Tech Solutions Related To UN SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

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!

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.

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.

LiveStories drives outreach and better decisions using civic data—how communities live, learn, work, and play. With LiveStories, experts and non-experts alike can discover insights about health care, poverty, crime, and education in their communities, and publish those insights as interactive data stories.

HandUp lets you donate directly to homeless people and others in need in your neighborhood. We ensure that 100% of your donation goes toward basics like food, medical care, and housing through our nonprofit partners.

Create compassionate communities in support of collective progress... by telling the true stories of lives lived in poverty... through a platform where urgent needs that obstruct financial progress are posted and purchased. Here at The Giving Wall we invite people that don’t look alike, live alike, or love alike, to break down the walls between people and progress.

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.

You can use Empulse to give money to a homeless person. 99% of your purchase is routed to nearby nonprofits that support basic needs. Our aim is to reduce poverty and clean up cities by redirecting funds from the street cash economy toward structured solutions. We love helping non-profits get more funding, and expanding services for those who need it!

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

Fabriq is a social wellness company that creates apps and content designed to help you create a thriving social support system. In an era where reports of loneliness are being described as an epidemic and technology has evolved the way we communicate, emphasizing sheer quantity over quality – it’s more important than ever that we reevaluate how we connect with one another.