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.
AmpleHarvest.org permanently ends hunger and the waste of locally grown fresh food. Working in 4,200 communities in all 50 states, it uses public awareness and technology to enable America's 62 million home/community gardeners to donate their surplus harvest to one of 8,000 food pantries for the rest of their gardening life. This provides freshly harvested food to food-insecure families.
LifeSpots transforms how cities provide resources to their residents making it infinitely more effective and less wasteful. Join the global network of government and nonprofit public and community service providers that are working to help their communities find the services they need, when and where they need them. Our apps empower the public by putting life support in the palm of their hands.
Ocean Bottle is working to rid the ocean of plastic and improve social mobility at the same time. With the sale of every Ocean Bottle 11.4kg of plastic is collected in impoverished coastal communities. Plastic collectors can exchange plastic waste for money or credit via blockchain technology to spend on tuition, tech goods, health care and micro-finance.
Food rescue organizations play an important role in feeding the hungry and reducing food waste by rescuing, gleaning, transporting, preparing and distributing food to people and communities in need. This directory of organizations across the US serves as a resource for individuals and groups to find food recovery organizations to which they can donate excess food, or support in other ways.
OLIO connects neighbours with each other and with local businesses so surplus food can be shared, not thrown away. This could be food nearing its sell-by date in local stores, spare home-grown vegetables, bread from your baker, or the groceries in your fridge when you go away. For your convenience, OLIO can also be used for non-food household items too.
Rheaply has created a new category for resource management called Asset Exchange Manager (AxM). AxM unlocks the value of underutilized assets by increasing discoverability and transparency of resources. Sharing and collaboration form just one part of the larger circular economy discussion, but it’s an area where organizations can make an immediate impact to reduce GHG emissions.
KCare aims to simplify the management of the complex processes behind foster care and social work through our powerful, industry-leading software, extendedReach. We are experts in the field who increase efficiency and accuracy for each individual and agency using our system.