Welcome to the world's leading organization for Smart Cities, Smart Buildings, Strategies, Policy, Research and Technologies.

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Accelerators
• Hubs

TechSoup’s Digital Activism Program supports civil society organizations (CSOs) and individuals: activists, CSO staff members, and educators from around the world.

• Advocacy tech
• Build something
• Accelerators

La aceleradora de fact-checking para medios

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Accelerators

The Philadelphia Media Founders Exchange is a community-grounded accelerator program supporting BIPOC media entrepreneurs through training, one-on-one coaching, and grantmaking.

• Media
• Journalism
• Accelerators

Keseb’s Democracy Innovation Lab catalyzes promising early-stage innovations reimagining the building blocks of democracy.

• Get funding
• Build something
• Accelerators

We are looking for the missing link between research and practice With the goal of developing practical tools and support actions for policymakers, practitioners, and advocacy actors. We work to equip them with the means to extend the impact of proven solutions beyond the confines of pilot projects.

• Participatory democracy
• Build something
• Accelerators

Future Force is a tech-for-good community and social impact startup accelerator.

• Meet the others
• Build something
• In-person meetings

Over a nine month period, these participants will work with the CIVICUS team, technical experts, and each other to develop a fully funded project which will be delivered in their local setting.

• Get funding
• Build something
• Accelerators

A global accelerator for AI innovators and nonprofits working to solve the world’s pressing challenges.

• Climate action
• Good health and well-being
• Quality education

• Artificial Intelligence
• Build something
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Terner Labs scales critical housing innovations at the intersection of equity, affordability, and sustainability.

• housing

• Build something
• Accelerators
• Building in the private sector

Civic tech accelerator hosted by the Scottish government. If you’re an ambitious and innovative individual, team or company, CivTech is an outstanding opportunity

• Accelerators
• Challenges

The Google News Initiative Pre-launch Lab is a program supporting early stage entrepreneurs in journalism.

• Media
• Journalism
• Accelerators

DIA will select 40 participants to receive free capacity-building assistance and support for launching or improving innovative participatory programs in the European Union (EU) and Horizon Europe countries.

• Participatory democracy
• Build something
• Accelerators

Helping organizations build transformative AI-enabled Chat Solutions to improve Education, Health, and Economic Mobility.

• WhatsApp

• Bots
• Accelerators

CivTech is a Scottish Government programme that brings the public, private and third sectors together to build things that make people’s lives better

• Govtech
• Accelerators
• Building inside government

Where Chicago's historically underrepresented tech founders find the funding, knowledge, and networks to help your business thrive.

• Build something
• Accelerators
• Building in the private sector

Our mission is to support the voices historically excluded from media and media ownership.

• racial equity
• Gender Equality

• Media
• Journalism
• Accelerators

Self-assessment and other resources to help entrepreneurs incorporate AI ethical principles into their technological solutions of entrepreneurs from seed stages to those who export their technologies to other markets.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Build something
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

This Transport for London project looks to introduce new ways to reduce adverse impacts of roadworks in London, by working with innovative companies to shape these in a way that responds to the problems London faces.

• mobility
• United Kingdom (government)

• Govtech
• Accelerators
• Procurement

We help to launch high-quality products in the sphere of privacy and Internet freedom

• Digital security and privacy
• Legal tech
• Accelerators

In our accelerator program, we will guide you for 5 months to turn your idea into reality.

• Build something
• Accelerators
• Building in the private sector

We Accelerate Innovations That Address Violence Against Women

• Gender Equality
• domestic violence

• Build something
• Accelerators

OSLabs is a nonprofit tech accelerator devoted to furthering high-impact open source software within a collaborative community of dedicated engineers and mentors.

• Build something
• Accelerators
• Fellowships

A free of charge Consultation Service for Civil Society Organisations and Civic Movements

• coaching

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Accelerators

The 6-week virtual programme launches in August and provides mentorship and support to organisations wanting to build and scale their WhatsApp Health service.

• WhatsApp
• Good health and well-being

• Accelerators
• Chat and messaging

Democracy is in danger, and urgently needs people to defend it. Our 10-month civic leadership programme for young activists will help fight the democratic decline.

• Build something
• Accelerators

Accelerator for America and Honeywell Collaborate to Promote Smart City Growth in Five U.S. Cities

• commercial

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Accelerators

UNICEF StartUp Lab is an accelerator programme for impactful businesses working to advance the SDGs for children and young people. The programme is led by UNICEF in Ghana, supported by KOICA and implemented by MEST Africa.

• youth
• United Nations

• Accelerators

Blue Ridge Labs is a place where technologists and communities work together to explore and build new solutions for New Yorkers. We provide space, funding, and resources to help launch and grow tech platforms that address economic inequality in NYC.

• fintech
• Decent work and economic growth

• Accelerators
• Fintech for good

Swedish social impact startup accelerator

• Get funding
• Build something
• Accelerators

We invest into 20-24 new teams a year through our two programmes in the spring and autumn.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Accelerators

Climate Democracy Action (CDA) is a practice-oriented training and support program that prepares advocates and policymakers to use participatory strategies to drive local governments’ response to the climate crisis.

• trainings
• Climate action

• Participatory democracy
• Accelerators

We are a global network of like-minded innovation programmes across GovTech, Civic Tech and Academia. With teams across 17 countries, we help our members deliver better outcomes for their citizens and innovation ecosystems.

• Climate action

• Build something
• Accelerators

The Day One Project is launching its Technology Policy Accelerator to identify, develop, and publish a set of technology policy ideas that could be implemented by Congress or the Biden-Harris Administration.  The accelerator is a nine-week process, designed to guide each participant as they develop an initial idea into a tailored, actionable set of policy recommendations

• Accelerators
• Tech or Digital Policy

CivStart is a nonprofit focused on creating opportunities for underserved and unconnected communities through startups that build with local governments. Our goal is to help impactful innovations quickly enter the state & local market. [email protected] 80 M St. SE, Washington, DC 20003

• Govtech
• Accelerators
• Govtech vendors

Non-profit startup accelerator elevating #ClimateTech innovators & founders to move the needle on the climate crisis. Administered by SecondMuse

• Climate action

• Accelerators

Our accelerator program provides 24 months of customer development, product development, network building, and expert guidance for startups, all in preparation for securing state & local contracts. 

• Govtech
• Accelerators

Japan's first civic tech accelerator 日本初のシビックテック領域特化型 アクセラレータープログラム、始動。

• Accelerators

The SPP Accelerator is a learning and coaching program to source and develop promising projects designed to improve education, learning, and development using data.

• coaching

• Accelerators

ACCELERATING APPALACHIA – TM is supported in part by a $100,000 federal Rural Jobs Accelerator grant award from the Appalachian Regional Commission.

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

12-24 month startup accelerator at Cornell Tech

• Academia
• Accelerators
• Public Interest Tech

Coworking space, accelerator, and economic engine in Lilongwe

• development

• Accelerators
• Hubs

AI/ML fueled social impact venture accelerator, powered by Alchemist. Leveraging entrepreneurship, data, etc. to help solve our community's pressing challenges!

• Artificial Intelligence
• Accelerators
• Machine learning

We’ve worked with more than 1,000 different social enterprise start-ups operating in more than 100 different countries since 2004.

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

The conscious company accelerators

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

offers incubation, capacity building and financing options to new, small and medium business ventures and Kenyan entrepreneurs that are developing innovations to address the challenges of climate change.

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

MEST Africa is an entrepreneurial training program, seed fund and incubator for African tech startups, headquartered in Accra, Ghana.

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

We find the brightest leaders with the best ideas for social innovation as early as possible. And then we do everything we can to make sure they succeed.

• The People
• Build something
• Funders & donors

Villgro Africa addresses the lack of access to quality and affordable health services & technologies in Africa by investing in innovations with the potential for scalable and sustainable business models and by offering technical assistance to entrepreneurs.

• Good health and well-being

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

Higher Ground Labs is an incubator and accelerator for political technology. We help entrepreneurs building tools to help democratic campaigns win.

• The People
• Get funding
• Build something