Project Liberty is advancing responsible development of the internet, designed and governed for the common good.

• Advocacy tech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Decentralization

Enabling NGOs to get the most out of technology

• Nonprofit tech

This project brings together leading innovators from the international criminal law community with pioneers in the Web3 ecosystem to develop secure and resilient solutions for accountability in Ukraine.

• Ukraine
• human rights
• humanitarian

• Emerging tech
• Archives
• Blockchain

“Projection bombing”, a technique pioneered by marketing agencies and more recently embraced by activists where a message is projected onto a building.

• guides

• Advocacy tech
• Direct action

An organization dedicated to investigating corruption, injustice, and abuse of power in the federal government and advocating for reforms.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

We aspire to build a new kind of political training and development, that leverages network effects, enables more self-directed learning, and is radically more practical. Alumnis will innovate the political sphere, and gain influence by doing so.

• Govtech
• Graveyard
• Supporting public sector from outside government

Project Look Sharp is a nonprofit, mission-driven outreach program of Ithaca College.

• students

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media literacy

First deployed on Election Day in 2018, Project Certeza’s purpose was to identify and deal with false information disseminated, particularly through social networks but also through any other media, that could produce uncertainty or distrust in the citizenry about the electoral authority’s responsibilities as the election is happening.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

Project Red String is an interactive tool that maps the relationships between key power players in New York City. It is both a database of power players in New York City politics and a searchable campaign finance tool that tracks their donations in the 2021 New York City election cycle. You can: search for any candidate that is currently running for office in New York City's 2021 elections and see a list of power players that have donated to their campaign, search for power players and see their associations, such as their job or organizational affiliations, and their recent City donation history, and sort power players by their categories (e.g. candidates, press, city officials)

Project Isizwe works to extend free wifi across low-income communities in South Africa and runs the Tobetsa content portal.

Each solution reduces greenhouse gases by avoiding emissions and/or by sequestering carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere.

• Climate action

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Advocacy tech

Any NGO, human rights or media organisation that faces threats due to the work they are doing, can apply for this grant.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Get funding

Project to crowdsource political advertising online

• The Tech
• Graveyard
• Crowdsourcing

Project Shield uses Google’s infrastructure to protect independent news sites from distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS), a type of digital attack that exploits thousands or even millions of computers to overwhelm a website’s servers and take it offline.

• Google

• The Tech
• Media
• Adjacent Fields

We are working on medical devices, to have a fast and easy solution that can be reproduced and assembled locally worldwide.

• Hardware
• High-tech COVID Interventions

Project Mobilize is a network of leaders working to create change both within the current systems and organizations that already exist as well as investing in new ideas on the local, state and national level that will break through the stagnate and partisan rhetoric in order to create a more unified, inclusive and forward-thinking nation.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

Our placemaking blog connects people who share a passion for public spaces to ideas and issues, news, places, and events that have come out of the placemaking movement.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

Containerized Open-Source Mask Production Lines

• masks

• Graveyard
• Hardware
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Project Lemon Aid matches people awaiting trial behind bars with pro bono lawyers who can represent their case.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Adjacent Fields

Project Homeless Connect connects San Franciscans experiencing homelessness with the care they need to move forward.

• homelessness
• housing

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges

Vote Smart provides free, unbiased, in-depth information about current officials, candidates, issues, legislation, and voting. Non-partisan and nonprofit since 1988.

• Voting and elections
• Watchdogging and transparency

If you are an organization working in the arts, human rights, civil society, journalism, or democracy, you can apply for Project Galileo to get Cloudflare’s cybersecurity protection

• civic features

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Project Callisto helps survivors of sexual assualt and harrasment on college campuses document sexual assault, seek counseling, and start an investigation.

• harassment

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Adjacent Fields

Open Data Policy — Managing Information as an Asset

• guides

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Govtech

Building spaces to grow the global conversation on environmental data access and use

• Climate action
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Civil society research outfits
• Environmental data

The AI Democracy Projects engage the implications of AI systems and tools, including predictive algorithms, machine learning, and frontier models, for democratic society.

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Voting and elections

Internet of Things pilots to improve quality of life in London neighborhoods

• local
• cities

• Smart Cities and sensors

WP:MED as it is known aims to manage and help in curation of Wikipedia's medical articles.

• Good health and well-being
• Wikipedia

• Open knowledge

Oxfam’s UnBlocked Cash project (UBC) is a blockchain-powered cash transfer solution that is set to tackle this challenge. It is saving costs of distributing aid, reducing delivery times, and bringing more transparency and accountability in the process. It offers an opportunity to improve how aid is delivered without compromising the dignity of beneficiaries.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Blockchain
• Direct aid

A new $5+ million partnership aims to explore ways the development of artificial intelligence (AI) can support a thriving, innovative local news field, and ensure local news organizations shape the future of this emerging technology.

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Journalism

The Computational Democracy Project designs, engineers and maintains Polis, an open source, real-time system for gathering, analyzing and understanding what large groups of people think in their own words, enabled by advanced statistics and machine learning.

• Polis

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement

OpenITP improves and increases the distribution of open source anti-surveillance and anti-censorship tools by providing the communities behind these tools with many kinds of support.

• free speech

• Graveyard
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Pro bono and volunteer

We are a venture philanthropy investing in and building digital nonprofit newsrooms that are governed by, are sustained by, and look like the public they serve.

• Media
• Get funding
• Journalism

A program offered by K&L Gates for victims of nonconsensual photography based in the US and beyond

• anti-harassment
• Gender Equality

• Digital security and privacy
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out

Six AI tools under active development by professional newsrooms

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

The project produces information on new forms of digital power and enables people to make a difference in matters that are important to them.

• Participatory democracy
• Public Private Partnerships

Tracking two-dozen communication, Internet and media markets in nearly 40 countries.

• Media
• Media and social media analysis
• Media monitoring

Data visualization nominated for 2023 Webby Award

• mental health
• LGBTQI
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Data visualization

This library of final reports from grant funded projects in the deep tech and research space is a great place to find relevant information without having to write it all yourself!

• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

We use science and technology to tackle today’s most pressing public health issues.

• Good health and well-being

• Media
• Media and social media analysis
• Narrative tech

The Biden Administration's approach to human-centered design to re-orient government around a core set of "life experience" personas

• Govtech
• Access social benefits
• Service delivery

Free Law Project is the leading nonprofit using software, data, and advocacy to make the legal ecosystem more equitable and competitive.

• Legal tech
• Justice tech

Our mission is to direct technological development towards the collective good.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The Opportunity Project for Cities puts open data to work. We bring together governments, community leaders, and tech volunteers to address local challenges through the power of open data and community engagement.

• cities

• Civic data
• Incubators