The Rust Foundation is an independent non-profit organization to steward the Rust programming language and ecosystem, with a unique focus on supporting the set of maintainers that govern and develop the project.
Online check-in style meetup, plus document-based format to support remote and asynchronous gatherings
With data infrastructure purpose-built to deliver audience-based insights, narrative and network analysis, and empirical validation of cultural strategy and content, we help strategists and creative practitioners identify story opportunities and challenges across a range of social issues.
The Social Science Research Council's Just Tech Fellowship supports and mobilizes diverse and cross-sector cohorts of researchers and practitioners to imagine and create more just, equitable, and representative technological futures.
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
This prototype tool allows you to see climate change forecasts for local areas, the expected impacts on health and wellbeing, and suggested adaptation priorities.
Supporting open source project leaders implementing best practices in sustainability, governance, and community health.
NYC's open participation platform (using CitizenLab) to get public feedback on government use of tech
An IRL game where you try to recruit 1,000 supporters to your campaign
With thanks to financial support from the National Endowment for Democracy, TICTeC has expanded from an annual conference into a year-round programme of activities and events: TICTeC Labs. The aim of TICTeC Labs is to discuss and tackle some of the biggest challenges facing the global civic tech/digital democracy sector. We want to grow the civic tech evidence base, address issues, and enhance the effectiveness and potential impact of civic tech projects.
Coordinate your universe of online actions. Create a pattern of regular engagement and watch your support skyrocket. Built on NationBuilder.
The IWMF works to unleash the power of female journalists to transform the global news media. Their fellows and grantees — both freelance and staff journalists — become experts in reporting in underserved regions, generate must-read stories, align with top outlets, and bring critical issues affecting women and others to light. The IWMF is the only organization that provides safety training, byline opportunities, and emergency support tailored to female journalists and photographers around the world.
The United Nations Foundation is a charitable organization headquartered in Washington, DC, that supports the United Nations and its activities.
Fractured Atlas help individual artists and arts organizations at every level of the cultural ecosystem, in every creative medium by providing fundraising tools, educational resources, and personalized support. That means artists can devote their effort to doing what they do best — making art that matters to them and the world.
Rhize is a global network of movement-building coaches who train and support grassroots movements in their local communities. Rhize provides coaches with strategies, skills and resources to partner with and train activists in their community, creating a force multiplying effect that helps movements sustain and grow their impact.
Making All Voices Count was a programme that supported the development and spread of innovative approaches to fostering accountable, responsive governance – many of them using tools and platforms based on mobile phone and digital technologies.
In 2010, Paweł Reszka, Wojciech Cieśla, Michał Majewski and Roman Daszczyński got together to support journalism in the Eastern Partnership countries and created Fundacja Reporterów – the Reporters Foundation, one of the first journalistic NGO’s in Poland. In 2010 they decided to help journalists from various post-soviet countries, from Ukraine to Azerbaijan. For the first few years they trained people, among those who joined the Foundation’s projects are leading journalists in their countries (Kristina Berdinskich, Anna Babiniec, Dymitr Gnap) who have worked on well-known publications, such as the award-winning Yanukovych Leaks project.
Since 2002, the Fund for Global Human Rights has raised and invested over $100 million into the work of community activists in more than 25 countries, providing these bold local leaders with the funding, tools and contacts they need to tackle some of the world’s greatest challenges. The Fund for Global Human Rights UK was established as a sister organisation in 2013 to build support for frontline human rights defenders in the United Kingdom and Europe.
APC is an international network of civil society organisations founded in 1990 dedicated to empowering and supporting people working for peace, human rights, development and protection of the environment, through the strategic use of information and communications technologies (ICTs). We work to build a world in which all people have easy, equal and affordable access to the creative potential of ICTs to improve their lives and create more democratic and egalitarian societies.
Aventura Investment Partners was founded in 2010, with the goal of establishing, investing in, and supporting companies that provide value chain services to smallholder growers in Africa. Aventura target companies that provide a range of services in the Input Supply, Production or Post-Harvest phases of the Value Chain.
MDIF is a non-profit mission-driven investment fund that supports primarily for-profit independent news outlets in countries with a history of media oppression.
International networking and support hub for those creating change in their communities through data and technology.
Good journalism is one of the hallmarks of civilized society. Independent and critical journalists are the guardians of democracy. With yearly awards, the European Press Prize aims to be the brand for quality journalism in Europe. By rewarding, facilitating and educating journalists, the European Press Prize highlights the importance of quality media and supports journalists in their endeavour to contribute to independent and critical journalism.
The London-based Open Data Institute (ODI) seeks to identify and demonstrate the value of open data for governments, businesses, and non-profits. It convenes experts to collaborate, incubate, and nurture new ideas that promote innovation. It fosters start-up businesses and trains the next generation of entrepreneurs working to advance open data. The ODI also supports research that advances best practices and develops industry standards.
The Highway Africa Conference is a project of Rhodes University (Makhanda, South Africa). The 24-year old event is supported by a variety of partners including Government, corporate South Africa and development agencies. The key focus is the impact of digital technologies (internet and mobile) on journalism and the media and, by extension, society.
A campaign by the Internet Archive to encourage support of internet freedom by showing a potential dystopian near-future
A combined tech and journalistic effort to map the Makoko informal settlement
Open Ownership (OO) believes that information on the true owners of companies is an essential part of a well-functioning economy and society.
The Change.org Foundation oversees two mutually supporting organizations: (1) Change.org Public Benefit Corporation (PBC), a wholly owned corporate subsidiary, and (2) Change.org Programs, the charitable activities of the Foundation.
The Beeck Center at Georgetown University conducted a survey of self-described Public Interest Tech workers
The U.S. Digital Corps is a two‑year government fellowship to launch your career at the intersection of technology and public service.
Start a new political campaign and begin crowdfunding in minutes. Support candidates and causes you agree with. Crowdpac is your home for impacting politics.
Bringing together the heads, hands and hearts of people using data and technology to create change in their communities.
Use Digital Marketplace (previously CloudStore) to find digital specialists, cloud-based services and technology to build digital services for the public sector, eg cloud technology, IT health checks, technical architects, web designers
Luminate is a global philanthropic organisation focused on empowering people and institutions to work together to build just and fair societies.
The California Public Technology Roundtable is a volunteer, informal group of civic techology leaders and practitioners coming together to support digital innovation at and across the state.
Our crowdsourced localization results in more accurate and timely translations, and unlocks access to the internet for users all over the world
A crowd-sourced web-based database of organizations, programs, and initiatives at the intersection of STEM and local government and communities.
We are an international organisation that helps activists, organisations, and other social change agents make the most of data and technology to increase their impact.
The Red Flags project aims to enhance the transparency of public procurements in Hungary and support the fight against corrupt procurements