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

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.

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.

Made for food banks by a food bank. With Fenly, food banks, food pantries, and other anti-hunger nonprofits are able to raise funds with the help of people like you! By donating, setting up a fundraiser, or creating a virtual food drive, you will be able to contribute to the important mission of making sure no one goes hungry in our communities.

Food4All is on a mission to streamline the local food supply chain, creating healthy sustainable communities. Food4All's technology enables small to mid scale food producers to sell direct through different channels, including online direct to consumer, online direct to wholesale and in person through an integrated mobile point of sale system.

Gardenio aims to be the path for the next generation of lifelong gardeners. We’re a mission driven company striving for a healthier, more sustainable world where anyone has access to the resources they need to grow their own food. We believe in food justice, the ability for communities to organize and grow their own food in an ethical way that supports workers and the environment.

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.

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.