Building the Climate Tech Handbook with DemocracyLab "The world is realizing that we can't punt the climate crisis down the road like we used to. We can no longer hope that someone else is going to solve
Education From music teacher to product designer - how DemocracyLab enabled Michael's journey In September 2022, Michael Hustedde, a professional violinist and former music teacher, graduated from Career Foundry’s User Experience Design boot camp, hoping to transition to product design. Unfortunately, as
Civic Tech America’s First Searchable State Legislative Session The Council Data Project was deployed to make Montana's state legislative session more transparent and accessible. Even with the advancements in technology that have allowed ordinary people to stay up
Earth-a-thon Experiences Code for All & DemocracyLab convened a tech-for-good hackathon on Earth Day to celebrate our planet and build enthusiasm for grassroots change-making.
Hackathon Global Collaboration at Hacky New Year At Hacky New Year 2023 we explored new partnerships and models of collaboration to convene what we believe was the world’s first public, hybrid, multi-location, tech-for-good hackathon.
Community Engagement Making Citizen’s Issues Accessible The Council Data Project was deployed in Missoula, Montana to provide a new and innovative way to for citizens to engage with City government.
Civic Tech A Better Tech-a-thon: ground-breaking collaboration on Public Interest Technology Students and faculty from leading universities collaborated with tech professionals to contribute to 17 tech-for-good projects at A Better Tech-a-thon.
Career Navigating Career Changes with Chocolate Milk Diplomacy Searching for a job or navigating a career change can feel ambiguous and overwhelming. Chocolate Milk Diplomacy and DemocracyLab have teamed up to create a four-part 50-minute video course to help you get started.
Civic Engagement Building a Database to End School Violence Gun violence in schools is a public health issue that plagues our country. The Athena project is using social science and big data to create an app to power violence prevention programs in our schools.
Civic Engagement Volunteers make the 2021 Summer Create-a-thon a Success At this year's Create-a-thon ten projects came together with over 60 volunteers to make progress building tech-for-good. Both volunteers and project leaders enjoyed the event, found it rewarding, and made progress towards the goals they set.
DemocracyLab Optimizing Municipal Infrastructure with Smart City Planning Smart City Planning is creating a transparent, open source platform that puts the power to make data-driven decisions back into the hands of the community.
Education Supporting Diversity in the Health Sciences There’s a lack of diversity in the American healthcare field. Northwest Health Career Path (NWHCP) believes a healthcare workforce should reflect its community and works to support diversity in healthcare.
Volunteer DemocracyLab: Globally Inclusive In such unpredictable, virtual-first times, it is not a bad idea for civic organizations to expand their circle with international volunteerism. The team at DemocracyLab takes diversity and inclusion to heart, and it shows in the incredible work we all accomplish together.
data How Are Social & Environmental Organizations Growing with Data? by Rhia June As data analysis has become a more mainstream practice over the years, it has spawned an industry unto itself. University programs and online learning institutions alike have
Community WGU Helps Community College Students Hack for the Future WGU is reshaping education with its online performance-based approach. Their education model prepares students for the evolving demands of tech industries.
Virtual Hackathon 2nd Virtual St. Hack-trick’s Day Accelerates Civic Innovation Now a full year into virtual hackathons, we can see that the pandemic accelerated us in the direction we wanted to go, but weren’t quite brave enough to leap toward - events with no geographic bounds.
Civic Tech Undebates: Making Democracy More Accessible Undebates is a way for voters to quickly get to know candidates and for candidates to gain exposure to voters – for free! It can be deployed for elections all across the country.
Tech For Good iSeaTree Nurtures Community Scientists iSeaTree used skilled volunteers from DemocracyLab to build an app that engages a community of data-informed youth in protecting trees.
Tech For Good How Amazon Hacked for Good Amazon's Self Service Performance Ads team strengthened their culture and boosted employee enthusiasm through a virtual tech-for-good hackathon.
Tech For Good The Mayo App - Creating Purposeful, Supportive, In-Person relationships beyond Screens Learn now about the app helping people fight isolation. Want someone to sing to you from their balcony? You want Mayo.
Tech For Good Every Voice Engaged: Transforming Lives, Communities, Government with Games, Software, and Collaboration Every Voice Engaged helps governments to meet citizens’ needs and help citizens engage with their Government.
Record Sponge Record Sponge Cleans Records, Changes Lives Record Sponge provides Oregon citizens with arrest records fast and free eligibility analysis that can lead to record expungements.
Tech For Good Grow your Tech for Good Project Teams with the "Groups" Feature on DemocracyLab! The “Groups” feature lists the specific projects associated with a Tech for Good organization on a branded landing page that is easy to update and maintain. DemocracyLab makes it easy for volunteers to dig deep into a project before reaching out to project leaders to start a conversation.
National Day of Civic Hacking 2020 National Day of Civic Hacking – NW Project Workday The National Day of Civic Hacking brought together civic leaders, public servants, designers, coders and engaged citizens to partner with local governments and community groups to tackle some of our toughest challenges.
Learn More What does volunteering as a Software Engineer look like? Volunteer Software Engineers build, design, and deploy projects through DemocracyLab’s platform
