/feature/mobile-app Track It Forward] | |
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| − | Learn | + | ==[[File:E SDG goals icons-individual-rgb-10.png |70px|left|]]Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries== |
| + | Learn more about [https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdg10 SDG 10]. | ||
| − | ''' | + | '''Ava''' is a mobile app that provides captioned communications. Ava's voice recognition technology makes communication with 450 million people with hearing loss much easier. |
| − | Their Mission: | + | Their Mission: Help organizations become fully inclusive and break down communication barriers between the deaf & hearing worlds |
| − | Founder(s): | + | Founder(s): Thibault Duchemin, Pieter Doevendans, and Skinner Cheng |
| − | + | Learn More: [https://www.ava.me/ Ava] [https://twitter.com/avascribe twitter] [https://vimeo.com/320901220 video] | |
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| + | '''Be My Eyes''' is a free mobile app that connects blind and visually impaired people with sighted helpers from around the world, providing visual assistance via live video connection. | ||
| − | + | Their Mission: Help blind and low-vision people lead more independent lives | |
| − | + | Founder(s): Hans Jørgen Wiberg | |
| − | + | Location: United States | |
| − | Learn More: [https://www. | + | Learn More: [https://www.bemyeyes.com/ Be My Eyes] [http://twitter.com/bemyeyes twitter] |
| − | ''' | + | '''DoSomething Chatbot''' is a digital platform powering offline action by helping members join volunteer, social change and civic action campaigns. DoSomething was developed to help young people make real-world impact on causes they care about and earn easy scholarships for volunteering. |
| − | Their Mission: | + | Their Mission: Encourage young people to become active citizens and leaders while also making community involvement fun |
| − | Founder(s): | + | Founder(s): Andrew Shue & Michael Sanchez |
| − | Location: United States | + | Location: New York City, New York, United States |
| − | Learn More: [https://www. | + | Learn More: [https://www.dosomething.org/us DoSomething] [https://twitter.com/dosomething twitter] [https://vimeo.com/293977074 video] |
| − | ''' | + | '''FindHello''' is a free app that enables immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers to find the resources they need in their area. The app provides information on legal services, places of worship, ESL classes, healthcare providers, and other resources. |
| − | Their Mission: | + | Their Mission: Help refugees, asylum seekers, immigrants and their receiving communities thrive with free, high-quality online information and resources in many languages |
| − | Founder(s): | + | Founder(s): Jessica Marks |
Location: United States | Location: United States | ||
| − | Learn More: [ | + | Learn More: [https://usahello.org/findhello-app/ USAHello] [https://vimeo.com/329028738 FindHello video] |
| − | ''' | + | '''Freeda''' uses a certification system focused on respect for gender and sexual diversity to develop a network of trust between businesses and customers |
| − | Their Mission: | + | Their Mission: Provide a collaborative platform to evaluate establishments based on their respect for sexual diversity and gender equality |
| − | Founder(s): | + | Founder(s): Barbara Arena, Gabriel Galli, Guilherme Gomes and Patrícia Becker |
| − | + | Learn More: [http://freeda.me/ Freeda] [https://www.facebook.com/freedalgbt facebook] | |
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| − | ''' | + | '''Good Call''' provides a 24/7 hotline with text alerts, allowing New Yorkers to sign up online and submit a few emergency contacts who will be automatically alerted in case of an arrest. Good Call provides information and will connect you with a free lawyer immediately if arrested. Good Call offers early legal intervention, and a more reliable way to inform an arrested person’s loved ones, to help ensure a fair arrest outcome for everyone, regardless of their income. |
| − | Their Mission: | + | Their Mission: Use technology to create a more transparent and fairer process for all New Yorkers who get arrested |
| − | Founder(s): | + | Founder(s): Gabriel Leader-Rose, Jelani Anglin, Eugene Lynch, Stephanie Yim |
| − | Location: | + | Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States |
| − | Learn More: [https:// | + | Learn More: [https://goodcall.nyc/ Good Call] [https://twitter.com/goodcallnyc twitter] [https://vimeo.com/271687647 video] |
| − | ''' | + | '''Helpugees''' |
| − | Their Mission: | + | Their Mission: Match refugees and volunteers together using matchmaking platform |
| − | Founder(s): | + | Founder(s): Adam Motiwala, Fifth Tribe |
| − | Location: | + | Location: United States |
| − | Learn More: [https:// | + | Learn More: [http://helpugees.fifthtribe.com/ Helpugees] [https://twitter.com/fifthtribe twitter] |
| − | ''' | + | '''Marhub''' is an AI bot tackling an important challenge by helping millions of migrants and asylum seekers. Marhub empowers refugees to navigate resettlement procedures, connect with legal support, and start new lives quickly and safely. |
| − | Their Mission: | + | Their Mission: Enable refugees to access crucial information and services through chatbots |
| − | Founder(s): | + | Founder(s): Sarrah Nomanbhoy & Parbon Khan |
| − | Location: | + | Location: Berkeley, California, United States |
| − | Learn More: [https://www. | + | Learn More: [https://www.marhub.co/ Marhub] [https://twitter.com/marhub_co twitter] [https://www.facebook.com/marhub.co/ facebook] |
| − | ''' | + | '''Ohana''' is an open source community resource api that makes it easy for communities to publish a database of social services. The Ohana api allows developers to build impactful applications that serve underprivileged residents. The founders' during their time with Code for America collaborated with the Human Services Agency in San Mateo County, CA to build the [https://www.smc-connect.org/ SMC Connect] platform. |
| − | Their Mission: | + | Their Mission: Increase access to human services for residents in need |
| − | Founder(s): | + | Founder(s): Moncef Belyamani, Sophia Parafina & Anselm Bradford |
| − | Location: San | + | Location: San Mateo, California, United States |
| − | + | Learn More: [https://github.com/sfbrigade/ohana-api Github] [https://www.smc-connect.org/ SMC Connect] | |
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| + | '''Notifica''' is an app, built by United We Dream and Huge. With the press of one button, users can quickly activate their predetermined backup plans by sending 30 personalized notifications to family, lawyers and their support networks in the event of an ICE raid. | ||
| − | + | Their Mission: Empower undocumented immigrants to take control of their destinies | |
| − | + | Founder(s): built by United We Dream and Huge | |
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Location: United States | Location: United States | ||
| − | Learn More: [https:// | + | Learn More: [https://notifica.us/ Notifica] [https://twitter.com/unitedwedream twitter] [https://vimeo.com/257017772 video] |
| − | ''' | + | '''Person-Centered Network App''' |
| − | Their Mission: | + | Their Mission: Assess a person's social support network, identify where help is needed, leverage strengths, and links the person to resources to fill the gaps |
| − | Founder(s): | + | Founder(s): Dr. Danielle Varda |
| − | Location: | + | Location: Denver, Colorado, United States |
| − | Learn More: | + | Learn More: [https://visiblenetworklabs.com/pcn-app/ Person-Centered Network App] [https://visiblenetworklabs.com/ VisibleNetworkLabs] |
| − | ''' | + | '''RISE CIEL App''' is a coordination platform that elevates the efficiency, transparency, and effectiveness of service delivery in refugee schools in the field. RISE CIEL App tools, designed to work in internet and infrastructure poor settings, rely on portable Wi-Fi, solar device charging, and technologies common in developing countries. |
| − | Their Mission: | + | Their Mission: To be able to account for every refugee child and enable their access to essential services regardless of their religion, ethnicity, gender, disability or other vulnerability status |
| − | Founder(s): | + | Founder(s): Sergio Medina & Michael Louran |
Location: United States | Location: United States | ||
| − | Learn More: [ | + | Learn More: [https://www.rise-int.org/ RISE CIEL] [https://twitter.com/RISEIntSF twitter] |
| − | ''' | + | '''SF311 Mobile App''' enables users to submit service requests and search the same knowledge base that San Francisco City and County 311 Customer Services Representatives use to get info. |
| − | Their Mission: | + | Their Mission: Make it easy for San Francisco residents to submit service requests and access information |
| − | Founder(s): | + | Founder(s): City & County of San Francisco |
| − | Location: San Francisco, California, United States | + | Location: San Francisco, California, United States |
| − | Learn More: [ | + | Learn More: [https://www.sf311.org/mobile SF311] [https://twitter.com/sf311 twitter] [https://vimeo.com/287616279 video] |
| − | ''' | + | '''Spendrise''' is an online platform that harnesses our collective purchasing power for positive change, working on issues such as racial justice, worker's rights, environment and climate, and ensuring emerging tech benefits and protects us all, not just the bottom line. |
| − | Their Mission: | + | Their Mission: Empower consumers to create positive change wherever you spend money |
| − | + | Founder(s): Eric Shih | |
| − | + | Location: Oakland, California, United States | |
| + | Learn More: [https://www.spendrise.com/ Spendrise] [https://twitter.com/Spendrise twitter] | ||
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| − | + | '''Statement App''' enables you to easily communicate in-person via large, high contrast text when you can't talk out loud. If you have difficulties hearing or speaking, the app allows you to simply type your message and turn your phone around. | |
| − | + | Their Mission: Making it easier for people to communicate in situations where talking is not possible | |
| − | + | Founder(s): Carrie Phillips and Todd Anderson | |
| − | + | Location: San Francisco, California, United States | |
| + | Learn More: Currently a free app on IOS, download [https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/statement-visual-communication/id1018664801?mt=8&ref=producthunt here]. Find out more information about [https://www.producthunt.com/tech/statement Statement] | ||
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| − | + | '''Tarjimly''' is a mobile app that allows the world's 3 billion multilingual speakers to remotely volunteer their language skills as translators and interpreters for the 65 million displaced people. | |
| − | + | Their Mission: Remove language barriers in order to assist millions of refugees and people in need of humanitarian assistance | |
| − | + | Founder(s): Atif Javed & Aziz Alghunaim | |
| − | + | Location: Mountain View, California, United States | |
| + | Learn More: [https://www.tarjim.ly/en Tarjimly] [https://twitter.com/Tarjimly twitter] [https://vimeo.com/320901240 video] | ||
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| − | + | ==[[File:E SDG goals icons-individual-rgb-11.png |70px|left|]]Goal 11: Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable== | |
| + | Learn more about [https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdg11 SDG 11]. | ||
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| − | + | '''Appallicious''' is a data collection and aggregation company that creates apps such as [https://appallicious.com/products/daad/ Disaster Assessment and Assistance Dashboard (DAAD)] built to serve the entire lifeline of disaster from community resiliency and preparedness planning through to post-disaster economic recovery. | |
| − | + | Their Mission: Enable citizens and government to plan, prepare, educate, assess, respond and recover to disasters large and small | |
| + | Founder(s): Yo Yoshida | ||
| + | Location: California, United States | ||
| − | + | Learn More: [https://appallicious.com/ Appallicious] [https://appallicious.com/products/daad/ Disaster Assessment and Assistance Dashboard (DAAD)] | |
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| − | + | '''Aunt Bertha''' | |
| − | + | Their Mission: Help people find and connect to social services across any zip code in the United States. | |
| + | Founder(s): Erine Gray | ||
| + | Location: Austin, Texas, United States | ||
| − | + | Learn More: [https://www.auntbertha.com/ Aunt Bertha] [https://twitter.com/auntbertha twitter] | |
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| − | + | '''BestRides / SafeRideWalkSafe''' is an easy-to-use smartphone app that provides real-time updates to a chosen group of contacts whenever you take a trip | |
| − | + | Their Mission: Improve individual safety by letting users share their location and real-time updates to a chosen group of people | |
| + | Founder(s): Greg Czarnowski | ||
| + | Location: United States | ||
| − | + | Learn More: [https://best-rides.com/ BestRides] [https://vimeo.com/187583441 video] [https://vimeo.com/channels/publicgoodapphouse/252827965 video-Safety Apps Panel presentation]. | |
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| − | + | '''CAL FIRE Ready for Wildfire app''' helps prepare notify, and provide info to citizens of wildfire incidents with custom alerts and maps on California wildfires, and info on how to prepare for and protect property. | |
| − | + | Their Mission: Preventing and preparing for wildfire | |
| + | Founder(s): Viveka Hulyalkar and Alex Salvatore | ||
| + | Location: California, United States | ||
| − | + | Learn More: [https://www.readyforwildfire.org/ CAL FIRE Ready for Wildfire] [https://twitter.com/CAL_FIRE?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw twitter] [https://vimeo.com/315588017 video] | |
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| − | + | '''Changecause''' is a social platform that aims to revolutionize the way cause marketing is done by keeping donations small and leveraging the power of social networks. Changecause allows you to select one of the non-profits listed, determine a micro-donation amount ($1-$5), pay via Amazon and then a corresponding sponsor will match your donation, doubling your impact. Changecause will broadcast your donation on the social network of your choosing to spread the word about the organization you care about and spotlight the sponsoring company. The core technology behind Changecause became [https://www.naytev.com/ Naytev]. | |
| − | + | Their Mission: Bring together individual donors, causes, and sponsors to raise more money and create greater awareness for causes | |
| + | Founder(s): Edward Ridgely, Zack Liscio, Patrick Costello and Michael Seid | ||
| + | Location: San Francisco, California, United States | ||
| − | + | Learn More: [https://www.naytev.com/ Naytev] [https://twitter.com/changecause Changecause twitter] | |
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| − | + | '''CityXcape App''' | |
| − | + | Their Mission: Provide a real time map of hidden gems in the city that are scouted | |
| + | Founder(s): | ||
| + | Location: San Francisco, California, United States | ||
| − | + | Learn More: [https://www.cityxcape.com/ CityXcape] [https://twitter.com/cityxcapeinc twitter] | |
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| − | + | '''Civic Chatbots''' solves complex government communication issues with a machine learning platform that helps residents and government employees get questions answers efficiently, effectively and affordably. | |
| − | + | Their Mission: Facilitate procurement for the City & County of San Francisco through chatbot | |
| + | Founder(s): Developed at Yeti with CEO Tony Scherba | ||
| + | Location: San Francisco, California, United States | ||
| − | + | Learn More: [http://civicchatbots.com/ Civic Chatbots] [https://vimeo.com/256026278 video] | |
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| − | + | '''Colab.re''' is an app that encourages citizenship actions by enabling users to elaborate and share suggestions to improve cities and send them to the local government. The app acts as a management system, streamlining demands of citizens, and creates a vehicle for response directly on the platform. | |
| − | + | Their Mission: Provide a way for citizens to connect directly with their city; and provide managers with a more efficient way of managing | |
| + | Founder(s): Clarissa Accioly, Josemando Sobral, Gustavo Maia | ||
| + | Location: Porto Alegré, Brazil | ||
| − | + | Learn More: [https://www.colab.re/ Colab] | |
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| − | + | '''DAHLIA''' San Francisco Housing Portal makes it easier to find and apply for affordable housing in San Francisco. | |
| − | + | Their Mission: Allow residents of San Francisco to find affordable housing in the city | |
| + | Founder(s): Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development in partnership with SF Department of Technology Mayor's Office of Civic Innovation | ||
| + | Location: San Francisco, California, United States | ||
| − | + | Learn More: [https://housing.sfgov.org/ DAHLIA] | |
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| − | + | '''DecipherAustin''' helps map Austin's open spaces. Go anywhere in Austin and answer a few short questions about your experience in the area surrounding the location. | |
| − | + | Their Mission: Help citizens have more information about how to make a more open space for people regardless of backgrounds | |
| + | Founder(s): Decipher City | ||
| + | Location: Austin, Texas, United States | ||
| − | + | Learn More: [https://deciphercity.org/tag/austin/ DecipherAustin] | |
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| − | + | '''District Housing''' helps residents prepare housing applications to automatically fill out any building’s application. Originally, to apply for affordable housing in the District of Columbia, residents must fill out a separate paper application for each HUD-subsidized building they apply for. None of the approximately 100 applications are the same format and none are electronically accessible. | |
| − | + | Their Mission: Help residents and caseworkers prepare affordable housing applications by creating an online, common application form that can be used to automatically fill out any building’s application | |
| + | Founder(s): [https://www.meetup.com/Code-for-DC/ Code For DC] and partners with [https://breadforthecity.org/ Bread For City] | ||
| + | Location: Washington, D.C., United States | ||
| − | + | Learn More: [https://github.com/codefordc/districthousing District Housing code on Github] | |
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| − | + | '''Find Your Voice''' is a civic engagement tool that assists users researching legislation at the Tennessee General Assembly. | |
| − | + | Their Mission: Allow Tennessee voters to research their local lawmakers | |
| + | Founder(s): | ||
| + | Location: Tennessee, United States | ||
| − | + | Learn More: [https://find-your-voice.firebaseapp.com/ Find Your Voice] | |
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| − | + | '''Hustle''' is the leading peer-to-peer messaging tool used by campaigns and nonprofits around the country. In the past, Hustle has worked with groups like Sanders for President, Planned Parenthood, Everytown for Gun Safety, and the Human Rights Campaign to enable them to communicate with their donors and supporters in a highly personalized way. | |
| − | + | Their Mission: Connect campaigns and nonprofits around the country with their supporters | |
| + | Founder(s): | ||
| + | Location: United States | ||
| − | + | Learn More: [https://www.hustle.com/ Hustle] [https://twitter.com/Hustle twitter] [https://vimeo.com/263276046 video] | |
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| − | + | '''Imby Community''' is important because supporting and creating walkable neighborhoods for everyone requires community engagement during the zoning process. | |
| − | + | Their Mission: Inform, engage, and influence the creation of responsive, sustainable communities | |
| + | Founder(s): Michelle Beaman Chang | ||
| + | Location: Washington, D.C., United States | ||
| − | + | Learn More: [https://app.imby.community/ imby] [https://twitter.com/imbycommunity twitter] | |
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| − | ''' | + | '''Impact Bots''' is a civic engagement chatbot using AI technology. Impact Bots offers Software-as-a-Service chatbots for social action, called Impact Bots that connect people with positive experiences to do nearby and offer them localized rewards and grants from participating partners. Impact Bots live inside Facebook Messenger and other social platforms to make it easy for people to learn, connect, and take action. |
| − | Their Mission: | + | Their Mission: Connect and empower people to accomplish goals through collective action |
| − | Founder(s): | + | Founder(s): Giovanna Mingarelli, MC2 |
| − | Location: | + | Location: Ontario, Canada |
| − | Learn More: | + | Learn More: [https://playmc2.com/ Impact Bots] |
| − | ''' | + | '''LocalData''' is a cloud-based mapping platform that helps cities and communities make data-driven decisions by capturing and visualizing street-level information in real time. LocalData is an open source project that provides tools for local street-level geographic data collection and reporting, and makes the local information and data about cities and towns available to local governments and organizations. |
| − | Their Mission: | + | Their Mission: Make the process of collecting, transcribing and visualizing street-level information about neighborhoods fast and easy |
| − | Founder(s): | + | Founder(s): Matt Hampel & Alicia Rouault & Prashant Singh |
| − | Location: San Francisco, | + | Location: United States: Detroit, San Francisco, and New York City |
| − | Learn More: [https:// | + | Learn More: [http://localdata.com/ LocalData] [https://twitter.com/golocaldata twitter] [https://github.com/LocalData Github] |
| − | ''' | + | '''My San Jose''' is an app which makes it quick and easy to file and track a City service request for abandoned vehicles, graffiti, illegal dumping, potholes, streetlight outages, general requests, access FAQs, or speak with a live Customer Service Representative. |
| − | Their Mission: | + | Their Mission: Make it easy to request city services |
| − | Founder(s): | + | Founder(s): City of San Jose |
| − | Location: San | + | Location: San Jose, California, United States |
| − | Learn More: [https:// | + | Learn More: [https://www.sanjoseca.gov/your-government/departments-offices/customer-service/my-san-jose My San Jose] |
| − | ''' | + | '''Phone2Action''' is a digital grassroots advocacy platform. |
| − | Their Mission: | + | Their Mission: Connect supporters to elected officials with social media, phone and email advocacy tools drive participation in civic process |
| − | Founder(s): | + | Founder(s): Ximena Hartsock and Jeb Ory |
| − | Location: | + | Location: United States |
| − | Learn More: | + | Learn More: [http://phone2action.com/ Phone2Action] [http://twitter.com/Phone2Action twitter] |
| − | ''' | + | '''RagTag''' uses technology to make progressive organizations and candidates better at what they do. |
| − | Their Mission: | + | Their Mission: Connect tech volunteers eager to jump in and help out with projects for organizations doing good work on the ground - and actively manage projects, from scope to solution |
| − | Founder(s): | + | Founder(s): |
| − | Location: | + | Location: United States |
| − | Learn More: [https:// | + | Learn More: [https://ragtag.org/ RagTag] [https://twitter.com/ragtag_team twitter] |
| − | ''' | + | '''Reach''' is a social network of citizen security. In real time, people can take take action or precautions, reduce response times and validate if there are false incidents thus effectively achieving joint work between authorities and citizens. |
| − | Their Mission: | + | Their Mission: Easily share information and/or evidence of crimes and social incidents anonymously |
Founder(s): | Founder(s): | ||
| − | Location: | + | Location: United States |
| − | Learn More: [ | + | Learn More: [https://reachsos.com/ Reach] [https://twitter.com/reachsos twitter] [https://vimeo.com/252827965 video] |
| − | ''' | + | '''SF CrimeData''' uses San Francisco Crime Data from the SFPD data provided by SF OpenData. |
| − | Their Mission: | + | Their Mission: Transform everyday purchases into votes for positive change |
Founder(s): | Founder(s): | ||
| − | Location: | + | Location: United States |
| − | Learn More: [ | + | Learn More: [http://sfcrimedata.org/ SF CrimeData] |
| − | ''' | + | '''SF Pest''' allows residents in San Francisco affordable housing to report pest issues from their mobile devices. SF Pest was developed as part of the Fellowship program by students in partnership with Pestec and the Civic Innovation Group. |
| − | Their Mission: | + | Their Mission: Improve communication and accountability between residents and property management |
| − | Founder(s): | + | Founder(s): [https://devmission.org/ Dev/Mission] |
| − | Location: | + | Location: United States: San Francisco, California, United States |
| − | Learn More: | + | Learn More: [https://sfpest.org/ SF Pest] [https://vimeo.com/352195041 video] |
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| − | + | '''SkyAlert''' leverages modern technology to give advance warning of an impending Earthquake. SkyAlert collaborates closely with United States Geological Suvery to distribute Earthquake Early Warnings in Oregon, Washington and California. With the combination of SkyAlert’s award-winning technology, businesses and organizations can receive advance warning of shaking from an earthquake that has already begun. | |
| − | + | Their Mission: Provide a technological solution to prevent and reduce human and economic losses when an earthquake strikes. | |
| − | + | Founder(s): Alejandro Cantu & Alvaro Velasco | |
| − | + | Location: Mexico & Berkeley, California, United States | |
| + | Learn More: [https://skyalertusa.com/ SkyAlert Website] [https://twitter.com/SkyAlertUSA twitter] | ||
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| − | + | '''SmartResponse''' is an initiative under the Disaster Accountability Project that curates an algorithm-sorted, location, and disaster-specific "how to help" lists to provide information to donors after a natural disaster has occurred. Through SmartResponse, users can find out which organizations are responding and not responding. This can redirect hundreds of millions of dollars to the most transparent and often local groups that have the greatest capacity to deliver assistance and save lives. | |
| − | + | Their Mission: Help donors make informed decisions after a natural disaster since the generosity that follows natural disasters are often delayed and diluted | |
| − | + | Founder(s): Ben Smilowitz, Disaster Accountability Project | |
| − | + | Location: Rockville, Maryland | |
| + | Learn More: [https://www.smartresponse.org/ SmartResponse] [http://disasteraccountability.org/ Disaster Accountability Project] [https://twitter.com/disasteraccount twitter] | ||
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| − | + | '''Tenderloin Housing Clinic App''' for the Tenderloin Housing Clinic lets the tenants of SRO hotels and private apartments for low-income families report code violations. The app also helps the staff to manage, act upon and assign the violations to an appropriate staff members. It also helps the general public to see which SRO hotels and apartments have the most violations. Tenderloin Housing Clinic is a 501(c)(3) organization. | |
| − | + | Their Mission: Prevent tenant displacement, preserve and expand the city's low-cost housing stock, and to provide comprehensive legal assistance to low-income tenants | |
| − | + | Founder(s): Nicolas Melo | |
| − | + | Location: San Francisco, California, United States | |
| + | Learn More: [https://www.thclinic.org/ Tenderloin Housing Clinic] [https://github.com/quackyduck/THC Github] | ||
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| − | + | '''TenFour''' is an emergency check-in tool built to help people who are responsible for other people, HR managers, principals, team and community leaders, to answer the question "who needs help?" | |
| − | + | Their Mission: Help teams reach each other everyday and in a critical situation | |
| − | + | Founder(s): Ushahidi Founders are Erik Hersman, Ory Okolloh, Juliana Rotich and David Kobia | |
| − | + | Location: Nairobi, Kenya | |
| + | Learn More: [https://www.tenfour.org/ TenFour] [https://twitter.com/ushahidi twitter] | ||
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| − | + | '''Terrastories''' is a free and open source geostorytelling application built to enable indigenous and other local communities to locate and map their own oral storytelling traditions about places of significant meaning or value to them. | |
| − | + | Their Mission: To safeguard the intangible cultural heritage expressed in indigenous place-based oral histories, which are at risk of disappearing | |
| − | + | Founder(s): Rudo Kemper | |
| − | Learn More: [https:// | + | Learn More: [https://amazonteam.org/terrastories Terrastories page] [https://github.com/terrastories/terrastories Github] [https://twitter.com/TerrastoriesApp twitter] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJQKVb5NEHI video] |
| + | '''Tier 1 Screener''' was created for Allies Against Slavery in the United States. | ||
| − | + | Their Mission: Help frontline professionals rapidly and effectively identify possible victims of sex trafficking | |
| − | + | Founder(s): | |
| − | + | Location: Austin, Texas, United States | |
| − | + | Learn More: [http://www.alliesagainstslavery.org/ Tier 1 Screener] [https://twitter.com/alliesatx twitter] | |
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| + | '''TransitScreen''' is a real-time display of transportation options at your location. Compare train times to bus arrivals on your way to work in the morning. Know when your employee shuttle arrives so you aren’t caught waiting in the cold. The service is active in every major city in the US and Canada, and select European cities. | ||
| − | ' | + | Their Mission: Provide information about one's transportation choices at a glance, live and in real-time |
| − | + | Founder(s): | |
| − | + | Location: United States | |
| − | + | Languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, German, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Hindi | |
| − | Learn More: | + | Learn More: [http://www.transitscreen.com/ TransitScreen] [https://twitter.com/TransitScreen twitter] |
| − | + | == [[File:E SDG goals icons-individual-rgb-12.png|70px|left|]]Goal 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns== | |
| + | Learn more about [https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdg12 SDG 12]. | ||
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| − | + | '''Codifi''' is a platform for paperless archaeology, providing support with every aspect of the transition to a paperless workflow | |
| − | + | Their Mission: Make paperless a reality for any approach | |
| + | Founder(s): Michael Ashley | ||
| + | Location: United States | ||
| − | + | Learn More: [https://www.codifi.com Codifi] [https://twitter.com/codifi_inc twitter] | |
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| − | + | '''Greenease''' helps people eat local and sustainably grown food. | |
| − | + | Their Mission: Connect consumers with restaurants, cafes and grocers buying from local or sustainable farms | |
| + | Founder(s): | ||
| + | Location: New York City and Washington, D.C., United States | ||
| − | + | Learn More: [https://www.greenease.co/ Greenease] [https://twitter.com/GreeneaseApp twitter] | |
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| − | ''' | + | '''Laborlink''' transforms everyday purchases into votes for positive change. |
| − | Their Mission: | + | Their Mission: Translate the voices of workers into actionable analytics that enable socially responsible supply chains |
| − | Founder(s): | + | Founder(s): |
| − | Location: | + | Location: United States |
| − | Learn More: [ | + | Learn More: [http://goodworldsolutions.org/ Laborlink] |
| − | ''' | + | '''Litterati App''' Soda cans, plastic bags, and cigarette butts litter the environment, choke wildlife, and threaten our planet. Litterati is tackling this problem one piece of litter at a time, geotaging pinpoints of litter collected worldwide. Literati is still under development for android. |
| − | Their Mission: | + | Their Mission: Create a global community to identify, map, and collect the world's litter |
| − | Founder(s): | + | Founder(s): Jeff Kirschner and Literati, LLC |
| − | Location: | + | Location: United States |
| − | Learn More: | + | Learn More: [http://www.litterati.org/ Literati App] [https://twitter.com/Litterati twitter] |
| − | ''' | + | '''Recorre App (Coorremos C.M.)''' is an app that connects users with providers of the collection service and works to solve the problem of inadequate disposal of debris and trash |
| − | Their Mission: | + | Their Mission: Ensure that disposal of debris and trash is arranged according to law |
| − | Founder(s): | + | Founder(s): Coorremos C.M. |
| − | Location: | + | Location: Columbia |
| − | Learn More: [https:// | + | Learn More: [https://www.facebook.com/Coorremos/ Coorremos C.M. facebook page] |
| − | ''' | + | '''Recyclable''' allows anyone to find out if their item can be recycled by simply taking a picture of it. With this application, there are no excuses not to recycle. |
| − | Their Mission: | + | Their Mission: Let people know what is and is not recyclable |
| − | Founder(s): | + | Founder(s): Miriam Haart |
| − | Location: | + | Location: United States |
| − | Learn More: [https:// | + | Learn More: [https://miriamhaart.com/recyclable Recyclable] [https://vimeo.com/channels/publicgoodapphouse/228633198 video] |
| − | + | ==[[File:E SDG goals icons-individual-rgb-13.png |70px|left|]]Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts== | |
| + | Learn more about [https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdg13 SDG 13]. | ||
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| − | + | '''Climate Cost Project''' | |
| − | + | Their Mission: Measure the costs of climate change happening right now (run by Climate Impact Census) | |
| + | Founder(s): | ||
| + | Location: United States | ||
| − | + | Learn More: [http://climatecostproject.org/ Climate Cost Project] [https://twitter.com/ClimateCost twitter] | |
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| − | + | '''Sistema Ambiental Paulista SAP''' is an app that displays the location and air quality of parks and beaches in the state. It lets Paulistas and tourists map collection points for cooking oil recycling through a partnership with the Sustainable Oil program of the Brazilian Association of Vegetable Oil Industries (ABIOVE). | |
| − | + | Their Mission: Inform citizens and residents of São Paulo to the various services offered by the State Government's Environment Secretariat | |
| + | Founder(s): State of São Paulo Environment Department | ||
| + | Location: | ||
| − | + | Learn More: [http://www.ambiente.sp.gov.br/aplicativos/sap/ Sistema Ambiental Paulista SAP] | |
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| − | + | '''Xinampa: The Digital Observatory for Environmental Justice''' is a platform that combines digitalization, Natural Language Processing and Community Science to create real-time indicators of Environmental Justice hotspots across the region. | |
| − | + | Their Mission: Build Latin America's first Digital Observatory for Environmental Justice | |
| + | Founder(s): Diego Ponce de Leon Barido | ||
| + | Location: Berkeley, California, United States | ||
| − | + | Learn More: [https://www.xinampa.io/ Xinampa] [https://vimeo.com/352198950 video] | |
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| − | + | ==[[File:E SDG goals icons-individual-rgb-14.png|70px|left|]] Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources == | |
| + | Learn more about [https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdg14 SDG 14]. | ||
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| + | '''Clean Swell''' is used to document trash found during cleanups by adding photos and shared via social media for others to see. It tracks the path of users during cleanup efforts, tallies miles cleaned up, and keeps a record of the total amount of trash you’ve collected. Clean Swells data delivers a global snapshot of ocean trash, providing researchers and policy-makers insight to inform solutions. Join the thousands of International Coastal Cleanup® volunteers who are working for a cleaner ocean by picking up the millions of pounds of trash that wash onto beaches around the world. | ||
| − | + | Clean Swells was created by the [http://www.oceanconservancy.org/ Ocean Conservancy] and developed by [http://www.beaconfire-red.com/ Beaconfire Red] in the United States. | |
| − | Their Mission: | + | Their Mission: Reduce the amount of trash and document the trash cleaned up at beaches, waterways, and oceans |
| − | Founder(s): | + | Founder(s): Ocean Conservancy |
| − | Location: | + | Location: |
| − | Learn More: [ | + | Learn More: [https://oceanconservancy.org/trash-free-seas/international-coastal-cleanup/cleanswell/ Clean Swell] and download the [https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/clean-swell/id985692119?mt=8 Clean Swell App] |
| − | ''' | + | '''Dive Against Debris''' allows divers to report debris they see below the surface of the ocean. They can use the Dive Against Debris app to quickly and easily report on the conditions under water. They can also get debris cleanup kits and report debris via an online platform. |
| − | Their Mission: | + | Their Mission: Clean up underwater debris |
Founder(s): | Founder(s): | ||
| − | Location: | + | Location: |
| − | Learn More: [ | + | Learn More: [https://www.projectaware.org/news/use-your-phone-take-action-clean-ocean Dive Against Debris] is a program of [https://www.projectaware.org/ Project Aware]. App for [https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/project-aware-dive-against-debris/id1260943783?ls=1&mt=8 iOS] and [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.project.rantmedia.projectaware Android] |
| − | + | ==[[File:E SDG goals icons-individual-rgb-15.png|70px|left|]]Goal 15: Sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation, halt biodiversity loss == | |
| + | Learn more about [https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdg15 SDG 15]. | ||
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| − | + | '''AdoptMe App''' helps bring stories to the faces of animals and are posted to Twitter and other platforms, bringing a whole new level of exposure to pets looking for their forever homes! AdoptMeApp is used by shelter & rescue group volunteers, socializers, and fosters. Those who interact most with adoptable pets love taking pictures of their furry friends. AdoptMeApp is now in use at Pets In Need (CA), San Diego Humane Society (CA), Contra Costa Animal Services (CA), Front Street Animal Shelter (CA), Stanislaus County Animal Shelter (CA), Fluvanna SPCA (VA), Animal Allies Humane Society (MN), RSPCA Queensland (Australia), and many more shelters. | |
| − | + | Their Mission: Help animal welfare organizations increase adoptions and save more animals' lives | |
| + | Founder(s): Cynthia Typaldos | ||
| + | Location: California, United States | ||
| − | + | Learn More: [http://adoptmeapp.org/ AdoptMeApp] [https://twitter.com/adoptmeapp twitter] | |
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| − | + | '''i of the Elephant''' is a mobile app that lets individuals report where ivory is being sold. i of the Elephant is a community action tool to tackle the illegal ivory trade and gives people the power to make a positive difference. | |
| − | + | Their Mission: Identify where ivory is illicitly sold and compel sellers to be more responsible and enable consumers to choose environmentally conscious stores. | |
| + | Founder(s): Biologists without Borders | ||
| + | Location: San Rafael, California, United States | ||
| − | + | Learn More: [http://biologistswithoutborders.org/saving-elephants/ i of the Elephant] [https://twitter.com/SueOrloff twitter] [https://vimeo.com/320901229 video] | |
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| − | + | == [[File:E SDG goals icons-individual-rgb-16.png|70px|left|]]Goal 16: Promote just, peaceful and inclusive societies== | |
| + | Learn more about [https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdg16 SDG 16]. | ||
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| + | '''5 calls''' does the research for each issue, determining which representatives are most influential for which topic, collecting phone numbers for those offices and writing scripts that clearly articulate a progressive position. | ||
| − | + | Their Mission: Provide an easy and most effective way for citizens to make an impact in national and local politics | |
| − | + | Founder(s): Nick O'Neill & Rebecca Kaufman | |
| − | + | Location: San Francisco, California, United States | |
| − | + | Learn More: [https://5calls.org/ 5 Calls] [https://twitter.com/make5calls twitter] [https://vimeo.com/287609274 video] | |
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| + | '''AsylumConnect''' catalog is the first ever online resource database for LGBTQ asylum seekers in the U.S. | ||
| − | + | Their Mission: Help persecuted LGBTQ people identify and access verified human needs resources in the U.S. | |
| − | + | Founder(s): Sy and Katie Sgarro, [https://asylumconnect.org/ Asylum Connect] | |
| − | + | Location: United States | |
| − | + | Learn More: [https://asylumconnect.org/mobile-app/ AsylumConnect App] [https://twitter.com/AsylumConnect twitter] | |
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| + | '''Boldly''' (formerly SheChange) is a Chrome plug-in, that gives consumers a voice to influence corporate policies that impact people and our planet. Shop online as you normally do; the plug-in turns orange when it has something to tell you. Just click it to view your personalized ratings and alternatives that better-match your values, and tweet to companies or post to facebook your expectations using pre-written posts, including relevant hashtags, or write your own. | ||
| − | + | Their Mission: Empower consumers to make companies do better for people and our planet | |
| − | + | Founder(s): Tracy Wyman | |
| − | + | Location: California, United States | |
| − | + | Learn More: [https://myboldly.com/take-action Boldly] [https://vimeo.com/320901237 video] | |
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| + | '''CaseCompanion''' developed in partnership between Code for America and Multnomah County, Portland, OR, gives crime victims access to resources and support throughout the system. | ||
| − | + | Their Mission: Help crime victims find the information and support needed in Multnomah County | |
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| − | Founder(s): | + | Founder(s): Tom Dooner, Code for America and Multnomah County, Portland, Oregon |
| − | Location: United States | + | Location: Portland, Oregon, United States |
| − | Learn More: [ | + | Learn More: [https://casecompanion.multco.us/ Case Companion] [https://vimeo.com/256026105 video] |
| − | ''' | + | '''DataSF''' Open Data portal is designed to help the city of San Francisco's data be more accessible and usable to all. The portal has multiple ways to access data, including search, categories, and view by department, including the SFPD Crime data. Data is viewable by resource types like charts, maps, filtered view, and a data lens, with external links, files, documents, and calendars. Published data supports broad and unanticipated uses of city data and improves trust, transparency and accountability. |
| − | Their Mission: | + | Their Mission: Make San Francisco city data more usable and accessible to all |
| − | Founder(s): | + | Founder(s): [https://sf.gov/ City of San Francisco] and supported by Jason Lally, Open Data Program Manager and Jay Bonaguro, Chief Data Officer of SF and other [https://datasf.org/about/ staff members] |
| − | Location: | + | Location: San Francisco, California, United States |
| − | Learn More: [https:// | + | Learn More: [https://datasf.org/ DataSF] [https://twitter.com/DataSF twitter] |
| − | ''' | + | '''Fiskkit''' is a web app that is currently available in Beta. |
| − | Their Mission: | + | Their Mission: Lets users discuss news that matters on the local and national levels, and verify truth of news reports |
Founder(s): | Founder(s): | ||
| − | Location: | + | Location: United States |
| − | Learn More: [http:// | + | Learn More: [http://fiskkit.com/ Fiskkit] [https://twitter.com/Fiskkit twitter] |
| − | ''' | + | '''Flower''' helps friends and family members be a strong and effective support network through the most important moments in life. Flower makes it easier to both ask and answer that question. Flower is a mobile app available for IOS download. |
| − | Their Mission: | + | Their Mission: Help friends and family members be a strong and effective support network through important moments in life |
| − | Founder(s): | + | Founder(s): Jean Miller Truelson and [http://www.dogpatchtech.com/ Dog Patch Tech] |
| − | Location: United States | + | Location: San Francisco, California, United States |
| − | + | Learn More: [https://flower.io/ Flower] [https://twitter.com/FlowerioApp twitter] | |
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| + | '''Forward''' is an app designed to make it easier to take local action by providing information on resources, groups, campaigns, and actions you can do to support local causes. Forward focuses on four cause categories: education and opportunity, health and well-being, justice and democracy, and environment and climate. | ||
| − | + | Their Mission: Improving civic engagement, making it easier to take local action on the causes we care about | |
| − | + | Founder(s): Libby Falck, Forward Labs (formerly ChangeX) | |
| − | + | Location: Wisconsin, United States | |
| − | + | Learn More: [https://joinforward.org/vision Information about Forward] [https://joinforward.org/ joinforward.org] | |
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| + | '''Hall of Justice''' Criminal justice data transparency is important. Hall of Justice is a robust, searchable inventory of publicly available criminal justice datasets and research. The inventory incorporates government as well as academic data. | ||
| − | + | Their Mission: Provide a searchable inventory of criminal justice data | |
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| + | Founder(s): project of [https://sunlightfoundation.com/ The Sunlight Foundation], a nonpartisan 501(c)3 nonprofit that advocates for open government globally and uses technology to make government more accountable to all | ||
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| − | + | Learn More: [http://hallofjustice.sunlightfoundation.com/ Hall of Justice] | |
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| − | + | '''Hope''' is your personal political advisor who helps you keep track of what's happening in the world and recommend smart, strategic actions. | |
| − | + | Their Mission: Advise citizens on actions they can take based on current political events | |
| + | Founder(s): Jeremy Heimans, Jessy Tolkan & Josh Hendler | ||
| + | Location: | ||
| − | + | Learn More: [https://www.meethope.us/ Hope] [https://twitter.com/talktohope twitter] [https://vimeo.com/256026432 video] | |
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| − | + | '''Justice Alert Technology''' is an app allows victims and witnesses to report crime in a safe and confidential way. It can instantly report to 911, police, and first responders, along with your contact list so help can come sooner. The app records, captures, and sends the perpetrator’s picture, voiceprint, and geolocation to authorities. | |
| − | + | Their Mission: To make it easier and safer for victims to report crime and to feel safe 24 hours a day with their cell phone | |
| + | Founder(s): Juan Cano | ||
| + | Location: Edinburg, Texas, United States | ||
| − | + | Learn More: [https://www.firstjat.com/ Justice Alert Technology] | |
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| − | + | '''Know Before You Go''' is an app by Apptology which helps foster youth in the Los Angeles County to stay connected to info, people, and services. | |
| − | + | Their Mission: To be a lifeline to resources, tools, supports, and advocates who know where and how to help | |
| + | Founder(s): [https://www.apptology.com/ Apptology] | ||
| + | Location: Los Angeles, California, United States | ||
| − | + | Learn More: [https://www.apptology.com/BeforeYouGo.html Know Before You Go] [https://vimeo.com/287609940 video] | |
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| − | ''' | + | '''Mobile Pathways''' uses Salesforce and mobile phones to help undocumented and under-documented immigrants gain access to reliable legal information about their numerous pathways to immigration. |
| − | Their Mission: | + | Their Mission: Provide accurate and precise legal information to immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers via mobile phone technology |
| − | Founder(s): | + | Founder(s): Jeffrey O’Brien |
Location: United States | Location: United States | ||
| − | Learn More: [ | + | Learn More: [https://mobilepathways.org Mobile Pathways] [https://vimeo.com/352193809 twitter] |
| − | ''' | + | '''MyUmbrella''' is a social networking platform with the mission to connect and empower the LGBTQ+ community in the way they live, work and play. |
| − | Their Mission: | + | Their Mission: Create a safe platform for marginalized members of the LGBTQIA+ community to connect and share stories about navigating the journey of living openly and authentically in their relationships, families and friendships |
| − | Founder(s): | + | Founder(s): Angelic Williams |
| − | Location: | + | Location: Concord, California, United States |
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| + | Learn More: [https://myumbrella.co/ MyUmbrella] [https://vimeo.com/345869669 video] | ||
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| + | '''Online SOS''' empowers people facing online harassment. Online SOS is a safe place where people can find tools, information and, above all, empowerment, in the face of online harassment. | ||
| − | + | Their Mission: Empowers people facing online harassment | |
| − | + | Founder(s): Liz Lee | |
| − | + | Location: San Francisco, California, United States | |
| − | + | Learn More: [https://onlinesos.org/ Online SOS] [https://twitter.com/onlinesosorg twitter] [https://vimeo.com/293978426 video] | |
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| − | + | '''Open States''' allows you to discover and follow all state legislatures. Open States is a collection of tools that make it possible for citizens to track what is happening in their state's capital by aggregating information from all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. Search the politics in your state by finding your legislators, reviewing their votes, searching upcoming legislation, and tracking bill progress. | |
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| − | Their Mission: | + | Their Mission: Informing Americans and improving civic engagement at the state level by providing data and tools regarding state legislatures |
| − | Founder(s): | + | Founder(s): a project of [https://sunlightfoundation.com/ The Sunlight Foundation], a nonpartisan 501(c)3 nonprofit that advocates for open government globally and uses technology to make government more accountable to all |
Location: United States | Location: United States | ||
| − | Learn More: [https:// | + | Learn More: [https://openstates.org/ Open States] |
| − | ''' | + | '''Party Time''' helps track the political fundraising circuit. From the early hours of the morning until late in the evening, politicians are meeting with donors. |
| − | Their Mission: | + | Their Mission: Let people know which politicians are fundraising and where |
| − | Founder(s): | + | Founder(s): a project of [https://sunlightfoundation.com/ The Sunlight Foundation], a nonpartisan 501(c)3 nonprofit that advocates for open government globally and uses technology to make government more accountable to all |
| − | Location: | + | Location: |
| − | Learn More: [http:// | + | Learn More: [http://politicalpartytime.org/ Party Time] |
| − | + | '''Polaris: SMS 2.0 Text hotline app''' is an internal facing app that allows victims and survivors of trafficking, their family and friends, and other community members to communicate directly with human trafficking trained hotline advocates 24/7 in English and Spanish. The app provides access to resources and provides a way to report to law enforcement trained in trafficking. Data from SMS 2.0 is a resource for identifying hotline trends that can be used to create disruption strategies. | |
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| + | Their Mission: Ending sex and labor trafficking in North America | ||
| + | Founder(s): Derek Ellerman and Katherine Chon | ||
| − | + | Location: Washington, D.C., United States | |
| − | + | Learn More: [https://polarisproject.org/press-releases/national-human-trafficking-hotline-expands-to-text-chat-services/ Polaris Text hotline information] [https://twitter.com/Polaris_Project twitter] [https://vimeo.com/370963109 video] | |
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| + | '''Qloak''' serves as a hub integrating queer spaces featuring such categories as Work (jobs), Play (bars and entertainment), Spend (businesses), and Resources (doctors, counselors, etc.). | ||
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| + | Their Mission: Raise the wellbeing of the LGBTQ+ community by centralizing information about queer inclusive spaces on one free user friendly platform | ||
Founder(s): | Founder(s): | ||
| − | Location: | + | Location: Oakland, California, United States |
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| + | Learn More: [http://www.qloakapp.com/ Qloak] [https://vimeo.com/345932206 video] | ||
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| + | '''Refuge Restrooms''' app is focused on providing safe restroom access for transgender, intersex, and gender nonconforming individuals. The app is an effort to fill the hole left by the now-defunct Safe2Pee website. | ||
| + | Their Mission: Provides a resource for trans and queer individuals in need of gender neutral and other safe restrooms | ||
| − | + | Founder(s): Teagan Widmer | |
| − | + | Location: United States | |
| − | + | Learn More: https://www.refugerestrooms.org/ Refuge Restrooms], contribute on [https://github.com/RefugeRestrooms/refugerestrooms Github] | |
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| + | '''Raheem''' is a Facebook Messenger chatbot for reporting and rating your interactions with police — both good and bad. Data is shared in real-time to our online public dashboard. | ||
| + | Their Mission: Help to translate the lived experiences of people impacted by police violence into effective policy, officer accountability, and new narratives about how we keep our communities safe | ||
| − | + | Founder(s): Brandon Anderson | |
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| + | Location: Oakland, California, United States | ||
| + | Learn More: [https://www.raheem.ai/ Raheem] [https://twitter.com/raheem twitter] [https://vimeo.com/287611353 video] | ||
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| − | + | Their Mission: Empower journalists working in potentially dangerous conditions to quickly implement their security protocols with the touch of a button | |
| − | + | Founder(s): designed by [https://www.iwmf.org/ International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF)], built by RevSquare | |
| + | Location: Washington, D.C., United States | ||
| + | Learn More: [https://reporta.org/en/ Reporta] | ||
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| − | ''' | + | '''RideAlong''' bridges the gap between police officers, mental health providers, and people by giving the officer tailored info about the most frequent callers. |
| − | Their Mission: | + | Their Mission: Transform everyday purchases into votes for positive change |
| − | Founder(s): | + | Founder(s): |
Location: United States | Location: United States | ||
| − | Learn More: [ | + | Learn More: [https://getridealong.com/ RideAlong] [https://twitter.com/getRideAlong twitter] |
| − | ''' | + | '''Safe Shelter Collaborative''' has a suite of tools, so that registered agencies can find space in a traditional shelter. If none is available, they can reach a broader community, via the SafeNight mobile app, to get funding for a hotel stay, if that is a safe and chosen option. |
| − | Their Mission: | + | Their Mission: Help agencies find shelter for human trafficking and domestic violence survivors |
| − | Founder(s): | + | Founder(s): Built and is maintained by Caravan Studios, a division of TechSoup |
| − | Location: | + | Location: United States |
| − | Learn More: [https://www. | + | Learn More: [https://www.safesheltercollaborative.org/ Safe Shelter Collaborative] [https://vimeo.com/262303390 video] |
| − | ''' | + | '''Salama''' web and mobile application is used to assess risks for journalists, bloggers, and human rights defenders. Salama provides automated advice, training resources and useful links to enhance risk reduction capabilities of the user. This app also will evaluate a command of digital tools and provide specific advice and training resources. Salama is still in Beta. |
| − | Their Mission: Help | + | Their Mission: Help individuals analyze particular risks they might face for their work |
| − | Founder(s): | + | Founder(s): Jorge Luis Sierra and developed by the [https://www.icfj.org/ International Center for Journalists] with the technical support of the [https://www.peacetechlab.org/ Peace Tech Lab] |
Location: United States | Location: United States | ||
| − | Learn More: [ | + | Learn More: [https://salama.io/ Salama] |
| − | ''' | + | '''The Sunlight Foundation''' is a nonpartisan nonprofit that advocates for open government globally and uses technology to make government more accountable to all. |
| − | + | Some of Sunlight's noteworthy apps and tools: | |
| + | [http://hallofjustice.sunlightfoundation.com/ Hall of Justice] An inventory of criminal justice data. | ||
| + | [http://influenceexplorer.com/ Influence Explorer] Uncover political activity. | ||
| + | [https://openstates.org/ Open States] Discover and follow all state legislatures. | ||
| + | [http://politicalpartytime.org/ Party Time] Tracking the political fundraising circuit. | ||
| + | The Foundation is a 501(c)3 nonprofit. | ||
| − | + | Their Mission: Use technology to enable more complete, equitable and effective democratic participation | |
| − | + | Founder(s): The Sunlight Foundation | |
| − | + | Location: Washington, D.C., United States | |
| + | Learn More: [https://sunlightfoundation.com/about/ Sunlight Foundation] | ||
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| − | Their Mission: | + | '''Turismo Acessível''' is free app provided by the Brazilian Ministry of Tourism that displays the location of tourist attractions in the country that are accessible for individuals with physical disabilities. The user can search by accessibility for audio, mobility, visual and wheel chairs. Based in Brasilia, the Ministry is an advocate of disability rights. The tourism guide is a collaborative and allows users to register, rate and consult the accessibility of tourist spots, hotels, restaurants, parks and various attractions. |
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| + | Their Mission: Help those with physical disabilities travel to popular destinations in Brazil | ||
Founder(s): | Founder(s): | ||
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| − | Learn More: [ | + | Learn More: [https://turismoacessivel.gov.br/ta/index.mtur?windowId=036 Turismo Acessível] |
| − | ''' | + | '''Vote.org''' (formerly Long Distance Voter) provides a digital toolset which currently includes a voter registration tool, an absentee ballot tool, a tool that helps you verify your voter registration status, and a stand-alone election reminders tool. These tools are free for anyone to use at all times. The absentee ballot tool allows citizens to complete, sign, and submit their vote-by-mail applications directly from their smartphones. Vote.org ran the first-ever peer-to-peer voter registration drive in America. Vote.org also started using peer-to-peer SMS for non-partisan GOTV, proactively providing polling place information to just under 1 million low propensity voters. |
| − | Their Mission: | + | Their Mission: Simplify political engagement, increase voter turnout, and strengthen American democracy |
| − | Founder(s): | + | Founder(s): Debra Cleaver |
| − | Location: | + | Location: United States |
| − | Learn More: [https://www. | + | Learn More: [https://www.vote.org/ Vote.org] |
| − | ''' | + | '''We Vote''' is a nonpartisan, open source platform that allows you to view your ballot, learn from friends, and share your vision. We Vote USA is nonprofit, volunteer-driven movement, dedicated to educating citizens and bringing social collaboration to the process of making voting decisions. The platform was developed so citizens could create and share personal voter guides that aggregate information and opinions across their social networks. |
| − | Their Mission: Provide a | + | Their Mission: Provide a political social network for America |
| − | Founder(s): | + | Founder(s): Dale McGrew |
| − | Location: | + | Location: United States |
| − | Learn More: [ | + | Learn More: [https://wevote.us/welcome We Vote] [https://twitter.com/WeVote twitter] |
| − | ''' | + | '''Whistler App''' can trigger a Panic Mode to alert a trusted network of an emergency situation taking place and erase sensitive data from your device. |
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| − | Learn More: [ | + | Learn More: [https://whistlerapp.org/ Whistler App] [https://twitter.com/bam_nonviolence twitter] |
| − | ''' | + | '''Wildfire App''' sends you real-time safety alerts about dangerous incidents occuring nearby of muggings, shootings, and fires. The safety app is used by 15,000 college students and is growing. |
| − | Their Mission: | + | Their Mission: Alert people of dangerous incidents closeby |
| − | Founder(s): | + | Founder(s): Vinay Ramesh and Hriday Kemburu of Day, LLC |
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| − | + | '''YTH: ZonaSegura App''' is a trauma-informed youth-centered innovative mobile solution to address teen dating violence in Honduras. Led by YTH, in partnership with GOJoven Honduras and the Public Health Institute’s (PHI) GOJoven International Program, this project aims to prevent teen dating violence (TDV) through provision of prevention information, healthy relationship education, and geo-location linkage to TDV services and resources. | |
| − | + | Their Mission: Develop a mobile solution to address teen dating violence in Honduras | |
| − | + | Founder(s): YTH | |
| − | + | Location: Honduras | |
| + | Learn More: [https://zona-segura.org/ ZonaSegura] [https://twitter.com/YTHorg twitter][https://vimeo.com/369878914 video] | ||
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| + | Their Mission: Foster and expand citizen-led philanthropy and volunteer engagement in developing countries | ||
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| + | Founder(s): Dr. Danielle Varda | ||
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Latest revision as of 13:56, 5 March 2020
Learn more about the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Trying to figure out which of the UN Sustainable Development Goals is the best fit for your product? The SDG Indicator Wizard can help.
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Contents
- 1 Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere
- 2 Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
- 3 Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
- 4 Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning
- 5 Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
- 6 Goal 6: Ensure access to water and sanitation for all
- 7 Goal 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
- 8 Goal 8: Promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment and decent work for all
- 9 Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
- 10 Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries
- 11 Goal 11: Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
- 12 Goal 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
- 13 Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
- 14 Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources
- 15 Goal 15: Sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation, halt biodiversity loss
- 16 Goal 16: Promote just, peaceful and inclusive societies
- 17 Goal 17: Revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development
Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere
Learn more about SDG 1.
Appolition is a platform where users opt-in to automate the savings of their daily spare change to help pay bail for those who due to their inability to post bail, are at risk for losing their homes, jobs and abliity to defend themselves.
Their Mission: Helping those who are unable to pay bail
Founder(s): Dr. Kortney Ziegler and Tiffany Mikell
Location: United States
Learn More: Appolition twitter video
MyMAF is a mobile application that enables Mission Asset Fund (MAF) Lending Circle participants to easily monitor their loan status, including payments in real-time, input savings and spendings, and create short-term budget goals. App users receive notifications from MAF staff if there are any payment issues or program updates.
Their Mission: Help people to stay up to date and informed about their loans and finances, reduce debt, establish or improve their credit score, and achieve their full economic potential
Founder(s): Mission Asset Fund (MAF)
Location: United States
Learn More: Github Mission Asset Fund (MAF)
Link-SF is designed with three user groups in mind: 1) A growing population of low-income San Franciscans who rely on mobile technology to meet their basic needs, 2) Service providers who can use the most real-time data to direct clients in need, and 3) Everyday people who can use this information as a way to help refer San Francisco’s homeless population to a social service agency nearby. Link-SF is a free software which can be downloaded here: GitHub
Their Mission: Connect homeless and low-income residents with important nearby services such as food, shelter, medical care, hygiene, and technology access
Founder(s): St. Anthony Foundation, Zendesk, and user testing expert Kimberly McCollister
Location: United States
Learn More: Link-SF
Uptrust seeks to assist people who are in the pre-trial process and at risk to miss their first court date. A missed court date often results in jail time for the defendant, even if they are non-violent offenders. UpTrust works with trusted public officials to connect with defendants. The app removes barriers providing customized text message reminders, free transportation to court, and free childcare for parents attending court.
Their Mission: Assist clients in overcoming barriers to appear in court to reduce the rate of incarceration for technical violations without placing additional work on public defenders or court staff
Founder(s): Jacob Sills & Elijah Gwynn
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Learn More: Uptrust
Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
Learn more about SDG 2.
FarmRaiser is a mobile app that through partnership with local farmers and food artisans gets you amazing products and great prices for your next fundraiser.
Their Mission: Support healthy, local, sustainable fundraising
Founder(s): Mark Abbott and Lauren Smith
Location: United States
Learn More: FarmRaiser video
Feedie is a mobile app that allows you to turn your shared food photos from participating restaurants into a donation to the Lunchbox fund equal to one meal. Take a picture of your meal from one of the hundreds of participating restaurants, post the photo on Feedie, and that restaurant will make a donation to The Lunchbox Fund.
The Lunchbox Fund provides nutritionally fortified meals to vulnerable and food insecure children in schools throughout South Africa, helping them get the education they desperately need to build a life free of poverty for themselves and their families.
Their Mission: Provide at-risk school children with nutritious meals
Founder(s): Mario Batali and The Lunchbox Fund
Learn More: Feedie
Foodspace / Lunch Box is a consumer food and grocery management tool that allows you to find, organize, and shop ingredients from any blog you love, anytime you need it
Their Mission: Help you save both time and money on your food journey
Founder(s): Ayo Oshinaike, Dan Yags and Zach Van
Location: United States
FreshEBT makes it easy to check your EBT balance, and locate grocery stores, corner stores, and farmers markets near you that participate in the SNAP benefits program and accept food stamps. You can also see an overview of where you spend your food stamps and view your history of EBT transactions, month by month.
Their Mission: Help EBT users check food stamps and benefits balance
Founder(s): Propel (who build software for low-income Americans who are often overlooked by traditional tech innovation)
Location: United States
Languages: English, Spanish
Learn More: FreshEBT
Fresh Food Connect helps urban growers to easily donate their surplus food to local food pantries without leaving their home and allows them to track donations through the application
Their Mission: Solve the problems of excess garden produce, and food insecurity
Location: United States
Learn More: Fresh Food Connect video
GetCalFresh is a mobile and desktop platform that supports applicants through the CalFresh eligibility and enrollment process . An online application for CalFresh takes 45 minutes or more—GetCalFresh has managed to reduce the application process to about 8 minutes. Once someone has applied through GetCalFresh, they receive a text message to confirm that their application was submitted, as well as any important reminders related to the application process.
CalFresh is California's food stamps (SNAP) program. Today, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (also known as SNAP, or food stamps) provides $70 billion to food eligible Americans each year. Historically, California has had one of the lowest participation rates in the program, and there are nearly 2 million Californians who qualify for SNAP but are not receiving benefits.
Their Mission: Fully close the CalFresh participation gap, and ensure that every eligible Californian can have a dignified experience accessing much-needed food benefits
Founder(s): Code for America
Location: United States
Learn More: GetCalFresh
Giving Garden provides microclimate growing recommendations and an online community platform for knowledge and produce sharing. Through their app, they bring local food and gardening into the 21st century.
Their Mission: Grow communities around food and food around communities
Location: United States
Learn More: Giving Garden twitter video
Planet Murple hopes to redesign our broken food culture starting with kids and education.
Their Mission: Teach kids to cook, so they build curiosity and self-sufficiency around food
Founder(s): Emily Yao and Dave Resnick
Location: The Bay Area in California, United States
Learn More: Planet Murple twitter video
Range lists safe places as all libraries in the US for youth in need of summer meals. Summer meals are the locations of USDA funded meal service sites that are available during the school year. Range will help us get to zero hunger (SDG 2).
Their Mission: Help US school-age youth find safe places and meals in the summer
Founder(s): Caravan Studios, a division of TechSoup [a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in the U.S.A.]
Location: United States
Learn More: Range
Replate matches extra food with food insecure communities in need. Replate manages the food donations of caterers, offices with meal services, brands with product overrun, restaurants, and other surplus food generators. Every food donation is taken to local nonprofits serving neighbors experiencing food insecurity.
Their Mission: Reduce food waste and food insecurity in the community
Founder(s): Maen Mafoud
Location: United States
Learn More: Replate twitter video
Spoiler Alert is a B2B trading platform that addresses inefficiencies in food supply chains. Born out of MIT in June 2015, Spoiler Alert was a 2015 winner of MassChallenge and member of the Spring 2016 cohort of Techstars Boston.
Their Mission: Help food businesses, farms, and nonprofits to create or recover value from food surplus and organic waste
Founder(s): Ricky Ashenfelter, Emily Malina
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Date Started: June 2015
Learn More: Spoiler Alert
Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
Learn more about SDG 3.
Anonymous Medical Social Network is a medical record hosting service, which allows for professionals to collaborate and keep track of their information while keeping their patients’ identity hidden.
Their Mission: Protect patient privacy
Founder(s): Roberto Baldizón and Alexandra Goodwin
Learn More: MD -Anonymous
Atlas Run is the running app that gives back, with every mile you run raising money for charity.
Their Mission: To develop a community which creates positive awareness around social & environmental issues and accelerates impactful change
Cognivive is building treatment games to ease the burden of stroke recovery. Cognivive develops products that provide targeted stimulation to specific cognitive processes to help improve important brain functions.
Their Mission: Reduce patient recovery time and cost
Founder(s): Tony J Simon, PhD and Ted Aronson
Learn More: Cognivive twitter video
EWG’s Healthy Living App helps consumers make healthier decisions by looking at ingredients in food, cosmetics, sunscreens, and household cleaners. The app allows you to scan items by barcode and get nutrition facts, ratings, and more info on the ingredients within those foods. The app has product health and safety ratings for over 200,000 food and cosmetics products.
Their Mission: Helping consumers protect their health by providing information about nutrition and product ingredients
Founder(s): Environmental Working Group app created by Exygy
Location: United States
Learn More: EWG's Healthy Living App EWG EWG twitter
First Derm will find a top board-certified dermatologist in your area to help you with your skincare problems. Together the dermatology team speaks 6 languages and has helped users from 160 countries. They are advised by globally recognized leaders in digital health, tele-dermatology and startups.
Their Mission: Provide direct access to a dermatologist for first steps & guidance on skincare concerns
Founder(s): Alexander Börve
Location: United States, Sweden, Norway, and the United Kingdom
Learn More: First Derm twitter
GiveFit helps to make health and fitness activities more accessible to more people. GiveFit offers workouts for people 55+ designed by movement specialists that they can do at their convenience from their homes.
Their Mission: Make health and fitness activities more accessible to people
Founder(s): Jake Tunney
Location: United States
LGBT MD is an open-source app in beta that connects people in the LGBTQ community to find medical help closest to them. The app allows users to bookmark favorites, contact info, and contribute reviews to help others find the care they need.
Their Mission: Connect lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people to well-trained medical providers
Founder(s): Daria Garina
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Learn More: LGBT MD
Maia Health has a mission to guide chronically ill children as they transition from pediatric to adult healthcare.
Their Mission: Change the way children take on the responsibilities of their medical care
Founder(s): Five university students brought together at the Stanford Medx Conference, and earned seed funding from Ashoka Youth Venture
Learn More: Maia Health
Medic Mobile builds open-source software that supports health workers to help improve health in the hardest-to-reach communities. Medic Mobile helps health workers ensure safe deliveries, track outbreaks faster, treat illnesses door-to-door, keep stock of essential medicines, communicate about emergencies, and more. In collaboration with Community Health Toolkit (CHT), a collection of open-source technologies and open access resources, Medic Mobile works to advance universal health coverage.
Their Mission: To deliver equitable care that reaches everyone
Founder(s): Isaac Holeman
Learn More: Medic Mobile twitter CHT video
Open Health Network is smart, configurable, customizable mobile B2B2C health platform. It is an open platform and integrates with the existing systems, applications, devices, data and content. Each app can automatically adapts to each patient. OHN's interactive big data dashboard provides deep big data analytics.
Their Mission: Enable healthcare organizations to create powerful mobile applications to run on any device and in any language within a day without coding
Founder(s): Tatyana Kanzaveli and Maksim Tsvetovat
Location: The Bay Area in California, United States
Learn More: Open Health Network twitter
Pink Cloud is a companion app that connects you to over 225,000 12 steps meetings worldwide. The app helps you to stay on track in the program using the daily checklist, taking inventory and recording possible resentments.
Their Mission: To help manage your sobriety and track your journey to addiction recovery
Founder(s): Jason Varughese and Justin Fraga
Location: United States: California, Texas, New York, Illinois
Learn More: Pink Cloud video
Pró-Química Online contains information from the Manual of Emergencies of the Pro Chemistry of ABIQUIM - Brazilian Association of Chemical Industry. It follows the UN guidelines for the Land Transport of Dangerous Goods (Orange Book) and The US Department of Transportation's Emergency Response Guidebook (DOT).
Their Mission: Inform professionals in the emergency sector who work with dangerous products
Founder(s): SUATRANS Emergência SA of Sao Paolo Brazil (a company that focused on solutions for the preservation of life and the environment, that provides its customers with products, training and services focused on environmental protection with the highest standards of quality)
Location: Sao Paolo Brazil
Learn More: Information on Pró-Química Online
The PRIDE Study is the first large-scale, long-term national health study of people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ), or another sexual or gender minority.
Their Mission: Learn more about how being an LGBTQ person influences physical, mental, or social health
Location: United States
Learn More: The PRIDE Study twitter video
PulsePoint is a mobile app that alerts CPR-trained bystanders about a nearby Sudden Cardiac Arrest event and the location of the closest AED.
Their Mission: Ignite the lifesaving potential of CPR-trained citizens and improve cardiac arrest outcomes
Location: United States
Learn More: PulsePoint twitter
Recovery Bot is a mobile app designed to help reduce drug related deaths, strengthen support systems among addicts, and increase rate of recovery, by addressing the emotional, mental, and physical aspects of intervention treatment.
Their Mission: Help drug addicts manage their path towards recovery
Founder(s): Tiffany Yu
Learn More: Recovery Bot video
RedRover has developed a set of 3 apps as part of its RedRover Readers program which uses stories, illustrations and question strategies to help kids ages 7-11 practice the three steps of empathy: recognize emotional states, share emotions and regulate emotions to make better decisions and build positive connections with others.
Their Mission: Provide educators the tools they need to teach children empathy skills
Founder(s): Nicole Forsyth, RedRover President and CEO
Location: United States
Learn More: RedRover Readers download the app
Ria Health removes the barriers of care for the more than 20 million adults in the US that are struggling with alcohol misuse. Ria Health provides private, effective, affordable, and convenient treatment for people who want to change their relationship with alcohol.
Their Mission: To provide an effective alcohol addiction treatment to help people reduce or stop drinking alcohol
Founder(s): David Deacon, Phd
Location: United States: California, Florida, Georgia, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia
Learn More: Ria Health twitter video
Sober Grid is a digital health platform that delivers 24/7 support and certified coaching for drug and alcohol addiction recovery.
Their Mission: To provide a free peer support network to aid people in addiction recovery
Founder(s): Beau Mann
Learn More: Sober Grid twitter video
They2ze is an app to connect transgender-spectrum youth (TSY) and their providers to truly inclusive health services and peer support. This includes an extensive database of community vetted health and life resources.
Their Mission: To ensure that all trans-spectrum youth have access to inclusive services and care
Founder(s): Youth Tech Health YTH
Trans City SF Resource Guide helps transgender and gender nonconforming people find and connect with local services and resources.
Their Mission: To advance equity for trans, gender nonconforming and LGBTQ communities
Founder(s): Maceo Persson
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Learn More: facebook twitter video
VEText is an interactive mobile solution that reminds Veterans of upcoming health care appointments via text messaging and allows Veterans to easily confirm, cancel or reschedule their appointments.
Their Mission: Improve health care access for Veterans
Founder(s): Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
Location: United States
YesHealth empowers people everywhere to start living healthier, happier lives. YesHealth is the first all-mobile personalized diabetes prevention program. Users partner with a health coach team to create a personal, holistic health program that requires no special equipment or prepared diet foods.
Yes Health has partnered with Solera Health, UCSF, and American Diabetes Association.
Their Mission: Help people suffering from diabetes to develop healthy habits for life in a fun manner
Founder(s): Alex Petrov and Yes Health Foundation
Location: United States
Learn More: YesHealth twitter and download the app.
Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning
Learn more about SDG 4.
Bookshare is an ebook library that makes reading easier. Bookshare is an initiative of Benetech developed to address the challenges faced by people with reading barriers. An estimated 285 million people worldwide are visually impaired, 90% of whom live in developing countries. An even higher number of people have dyslexia or a language-based learning disability that makes it difficult or impossible to read printed text. UNESCO has reported that if all students in low income countries left school with basic reading skills, 171 million people could be lifted out of poverty, equivalent to a 12% cut in world poverty. Through Bookshare, members can access a huge collection of ebooks and read their way with customizable ebooks.
Their Mission: Remove barriers to equitable quality education
Founder(s): Jim Fruchterman
Location: United States
Learn More: Bookshare
FASTalk a powerful tool for schools to engage families and improve student academic achievement. FASTalk makes it easy for teachers to send academic text messages to families in their home language and is proven to improve literacy outcomes for high-need students.
Their Mission: Help teachers engage diverse families to improve student outcomes
Founder(s): Benetech
Location: United States
Moneythink has an app built by mobile development partner, CauseLabs, that challenges you to improve your financial skills. Moneythink Mobile empowers under-resourced students to achieve college success by supporting financial decision-making through coaching and technology.
Their Mission: Reduce the opportunity gap by providing a financial education to all students
Founder(s): Ted Gonder, Greg Nance, and Shashin Chokshi
Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Learn More: Moneythink twitter
Open Schools! is a web app that supports family decisions with data. The right school for children is based not only on standardized test scores, but by teacher turnover, parent involvement, special programming, community, and much more. The company plans to gradually add information collected from the city, NGOs, the private sector, and users.
Their Mission: Help parents choose a school for their children in Washington, D.C.
Founder(s): Code For DC
Location: Washington, D.C., United States
Learn More: Open Schools
Qalaxia is a Q&A platform closing the STEM achievement gap arising from unequal access to experts. Qalaxia creates equity of access by connecting students underrepresented in STEM with industry experts who want to help.
Their Mission: To awaken and strengthen the inquirer in every child and the mentor in every individual
Founder(s): Mahesh Godavarti
Learn More: Qalaxia twitter video
Talking Points connects teachers, parents and students across tech and language barriers through a multi-lingual texting platform (free for teachers)
Their Mission: Support children in their education, empower families to be partners in their children's education and for teachers and schools to be successful in supporting families.
Founder(s): Heejae Lim & Nancy Lee
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Learn More: Talking Points twitter
Vana Learning is a "Coaching Management Platform" developed to improve academic outcomes for students by providing evidence-based recommendations and day-to-day performance feedback.
Their Mission: Save academic coaches time, deliver more targeted support to their students, and improve academic outcomes for students
Founder(s): Rob Trone, Josh Stafford, and Rachel Sanders
Learn More: Vana Learning
wESL (We ESL) is a filterable, mapped, community-sourced listing of available English Language Learner classes in the Nashville area.
Their Mission: Provide easy access to individuals who want to learn or improve their English
Founder(s): Nick Lorenson (of Code for Nashville)
Location: Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Learn More: ESL Map
Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
Learn more about SDG 5.
Aspire News App is a potentially life-saving app from When Georgia Smiled Foundation that allows victims of abuse to call for help at the touch of a button. The app provides resources for victims of domestic violence.
Their Mission: Help save the lives of victims of domestic violence
Founder(s): Robin McGraw and Dr. Phil
Location: California, United States
Learn More: Aspire News twitter video
Besiders Reminders App helps remind users to take their birth control. Let the app know when the cycle starts with the first dose, the time of day, and customize reminders to be discrete or funny.
Their Mission: Remind women to take their birth control on time
Founder(s): Besiders, operated by The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregancy
Location: United States
Learn More: Besiders App twitter
Direc: Trauma Recovery App informs, educates, and helps victims of domestic violence, rape and sexual assault crimes to recover and be safe by providing appropriate crime specific information and community resources. The mobile app acts as a case management tool and can be sent directly to a victim’s phone or safe phone. The app was developed to help achieve a higher conviction rate for sexual assault predators and repeat offenders by equipping law enforcement, educating victims, and providing evidence collection on the day of an assault.
Their Mission: Lessen crimes against women and children
Founder(s): Jon Lindgren
Learn More: Direc: Trauma Recovery App video
ELLAS libres de violencias mobile application allows Colombian women to know more about specific cases or situations they might find themselves in, where to go to initiate a complaint, and what the specific requirements are that each Entity has for female victims of violence.
Their Mission: Prove a safe escape for Colomian women from dangerous situations such as sexual, intra-familial, economic or political violence
Founder(s): La Red Nacion de Mujeres de Mujeres
Location: Bogota, Columbia
Learn More: the Ellas app
Malalai uses technology to promote the safety of women moving about the city on their own. The app provides information on the best, safest routes to walk, information on police stations, which streets are more transited, which areas lack good lighting, which routes have buildings with doormen, and cases of prior assaults or violence. The app provides a way for indicated people to receive updates on your progress to your destination, and also has an emergency panic button functionality.
Their Mission: Help people to be free to travel alone more safely
Founder(s): Priscila Gama
Location: Brazil
PLP 2.0 application is focused on assisting women in situations of domestic, family or sexual violence. Integrated with a support network, it registers five trusted people that can help the user if the emergency call button is activated. The app panic button triggers the military police and sends a warning to PLPs - community leaders who have participated in training courses on women's rights and who are able to share information and support for victims of domestic and sexual violence. platform is a place for women to access resources on issues of gender inequality, breast cancer, violence, abuse and feminicide.
Their Mission: Prevent and eradicate violence against women
Founder(s): Themis (a feminist NGO)
Location: Porto Alegré, Brazil
Learn More: PLP 2.0 app
Purple Patriot is a mobile platform for women to reinvent government, driving equality and inclusion, using our Voices, Votes and Wallet.
Their Mission: Build a pipeline of women engaged and active in politics
Founder(s): Jean Templin & Christine Templin
Location: Oakland, California, United States
Learn More: Purple Patriot twitter video
The Sanctuary App serves domestic violence survivors, as well as first responders, providing a tool that links existing resources together and allows existing agencies to better assist those in need.
Their Mission: Provide immediate safety options to domestic violence survivors who have been turned away from their local shelter and placed on a wait list
Founder(s): Courtney Santana, Survive2Thrive Foundation
Location: United States.
Learn More: The Sanctuary App Survive 2 Thrive twitter video
Stronger Than Espresso App is a free domestic violence tool designed to offer basic relationship evaluations, safety planning resources and help information when needed. Built in partnership with Advance Net Labs.
Their Mission: Empower survivors of domestic abuse and gender based violence to reclaim what abuse took away.
Founder(s): Dr. Brooke Jones
Location: McKinney, Texas, United States
Learn More: Stonger Than Espresso app Stronger Than Espresso twitter video
We Said Enough app creates a community of survivors, volunteers, and activists who can provide immediate social support to victims of sexual harassment, abuse, and bullying. The app provides needed restorative resources to begin the healing process.
Their Mission: To end harassment, bullying, discrimination, and abuse
Location: United States
Learn More: We Said Enough twitter video
Goal 6: Ensure access to water and sanitation for all
Learn more about SDG 6.
Adopt a Drain web application allows residents to adopt a drain in their neighborhood, committing to clearing leaves and trash and other debris from their drain's surface at least twice a month. This volunteer work helps to keep land based pollutants out of local waterways and reduce risks of street flooding. The app was developed using open data (drain locations) and was inspired by Boston's Adopt a Hydrant Program.
Their Mission: Improve local waterways and foster community engagement
Founder(s): Code for San Francisco, a non-profit volunteer group and local chapter of Code for America
Learn More: Adopt a Drain
Clean Water AI is an app that employs CNN (Convolutional Neural Network) and computer vision to detect dangerous particles and bacteria in water.
Their Mission: Help people to determine if water is clean and drinkable or contaminated and a potential health risk
Founder(s): Peter Ma
Learn More: Clean Water AI twitter video
The Human Utility (formerly Detroit Water Project) believes everyone needs running water and water is a human right. Water companies are turning off the tap in cities across the U.S., forcing low-income families, seniors and single parents to live without basic necessities. Families without water are forced to go elsewhere to take showers, clean dishes and get a drink. The Human Utility lets people donate money, services, or partnerships to help those who are without or in danger of having no water in Detroit and Baltimore. Through their online platform they verify individuals who need assistance.
Their Mission: Provide running tap water to those in need
Founder(s): Conscientious Utility Project, Inc and was fiscally sponsored by the Social Good Fund, an IRS 501(c)(3) nonprofit
Learn More: The Human Utility
MoMo is a mobile device with physical sensors and an integrated GSM cellular connection that collects data (such as water flow rate or electricity usage) about remote infrastructure to improve accountability in the developing world. Designed to be low-cost and low-power, MoMo is intended for long-term deployment in rural environments. The app was developed by WellDone International, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that works to improve global access to clean water and other basic services essential to human health, productivity, and well-being.
Their Mission: Empower resource-constrained communities with the data they need to create or maintain critical infrastructure that lasts
Founder(s): Jim Yoon and Josh To
Location: United States and international
Water Tracker is an app that tracks how much water you use every day. Track showering, driving, eating, and drinking your morning coffee and compare your use of water with your Facebook friends. The app is currently being piloted with Colorado State University and UNAM in Mexico City to compare the water usage of students at each university.
Their Mission: Reduce water consumption
Founder(s): Fidan Karimova, Dmytro Malakhov, and Vitalii Starush
Location: Washington, D.C., United States
Learn More: Water Tracker app
Goal 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
Learn more about SDG 7.
Cartido is an app that makes crowdmapping and GPS tracking simple and fast for public or private projects. Cartido was developed to help the underserved navigate the resources they need for survival including accessible power outlets and public bathrooms.
Their Mission: Help local communities crowdmap resources
Founder(s): Ehb Teng
Location: United States
Learn More: Cartido twitter video
Fractracker mobile app lets you help track oil and gas activity in the U.S. Individuals can contribute meaningful insight into potential impacts of the industry through crowdsourcing. The app allows users to submit oil and gas photos or reports regarding drilling near them. You can also view a map of nearby wells drilled and save your submissions for future reference.
Their Mission: Provide access to gas and oil data to the public
Founder(s): Fractracker Alliance
Location:
Learn More: Fractracker twitter
SF Environment contains an Energy Benchmarking Dashboard that displays building-specific energy, GHG, and EUI metrics and measures building performance over time.
Their Mission: Visualize building energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions to encourage owners and building managers to make proper changes
Founder(s): Project of the Data Science Working Group at Code for San Francisco, for the San Francisco Department of Environment
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Learn More: SF Environment
Goal 8: Promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment and decent work for all
Learn more about SDG 8.
CareerHub is an app developed to help the workforce development agency CareerHubUS to increase client job placement, improve data collection, and increase engagement. CareerHub clients include schools and job training programs, which work with low-income earners to get a living wage through better employment. The app creates an interactive relationship between career resource centers and job-searchers, by sending people messages, and creating incentives such giving out digital gift cards in exchange for sending photos of a pay stub. CareerHubsUS is used by Workforce Development, Human Services, K-12, Youth Development, and Community Colleges.
Their Mission: Improve the struggles of workforce professionals to verify employment and provide meaningful retention services
Founder(s): Kim Coulthurst and Amanda Gerrie of Pathways Consultants, a workforce development consulting firm in the San Francisco Bay Area in the United States
Location: United States
CaringCent App provides donors with the option to direct their change at check out to the non-profit they select
Their Mission: Modernize philanthropy to virtuously personalize generosity across consumers, causes and companies
Location: United States
Learn More: CaringCent twitter
Centro Business Planning App is the first and only free mobile app that helps you plan for a new or growing small business without having any entrepreneurship training. The app coaches users on developing a business plan through a series of interactive activities.
Their Mission: Assist and teach low-income, at risk and minority entrepreneurs, the nuts and bolts about building a successful business
Founder(s): Centro Community Partners
Location: Oakland, California, United States
Learn More: Centro Business Planning App
Chomoka is a smartphone-enabled mobile application that digitizes Savings Group transactions and offers a market place of financial services. It was developed in partnership with Care International, Exygy to digitize financial services to low-income women in Tanzania. Chomoka operates offline and data flows link through SMS, making it accessible in low connectivity settings. The digitized records create a financial profile and credit history that may be leveraged to access formal services. The app is currently being piloted in Tanzania, and CARE plans to scale it to 7 million people worldwide.
Their Mission: Bridge financial inclusion to millions of people, helping some of the world's most vulnerable rise
Founder(s): CARE
Location: Tanzania
Learn More: Chomoka twitter video
CleanSlateDC is a web app to help people with criminal records find success in their futures. It was developed in partnership with legal aid clinics and non-profits to address issues with sealing criminal records.
Their Mission: Help individuals with a criminal history determine their eligibility to have a record sealed
Founder(s): Code for America DC
Location: United States
Learn More: CleanSlateDC video
Clear My Record is a free online tool that helps people in California navigate the complicated process of clearing their record. It's a Code For America project which helps to remove a significant barrier to work, education, and housing for people with a criminal record.
Their Mission: Create a blueprint for automatic record clearance of all eligible criminal records in California and across the country
Founder(s): Jazmyn Latimer
Location: California, United States
Learn More: Clear My Record Code For America twitter
Empower Work provides immediate, confidential support for tough work issues via SMS. Anyone in the U.S. can connect with a trained peer counselor to feel heard, supported, and if needed, connected to additional resources, so they can take next steps that work for them.
Their Mission: Create healthy workplaces where employees are valued, supported, and empowered
Founder(s): Jaime-Alexis Fowler
Location: California, United States
Learn More: Empower Work twitter video
ENVision Mobile helps nonprofits and microfinance institutions that struggle to collect financial performance data of their micro entrepreneur beneficiaries / borrowers through a shared data analytics platform
Their Mission: Empower both the entrepreneur and the organization through a shared data analytics platform
Founder(s): Aneri Pradhan
Laudelina provides knowledge and tools for domestic workers to advocate for their rights. Laudelina will strongly monitor and create accountability of labour inspection bodies in Brazil, such as The Public Ministry of Labour and the Justice of Employment, both of which have collaborated and have become key allies in its development.
Their Mission: Legally protect domestic workers and promote a private social network between professionals in this sector
Founder(s): Themis a feminist NGO
Location: Porto Alegré, Brazil
Learn More: Laudelina twitter facebook
Symba is dedicated to removing barriers of entry to the workforce by simplifying the management of contingent workers. Symba works to enable organizations to hire the best short-term talent, and allows employers to design best practices around their gig employment.
Their Mission: Making it easy to manage your contingent workforce
Founder(s): Ava Sadeghi & Nikita Gupta
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Learn More: Symba Twitter video
Worker Connect is a worker engagement app that in close collaboration with migrant workers, worker welfare staff, and support networks in the Persian Gulf, helps workers to learn about their rights, share information about their experiences, and provide anonymous feedback to worker welfare supervisors. Workers send anonymous feedback on their living and working conditions via mobile app, and the app provides a dashboard where the company can analyze anonymous data to highlight areas of concern and intervene when necessary.
Their Mission: Empower workers to share information about their experience and provide anonymous feedback to welfare supervisors
Founder(s): Caravan Studios, a division of TechSoup. TechSoup is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization
Location: United States
Learn More: Worker Connect
Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
Learn more about SDG 9.
4Bells helps organizations shift some of the process from white boards to the volunteers. Volunteers are notified about tasks and can claim them and check in, reducing the time spent over the phone and tracking activity on white boards. 4Bells is supported by a generous grant from Microsoft Citizenship.
Their Mission: Help deploy known volunteers to complete urgent, time-sensitive tasks
Founder(s): Caravan Studios, a division of TechSoup
Beam is an app that lets you donate part of your everyday purchases at partnered brands to causes you believe in — at no extra cost to you.
Their Mission: Make every day meaningful, turning your purchases into a way to tangibly impact the current social issues that matter to you
Founder(s): Viveka Hulyalkar and Alex Salvatore
Location: United States
CallBot calls a group of contacts in minutes to deliver a personally recorded voice message right from your phone.
Their Mission: Help nonprofits and organizations manage their volunteers, send reminders, and notify employees
Founder(s): Gravity Fish, a small developer team
Location: United States
Learn More: Callbot
The Digital Reserve Network (DRN) is an open source network protocol that uses its own cryptocurrency to enable peer-to-peer payments, sustainable lending, and collateral free borrowing
Their Mission: Create a sustainable model for financial inclusion while producing economic incentives for network stakeholders
Founder(s): Jomari Peterson and Joshua Rittenberg
Learn More: The Digital Reserve twitter video
Feito na Biblioteca (Made at the Library) is a collaboration with library staff and library users to develop mobile apps that solve local problems using open government data. Working in two capital cities, Belo Horizonte (Minas Gerais) and Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul), library users and library staff from nine libraries can participate in community events that spark creativity and spur development.
Their Mission: Bring community together to develop technology solutions to local problems
Founder(s): Caravan Studios, a division of TechSoup. This project was supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Location: Brazil
Learn More: Feito na Biblioteca
Flourish Savings is an engagement platform that empowers individuals to manage their finances and build positive financial habits by providing games that make saving fun and entertaining, and celebrating milestones and goals.
Their Mission: Help people establish savings habits and achieve financial security by making saving feel like play
Founder(s): Jessica Eting, Pedro Moura
Location: United States
Learn More: Flourish Savings twitter video
Gather Voices (formerly Propelit) is a platform that helps nonprofits create quality, inexpensive short videos for giving campaigns, social outreach, and advocacy. Gather Voices makes it easy for organizations to push their video as a call to action via social sharing, helping to increase member engagement.
Their Mission: Revolutionize how organizations create and use video
Founder(s): Michael Hoffman
Location: United States
Learn More: Gather Voices
GoodSocial is a new platform that supports cause-aligned social impact. The platform features a double-sided marketplace to attract and engage volunteers, streamline communications, and support community engagement.
Their Mission: Help nonprofits engage supporters and amplify their voice in the communities they serve
Founder(s): Trisha Bright
Location: United States
Learn More: Good Social twitter video
Goodworld allows you to use the #donate hashtag to instantly give to causes that matter on Facebook, Twitter and the web.
Their Mission: Create a financial system that enables charitable giving at all levels
Founder(s): Dale Nirvani Pfeifer
Location: United States
Kandou is a volunteer recruitment and management platform that helps non-profits to expand their volunteer base, automate volunteer event workflows and increase their impact on the community. It is also a CSR platform that connects employees to non-profits and civic organizations, enabling teams to easily volunteer and give back, track impact and turn team building into community building.
Their Mission: Better the world by making volunteering simple and social
Founder(s): Garrett Houghton and Monte Thakkar
Location: United States
Learn More: Kandou twitter video
Kricket is a crowd mapping platform for people and organizations to create efficiencies organically.
Their Mission: Help people and organizations work towards a common goal towards building a community and coordinating the distribution of humanitarian aid by crowd-mapping
Founder(s): Tom Nassr
Location: United States
Martus is an app that focuses on the needs of grassroots organizations and human rights defenders as well as information management. The app is for desktops that focus on structured data collection and helps circumvent Internet blocking in various countries. This project focuses on an open source Secure App Generator that will allow users and partners to create custom “Powered by Martus” write-only applications (where the user can only submit data, but not read it post-submission, so as to reduce risk for untrained data collectors), making it easier for organizations to distribute secure, easy-to-use data collection tools and for users to collect and secure information in the field. Previous support focused on the creation of a mobile version of Martus for the Android mobile OS to allow for secure information transmission in the field.
Their Mission: Provide journalists and defenders of grassroots organizations and human rights a means of transmitting information while protecting their sources and themselves
Founder(s): Benetech a nonprofit 501(c)(3) that empowers communities in need by creating scalable technology solutions
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Learn More: Martus on the Open Tech Fund platform
Miradi is an open source adaptive management software that allows nature conservation practitioners to design, manage, monitor, and learn from their projects to more effectively meet their conservation goals. The software provides a simple, step-by-step process for conservation teams to implement the Conservation Measures Partnership's Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation.
Their Mission: Empower environmental practitioners to succeed in their efforts to protect and restore species and ecosystems
Founder(s): Benetech, Conservation Measures Partnership (CMP), and Foundations of Success (FOS)
Location: United States
Learn More: Miradi
OneRelief holds crowdfunding fundraisers within hours after a disaster has struck and invites smartphone users through social media to make a small donation via the OneRelief app. Collected donations are forwarded to emergency response funds and support certified humanitarian NGO’s in the affected area(s).
Their Mission: Collect micro-donations (US$1-$5) for humanitarian relief aid
Founder(s): Peter Prix
Location: United States
Open Garden is dedicated to connecting the next 5 billion mobile devices with peer-to-peer connections. Many call them the pioneers of peer-to peer mesh networking. They also created FireChat, the first messaging app to enable people to communicate even without any Internet connection or cellular data.
Their Mission: Enable communities, orgs, and app developers to create resilient, people-powered networks
Founder(s): Paul Hainsworth, Ben Teitelbaum, and Christophe Daligault
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Learn More: Open Garden twitter
Open Shelf / Estante Aberto is an app for book lovers to share books with others.
Their Mission: Promote free access to books to create a worldwide collective bookshelf where everyone can pick up and share books
Location: Brazil
Learn More: Open Shelf facebook
Polis generates canvassing routes, load scripts and questions for volunteers to follow, and track the locations and conversations of those you have visited. It displays data analytics for each campaign, and helps to target who you should visit the next round. The app has been used successfully in many civic issue campaigns such as school district polls, and for social issue cause-building uses. Polis is perfect for door-to-door sales organizations (i.e. construction, solar, energy, home repair, retail, cable, insurance, etc.), non-profits, church groups and political campaigns.
Their Mission: Help harness the power of door-to-door offline advocacy
Founder(s): Kendall Tucker
Location: Boston and Virginia, United States
Learn More: Polis
TaroWorks is an app designed specifically for non-profits and social enterprises working in the most remote and difficult places on the planet where connectivity is limited. TaroWorks helps organizations manage offline field services, enhancing data collection, monitoring, sales and inventory management in the field.
Their Mission: Improve product and service delivery to the poor by bringing real-time data to any organization, anywhere.
Founder(s): Emily Tucker
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Learn More: TaroWorks twitter video
TextTrainer is a dialogue system that crisis counselors can practice counseling while they are training. Counselors are able to gain experience in a low-risk environment without putting anyone in danger.
Their Mission: Train crisis counselors on how to intervene and de-escalate crises in a low pressure setting
Founder(s): Orianna Demassi
Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Learn More: TextTrainer
Track it Forward is a volunteer time tracking app that allows volunteers to track their own time and see their progress.
Their Mission: Help organizations maintain forward momentum in recognizing volunteer achievements and tracking the number of hours a volunteer works
Founder(s): Anca and James McBryan
Location: Oakland, California, United States
Learn More: Track It Forward
Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries
Learn more about SDG 10.
Ava is a mobile app that provides captioned communications. Ava's voice recognition technology makes communication with 450 million people with hearing loss much easier.
Their Mission: Help organizations become fully inclusive and break down communication barriers between the deaf & hearing worlds
Founder(s): Thibault Duchemin, Pieter Doevendans, and Skinner Cheng
Be My Eyes is a free mobile app that connects blind and visually impaired people with sighted helpers from around the world, providing visual assistance via live video connection.
Their Mission: Help blind and low-vision people lead more independent lives
Founder(s): Hans Jørgen Wiberg
Location: United States
Learn More: Be My Eyes twitter
DoSomething Chatbot is a digital platform powering offline action by helping members join volunteer, social change and civic action campaigns. DoSomething was developed to help young people make real-world impact on causes they care about and earn easy scholarships for volunteering.
Their Mission: Encourage young people to become active citizens and leaders while also making community involvement fun
Founder(s): Andrew Shue & Michael Sanchez
Location: New York City, New York, United States
Learn More: DoSomething twitter video
FindHello is a free app that enables immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers to find the resources they need in their area. The app provides information on legal services, places of worship, ESL classes, healthcare providers, and other resources.
Their Mission: Help refugees, asylum seekers, immigrants and their receiving communities thrive with free, high-quality online information and resources in many languages
Founder(s): Jessica Marks
Location: United States
Learn More: USAHello FindHello video
Freeda uses a certification system focused on respect for gender and sexual diversity to develop a network of trust between businesses and customers
Their Mission: Provide a collaborative platform to evaluate establishments based on their respect for sexual diversity and gender equality
Founder(s): Barbara Arena, Gabriel Galli, Guilherme Gomes and Patrícia Becker
Good Call provides a 24/7 hotline with text alerts, allowing New Yorkers to sign up online and submit a few emergency contacts who will be automatically alerted in case of an arrest. Good Call provides information and will connect you with a free lawyer immediately if arrested. Good Call offers early legal intervention, and a more reliable way to inform an arrested person’s loved ones, to help ensure a fair arrest outcome for everyone, regardless of their income.
Their Mission: Use technology to create a more transparent and fairer process for all New Yorkers who get arrested
Founder(s): Gabriel Leader-Rose, Jelani Anglin, Eugene Lynch, Stephanie Yim
Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Learn More: Good Call twitter video
Helpugees
Their Mission: Match refugees and volunteers together using matchmaking platform
Founder(s): Adam Motiwala, Fifth Tribe
Location: United States
Marhub is an AI bot tackling an important challenge by helping millions of migrants and asylum seekers. Marhub empowers refugees to navigate resettlement procedures, connect with legal support, and start new lives quickly and safely.
Their Mission: Enable refugees to access crucial information and services through chatbots
Founder(s): Sarrah Nomanbhoy & Parbon Khan
Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Learn More: Marhub twitter facebook
Ohana is an open source community resource api that makes it easy for communities to publish a database of social services. The Ohana api allows developers to build impactful applications that serve underprivileged residents. The founders' during their time with Code for America collaborated with the Human Services Agency in San Mateo County, CA to build the SMC Connect platform.
Their Mission: Increase access to human services for residents in need
Founder(s): Moncef Belyamani, Sophia Parafina & Anselm Bradford
Location: San Mateo, California, United States
Learn More: Github SMC Connect
Notifica is an app, built by United We Dream and Huge. With the press of one button, users can quickly activate their predetermined backup plans by sending 30 personalized notifications to family, lawyers and their support networks in the event of an ICE raid.
Their Mission: Empower undocumented immigrants to take control of their destinies
Founder(s): built by United We Dream and Huge
Location: United States
Learn More: Notifica twitter video
Person-Centered Network App
Their Mission: Assess a person's social support network, identify where help is needed, leverage strengths, and links the person to resources to fill the gaps
Founder(s): Dr. Danielle Varda
Location: Denver, Colorado, United States
Learn More: Person-Centered Network App VisibleNetworkLabs
RISE CIEL App is a coordination platform that elevates the efficiency, transparency, and effectiveness of service delivery in refugee schools in the field. RISE CIEL App tools, designed to work in internet and infrastructure poor settings, rely on portable Wi-Fi, solar device charging, and technologies common in developing countries.
Their Mission: To be able to account for every refugee child and enable their access to essential services regardless of their religion, ethnicity, gender, disability or other vulnerability status
Founder(s): Sergio Medina & Michael Louran
Location: United States
SF311 Mobile App enables users to submit service requests and search the same knowledge base that San Francisco City and County 311 Customer Services Representatives use to get info.
Their Mission: Make it easy for San Francisco residents to submit service requests and access information
Founder(s): City & County of San Francisco
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Learn More: SF311 twitter video
Spendrise is an online platform that harnesses our collective purchasing power for positive change, working on issues such as racial justice, worker's rights, environment and climate, and ensuring emerging tech benefits and protects us all, not just the bottom line.
Their Mission: Empower consumers to create positive change wherever you spend money
Founder(s): Eric Shih
Location: Oakland, California, United States
Statement App enables you to easily communicate in-person via large, high contrast text when you can't talk out loud. If you have difficulties hearing or speaking, the app allows you to simply type your message and turn your phone around.
Their Mission: Making it easier for people to communicate in situations where talking is not possible
Founder(s): Carrie Phillips and Todd Anderson
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Learn More: Currently a free app on IOS, download here. Find out more information about Statement
Tarjimly is a mobile app that allows the world's 3 billion multilingual speakers to remotely volunteer their language skills as translators and interpreters for the 65 million displaced people.
Their Mission: Remove language barriers in order to assist millions of refugees and people in need of humanitarian assistance
Founder(s): Atif Javed & Aziz Alghunaim
Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Learn More: Tarjimly twitter video
Goal 11: Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
Learn more about SDG 11.
Appallicious is a data collection and aggregation company that creates apps such as Disaster Assessment and Assistance Dashboard (DAAD) built to serve the entire lifeline of disaster from community resiliency and preparedness planning through to post-disaster economic recovery.
Their Mission: Enable citizens and government to plan, prepare, educate, assess, respond and recover to disasters large and small
Founder(s): Yo Yoshida
Location: California, United States
Learn More: Appallicious Disaster Assessment and Assistance Dashboard (DAAD)
Aunt Bertha
Their Mission: Help people find and connect to social services across any zip code in the United States.
Founder(s): Erine Gray
Location: Austin, Texas, United States
Learn More: Aunt Bertha twitter
BestRides / SafeRideWalkSafe is an easy-to-use smartphone app that provides real-time updates to a chosen group of contacts whenever you take a trip
Their Mission: Improve individual safety by letting users share their location and real-time updates to a chosen group of people
Founder(s): Greg Czarnowski
Location: United States
Learn More: BestRides video video-Safety Apps Panel presentation.
CAL FIRE Ready for Wildfire app helps prepare notify, and provide info to citizens of wildfire incidents with custom alerts and maps on California wildfires, and info on how to prepare for and protect property.
Their Mission: Preventing and preparing for wildfire
Founder(s): Viveka Hulyalkar and Alex Salvatore
Location: California, United States
Learn More: CAL FIRE Ready for Wildfire twitter video
Changecause is a social platform that aims to revolutionize the way cause marketing is done by keeping donations small and leveraging the power of social networks. Changecause allows you to select one of the non-profits listed, determine a micro-donation amount ($1-$5), pay via Amazon and then a corresponding sponsor will match your donation, doubling your impact. Changecause will broadcast your donation on the social network of your choosing to spread the word about the organization you care about and spotlight the sponsoring company. The core technology behind Changecause became Naytev.
Their Mission: Bring together individual donors, causes, and sponsors to raise more money and create greater awareness for causes
Founder(s): Edward Ridgely, Zack Liscio, Patrick Costello and Michael Seid
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Learn More: Naytev Changecause twitter
CityXcape App
Their Mission: Provide a real time map of hidden gems in the city that are scouted
Founder(s):
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Civic Chatbots solves complex government communication issues with a machine learning platform that helps residents and government employees get questions answers efficiently, effectively and affordably.
Their Mission: Facilitate procurement for the City & County of San Francisco through chatbot
Founder(s): Developed at Yeti with CEO Tony Scherba
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Learn More: Civic Chatbots video
Colab.re is an app that encourages citizenship actions by enabling users to elaborate and share suggestions to improve cities and send them to the local government. The app acts as a management system, streamlining demands of citizens, and creates a vehicle for response directly on the platform.
Their Mission: Provide a way for citizens to connect directly with their city; and provide managers with a more efficient way of managing
Founder(s): Clarissa Accioly, Josemando Sobral, Gustavo Maia
Location: Porto Alegré, Brazil
Learn More: Colab
DAHLIA San Francisco Housing Portal makes it easier to find and apply for affordable housing in San Francisco.
Their Mission: Allow residents of San Francisco to find affordable housing in the city
Founder(s): Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development in partnership with SF Department of Technology Mayor's Office of Civic Innovation
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Learn More: DAHLIA
DecipherAustin helps map Austin's open spaces. Go anywhere in Austin and answer a few short questions about your experience in the area surrounding the location.
Their Mission: Help citizens have more information about how to make a more open space for people regardless of backgrounds
Founder(s): Decipher City
Location: Austin, Texas, United States
Learn More: DecipherAustin
District Housing helps residents prepare housing applications to automatically fill out any building’s application. Originally, to apply for affordable housing in the District of Columbia, residents must fill out a separate paper application for each HUD-subsidized building they apply for. None of the approximately 100 applications are the same format and none are electronically accessible.
Their Mission: Help residents and caseworkers prepare affordable housing applications by creating an online, common application form that can be used to automatically fill out any building’s application
Founder(s): Code For DC and partners with Bread For City
Location: Washington, D.C., United States
Learn More: District Housing code on Github
Find Your Voice is a civic engagement tool that assists users researching legislation at the Tennessee General Assembly.
Their Mission: Allow Tennessee voters to research their local lawmakers
Founder(s):
Location: Tennessee, United States
Learn More: Find Your Voice
Hustle is the leading peer-to-peer messaging tool used by campaigns and nonprofits around the country. In the past, Hustle has worked with groups like Sanders for President, Planned Parenthood, Everytown for Gun Safety, and the Human Rights Campaign to enable them to communicate with their donors and supporters in a highly personalized way.
Their Mission: Connect campaigns and nonprofits around the country with their supporters
Founder(s):
Location: United States
Learn More: Hustle twitter video
Imby Community is important because supporting and creating walkable neighborhoods for everyone requires community engagement during the zoning process.
Their Mission: Inform, engage, and influence the creation of responsive, sustainable communities
Founder(s): Michelle Beaman Chang
Location: Washington, D.C., United States
Impact Bots is a civic engagement chatbot using AI technology. Impact Bots offers Software-as-a-Service chatbots for social action, called Impact Bots that connect people with positive experiences to do nearby and offer them localized rewards and grants from participating partners. Impact Bots live inside Facebook Messenger and other social platforms to make it easy for people to learn, connect, and take action.
Their Mission: Connect and empower people to accomplish goals through collective action
Founder(s): Giovanna Mingarelli, MC2
Location: Ontario, Canada
Learn More: Impact Bots
LocalData is a cloud-based mapping platform that helps cities and communities make data-driven decisions by capturing and visualizing street-level information in real time. LocalData is an open source project that provides tools for local street-level geographic data collection and reporting, and makes the local information and data about cities and towns available to local governments and organizations.
Their Mission: Make the process of collecting, transcribing and visualizing street-level information about neighborhoods fast and easy
Founder(s): Matt Hampel & Alicia Rouault & Prashant Singh
Location: United States: Detroit, San Francisco, and New York City
Learn More: LocalData twitter Github
My San Jose is an app which makes it quick and easy to file and track a City service request for abandoned vehicles, graffiti, illegal dumping, potholes, streetlight outages, general requests, access FAQs, or speak with a live Customer Service Representative.
Their Mission: Make it easy to request city services
Founder(s): City of San Jose
Location: San Jose, California, United States
Learn More: My San Jose
Phone2Action is a digital grassroots advocacy platform.
Their Mission: Connect supporters to elected officials with social media, phone and email advocacy tools drive participation in civic process
Founder(s): Ximena Hartsock and Jeb Ory
Location: United States
Learn More: Phone2Action twitter
RagTag uses technology to make progressive organizations and candidates better at what they do.
Their Mission: Connect tech volunteers eager to jump in and help out with projects for organizations doing good work on the ground - and actively manage projects, from scope to solution
Founder(s):
Location: United States
Reach is a social network of citizen security. In real time, people can take take action or precautions, reduce response times and validate if there are false incidents thus effectively achieving joint work between authorities and citizens.
Their Mission: Easily share information and/or evidence of crimes and social incidents anonymously
Founder(s):
Location: United States
Learn More: Reach twitter video
SF CrimeData uses San Francisco Crime Data from the SFPD data provided by SF OpenData.
Their Mission: Transform everyday purchases into votes for positive change
Founder(s):
Location: United States
Learn More: SF CrimeData
SF Pest allows residents in San Francisco affordable housing to report pest issues from their mobile devices. SF Pest was developed as part of the Fellowship program by students in partnership with Pestec and the Civic Innovation Group.
Their Mission: Improve communication and accountability between residents and property management
Founder(s): Dev/Mission
Location: United States: San Francisco, California, United States
SkyAlert leverages modern technology to give advance warning of an impending Earthquake. SkyAlert collaborates closely with United States Geological Suvery to distribute Earthquake Early Warnings in Oregon, Washington and California. With the combination of SkyAlert’s award-winning technology, businesses and organizations can receive advance warning of shaking from an earthquake that has already begun.
Their Mission: Provide a technological solution to prevent and reduce human and economic losses when an earthquake strikes.
Founder(s): Alejandro Cantu & Alvaro Velasco
Location: Mexico & Berkeley, California, United States
Learn More: SkyAlert Website twitter
SmartResponse is an initiative under the Disaster Accountability Project that curates an algorithm-sorted, location, and disaster-specific "how to help" lists to provide information to donors after a natural disaster has occurred. Through SmartResponse, users can find out which organizations are responding and not responding. This can redirect hundreds of millions of dollars to the most transparent and often local groups that have the greatest capacity to deliver assistance and save lives.
Their Mission: Help donors make informed decisions after a natural disaster since the generosity that follows natural disasters are often delayed and diluted
Founder(s): Ben Smilowitz, Disaster Accountability Project
Location: Rockville, Maryland
Learn More: SmartResponse Disaster Accountability Project twitter
Tenderloin Housing Clinic App for the Tenderloin Housing Clinic lets the tenants of SRO hotels and private apartments for low-income families report code violations. The app also helps the staff to manage, act upon and assign the violations to an appropriate staff members. It also helps the general public to see which SRO hotels and apartments have the most violations. Tenderloin Housing Clinic is a 501(c)(3) organization.
Their Mission: Prevent tenant displacement, preserve and expand the city's low-cost housing stock, and to provide comprehensive legal assistance to low-income tenants
Founder(s): Nicolas Melo
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Learn More: Tenderloin Housing Clinic Github
TenFour is an emergency check-in tool built to help people who are responsible for other people, HR managers, principals, team and community leaders, to answer the question "who needs help?"
Their Mission: Help teams reach each other everyday and in a critical situation
Founder(s): Ushahidi Founders are Erik Hersman, Ory Okolloh, Juliana Rotich and David Kobia
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Terrastories is a free and open source geostorytelling application built to enable indigenous and other local communities to locate and map their own oral storytelling traditions about places of significant meaning or value to them.
Their Mission: To safeguard the intangible cultural heritage expressed in indigenous place-based oral histories, which are at risk of disappearing
Founder(s): Rudo Kemper
Learn More: Terrastories page Github twitter video
Tier 1 Screener was created for Allies Against Slavery in the United States.
Their Mission: Help frontline professionals rapidly and effectively identify possible victims of sex trafficking
Founder(s):
Location: Austin, Texas, United States
Learn More: Tier 1 Screener twitter
TransitScreen is a real-time display of transportation options at your location. Compare train times to bus arrivals on your way to work in the morning. Know when your employee shuttle arrives so you aren’t caught waiting in the cold. The service is active in every major city in the US and Canada, and select European cities.
Their Mission: Provide information about one's transportation choices at a glance, live and in real-time
Founder(s):
Location: United States
Languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, German, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Hindi
Learn More: TransitScreen twitter
Goal 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
Learn more about SDG 12.
Codifi is a platform for paperless archaeology, providing support with every aspect of the transition to a paperless workflow
Their Mission: Make paperless a reality for any approach
Founder(s): Michael Ashley
Location: United States
Greenease helps people eat local and sustainably grown food.
Their Mission: Connect consumers with restaurants, cafes and grocers buying from local or sustainable farms
Founder(s):
Location: New York City and Washington, D.C., United States
Laborlink transforms everyday purchases into votes for positive change.
Their Mission: Translate the voices of workers into actionable analytics that enable socially responsible supply chains
Founder(s):
Location: United States
Learn More: Laborlink
Litterati App Soda cans, plastic bags, and cigarette butts litter the environment, choke wildlife, and threaten our planet. Litterati is tackling this problem one piece of litter at a time, geotaging pinpoints of litter collected worldwide. Literati is still under development for android.
Their Mission: Create a global community to identify, map, and collect the world's litter
Founder(s): Jeff Kirschner and Literati, LLC
Location: United States
Learn More: Literati App twitter
Recorre App (Coorremos C.M.) is an app that connects users with providers of the collection service and works to solve the problem of inadequate disposal of debris and trash
Their Mission: Ensure that disposal of debris and trash is arranged according to law
Founder(s): Coorremos C.M.
Location: Columbia
Learn More: Coorremos C.M. facebook page
Recyclable allows anyone to find out if their item can be recycled by simply taking a picture of it. With this application, there are no excuses not to recycle.
Their Mission: Let people know what is and is not recyclable
Founder(s): Miriam Haart
Location: United States
Learn More: Recyclable video
Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
Learn more about SDG 13.
Climate Cost Project
Their Mission: Measure the costs of climate change happening right now (run by Climate Impact Census)
Founder(s):
Location: United States
Learn More: Climate Cost Project twitter
Sistema Ambiental Paulista SAP is an app that displays the location and air quality of parks and beaches in the state. It lets Paulistas and tourists map collection points for cooking oil recycling through a partnership with the Sustainable Oil program of the Brazilian Association of Vegetable Oil Industries (ABIOVE).
Their Mission: Inform citizens and residents of São Paulo to the various services offered by the State Government's Environment Secretariat
Founder(s): State of São Paulo Environment Department
Location:
Learn More: Sistema Ambiental Paulista SAP
Xinampa: The Digital Observatory for Environmental Justice is a platform that combines digitalization, Natural Language Processing and Community Science to create real-time indicators of Environmental Justice hotspots across the region.
Their Mission: Build Latin America's first Digital Observatory for Environmental Justice
Founder(s): Diego Ponce de Leon Barido
Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources
Learn more about SDG 14.
Clean Swell is used to document trash found during cleanups by adding photos and shared via social media for others to see. It tracks the path of users during cleanup efforts, tallies miles cleaned up, and keeps a record of the total amount of trash you’ve collected. Clean Swells data delivers a global snapshot of ocean trash, providing researchers and policy-makers insight to inform solutions. Join the thousands of International Coastal Cleanup® volunteers who are working for a cleaner ocean by picking up the millions of pounds of trash that wash onto beaches around the world.
Clean Swells was created by the Ocean Conservancy and developed by Beaconfire Red in the United States.
Their Mission: Reduce the amount of trash and document the trash cleaned up at beaches, waterways, and oceans
Founder(s): Ocean Conservancy
Location:
Learn More: Clean Swell and download the Clean Swell App
Dive Against Debris allows divers to report debris they see below the surface of the ocean. They can use the Dive Against Debris app to quickly and easily report on the conditions under water. They can also get debris cleanup kits and report debris via an online platform.
Their Mission: Clean up underwater debris
Founder(s):
Location:
Learn More: Dive Against Debris is a program of Project Aware. App for iOS and Android
Goal 15: Sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation, halt biodiversity loss
Learn more about SDG 15.
AdoptMe App helps bring stories to the faces of animals and are posted to Twitter and other platforms, bringing a whole new level of exposure to pets looking for their forever homes! AdoptMeApp is used by shelter & rescue group volunteers, socializers, and fosters. Those who interact most with adoptable pets love taking pictures of their furry friends. AdoptMeApp is now in use at Pets In Need (CA), San Diego Humane Society (CA), Contra Costa Animal Services (CA), Front Street Animal Shelter (CA), Stanislaus County Animal Shelter (CA), Fluvanna SPCA (VA), Animal Allies Humane Society (MN), RSPCA Queensland (Australia), and many more shelters.
Their Mission: Help animal welfare organizations increase adoptions and save more animals' lives
Founder(s): Cynthia Typaldos
Location: California, United States
Learn More: AdoptMeApp twitter
i of the Elephant is a mobile app that lets individuals report where ivory is being sold. i of the Elephant is a community action tool to tackle the illegal ivory trade and gives people the power to make a positive difference.
Their Mission: Identify where ivory is illicitly sold and compel sellers to be more responsible and enable consumers to choose environmentally conscious stores.
Founder(s): Biologists without Borders
Location: San Rafael, California, United States
Learn More: i of the Elephant twitter video
Goal 16: Promote just, peaceful and inclusive societies
Learn more about SDG 16.
5 calls does the research for each issue, determining which representatives are most influential for which topic, collecting phone numbers for those offices and writing scripts that clearly articulate a progressive position.
Their Mission: Provide an easy and most effective way for citizens to make an impact in national and local politics
Founder(s): Nick O'Neill & Rebecca Kaufman
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Learn More: 5 Calls twitter video
AsylumConnect catalog is the first ever online resource database for LGBTQ asylum seekers in the U.S.
Their Mission: Help persecuted LGBTQ people identify and access verified human needs resources in the U.S.
Founder(s): Sy and Katie Sgarro, Asylum Connect
Location: United States
Learn More: AsylumConnect App twitter
Boldly (formerly SheChange) is a Chrome plug-in, that gives consumers a voice to influence corporate policies that impact people and our planet. Shop online as you normally do; the plug-in turns orange when it has something to tell you. Just click it to view your personalized ratings and alternatives that better-match your values, and tweet to companies or post to facebook your expectations using pre-written posts, including relevant hashtags, or write your own.
Their Mission: Empower consumers to make companies do better for people and our planet
Founder(s): Tracy Wyman
Location: California, United States
CaseCompanion developed in partnership between Code for America and Multnomah County, Portland, OR, gives crime victims access to resources and support throughout the system.
Their Mission: Help crime victims find the information and support needed in Multnomah County
Founder(s): Tom Dooner, Code for America and Multnomah County, Portland, Oregon
Location: Portland, Oregon, United States
Learn More: Case Companion video
DataSF Open Data portal is designed to help the city of San Francisco's data be more accessible and usable to all. The portal has multiple ways to access data, including search, categories, and view by department, including the SFPD Crime data. Data is viewable by resource types like charts, maps, filtered view, and a data lens, with external links, files, documents, and calendars. Published data supports broad and unanticipated uses of city data and improves trust, transparency and accountability.
Their Mission: Make San Francisco city data more usable and accessible to all
Founder(s): City of San Francisco and supported by Jason Lally, Open Data Program Manager and Jay Bonaguro, Chief Data Officer of SF and other staff members
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Fiskkit is a web app that is currently available in Beta.
Their Mission: Lets users discuss news that matters on the local and national levels, and verify truth of news reports
Founder(s):
Location: United States
Flower helps friends and family members be a strong and effective support network through the most important moments in life. Flower makes it easier to both ask and answer that question. Flower is a mobile app available for IOS download.
Their Mission: Help friends and family members be a strong and effective support network through important moments in life
Founder(s): Jean Miller Truelson and Dog Patch Tech
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Forward is an app designed to make it easier to take local action by providing information on resources, groups, campaigns, and actions you can do to support local causes. Forward focuses on four cause categories: education and opportunity, health and well-being, justice and democracy, and environment and climate.
Their Mission: Improving civic engagement, making it easier to take local action on the causes we care about
Founder(s): Libby Falck, Forward Labs (formerly ChangeX)
Location: Wisconsin, United States
Learn More: Information about Forward joinforward.org
Hall of Justice Criminal justice data transparency is important. Hall of Justice is a robust, searchable inventory of publicly available criminal justice datasets and research. The inventory incorporates government as well as academic data.
Their Mission: Provide a searchable inventory of criminal justice data
Founder(s): project of The Sunlight Foundation, a nonpartisan 501(c)3 nonprofit that advocates for open government globally and uses technology to make government more accountable to all
Location:
Learn More: Hall of Justice
Hope is your personal political advisor who helps you keep track of what's happening in the world and recommend smart, strategic actions.
Their Mission: Advise citizens on actions they can take based on current political events
Founder(s): Jeremy Heimans, Jessy Tolkan & Josh Hendler
Location:
Learn More: Hope twitter video
Justice Alert Technology is an app allows victims and witnesses to report crime in a safe and confidential way. It can instantly report to 911, police, and first responders, along with your contact list so help can come sooner. The app records, captures, and sends the perpetrator’s picture, voiceprint, and geolocation to authorities.
Their Mission: To make it easier and safer for victims to report crime and to feel safe 24 hours a day with their cell phone
Founder(s): Juan Cano
Location: Edinburg, Texas, United States
Learn More: Justice Alert Technology
Know Before You Go is an app by Apptology which helps foster youth in the Los Angeles County to stay connected to info, people, and services.
Their Mission: To be a lifeline to resources, tools, supports, and advocates who know where and how to help
Founder(s): Apptology
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Learn More: Know Before You Go video
Mobile Pathways uses Salesforce and mobile phones to help undocumented and under-documented immigrants gain access to reliable legal information about their numerous pathways to immigration.
Their Mission: Provide accurate and precise legal information to immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers via mobile phone technology
Founder(s): Jeffrey O’Brien
Location: United States
Learn More: Mobile Pathways twitter
MyUmbrella is a social networking platform with the mission to connect and empower the LGBTQ+ community in the way they live, work and play.
Their Mission: Create a safe platform for marginalized members of the LGBTQIA+ community to connect and share stories about navigating the journey of living openly and authentically in their relationships, families and friendships
Founder(s): Angelic Williams
Location: Concord, California, United States
Learn More: MyUmbrella video
Online SOS empowers people facing online harassment. Online SOS is a safe place where people can find tools, information and, above all, empowerment, in the face of online harassment.
Their Mission: Empowers people facing online harassment
Founder(s): Liz Lee
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Learn More: Online SOS twitter video
Open States allows you to discover and follow all state legislatures. Open States is a collection of tools that make it possible for citizens to track what is happening in their state's capital by aggregating information from all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. Search the politics in your state by finding your legislators, reviewing their votes, searching upcoming legislation, and tracking bill progress.
Their Mission: Informing Americans and improving civic engagement at the state level by providing data and tools regarding state legislatures
Founder(s): a project of The Sunlight Foundation, a nonpartisan 501(c)3 nonprofit that advocates for open government globally and uses technology to make government more accountable to all
Location: United States
Learn More: Open States
Party Time helps track the political fundraising circuit. From the early hours of the morning until late in the evening, politicians are meeting with donors.
Their Mission: Let people know which politicians are fundraising and where
Founder(s): a project of The Sunlight Foundation, a nonpartisan 501(c)3 nonprofit that advocates for open government globally and uses technology to make government more accountable to all
Location:
Learn More: Party Time
Polaris: SMS 2.0 Text hotline app is an internal facing app that allows victims and survivors of trafficking, their family and friends, and other community members to communicate directly with human trafficking trained hotline advocates 24/7 in English and Spanish. The app provides access to resources and provides a way to report to law enforcement trained in trafficking. Data from SMS 2.0 is a resource for identifying hotline trends that can be used to create disruption strategies.
Their Mission: Ending sex and labor trafficking in North America
Founder(s): Derek Ellerman and Katherine Chon
Location: Washington, D.C., United States
Learn More: Polaris Text hotline information twitter video
Qloak serves as a hub integrating queer spaces featuring such categories as Work (jobs), Play (bars and entertainment), Spend (businesses), and Resources (doctors, counselors, etc.).
Their Mission: Raise the wellbeing of the LGBTQ+ community by centralizing information about queer inclusive spaces on one free user friendly platform
Founder(s):
Location: Oakland, California, United States
Refuge Restrooms app is focused on providing safe restroom access for transgender, intersex, and gender nonconforming individuals. The app is an effort to fill the hole left by the now-defunct Safe2Pee website.
Their Mission: Provides a resource for trans and queer individuals in need of gender neutral and other safe restrooms
Founder(s): Teagan Widmer
Location: United States
Learn More: https://www.refugerestrooms.org/ Refuge Restrooms], contribute on Github
Raheem is a Facebook Messenger chatbot for reporting and rating your interactions with police — both good and bad. Data is shared in real-time to our online public dashboard.
Their Mission: Help to translate the lived experiences of people impacted by police violence into effective policy, officer accountability, and new narratives about how we keep our communities safe
Founder(s): Brandon Anderson
Location: Oakland, California, United States
Learn More: Raheem twitter video
Reporta app is the next step for journalists to act on any risk situations they might encounter in potentially dangerous conditions worldwide by creating security protocols, and through setting up in-app check-ins, designate what steps to take if a check-in is missed including locking mobile access to the app, send sensitive audio, photo, or video data to designated contacts, and create alerts of who to notify if assistance is needed. Reporta is a free app available on iPhone and Android devices in Arabic, English, French, Hebrew, Spanish, and Turkish.
Their Mission: Empower journalists working in potentially dangerous conditions to quickly implement their security protocols with the touch of a button
Founder(s): designed by International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF), built by RevSquare
Location: Washington, D.C., United States
Learn More: Reporta
RideAlong bridges the gap between police officers, mental health providers, and people by giving the officer tailored info about the most frequent callers.
Their Mission: Transform everyday purchases into votes for positive change
Founder(s):
Location: United States
Safe Shelter Collaborative has a suite of tools, so that registered agencies can find space in a traditional shelter. If none is available, they can reach a broader community, via the SafeNight mobile app, to get funding for a hotel stay, if that is a safe and chosen option.
Their Mission: Help agencies find shelter for human trafficking and domestic violence survivors
Founder(s): Built and is maintained by Caravan Studios, a division of TechSoup
Location: United States
Learn More: Safe Shelter Collaborative video
Salama web and mobile application is used to assess risks for journalists, bloggers, and human rights defenders. Salama provides automated advice, training resources and useful links to enhance risk reduction capabilities of the user. This app also will evaluate a command of digital tools and provide specific advice and training resources. Salama is still in Beta.
Their Mission: Help individuals analyze particular risks they might face for their work
Founder(s): Jorge Luis Sierra and developed by the International Center for Journalists with the technical support of the Peace Tech Lab
Location: United States
Learn More: Salama
The Sunlight Foundation is a nonpartisan nonprofit that advocates for open government globally and uses technology to make government more accountable to all.
Some of Sunlight's noteworthy apps and tools: Hall of Justice An inventory of criminal justice data. Influence Explorer Uncover political activity. Open States Discover and follow all state legislatures. Party Time Tracking the political fundraising circuit. The Foundation is a 501(c)3 nonprofit.
Their Mission: Use technology to enable more complete, equitable and effective democratic participation
Founder(s): The Sunlight Foundation
Location: Washington, D.C., United States
Learn More: Sunlight Foundation
Turismo Acessível is free app provided by the Brazilian Ministry of Tourism that displays the location of tourist attractions in the country that are accessible for individuals with physical disabilities. The user can search by accessibility for audio, mobility, visual and wheel chairs. Based in Brasilia, the Ministry is an advocate of disability rights. The tourism guide is a collaborative and allows users to register, rate and consult the accessibility of tourist spots, hotels, restaurants, parks and various attractions.
Their Mission: Help those with physical disabilities travel to popular destinations in Brazil
Founder(s):
Location:
Learn More: Turismo Acessível
Vote.org (formerly Long Distance Voter) provides a digital toolset which currently includes a voter registration tool, an absentee ballot tool, a tool that helps you verify your voter registration status, and a stand-alone election reminders tool. These tools are free for anyone to use at all times. The absentee ballot tool allows citizens to complete, sign, and submit their vote-by-mail applications directly from their smartphones. Vote.org ran the first-ever peer-to-peer voter registration drive in America. Vote.org also started using peer-to-peer SMS for non-partisan GOTV, proactively providing polling place information to just under 1 million low propensity voters.
Their Mission: Simplify political engagement, increase voter turnout, and strengthen American democracy
Founder(s): Debra Cleaver
Location: United States
Learn More: Vote.org
We Vote is a nonpartisan, open source platform that allows you to view your ballot, learn from friends, and share your vision. We Vote USA is nonprofit, volunteer-driven movement, dedicated to educating citizens and bringing social collaboration to the process of making voting decisions. The platform was developed so citizens could create and share personal voter guides that aggregate information and opinions across their social networks.
Their Mission: Provide a political social network for America
Founder(s): Dale McGrew
Location: United States
Whistler App can trigger a Panic Mode to alert a trusted network of an emergency situation taking place and erase sensitive data from your device.
Their Mission: Assist front line activists, human rights defenders, and citizen journalists facing surveillance and digital or physical repression to capture and share evidence of political violence, human rights abuse or corruption
Founder(s): Build A Movement (a nonprofit, nongovernmental organization dedicated to supporting activists and organizers around the world)
Location:
Learn More: Whistler App twitter
Wildfire App sends you real-time safety alerts about dangerous incidents occuring nearby of muggings, shootings, and fires. The safety app is used by 15,000 college students and is growing.
Their Mission: Alert people of dangerous incidents closeby
Founder(s): Vinay Ramesh and Hriday Kemburu of Day, LLC
Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Learn More: Wildfire App
YTH: ZonaSegura App is a trauma-informed youth-centered innovative mobile solution to address teen dating violence in Honduras. Led by YTH, in partnership with GOJoven Honduras and the Public Health Institute’s (PHI) GOJoven International Program, this project aims to prevent teen dating violence (TDV) through provision of prevention information, healthy relationship education, and geo-location linkage to TDV services and resources.
Their Mission: Develop a mobile solution to address teen dating violence in Honduras
Founder(s): YTH
Location: Honduras
Learn More: ZonaSegura twittervideo
Goal 17: Revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development
Learn more about SDG 17.
Circles.org helps create giving circles to allow giving one community to another.
Their Mission: Foster and expand citizen-led philanthropy and volunteer engagement in developing countries
Founder(s): Foundation for Sustainable Development
Learn More: Circles.org
PARTNER Platform is sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and designed for use by collaboratives/coalitions to demonstrate how members are connected, how resources are leveraged and exchanged, to measure the levels of trust, and to link outcomes to the process of collaboration. PARTNER Platform includes an online survey and analysis program that you can administer to collect and analyze data.
Their Mission: Measure and monitor collaboration among people/organizations
Founder(s): Dr. Danielle Varda
Location: Denver, Colorado, United States
Learn More: PARTNER Platform
