Tech Solutions Related To UN SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

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.

Bitwise Industries connects humans from marginalized communities and systemic poverty to skills and resources needed to access opportunities in the tech industry. By leveraging public-private partnerships, Bitwise provides paid apprenticeships to students to learn tech skills, connects them to meaningful tech opportunities, and builds vibrant buildings in underestimated cities to house their work.

Careers for Social Impact provides career coaching for mission-driven job seekers and recruitment services for growing social sector organizations.

ComGo is a decentralized blockchain ecosystem for philanthropy, volunteering, social investment, CSR and fair trade. Individuals and organizations can manage, trace and measure their social activity on ComGo platform. It works as a pioneering social network certifying and giving visibility to the social reputation of contributing individuals and public and private organizations.

Yunit is an online platform which helps users to save money with their friends. Focusing particularly on minority and migrant communities using accountability features like peer voting and social incentives that bring collaborative savings into mainstream U.S. culture.

Founded as a student initiative in 2020, Activism Always uplifts communities through social media insights. Responding to a lack of data management talent in the social impact and nonprofit sectors, Activism Always provides powerful social media listening technology for organizations to tap into their data - no technical experience needed.

Jive Software, Inc. offers social business software products and services. The Company provides a combination of community, collaboration, and social networking software, as well as social media monitoring platforms. Jive Software serves customers in the United States.

MovingWorlds is a social enterprise that helps individuals scale world-changing ideas, social enterprises access the skills to overcome any challenge, and operate professional development programs to help people find more purpose in their work and accelerate their careers. We also partner with strategic corporations, impact investors, accelerators, and foundations to design high-impact programs.

Empactivo provides employee interaction software solutions for employee recognition, voice listening (by pulse surveys, HR Analytics), appreciation and social rewarding.

Change Machine’s social enterprise and financial coaching platform is a scalable solution for social service organizations and public agencies to embed effective financial coaching practices into their work with individuals and contribute to lasting economic change.