Projects - The People

Accelerating Appalachia

Appalachian Mountains

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

A Lever and a Place to Stand: How Civic Tech Can Move the World

This book takes a close look at civic apps and general-purpose tech platforms and services.

books

City Resilience Index

Explore and evaluate your city's resilience, to plan for a strong future.

You can think of Code for BTV as a pro-bono digital agency working for the public good. We pick meaningful projects and do the research, design, architecture, coding, launch, and communications work to help important organizations work more effectively.

Shareable

Shareable is an award-winning nonprofit news, action and connection hub for the sharing transformation. What’s the sharing transformation? It’s a movement of movements emerging from the grassroots up to solve today’s biggest challenges, which old, top-down institutions are failing to address.

What Works Cities

Launched by Bloomberg Philanthropies in April 2015, What Works Cities is a national initiative to help 100 mid-sized American cities enhance their use of data and evidence to improve services, inform local decision-making and engage residents. We are the nation’s most comprehensive philanthropic initiative helping local leaders identify and invest in what works. Applications have now closed to be considered as one of our first 100 cities, but check back soon for new opportunities.

The Urban Institute

Urban Institute opens minds, shapes decisions, and offers solutions through economic and social policy research.

Principles for Digital Development

United Nations Foundation

A set of guidelines that help development practitioners integrate established best practices into technology-enabled programmes.

resources

Code for Puerto Rico

San Juan, Puerto Rico

Somos un grupo de ciudadanos que colaboramos para trabajar temas de caracter civico mediante la implementación de la tecnologia.

Code for Philly

Philadelphia

Helping makers and doers work together to upgrade our city

Strava Metro

Strava Office, Potrero Avenue, San Francisco, CA, USA

Metro is the largest active transportation dataset on the planet.

mobility

Catchafire

Catchafire matches professionally-skilled volunteers with nonprofits and social enterprises. We structure our volunteer opportunities to be short-term, discrete, and individual to cater to the busy lifestyles of high-performing professionals.

The Cleaners

Boxhagener Str. 106, 10245 Berlin, Germany

It tells of the global impact of online censorship and shows how fake news and hatred are disseminated and strengthened by the social networks.

films

Code for America Brigade Organizer's Playbook

Feeding America and Map the Meal Gap

Secure Usability and Accessibility Lab at Open Tech Fund

2025 M Street Northwest, Downtown, Washington, DC 20036, USA

OTF’s Secure Usability and Accessibility Lab offers secure usability and user-interface assistance to Internet freedom and digital security tools to help them recognise and solve usability challenges that hampered the adoption of those tools in repressive contexts.

Civic Labs Belgium

Belgium (België / Belgique / Belgien)

Citizens creating solutions to improve cities and communities in Belgium

ICTWorks

ICTworks™ is the premier community for international development professionals committed to utilizing new and emerging technologies to magnify the intent of communities to accelerate their social and economic development.

Social Innovation Labs Handbook

Canada

Research and survey on social innovation labs in Canada.

Citizens' Initiative Review

Oregon

Citizens' Initiative Review processes bring randomly selected and representative panels of voters together to fairly and thoroughly evaluate ballot measures and give voters information they can trust.

Democracy Club (UK)

Stroud, UK

Democracy needs an upgrade

International Consortium of Investigative Journalists

1710 Rhode Island Ave NW, 11th floor Washington DC 20036 USA

NetImpact

International School for Transparency

Vilnius, Lithuania

INTENSIVE ANTI-CORRUPTION TRAINING FOR FUTURE LEADERS offered by Transparency International

trainings

Google Civics

Google team focused on election information and civic features within Google products

Google

Mobile Phone Data for Optimizing Bus Routes in Korea

Translators Without Borders

Translators without Borders is a global community of over 100,000 members helping people get vital information and be heard, whatever language they speak.

The Pew Charitable Trusts

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.

Code for America gov listserv

Code for America is working towards a government by the people, for the people, that works in the 21st century. We are a 501(c)3 non-profit that helps residents and governments harness technology to solve community problems.

MuckRock's FOIA Slack for journalists

The MuckRock Slack channel is a free, collaborative discussion forum to discuss both the federal Freedom of Information Act as well as state public records laws.

Invisible Hands

New York City

Safe, free deliveries for NYC’s most at-risk community members facing COVID-19.

Open Tech Fund

2025 M Street Northwest, Downtown, Washington, DC 20036, USA

SUPPORTING INTERNET FREEDOM WORLDWIDE Without Fear of Repressive Censorship or Surveillance.

Luminate

36-38 Hatton Garden, London EC1N 8EB, UK

Luminate is a global philanthropic organisation focused on empowering people and institutions to work together to build just and fair societies.

Open Gov Hub

Washington, DC

Open Gov Hub is a dynamic meeting place that brings together many organizations, ideas, and resources to open up governments and empower citizens worldwide, with 45 international nonprofits and 300 people as our members.

Crisis Text Line

DoSomething.org, West 21st Street, New York, NY, USA

Crisis Text Line is the free, 24/7, confidential text message service for people in crisis. Text HOME to 741741 in the United States.

Civic Studios

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

The production house focuses on creating content in the genre of Civic Entertainment, i.e. films, TV, digital content, radio content, etc. which can be used to encourage civic participation with public institutions, and thus strengthen democracy.

culture

Challenge.gov

United States of America (the)

BrightFunds

publiccode.yml

Rome

A metadata description standard for public software

Collection of eIdentity and eSignature solutions

A resource from Joinup

Razoo

Alexandria, VA

Raise money online for your nonprofit or charity. Create an online fundraising page for your campaigns and events, or donate to any US registered nonprofit.

Programa de Derechos Humanos

Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico

El Programa de Derechos Humanos busca, desde su creación en el año de 1998, contribuir a la plena vigencia de los derechos humanos en México a través de la investigación con pertinencia social, la incidencia en el contexto político y social y la promoción de la justicia.