SocialCoding4Good Information

SocialCoding4Good is the newest program from Benetech, a nonprofit tech company focused on developing technology for social impact. SocialCoding4Good drives awareness of humanitarian open source software projects, providing a crucial bridge between the technology, nonprofit, and corporate sectors. With SocialCoding4Good... • Talented individuals can apply their technical skills and good intent to deployable apps and platforms, while ideas they generate at events, fellowships, and hackathons can be developed into sustainable solutions. • Nonprofit organizations building humanitarian free and open source software can engage software professionals with the specific experience, skills, availability, and passion required for project growth and scale. • Effective cross-sector collaboration and knowledge sharing is facilitated among civic engagement, corporate, government, nonprofit, academic, and technology communities. SocialCoding4Good works closely with nonprofit organizations including Amara, Code for America, The Community for Open Source Microfinance, FrontlineSMS, The Guardian Project, and Wikimedia Foundation. It counts companies such as VMware, HP, and Google among its charter corporate partners, and is funded by generous support from Knight Foundation and Hewlett Foundation, among others.