Tech Solutions Related To UN SDG 1: No Poverty
UN Sustainable Development Goal 1: No Poverty, aims to eradicate extreme poverty and reduce the proportion of people living below the poverty line by at least half. Learn more about Poverty in the US in our interactive report. Contact us for insights related to the 77,883 US organizations addressing UN SDG 1.
Discover tech solutions related to homelessness, housing insecurity, and other key areas of poverty alleviation below.
People experiencing homelessness rely on the internet to apply for housing and benefits, schedule appointments with doctors and case managers, search for jobs, and stay in touch with family and friends. It is a lifeline for getting back on your feet. ShelterConnect works with internet service providers to offer free wifi in shelters and transitional housing facilities.
Forage provides payments infrastructure for government social programs (Stripe for government-funded payments). Government distributes trillions of dollars of social benefit programs through specialized payment networks every year. We want to give the internet access to that spend through a unified API.
MEANS was started with the belief it should be easy for those with excess food to share it with those in need. It didn’t take long to find people who agreed – everyone from Starbucks to The Washington Post. We’re now in 48 states and counting, helping divert food from the trash to local emergency feeding services with the ease and speed of the internet.
Hello Doctor lets you talk to a Doctor on your phone. It’s a whole new way to manage your health – using the one thing you always have with you, your phone. Skip the waiting rooms, forget the unnecessary bills, and stop scaring yourself into oblivion with internet searches. All you have to do is download the app, and you can talk to a qualified medical doctor, right from your mobile phone.