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X4impact is an online hub to find social challenges, existing tech solutions for nonprofits, and funding sourcesto collaborate in the creation of social innovation. It uses the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) as a framework to aggregate challenges, ideas, solutions, over $2 Trillion in funds, and 80 million pieces of aggregated knowledge from trusted sources, organized under a Domain-Specific Knowledge Base. You can use X4impact anonymously, or you can access advanced features by signing in, and it is free. sign-in now * Follow Challenges or Solutions and track them in your private dashboard * Contact Solution Providers to learn more or to schedule a demo * Vote for a Challenge or idea that your organization faces. It will inform the funding of those ideas * Vote for content that you think is clear and complete get started * Click on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDG) colorful wheel at the top to start exploring under one UN SDG * Click on search all to browse or search under all UN SDGs * You can also start with a search query, for example, "Homelessness" explore * Once you click on the wheel or conduct a search, explore different types of content under each tab: challenges | solutions | resources | funding | money flow * Access AI-powered search from reputable sources in the resources tab * Evaluate the total market size in the money flow tab do something * Click on any content to see details * Selected members of academia, government, and experts have access to private Wiki to edit and collaborate * Get in contact with a Solution provider and schedule a demo * Apply to Open Grants in the funding tab * Explore premium tools, and more! CHALLENGE Economic Mobility for Black and Hispanic Communities SOLUTION Footprint Plant-Based Compostable Products CHALLENGE Negative Effects Of Investing Apps In Vulnerable Populations SOLUTION Suvotek Sound And Voice Technologies For Better Human Connections CHALLENGE Improving the 211 Phone Service System for Homeless Individuals SOLUTION Hubstream Intelligence – Child Exploitation Case Management Software CHALLENGE Improving Health And Wellbeing With Building Energy Management SOLUTION Apricot 360 – Outcome Measurement Solutions for Nonprofits SOLUTION VidaNyx Digital Evidence Management for Child Advocacy Centers SOLUTION Docugami – Document Management to Improve NPO Operations start exploring, or sign-in to have free access to advanced features. sign-in now OUR DATA Learn more about our data sources and the AI-powered Knowledge Graph behind it TECH4PI Explore the core principles of Technology for the Public Interest and our Certification Badge PARTNER WITH US Partner with us and contribute to sparking technology social innovation at scale LIST A SOLUTION List your Service or Solution and connect with nonprofits that are changing the world for good. * Where is the money to fund social-impact solutions? * What are the urgent social challenges to address? * Which ideas to address social issues resonate with operating NGOs? * If we build a tech solution, will it be an economically viable venture? * What tech solutions are my peer NGOs using? {This platform is exactly what I’ve been looking for — I can take this to the UN and the global community in a big way! This is exciting for me – let’s take action and create solutions.Fernando Ramirez Founder, Bridges 2030 {What you’re aiming to do sits right beside us. This is a fantastic opportunity to get the sector moving but also for us to work together and build solutions for everyone to succeed even faster.Alan Moody CEO, M-Hance {If you're looking to drive social impact, you are operating within the limits of your own network. X4Impact creates the opportunity to bridge that connectivity at a level of scale that doesn't exist today.Sara Boyd CEO, VidaNyx – Digital Evidence Management {What we wanna see is a world in which people with intellectual disabilities are included all the time, everywhere, and when we have the ability to use technology to spread the word, we go much, much further.Dr. Alicia Bazzano Chief Health Officer, Special Olympics International {There is no platform today that aggregates this critical information, the solution needs, the catalogue of existing solutions and funding, so that innovators can shorten the amount of time it takes to get new innovation to the nonprofits that need it.Justin Spelhaug Global Head, Tech for Social Impact, Microsoft {If you have a challenge, let’s solve it, and if you have an idea, let’s test it. Join our community of change makers, and let’s solve for good.Shelly Kurtz Co-founder, X4Impact Inc. {The beauty of the X4Impact platform is really democratizing access to information, to every innovator, every nonprofit, every grantor, so that they can act on these problems.Justin Spelhaug Global Head, Tech for Social Impact, Microsoft {Measure your success as a company not only based on return on investment but also on return of social impact.Jeff Raikes Philanthropist, Educator, Tech Leader, Investor, Co-Founder, Raikes Foundation, Chair at Stanford University {Wow – visuals are very powerful and add value to funders and grantees. With your visualizations, folks can get immediate trend data in a snapshot compared to hours digging through annual IRS forms 990s for not near the impact!Kori Dunaway Grants Administrator, Raikes Foundation {We have to embrace the social sector needs at the platform level, unleash the capital and the resources, and at the same time work with academia, so that we're preparing that next generation of young technologists to embrace technology for public interest.Jeff Raikes Philanthropist, Educator, Tech Leader, Investor, Co-Founder, Raikes Foundation, Chair at Stanford University