By UN Sustainable Development Goals

Learn more about the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere

Link-SF is a mobile-optimized website that connects homeless and low-income residents with critical and life-saving resources nearby. Focusing on basic services such as food, shelter, medical care, hygiene services, and technology access, Link-SF utilizes cutting-edge technology to stream the most up-to-date information to the people who need it most.

Link-SF was 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 free software, get it here: GitHub.

St. Anthony Foundation, Zendesk, and user testing expert Kimberly McCollister designed and implemented Link-SF. Link-SF was created in the United States.

Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture

Planet Murple is an app that teaches kids to cook, so they build curiosity and self-sufficiency around food.

Planet Murple hopes to redesign our broken food culture starting with kids and education. Find out more about Planet Murple

Planet Murple was created by Emily Yao and Dave Resnick. Purple Murple is based in the Bay Area in the United States.

Range helps US school-age youth find safe places and summer time meals. The list of safe places is all libraries in the US. The summer meals are the locations of USDA funded meal service sites that are available during the school year.

Range is available and has data for the entire US. Range will help us get to zero hunger (SDG 2). Find out more about Range.

Range is made by Caravan Studios, a division of TechSoup. TechSoup is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in the United States.

Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

Doctor D customizes recommendations regarding HIV & STD testing, HIV prevention, and vaccinations, and locates nearby sexual health services for men.

A free iPhone app that empowers guys to stay on top of their sexual health. Find out more and download Doctor D

Doctor D is made by David Ernst and Prevention Health Labs. Doctor D is based in the United States.

First Derm provides direct access to a dermatologist for first steps & guidance on skincare concerns.

First Derm is available wherever you are. Your case will be answered by a top board-certified dermatologist in your area. Together the dermatology team speaks 6 languages and has helped users from 160 countries. Find out more and download the app First Derm

First Derm team is advised by globally recognized leaders in digital health, teledermatology and startups. Frist Derm was started by Alexander Börve. The team is based in the United States, Sweden, Norway, and the United Kingdom.

Heart Spark is an app, map, and game built to help you and others save cardiac arrest victims. Learn where the nearest defib is, submit new ones, and approve existing listing.

Sudden Cardiac Arrest kills more than a 1,000 people each day, it is one of the leading causes of death. Defibrillators are easy to use, effective, and everywhere, but if you can't find a defibrillator in an emergency the chance of survival drops 7-10% for every minute without defibrillation. Heart Spark helps you learn where the nearest defibrillator is, submit new locations, and approve existing listings. Find out more and download the app Heart Spark

Heart Spark was created by David RustSmith in the United States.

LGBT MD helps to connect Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender people to well-trained medical providers. Discover providers near you by searching by both location and type. Bookmark your favorites and text yourself their contact info. Contribute reviews and new providers to help others find the care they need.

LGBT MD is open-source and is in beta for San Francisco. Learn more and try out LGBT MD.

LGBT MD was created by Daria Garina in the United States.

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Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning

Goalie 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.

The application is available on Github.

Goalie is open-source and was created by developer Jose Montes de Oca. The application was created in the United States.

Mentive is a platform for live online classes with real people and top quality materials to master the skills you need.

Mentive believes knowledge turns dreams into reality. Education brings knowledge. Mentive is a global educational community where students and mentors meet to turn any online course into an interactive learning experience. Mentive is determined to find a way to enhance all the great online courses out there with the benefits of face-to-face learning. Find out more about Mentive

Mentive was founded by Jonathan Heyne and has a team of mentors. Mentive is based in Berkeley in the United States.

Moneythink is a movement of young people working to restore the economic health of the United States through financial education. Moneythink has an app that challenges you to prove your financial skills.

Money think believes the opportunity gap is wider than ever. Money skills aren't taught in American schools. We believe every student deserves a financial education, and we're on a mission to make that happen. Find out more and download the app Moneythink

Moneythink was created by Ted Gonder, Greg Nance, and Shashin Chokshi and is based in Chicago, United States. Moneythink has partnered with Causelabs.

Open Schools! is a web app that hopes to support family decisions with data. Open Schools! helps parents choose a school in Washington DC.

Open Schools! recognizes that the "right" school for children can be evaluated not just by standardized test scores, but by teacher turnover, parent involvement, special programming, community and more. Data is from school populations by neighborhood, and gradually plan to add information collected from the city, NGOs, the private sector, and users. Learn more about Open Schools

Open Schools was created by Code For DC located in Washington DC in the United States.

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Goal 6: Ensure access to water and sanitation for all

WellDone builds technology tools that empower resource-constrained communities with the data they need to provide critical infrastructure that lasts. WellDon oversees the functioning of water pumps in Tanzania, with the effort to make communities there self-reliant. Often wells end up neglected and eventually break down.

The app MoMo addresses the needs of local water pump engineers to bring the app with them to their field, view and get notified of the changes in health of the pumps, provide updates once they fix issues, possibly navigate to other pumps, view the lay of the land, even without network availability. Learn more about WellDone and download the app MoMo.

WellDone is an international nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization started by Jim Yoon and Josh To. WellDone’s team is located in the United States and internationally.

Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization and foster innovation

Callbot is an app that will call a group of contacts for you in minutes to deliver a personally recorded voice message right from your phone. Simply make a group from your contacts, and then record your own voice message, then let Callbot make all the calls for you.

Callbot helps nonprofits and organizations manage their volunteers, send reminders, notify employees, and much more. Learn more and download the app Callbot.

Callbot was created by Gravity Fish a small developer team based in the United States.

Local Free Web focuses on bringing Internet access to those who don’t have it. 25% of adults don’t have any regular Internet access. You need the Internet to find the Internet. Local Free Web is a text messaging service as well as physical signs in bus stops. Text any bus stop id to a phone number, receive text messages with locations of computers with Internet access around that bus stop.

Local Free Web is available on GitHub and focuses on proving a resource directory of sites that provides free access to internet enabled computers in San Francisco, California.

Local Free Web was created by a team part of SF Brigade Code 4 San Francisco located in the United States.

Open Garden is a peer-to-peer mesh network enabling communities, orgs and app developers create resilient, people-powered networks, extending the reach of the Internet.

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 created FireChat, the first messaging app to enable people to communicate even without any Internet connection or cellular data. Find out more and download the app Open Garden

Open Garden was founded by Paul Hainsworth, Ben Teitelbaum, and Christophe Daligault. Open Garden is based in San Francisco in the United States.

Shot Gun Messenger was designed to simplify communication from a single origin to a larger group while hiding member phone numbers, allowing group members to respond back, and limiting access time. The group leader may text individuals or the entire group from their web app or using simply using their phone's SMS feature. The click to call feature connects the group leader with any member in the group via a conference call.

Shot Gun is currently in beta and accessible on GitHub.

Shot Gun was created by Jolene Hayes with the help of Hackbright fellows in the Bay Area, California in the United States.

Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries

Balance lets anyone check their EBT (Electronic benefit transfer) balance with a text message. Balance was built because nearly 50 million Americans are receiving SNAP (Food Stamps) and we wanted to give them an easier way to check their balance.

Balance started as an idea to help social service clients in San Francisco. Balance now works in: California, Texas, Pennsylvania, Alaska, Oklahoma, and Virginia. Balance is still in Beta testing. Learn more about Balance. Get involved on the Github.

Balance was created by Dave Guarino, Alan Williams, and Jake Solomon in San Francisco, California through Code For America.

District Housing helps 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.

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. Find out more about District House

District House is based in Washington DC in the United States and was created by Code For DC. District House partners with Bread For City.

No Place Like Home is a website to help tenants make informed decisions about a buyout offer. Buy Outs are common practice for property owners to renters of rent controlled apartments in San Francisco.

Through the site, the tenant inputs info about them, their rental and the buyout offer, and then gets estimates of what they should request for a buy-out. A map is also made of all the buy-outs recorded in San Francisco. Try out the web app No Place Like Home. See the open-source code on Github.

No Place Like Home was created by developer Jesse Germinario in San Francisco, California in the United States.

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.

The Tenderloin Housing Clinic's mission is to prevent tenant displacement, preserve and expand the City's low cost housing stock and to provide comprehensive legal assistance to low income tenants. Learn more about the Tenderloin Housing Clinic.

Tenderloin Housing Clinic is a 501(c)(3) organization.Tenderloin Housing App was created by Nicolas Melo and is on Github. Tenderloin Housing Clinic is based in San Francisco, California in the United States.

Goal 11: Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

Labre is an app and a place for the community to share real-time knowledge of resources available in your city.

With the Labre app, you no longer have to depend on organizations to update resource directories. You can share your knowledge and help keep information about resources up-to-date. This includes resources for food, shelter, facilities, legal services, work opportunities, medical facilities, power, Wi-Fi and more. The Diginido Lifeline is a program that helps the homeless and low-income community acquire smartphones with free data plans as a way to stay connected to families and provide an avenue for digital education. Find out more about Labre

Labre was created by Ehb Teng and Diginido Labs LLC, a social impact venture based in the United States.

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.

Public sector and non-profit professionals use LocalData to quickly collect and map street-level qualitative and quantitative data. Design custom map-based surveys, manage data online and instantly visualize geospatial data without a data expert. Learn more about LocalData. LocalData continues to be an open source project, find the code on GitHub.

LocalData began as a Code for America project with the City of Detroit's Office of the Mayor. Three Code for America fellows (Matt, Alicia and Prashant). LocalData is being used in Detroit, San Francisco, and New York City in the United States.

Ohana makes it easy for communities to publish a database of social services, and allows developers to build impactful applications that serve underprivileged residents.

Retrieve detailed information about the services available in San Mateo County. This project is part of the development of the Ohana API, an open source database of community services. Ohana is displayed in six different languages. Learn more and use Ohana.

Ohana’s platform was developed by Anselm Bradford, Moncef Belyamani, and Sophia Parafina during their Code for America Fellowship in 2013, in partnership with San Mateo County's Human Services Agency.

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Goal 16: Promote just, peaceful and inclusive societies

AboliShop aims to prevent the spread of human trafficking around the world by informing consumers of the ethicality of the supply chains for certain products. The AboliShop intervention tool interfaces with a web browser to display Free2Work grades as consumers browse through online retail space. Armed with this information, consumers can make the decision to buy from suppliers that have demonstrated a commitment to preventing human trafficking.

AboliShop is currently in beta testing. Learn more and about AboliShop and Free2Work.

AboliShop’s team is located in the United States and was created by Nick Montgomery, Kwamina Orleans-Pobee, and Wes Williams. AboliShop partners with Not For Sale and USAID.

Fiskkit is a web app that lets users discuss news that matters on the local and national levels, and verify truth of news reports.

Fiskkit is currently available in Beta. Start using Fiskitt online.

Fiskkit was created in the United States.

Statement App enables you to easily communicate in-person via large, high contrast text when you can't talk out loud. Whether you're at a noisy concert, in a quiet classroom, or have trouble speaking, you simply type your message and turn your phone around.

Statement App is currently a free app on IOS, download here. Find out more information about Statement.

Statement App was created by Carrie Phillips and Todd Anderson in San Francisco, California in the United States.

The Sunlight Foundation is a nonpartisan nonprofit that advocates for open government globally and uses technology to make government more accountable to all. Our vision is to use technology to enable more complete, equitable and effective democratic participation. Learn more about Sunlight Foundation.

Some of Sunlight's noteworthy apps and tools: Hall of Justice An inventory of criminal justice data. Open States Discover and follow all state legislatures. OpenCongress Track bills and lawmakers in Congress. Party Time Tracking the political fundraising circuit.

The Sunlight Foundation is located in Washington DC in the United States. The Foundation is a 501(c)3 nonprofit. View the team and board here.

We Vote political social network for America. View your ballot, learn from friends, share your vision.

We Vote USA is nonprofit, nonpartisan, open source, and ready to get out the vote through social sharing. We are a volunteer-driven movement, dedicated to educating citizens and bringing social collaboration to the process of making voting decisions. We have built an open platform for citizens to create and share personal voter guides that aggregate information and opinions across their social networks. Find out more about We Vote

We Vote USA was started by Dale McGrew and is in the process of applying for 501(c)(4) nonprofit status based in the United States.

Vote.org is a nonpartisan nonprofit digital voting organization (formerly Long Distance Voter). Americans are eager to adopt digital voting solutions. Vote.org has built and will continue to iterate the digital technology that removes barriers to voting and increases voter turnout.

The advocacy website, Vote.org that hopes to reach millions of voters nationwide by easy-to-use technology that helps Americans register to vote, check their registration status, and get their absentee ballots.

Voter.org was created by Debra Cleaver in the United States.

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