they offer great potential for both the sharing and receiving of useful information on food security.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Messaging

"Google is working with non-profit groups like No Kid Hungry and FoodFinder, as well as the US Department of Agriculture, to aggregate 90,000 locations with free food support across all 50 states — with more locations to come." - Andrew J. Hawkins

• Google
• Zero hunger

• Civic maps
• Access social benefits

BetaNYC project

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields

Pusat Informasi Harga Pangan Strategis difokuskan pada diseminasi informasi harga bahan pangan strategis yaitu komoditas pangan yang dikonsumsi masyarakat secara luas atau memiliki bobot kontribusi inflasi yang tinggi.

• Data visualization

Building Blocks is a WFP corporate project and the humanitarian sector’s largest blockchain-based cash distribution system that leverages blockchain to coordinate with other humanitarian agencies and transfer cash assistance to refugees securely and efficiently.

• Zero hunger

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Blockchain

A native app that allows you to monitor more than 35 different severe weather and emergency alerts in your town, and other cities that matter to you, such as hurricanes, earthquakes and tornados. 

• apps
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

The Benefits Enrollment Field Guide looks at the landscape of America’s safety net benefits experience in 2023 and tracks the differences from our 2019 assessment based on expanded evaluation criteria.

• Good health and well-being

• Govtech
• Access social benefits
• Report cards and audits

Pushing the Boundaries of Scientific Innovation to Create a Smarter, Sustainable, and Resilient Future for Communities

• Govtech
• Foundation initiatives
• Public Private Partnerships

The Uganda Response Innovation Lab (Uganda RIL) was founded in 2018 by Save the Children Uganda. The main objective of the lab is to support the humanitarian response to 1.4 million refugees from eight East African countries, mainly from the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan, and their host communities across 13 districts in the country through innovative approaches, systems, technologies and products.

• refugees

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

CS Fund is launching a new funding program on Just Transitions to advance social and ecological justice for a future grounded in justice, joy, belonging, and liberation for all beings.

• Reduced inequalities
• Zero hunger

• Emerging tech
• Get funding
• Foundation initiatives

Theseus is an enterprise logistics system to track, trace and optimize the global movement of food goods while reducing waste, fostering fair economic opportunities, and directly engaging consumers to learn more about the origins of their food.

• supply chain

• Emerging tech
• Graveyard
• Blockchain

We’ve launched the latest WFP Innovation Challenge in search of game-changing innovations addressing the Global Food Crisis.

• food
• Zero hunger

• Challenges

Forage is a USDA approved third-party payment processor (TPP) and a PIN provider that authenticates and processes EBT transactions.

• food
• Zero hunger

• Access social benefits

Pioneering Collaborative Journalism

• waste
• food
• migration

• Media
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Nonprofit newsrooms

BOOM is an independent digital journalism initiative. We are India’s premier fact checking website, committed to bring to our readers verified facts rather than opinion. When there is a claim, we will fact check it.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

The People’s Bus is a bus formerly used to transport people detained on Rikers Island; it has been transformed with input from New Yorkers into a community center on wheels, with the purpose of engaging people in NYC’s civic life through beauty and joy.

• cities

• Engagement tech
• Artistic interventions
• Citizen Engagement

Over the next seven years, building on the work we’ve already done to reimagine safety net services, we will partner with 15 states to reach 13 million people and unlock $30 billion in benefits in the areas of food assistance, health care, and other basic needs through our new Safety Net Innovation Lab.

• Access social benefits
• Supporting public sector from outside government

Information sheets for people fleeing Ukraine, in English and Ukranian

• refugees
• Ukraine

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Find help in NYC with food, money, housing, work and more on ACCESS NYC.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Eligibee is a free nonprofit tool that helps you find and apply for government assistance, making it easier to get the food, healthcare, and income supports you need today.

• food
• Good health and well-being

• Access social benefits
• Nonprofit tech
• Supporting public sector from outside government

An open data standard for restaurant information

• food

• Data schemas and standards

your Government One Stop ® for services and information

• Govtech
• Service delivery

Whether we’re finding the most efficient way to deliver food aid, streamlining the process for benefits access, or simply finding ways to serve more people with fewer resources, the DataKind Community is ready to find data-driven solutions, and build data maturity along the way.

• The People
• Build something
• Data science for social good

Panacea allows you to check your food stamps and cash benefits balance all on your smartphone.

• apps

• Access social benefits

Our platform provides unprecedented situational awareness and actionable insights for decision-makers.

• cities
• earthquakes
• floods

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Emerging tech

Pizza to the Polls is making democracy delicious by delivering free food for all to polling places with long lines. Send us reports of long lines and we'll send in the delicious reinforcements.

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Send food to poll lines

We're a brigade of Code for America, which means that we're a volunteer group of coders who like to work on software projects for the good of our community.

• indigenous

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Apply for food stamps in 10 minutes

• Access social benefits

World Central Kitchen and its partners are activating Chefs For The Polls to serve nourishing meals on early voting days and Election Day.

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Send food to poll lines

Global Impact Awards go to entrepreneurial teams who think on a global scale and have a healthy disregard for the impossible.

• Google

• The People
• Get funding
• Awards and prizes

A biotech makerspace located in a rural community.

• Hubs
• Citizen science
• Open science

to enable data-driven farming

• agriculture
• Zero hunger

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Artificial Intelligence

This project seeks to facilitate the co-creation of prototypes that can advance digital transparency and enable agency in the world's public spaces.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

Tired of paper & pen checklists, shift notes, and log books? Join 1000s of restaurants nationwide and streamline your food safety & quality with our mobile app!

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

See if you qualify for support with food, cash & more. Answer a few questions and get help in under 5 minutes.

• Access social benefits

NeMO-Net is a single player iPad game where players help NASA classify coral reefs by painting 3D and 2D images of coral.

• Life below water
• coral

• Games and gamification
• Emerging Tech Projects
• Emerging Tech report

GoGetta has New York’s most up-to-date service information on food, personal care, shelter, and clothing.

• homelessness

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

We build software for low-income Americans who are often overlooked by traditional tech innovation focusing on EBT Food Stamps.

• apps

• Access social benefits

See how local governments are responding to tech solutions to persistent problems #InnovatingRegulation

• permits
• reports

• Procurement
• Regulation
• Reports

Bloom Network is an international community of people and projects working toward regenerative cultures. Local Bloom hubs around the world grow participation in practices such as food security, local economies, celebrations of diversity, and art as cultural transformation.

• Sustainable cities and communities

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

Tumml empowers entrepreneurs to solve urban problems. A nonprofit, Tumml's goal is to support the next generation of Zipcars and Revolution Foods.

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

Mapping with and for the Older Adults (Senior Citizens) and Ageing Population in the Philippines

• OpenStreetMap
• seniors

• Civic maps
• Mapping
• Open government data