Building community power through journalism. Newsrooms created by, with and for everyone

• Media
• Journalism
• Investigative journalism tech

Tech tips for nonprofit peeps. Do well while doing good.

• Nonprofit tech
• News and blogs

If you're new to the Good Tech Fest community, we work to utilize data and technology for social impact. Unlike other nonprofit or social sector technology conferences, we are very much focused on program and field technologies. Basically, how can we use technology to further our mission?

• Conferences

Current is Chicago’s water innovation hub.

• Clean water and sanitation

• Smart Cities and sensors

Though successive generations of digital technology have become increasingly powerful in the past twenty years, digital democracy has yet to realize its potential for deliberative transformation.

• Digital Public Infrastructure

People Powered is a global hub for participatory democracy - the direct participation of community members in making the policy decisions that affect their lives.

• Engagement tech
• Civic tech catalogs
• Participatory budgeting

Supporting civil society organizations in Latin America

• Nonprofit tech

VoteAmerica builds technology to simplify political engagement, increase voter turnout, and strengthen American democracy for all eligible voters.

• US Election 2020

• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech
• Voter registration

Terreform ONE is a nonprofit architecture and urban design research group. We endeavor to combat the extinction of planetary species through pioneering acts of design.

• buildings
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Design

We are a digital agency focused on innovative work for social good.

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Data science for social good

Visualize your impact, track data trends, and share the stories that matter most.

• human rights

• Evaluate impact

The CUNY Mapping Service at CUR engages with foundations, government agencies, businesses, nonprofits, and other CUNY researchers to use spatial information and analysis techniques to develop and execute applied research projects.

• gerrymandering

• Data visualization
• Mapping

The public-private initiative supports Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC), and women-led small businesses, nonprofits, cooperatives, and technology startups that are building a more equitable and sustainable future for New York City.

• Govtech
• Fellowships

Build your virtual foundation. Support the causes you care about.

• The People
• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

We, the workers of Code for America, are proud to announce that we are unionizing.

• labor

• Civic tech unions

We're a nonprofit fundraising platform for campaigns and organizations and the small-dollar donors who support them

• The People
• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

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

GovSight is a 501(c)(3) US nonprofit that is building a comprehensive civic information platform to help make citizenship simplified for all.

• local

• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Civic literacy

Games and gamification for local engagement

• Games and gamification

Fundraising pages targeted at universities, nonprofits, and civil society orgs

• Fundraising tools

Operational Excellence in Government is led by Stephen Goldsmith, Director of the Innovations in American Government Awards program and Professor at Harvard Kennedy School. The project identifies operational efficiency themes across state and local governments, and is supported by the Laura and John Arnold Foundation and conducted in partnership with United States Common Sense, a nonpartisan nonprofit policy group dedicated to opening government data and resources to the public.

• Govtech

New Cities is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to improving life in cities, and is focused on people, places and policies. We bring together a global network of public and private sector leaders and Urban Tech innovators to foster results-oriented collaboration. We also produce actionable research that can be implemented by decision-makers across sectors.

IDEO.org is a nonprofit design studio. We design products and services alongside organizations that are committed to creating a more just and inclusive world.

• Social impact design firms
• Design

Community Initiatives is a dedicated fiscal sponsor whose sole purpose is to provide best-in-class infrastructure for nonprofit leaders.

• Build something
• Nonprofit tech

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.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs

Donation service that holds your funds in an interest-earning FDIC-insured account until you donate them, at which point the receiving nonprofit gets 100% of your donation.

• Fundraising tools
• Fintech for good

We work with government agencies, nonprofits, and communities to shape a social opportunity system that supports and propels the 100 million economically insecure people in the US

• Access social benefits

A 501(c)3 nonprofit that works with residents, organizations, and municipalities to help improve the quality of life of all people in communities. We do this through engagement, education, connection and design.

• Design

The Bridgespan Group is a global nonprofit that strives to make the world more equitable and just. Since 2000, we have had the privilege of advising and collaborating with many of the world’s most extraordinary social change leaders including philanthropists, nonprofit and NGO leaders, and impact investors.

Outride.rs is a website delivering a range of international journalism.

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms

InternetLab is an independent research center that aims to foster academic debate around issues involving law and technology, especially internet policy. Its goal is to conduct interdisciplinary impactful research and promote dialogue among academics, professionals and policymakers. They follow an entrepreneurial nonprofit model, which embraces a pursuit of producing scholarly research in the manner and spirit of an academic think tank. As a nexus of expertise in technology, public policy and social sciences, the research agenda covers a wide range of topics, including privacy, freedom of speech, gender and technology.

The award-winning Center for Public Integrity is one of the oldest and largest non-profit news organisations in the United States.

• Media
• Journalism
• Nonprofit newsrooms

A campaign to convince US Congress to adequately fund election administration

• Voting and elections
• Election administration

Finally. A platform made for Local Progressive Campaigns

• Organize campaigns
• Manage volunteers
• Canvassing

Inclusive User Experience Research, Design, and Testing

• The People
• Build something
• User research

Reach the right people at the right time with our Political Phone Banking, Robocalls, Peer to peer texting, and Text Broadcasting Software. CallHub is available in 200+ countries.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

Taproot Foundation connects nonprofits and other social change organizations with skilled volunteers through pro bono service.

• The People
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out

WITNESS is an international nonprofit organization that trains and supports people using video in their fight for human rights.

• human rights

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Community is about trust and sharing. Open Collective lets you manage your finances so everyone can see where money comes from and where it goes. Collect and spend money transparently.

• The People
• Get funding
• Nonprofit tech

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Nonprofit tech

Data Science for Social Good Fellowship is a University of Chicago summer program for aspiring data scientists to work on data mining, machine learning, big data, and data science projects with social impact. Working closely with governments and nonprofits, fellows take on real-world problems in education, health, energy, public safety, transportation, economic development, international development, and more. For three months in Chicago they learn, hone, and apply their data science, AI,analytical, and coding skills, collaborate in a fast-paced atmosphere, and learn from mentors coming from industry and academia.

• The People
• Data science for social good
• Fellowships

Nonprofit artificial intelligence firm called WattTime is going to use satellite imagery to precisely track the air pollution (including carbon emissions) coming out of every single power plant in the world, in real time. And it’s going to make the data public.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Satellites

A nonprofit with a worldwide mission to promote computer user freedom. We defend the rights of all software users.

• Predecessors

Self-written emails for you to send to your donors.

• The Tech
• The People
• Get funding

Case management software for governments and nonprofits

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Case management

The Siragusa Family Foundation is a private foundation that is committed to sustaining and developing Chicago’s extraordinary nonprofit resources.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Travel to the right donors, at the right time.

• The Tech
• The People
• Get funding

This weekly digest email helps you more efficiently manage your portfolio so you prioritize the right donors at the right time and raise more

• The Tech
• The People
• Get funding

Public Agenda is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that helps build a democracy that works for everyone and fuels progress on critical issues.

• Civic and social impact companies

Non-profit organization specialized in helping other organizations through the implementation of innovative technological developments.

• The People
• Help out
• Nonprofit tech