Civic Tech Field Guide
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Resources to help you find financial support for your work, no matter which type you seek.
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World Smart City Awards
Barcelona, SpainThe World Smart City Awards seek to recognize pioneering projects, ideas and strategies that promote sustainable urban development around the globe.
Mozilla Foundation
Mozilla, East Evelyn Avenue, Mountain View, CA, USAEstablished in 2003, guided by the Mozilla Manifesto, the Mozilla Foundation believes the Internet is a global public resource that must remain open and accessible to all.
DIUx xView Detection Challenge
Pentagon Building, Washington, DC, USAPentagon's humanitarian satellite imagery competition for object detection in overhead imagery
Indigo Trust
Indigo Trust, Wilton Road, London, UKThe Indigo Trust funds organisations using digital technologies to improve transparency and accountability in sub-Saharan Africa
WhatsApp Research Awards for Social Science and Misinformation
Menlo Park, California, United StatesFor this first phase of our program, WhatsApp is commissioning a competitive set of awards to researchers interested in exploring issues that are related to misinformation on WhatsApp.
Pew's work lays the foundation for effective policies and practices by invigorating civic life, conducting research, informing and engaging citizens, linking diverse interests to pursue common cause, and insisting on tangible results.
Living Cities
1040 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10018, USAWe take risks, catalyze fresh thinking and test new approaches in order to creatively disrupt the status quo.
The MacArthur Foundation supports creative people and effective institutions committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. In addition to selecting the MacArthur Fellows, we work to defend human rights, advance global conservation and security, make cities better places, and understand how technology is affecting children and society.
The Barr Foundation is a private, Boston-based foundation with core programs in Arts & Creativity, Climate, and Education.
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF) works with communities to create conditions for vulnerable children so they can realize their full potential in school, work and life.
Democracy Engine
Washington, DCDemocracy Engine offers a suite of fundraising tools to empower donors to support the organizations and issues they care about at any level, in any party, in any state.
Any NGO, human rights or media organisation that faces threats due to the work they are doing, can apply for this grant.
Luminate
36-38 Hatton Garden, London EC1N 8EB, UKLuminate is a global philanthropic organisation focused on empowering people and institutions to work together to build just and fair societies.
EveryAction
1445 New York Ave NW, Washington, DC 20005, USAEveryAction offers a best-in-class Digital, Fundraising and Organizing SaaS products, with a unified customer relationship management (CRM) platform that is able to effectively serve large and small nonprofits, as well as campaigns through its NGP VAN brand.
Organizations in Western New York and Southeast Michigan within our four core funding areas are now welcome to apply through our online process.
Urban Innovation Fund
San FranciscoA venture capital fund that identifies early-stage innovators solving our toughest urban challenges and provides them with the capital and regulatory expertise to scale into tomorrow's most valued companies.
Donorbox
The Hearst Building, 5 3rd St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USASmart donation form that embeds directly to your website or as a pop-up.
Across Green Country, from the Tulsa Zoo to ONEOK Field, education to health, assisting neighborhoods to assisting nonprofits, Tulsa Community Foundation (TCF) is making a difference in Eastern Oklahoma. TCF is truly this community's foundation: a reflection of Tulsa's overwhelming philanthropic spirit and concern for the lives and well-being of others.
We seek to unlock the possibility inside every individual. We see equal value in all lives. And so we are dedicated to improving the quality of life for individuals around the world. From the education of students in Chicago, to the health of a young mother in Nigeria, we are catalysts of human promise everywhere.
The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation was created in 1956 and aims to improve people's lives through art, charity, science and education.
Find out more about Data City | Data Nation, a global data sharing initiative between Singapore and London.
Bloomberg Philanthropies' U.S. Mayors Challenge
25 East 78th Street New York, NY 10075It is a competition designed to help city leaders think big, be bold and uncover inventive – and, ultimately shareable – ideas that tackle today’s toughest problems.
Civic Innovation Challenge Ideas Competition
Washington, DCThe Civic Innovation Challenge aims to leverage social science, data, and technology to address complex community challenges, enhance job growth and economic competitiveness, and address equity in our communities.
CivVic Labs
AustraliaCivVic Labs brings government and startups together to solve public sector challenges and deliver better outcomes for Victorians.
Higher Ground Labs is an incubator and accelerator for political technology. We help entrepreneurs building tools to help democratic campaigns win.
Digital Impact
Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, USADigital Impact (formerly Markets for Good) is an initiative of the Digital Civil Society Lab to improve the data infrastructure for social good and help civil society organizations use digital resources safely, ethically and effectively.
Call Time
Los Angeles, CAOnline political fundraising tools powered by artificial intelligence, automation, and analytics. Call Time provides online donor research and an automated fundraising platform.
Razoo
Alexandria, VARaise money online for your nonprofit or charity. Create an online fundraising page for your campaigns and events, or donate to any US registered nonprofit.
Open Tech Fund
2025 M Street Northwest, Downtown, Washington, DC 20036, USASUPPORTING INTERNET FREEDOM WORLDWIDE Without Fear of Repressive Censorship or Surveillance.
Knight Foundation
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, South Biscayne Boulevard, Miami, FL, USAKnight Foundation is a national foundation with strong local roots. We invest in journalism, in the arts, and in the success of cities where brothers John S. and James L. Knight once published newspapers. Our goal is to foster informed and engaged communities, which we believe are essential for a healthy democracy.
Global Impact Awards go to entrepreneurial teams who think on a global scale and have a healthy disregard for the impossible.
The California Health Care Foundation is dedicated to advancing meaningful, measurable improvements in the way the health care delivery system provides care to the people of California, particularly those with low incomes and those whose needs are not well served by the status quo.
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