Tech Solutions Directory
Below is a directory of impact tech solutions and services that address critical social and environmental challenges.
Search with the wheel above to see solutions by each of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals – UN SDGs, or search by keyword. Filter the results to find solutions with diverse leadership, operating as a for profit or nonprofit, or that are actively hiring. Explore our interactive reports to learn more about a UN SDG or impact area including nonprofit data, key insights and funding statistics. Contact us for custom data extracts to support your efforts.
COMMUNITYx connects likeminded changemakers with another, as well as around calls-to-action. You can create events and petitions all from within the App! Whether you care about Environmental Justice, Black Lives Matter, Universal Healthcare, Poverty, and more, COMMUNITYx is the place for you!
Learning Plans are built by teachers and reflect backward design. The Learning Plan Builder allows you to combine the Learning for Justice Social Justice Standards, Common Core-aligned literacy strategies and student performance tasks with windows-and-mirrors texts from the Student Text library. The result is a comprehensive, literacy-based plan that is both rigorous and relevant.
The Industrial Commons is rebuilding a diverse working class based on locally rooted wealth. The Industrial Commons founds and scales employee owned social enterprises and industrial cooperatives, and supports frontline workers to build a new southern working class that erases the inequities of generational poverty and builds an economy and future for all.
CloudFactory is a distributed workforce company for automating business processes involving large volumes of data entry, collection or processing. As a social enterprise, CloudFactory exists to connect 1 million people in developing countries to basic computer work while raising them up as leaders to address poverty in their own communities.
TechBridge has been providing technology platforms, products, and services to hundreds of nonprofits since 2000. Our mission is to break the cycle of generational poverty through providing innovative technology to other nonprofits, who work in hunger relief, homeless support, social justice, or workforce development, and therefore helping them serve their community more effectively.
IDinsight helps leaders combat poverty by designing, deploying and promoting evidence-generating tools. We tailor the best methodologies to partner needs and constraints to fuse evidence with action. We serve governments, NGOs, foundations and social businesses across Africa and Asia in all major program areas including health, education, agriculture, livelihoods, finance, energy and governance.
We have developed 80+ measures for an algorithm that quantifies a jurisdiction’s commitment to equity based on spending patterns across agencies. For K-12 schools, Equity Audit measures include evidence-based approaches that have been scientifically proven to break cycles of poverty like two generational models that upskill parents while providing academic, social and emotional support to kids.
GiveDirectly allows governments, foundations, and individual donors to provide direct cash transfers to people impacted by poverty and disasters. Using the latest technology at every step, we locate recipients, integrate them into electronic payments networks, and monitor transfers end-to-end. We charge the full cost of delivering the service and nothing more.
Greenstand is a U.S.-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization developing open-source technology to address climate change and alleviate poverty through digitizing environmental goods and services. Our Treetracker app verifies and tracks individual trees, thus creating transparency in the reforestation sphere. Organizations and donors can locate individual trees and trade their ecological impact.