Research, Legal Advocacy, & Policy
Focused on providing shared research for social impact, legal advocacy, or educating elected officials for positive impact
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Research, Legal Advocacy, & Policy Organizations
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
We equip the public, policy makers, and scientists with the information needed to demand, recognize, and support public policies that reduce manmade existential threats such as nuclear war, climate change, and disruptive technologies.
Climate Change
Global Peace & Safety
Partners & Advocates
Public Infrastructure
Chicago, IL, USA
AAPI Civic Engagement Fund
The AAPI Civic Engagement Fund believes that Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders must be an integral part of strengthening America’s democracy, improving the quality of life for all, and creating vibrant multiracial communities.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Human Rights & Equality
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Scenic Hudson, Inc.
Scenic Hudson is an environmental advocacy group and land trust in New York State's Hudson Valley.
Environment
Partners & Advocates
Public Infrastructure
Poughkeepsie, NY, USA
The Early Learning Lab
The Early Learning Lab works to ensure children’s healthy development and kindergarten readiness. We identify and spread smart innovations and technology solutions that equip parents, caregivers, and teachers with better ways to help children from birth to age 5, when it matters most.
Education
Partners & Advocates
Oakland, CA, USA
Consumer Reports
2 open tech
roles
Consumer Reports is an independent, nonprofit member organization that works side by side with consumers for truth, transparency, and fairness in the marketplace.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Yonkers, NY, USA
Washington D.C., DC, USA
San Francisco, CA, USA
Institute for Market Transformation
The Institute for Market Transformation (IMT) is a nonprofit organization that promotes energy efficiency in buildings.
Public Infrastructure
Partners & Advocates
Climate Change
Clean Energy
Washington, DC, USA
PATH
At PATH, we are a global team of innovators working to accelerate health equity so all people and communities can thrive. We advise and partner with public institutions, businesses, grassroots groups, and investors to solve the world’s most pressing health challenges.
Health & Well-Being
Partners & Advocates
Seattle, WA, USA
San Francisco, CA, USA
Washington, DC, USA
Creative
Creative is an international development organization dedicated to supporting people around the world to realize the positive change they seek.
Global Peace & Safety
Partners & Advocates
Washington D.C., DC, USA
Candid
Candid connects people who want to change the world to the resources they need to do it.
Partners & Advocates
Williamsburg, VA
New York, NY
Cleveland, OH
Atlanta, GA
Kite Pharma
Kite, a Gilead company, is dedicated to achieving one of the most ambitious goals of 21st century medicine: curing cancer. This mission is at the heart of everything we do, from early research to product development.
Health & Well-Being
Partners & Advocates
Santa Monica, CA, USA
El Segundo, CA, USA
American Efficient
American Efficient partners with manufacturers, retailers, contractors, developers, installers, electric utilities and grid operators to develop and manage portfolios of energy efficiency resources.
Clean Energy
Partners & Advocates
Durham, NC, USA
Schmidt Futures
Schmidt Futures is a philanthropic initiative that seeks to improve societal outcomes through the thoughtful development of emerging science and technologies that can benefit humanity.
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY, USA
Texas Water Development Board
State Agency
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Environment
Partners & Advocates
Austin, TX
Goalbook
We empower educators to transform instruction so that ALL students succeed.
Education
Partners & Advocates
San Mateo, CA, USA
National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Society uses the power of science, exploration, education, and storytelling to illuminate and protect the wonder of our world.
Education
Environment
Partners & Advocates
Washington, DC, USA
NYC Office of Technology and Innovation
We see technology as a tool for realizing Mayor de Blasio’s vision of making New York City the fairest big city in America. Technology can deliver inclusiveness, accessibility, and economic opportunity. We work to make this happen.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Public Infrastructure
New York, NY, USA
Benetech
We believe that equitable access to education is a human right. Our technology and services break down systemic barriers and empower all learners regardless of ability.
Education
Human Rights & Equality
Partners & Advocates
Health & Well-Being
Palo Alto, CA
Vibrant Emotional Health
Connecting individuals and families with emotional support and care when, where, and how they need it.
Health & Well-Being
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY
Fresh Lifelines for Youth
Fresh Lifelines for Youth is an award-winning nonprofit working to break the cycle of juvenile violence, crime, and incarceration. We give young people a chance to take their lives in a whole new direction.
Human Rights & Equality
Partners & Advocates
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Milpitas, CA, USA
Redwood City, CA, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Care
CARE works around the globe to save lives, defeat poverty and achieve social justice.
Poverty Alleviation & Economic Development
Global Peace & Safety
Human Rights & Equality
Partners & Advocates
Atlanta, GA, USA
Innovation Law Lab
We envision a world where every case that should win, does win, every time, everywhere.
Human Rights & Equality
Partners & Advocates
Global Peace & Safety
Portland, OR, USA
Ripple Neuro
Ripple creates neural interface and medical devices to advance research and improve the lives of under served patient populations through thoughtful application of technology and design.
Health & Well-Being
Partners & Advocates
Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Thorn
3 open tech
roles
We build technology to defend children from sexual abuse.
Human Rights & Equality
Partners & Advocates
Remote
Manhattan Beach, CA, USA
The American Institute of Chemical Engineers
AIChE is a professional society of more than 60,000 chemical engineers in 110 countries. Its members work in corporations, universities and government, using their knowledge of chemical and biological processes to develop safe and useful products for the benefit of society.
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY, USA
New York, NY, USA
The Social Institute
The Social Institute (TSI) provides a gamified, online learning platform that empowers students to navigate their social world — social media and technology — to fuel their health, happiness, and future success. By reinforcing character strengths like empathy, integrity, and teamwork and by showcasing their role models (from student leaders to U.S. Olympians), we use a relevant, positive approach to inspire students to make positive, high-character choices.
Education
Public Infrastructure
Partners & Advocates
Durham, NC, USA
Voting Rights Lab
The Voting Rights Lab is a campaign hub designed to supercharge the fight against voter suppression and transform our voting systems. In partnership with organizations across the country, we build winning state legislative and ballot initiative campaigns to secure, protect, and defend the voting rights of all Americans.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Human Rights & Equality
Partners & Advocates
Washington, DC, USA
Center for UN Reform Education
The Center for UN Reform Education is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit policy research organization. Founded in 1978, the mission of the Center is to encourage, generate and sustain discussion of various specific proposals to reform and restructure the United Nations through its website; its monographs, papers and books; and its fora and conferences.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Education
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY, USA
American Medical Association
The AMA promotes the art and science of medicine and the betterment of public health.
Health & Well-Being
Partners & Advocates
Chicago, IL, USA
Seattle Children's Hospital
Together, we deliver superior patient care, advance new discoveries and treatments through pediatric research and serve as the pediatric and adolescent academic medical center for Washington, Alaska, Montana and Idaho – the largest region of any children’s hospital in the country.
Health & Well-Being
Partners & Advocates
Seattle, WA, USA
Aspen Institute
The Aspen Institute is a nonpartisan forum for values-based leadership and the exchange of ideas.
Partners & Advocates
Washington D.C., DC, USA
Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world. Founded in 1990, EFF champions user privacy, free expression, and innovation through impact litigation, policy analysis, grassroots activism, and technology development. We work to ensure that rights and freedoms are enhanced and protected as our use of technology grows.
Public Infrastructure
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
San Francisco, CA, USA
Berkman Klein Center
The Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University was founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development
Partners & Advocates
Education
Public Infrastructure
Cambridge, MA, USA
Arnold Ventures
Arnold Ventures is a philanthropy dedicated to tackling some of the most pressing problems in the United States.
Partners & Advocates
Washington, DC
New York, NY
Houston, TX
Tech Equity Collaborative
The TechEquity Collaborative advocates for a tech-driven economy in the Bay Area that works for everyone. We are a member-driven organization made up of individuals and companies that share our values.
Partners & Advocates
Poverty Alleviation & Economic Development
Oakland, CA, USA
RepresentUs
RepresentUs is the nation’s leading right-left anti-corruption organization. We bring together conservatives, progressives, and everyone in between to secure crucial victories that are defending our Republic and fixing America’s corrupt political system.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Northampton, MA, USA
San Francisco, CA, USA
Washington D.C., DC, USA
New York, NY, USA
3x3
We work across sectors and understand varied issue areas and contexts. Our diverse team uses their backgrounds in interdisciplinary design, anthropology, urban planning, and communications to address organizational challenges and larger civic issues.
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY, USA
Jupiter, FL, USA
Tesseract Health
The eye is the window into the body. Tesseract is building a portable, affordable device for monitoring and preventing disease.
Health & Well-Being
Partners & Advocates
San Francisco, CA, USA
Guilford, CT, USA
New York, NY, USA
IFF
IFF is a mission-driven lender, real estate consultant, and developer that helps communities thrive by creating opportunities for low-income communities and people with disabilities. Key to our success has been a deep sense of purpose, a broad perspective, and a relentless focus on achieving positive results. Social return can coincide with financial return.
Partners & Advocates
Chicago, IL, USA
Indianapolis, IN, USA
Detroit, MI, USA
Kansas City, MO, USA
St. Louis, MO, USA
Columbus, OH, USA
Milwaukee, WI, USA
Wilder Foundation
The mission of the Amherst H. Wilder Foundation is to promote the social welfare of persons resident or located in the greater Saint Paul metropolitan area by all appropriate means.
Partners & Advocates
Education
Poverty Alleviation & Economic Development
Health & Well-Being
Saint Paul, MN, USA
MacArthur Foundation
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation supports creative people, effective institutions, and influential networks building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world.
Partners & Advocates
Chicago, IL, USA
Building Decarbonization Coalition
The Building Decarbonization Coalition unites building industry stakeholders with energy providers, environmental organizations and local governments to help electrify California's homes and workspaces with clean energy.
Clean Energy
Partners & Advocates
Climate Change
Petaluma, CA, USA
Democracy at Work Institute
The Democracy at Work Institute was created by the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives (USFWC) to ensure that worker cooperative development in economically and socially marginalized communities is adequately supported, effective, and strategically directed.
Poverty Alleviation & Economic Development
Human Rights & Equality
Partners & Advocates
Oakland, CA, USA
Southwest Autism Research & Resource Center (SARRC)
Established in 1997, Southwest Autism Research & Resource Center (SARRC) is an internationally recognized nonprofit that conducts innovative research, provides evidence-based practices, disseminates effective training and builds inclusive communities for individuals with autism and their families.
Health & Well-Being
Partners & Advocates
Phoenix, AZ, USA
First Look Media
We embrace the agents of change – the journalists who hold the powerful accountable, the storytellers that shape culture and the voices that reflect who we really are. Our creators not only inspire us – they drive us, which is why we’re on a mission to empower the most ambitious, independent voices in journalism, art and entertainment.
Public Infrastructure
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY, USA
Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Improving health and healthcare worldwide
Health & Well-Being
Partners & Advocates
Boston, MA, USA
Wikimedia Foundation
6 open tech
roles
The non-profit Wikimedia Foundation provides the essential infrastructure for free knowledge. We host Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world, as well as many other vital community projects. We welcome anyone who shares our vision to join us in collecting and sharing knowledge that fully represents human diversity.
Education
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Public Infrastructure
San Francisco, CA, USA
Washington, DC, USA
Planet Reimagined
Creating engagement around sustainability through media, research, and incentive based initiatives
Climate Change
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY
New York Legal Association Group
Founded in 1990, NYLAG is a leading civil legal services organization combatting economic, racial, and social injustice by advocating for people experiencing poverty or in crisis.
Partners & Advocates
Poverty Alleviation & Economic Development
Public Service & Civic Engagement
New York, NY, USA
John Snow, Inc.
John Snow, Inc., and the nonprofit JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc., are public health management consulting and research organizations dedicated to improving the health of individuals and communities in the US and around the globe.
Health & Well-Being
Partners & Advocates
Boston, MA, USA
Texas Children's Hospital
For 13 years in a row, U.S. News & World Report has recognized us as one of the best children's hospitals in the Nation and #1 in Texas.
Health & Well-Being
Partners & Advocates
Houston, TX, USA
Syapse
Syapse partners with health systems, life sciences companies, and regulators to deliver clinical, programmatic, and research insights from the world’s largest network of health systems focused on precision medicine.
Health & Well-Being
Partners & Advocates
San Francisco, CA, USA
Calico Life Sciences
2 open tech
roles
Calico is a research and development company whose mission is to harness advanced technologies to increase our understanding of the biology that controls lifespan. We will use that knowledge to devise interventions that enable people to lead longer and healthier lives. Executing on this mission will require an unprecedented level of interdisciplinary effort and a long-term focus for which funding is already in place.
Health & Well-Being
Partners & Advocates
South San Francisco, CA, USA
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
The Physicians Committee is dedicated to saving and improving human and animal lives through plant-based diets and ethical and effective scientific research.
Health & Well-Being
Partners & Advocates
Washington, DC, USA
Next Street
Next Street is a mission driven firm that mobilizes capital, customers, and capabilities to small businesses and entrepreneurs that have been systemically held back. We work with foundations, government, corporations, and CDFIs for a better future for small business. Next Street works in three ways: advisory services, capital enablement, and program delivery. Our advisory practice drives seismic change through small business ecosystem assessments, strategies, and coordination. Our capital practice connects impact-oriented investors with highly impactful investment opportunities for small businesses and communities across the US. Our programs team equips entrepreneurs and small business owners with the advice, knowledge and resources they need to survive and thrive. Our work is anchored in the belief that small businesses are the are drivers of economic and community development and the engines of inclusive growth. We believe that when we elevate small businesses, we help individuals
Poverty Alleviation & Economic Development
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY, USA
National Network for Safe Commnities
The National Network for Safe Communities (NNSC), an internationally recognized action research center at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, provides proven, evidence-based, life-saving violence reduction strategies to dozens of communities across America and beyond. The NNSC’s mission is to create safer communities.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Human Rights & Equality
Global Peace & Safety
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY, USA
CATT Lab
The Center for Advanced Transportation Technology Laboratory at the University of Maryland was originally established in 2002 as an academic applied research and development lab to support national, state, and local efforts to solve important transportation, safety, and security problems. The CATT Lab accomplishes this mission through innovative technology deployments and user-centered design of software and information visualization systems. Our work spans many disciplines including Intelligent Transportation Systems, law enforcement, network security, private business, defense and homeland security.
Public Infrastructure
Education
Partners & Advocates
College Park, MD, USA
Immigrant Legal Resource Center
1 open tech
role
The mission of the ILRC is to work with and educate immigrants, community organizations, and the legal sector to continue to build a democratic society that values diversity and the rights of all people.
Human Rights & Equality
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Global Peace & Safety
Washington, DC
San Francisco, CA
San Antonio, TX
Houston, TX
Pew Charitable Trusts
We are driven by the power of knowledge to solve today's most challenging problems. Pew applies a rigorous, analytical approach to improve public policy, inform the public, and invigorate civic life.
Partners & Advocates
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Washington, DC, USA
GRID Impact
GRID Impact is a global research, innovation, and design collective tackling some of the toughest problems around the planet.
Partners & Advocates
Denver, CO, USA
Regrow Ag
Regrow unlocks the power of resilient agriculture to combat climate change and grow profitability.
Food & Agriculture
Climate Change
Partners & Advocates
Durham, NH, USA
Open Philanthropy Project
The Open Philanthropy Project’s mission is to give as effectively as we can and share our findings openly so that anyone can build on our work. Through research and grantmaking, we hope to learn how to make philanthropy go especially far in terms of improving lives.
Partners & Advocates
San Francisco, CA, USA
ISciences
We develop and apply science and technology to problems related to human security and the environment.
Climate Change
Partners & Advocates
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Center for Security and Emerging Technology
Established in January 2019, the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) at Georgetown’s Walsh School of Foreign Service is a research organization focused on studying the security impacts of emerging technologies, supporting academic work in security and technology studies, and delivering nonpartisan analysis to the policy community.
Partners & Advocates
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Washington D.C., DC, USA
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
We are committed to exceptional patient care, leading-edge research, and renowned educational programs.
Health & Well-Being
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY, USA
Global Wave Digital
We work with organizations to use digital tools strategically to build movements, drive social change and influence politics and consumer behavior. We have helped coalitions work to pass legislation in over 50 countries in all six continents across the world.
Partners & Advocates
Washington D.C., DC, USA
New York Genome Center
The New York Genome Center (NYGC) is an independent, nonprofit academic research institution focused on furthering genomic research that leads to scientific advances and new insights and therapies for patients with neurodegenerative disease, neuropsychiatric disease, and cancer, leveraging our strengths in whole genome sequencing, genomic analysis, and development of genomic tools.
Health & Well-Being
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY, USA
Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation
The Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation at Johns Hopkins drives innovation in local government by marrying cutting-edge practice with world-class research. Together with public servants and government innovators around the world, we are transforming the culture in municipal management, delivering exceptional results for residents, and deepening trust in public service worldwide.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Baltimore, MD, USA
Vote Solar
Our mission is to make solar a mainstream energy resource across the U.S.
Clean Energy
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Oakland, CA, USA
Chan Zuckerberg Biohub
2 open tech
roles
At CZ Biohub, we bring together brilliant scientists and engineers who see opportunities in every challenge. These individuals are united by a common passion – solving previously impossible problems.
Health & Well-Being
Partners & Advocates
San Francisco, CA, USA
The Learning Accelerator
Our mission is to connect teachers and leaders with the knowledge, tools, and networks they need to enact personalized and mastery-based practices to transform K-12 education.
Education
Partners & Advocates
Princeton, NJ, USA
Element AI
Element AI is an artificial intelligence solutions provider that gives organizations unparalleled access to cutting-edge technology. Bringing together the best in entrepreneurship, technology and academic ecosystems, Element AI is building an AI-First World to elevate our collective wisdom.
Public Infrastructure
Partners & Advocates
Montreal, Canada
GOGLA
GOGLA is the global association for the off-grid solar energy industry. Our services assist the industry to build sustainable markets and profitable businesses delivering quality, affordable off-grid electricity products and services to as many customers as possible across the developing world.
Clean Energy
Partners & Advocates
Utrecht, Netherlands
Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI)
Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) is one of the world’s foremost institutions for identifying and forecasting the threat and spread of misinformation and disinformation across social media platforms. Committed to quickly identifying these emerging threats, NCRI forecasts potential risks to empower partners to become proactive in protecting themselves against false narratives that create rifts of distrust that impact institutions, capital markets, public health and safety.
Global Peace & Safety
Partners & Advocates
Princeton, NJ, USA
GLAD
GLAD is at the cutting edge of the historic fight for full equality and justice. Through impact litigation, education and public policy work, GLAD’s precedent-setting work has established anti-discrimination laws for transgender, gay, lesbian and bisexual people and protected the rights of those with HIV throughout New England.
Human Rights & Equality
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Boston, MA, USA
JustFix
JustFix co-creates tools with tenants, organizers, and legal advocates to fight displacement and achieve stable, healthy housing for all.
Poverty Alleviation & Economic Development
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY, USA
New York, NY, USA
Carbon Leadership Forum
The Carbon Leadership Forum propels knowledge through its embodied carbon research and resources, collaboration through its robust network of architects, engineers, contractors, material suppliers, building owners, policymakers and associations, and action by supporting and empowering its members to advance new ideas and approaches through impactful initiatives.
Climate Change
Partners & Advocates
Seattle, WA, USA
Farm Sanctuary
Farm Sanctuary fights the disastrous effects of animal agriculture on animals, the environment, social justice, and public health through rescue, education, and advocacy.
Food & Agriculture
Environment
Partners & Advocates
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Watkins Glen, NY, USA
Mount Sinai
We are compassionate collaborators—38,000 strong—working to heal, teach, and advance medicine in New York City and throughout the world.
Health & Well-Being
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY, USA
The New York Stem Cell Foundation
The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) Research Institute is a highly successful nonprofit whose mission is to accelerate cures through stem cell research.
Health & Well-Being
Education
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY
Center for Humane Technology
The Center for Humane Technology (CHT) is an independent nonprofit organization whose aim is to drive a comprehensive shift toward humane technology by changing the way technologists think about their work and how they build products. We’re creating the conditions for a new race to the top to realign technology with humanity.
Public Infrastructure
Partners & Advocates
San Francisco, CA, USA
American Oversight
American Oversight is a nonpartisan, nonprofit watchdog that uses public records requests backed by litigation to fight corruption, drive accountability, and defend democracy.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Human Rights & Equality
Partners & Advocates
Public Infrastructure
Washington, DC
Safe and Together Institute
The Safe & Together Institute helps professionals and systems improve responses to domestic abuse through training, implementation support, and innovative tools that keep children safe, strengthen survivor outcomes, and promote perpetrator accountability
Education
Human Rights & Equality
Partners & Advocates
Hartford, CT
The Fund for Public Health in New York City
Everyone deserves the opportunity to live a healthy life. The Fund for Public Health in New York City incubates innovative initiatives designed to improve the health of all New Yorkers.
Partners & Advocates
Health & Well-Being
New York, NY, USA
Women's World Banking
Women’s World Banking designs and invests in the market-driven financial solutions, institutions, and policy environments in emerging markets to create greater economic stability and prosperity for women, their families and their communities.
Human Rights & Equality
Poverty Alleviation & Economic Development
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY, USA
HURIDOCS ' Human Rights Information and Documentation Systems, International
Human rights researchers, documentation experts, information security specialists and software developers empowering defenders to act strategically on human rights information.
Human Rights & Equality
Partners & Advocates
Geneva, Switzerland
Echo&Co
At Echo&Co, we're a creative company that designs and builds digital experiences, products, and services to connect important causes with people who care. We go beyond simple design and technology. We share our talents and expertise with clients to co-create inspiring human-centered journeys, the digital platforms to enable them, and the internal capacity to improve them over time.
Partners & Advocates
Arlington, VA, USA
Washington D.C., DC, USA
Senseable City Lab
The real-time city is real! As layers of networks and digital information blanket urban space, new approaches to the study of the built environment are emerging.
Partners & Advocates
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Cambridge, MA, USA
RMI
1 open tech
role
RMI is an independent, non-partisan, nonprofit organization of experts across disciplines working to accelerate the clean energy transition and improve lives. RMI decarbonizes energy systems through rapid, market-based change in the world’s most critical geographies to align with a 1.5°C future and address the climate crisis. We work with businesses, policymakers, communities and other organizations to identify and scale energy system interventions that will cut greenhouse gas emissions at least 50% by 2030.
Clean Energy
Partners & Advocates
Climate Change
Boulder, CO, USA
NYC Mayor's Office for Economic Opportunity
The Mayor's Office for Economic Opportunity works to reduce poverty and broaden opportunity by advancing the use of data and evidence in program and policy design, service delivery, and budget decisions.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Poverty Alleviation & Economic Development
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY, USA
Equal Justice Works
Equal Justice Works is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that brings together an extensive network of law students, lawyers, legal services organizations, and supporters to promote a lifelong commitment to public service and equal justice.
Partners & Advocates
Human Rights & Equality
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Washington, DC, USA
Green & Healthy Homes Initiative
GHHI has created innovative programs to improve the delivery of services and ensure the efficient use of resources to reduce lead poisoning (in Maryland by 98%), asthma and injury in low income housing while improving energy efficiency. GHHI continues its mission to end lead poisoning while continuing to look at housing as an integral factor in the health of families and communities.
Partners & Advocates
Health & Well-Being
Poverty Alleviation & Economic Development
Baltimore, MD, USA
Washington D.C., DC, USA
Center for Urban Pedagogy
The Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) is a nonprofit organization that uses the power of design and art to increase meaningful civic engagement.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Education
New York, NY, USA
ACLU of Northern California
The ACLU of Northern California is an enduring guardian of justice, fairness, equality, and freedom, working to protect and advance civil liberties for all Californians.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Human Rights & Equality
Partners & Advocates
Sacramento, CA, USA
Fresno, CA, USA
San Francisco, CA, USA
FWD.us
FWD.us is a bipartisan political organization that believes America’s families, communities, and economy thrive when more individuals are able to achieve their full potential. For too long, our broken immigration and criminal justice systems have locked too many people out from the American dream.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Global Peace & Safety
Partners & Advocates
Human Rights & Equality
Oakland, CA
Campaign Legal Center
At Campaign Legal Center (CLC), we are advancing democracy through law, fighting for every American’s right to participate in the democratic process. CLC uses tactics such as litigation, policy and advocacy, communications and partnerships to win victories that result in a more transparent, accountable and inclusive democracy. Our long-term goal is a government responsive to the people.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Washington, DC
National MS Society
The National MS Society's vision is: A World Free of MS. The National MS Society's mission is: People affected by MS can live their best lives as we stop MS in its tracks, restore what has been lost and end MS forever.
Health & Well-Being
Partners & Advocates
Denver CO, USA
People's Action
We are a national network of state & local grassroots power-building organizations united in fighting for justice.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Chicago, IL, USA
Socially Determined
We use a data-driven, scientific approach to allow organizations to prioritize and match targeted social interventions to the specific needs of socially and clinically complex patients.
Health & Well-Being
Partners & Advocates
Washington, DC, USA
The Cadasta Foundation
Our Mission is to be the leading provider of technical tools and services to support the documentation of land and resource rights to build stronger, more sustainable communities.
Human Rights & Equality
Poverty Alleviation & Economic Development
Partners & Advocates
Washington, DC, USA
The Steve Fund
The Steve Fund is the nation’s only organization focused on supporting the mental health and emotional well-being of young people of color.
Health & Well-Being
Human Rights & Equality
Partners & Advocates
Providence, RI, USA
Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA)
Are you passionate about fighting climate change through data, tracking pollution, and supporting organisations to enable the energy transition? We are a passionate international team, offering all team members the opportunity to collaborate and contribute to some leading work in the fight for cleaner air and better human and environmental health globally.
Environment
Climate Change
Partners & Advocates
Remote
Transportation Alternatives
TA's mission is to reclaim NYC streets from the automobile and advocate for better walking, biking and public transit for all New Yorkers.
Public Infrastructure
Partners & Advocates
Public Service & Civic Engagement
New York, NY
Ideas42
Every day, working with partners around the globe, we’re using behavioral science to address intractable social problems.
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY, USA
Washington, DC, USA
San Francisco, CA, USA
Women's Rights and Empowerment Network
The Women’s Rights and Empowerment Network (WREN) is a nonpartisan, non-profit, gender justice advocacy organization dedicated to advancing the human rights and economic well-being of women and girls throughout South Carolina.
Human Rights & Equality
Partners & Advocates
Columbia, SC, USA
GiveWell
High-impact giving opportunities that are supported by in-depth charity research.
Partners & Advocates
Oakland, CA, USA
Openbox
Openbox is a design studio that works at the intersection of people and systems. We make products and services better for the people who use them, and help companies scale from a human-centered perspective.
Partners & Advocates
Public Infrastructure
Public Service & Civic Engagement
New York, NY, USA
Friends of the Earth
Friends of the Earth strives for a more healthy and just world. We understand that the challenges facing our planet call for more than half measures, so we push for the reforms that are needed, not merely the ones that are politically easy. Our staff engage in hard-hitting advocacy campaigns by producing cutting-edge policy analyses, instigating lawsuits, targeting corporations, and organizing our members on the ground. This strong advocacy has been the key to our successful campaigns over our 48-year history.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Climate Change
Partners & Advocates
Washington, DC, USA
Harvard Kennedy School
Harvard Kennedy School’s mission is to improve public policy and leadership so people can live in societies that are more safe, free, just, and sustainably prosperous. By combining cutting-edge research, the teaching of outstanding students, and direct interaction with practitioners, we have an impact on solving public problems that no other institution can match.
Human Rights & Equality
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Global Peace & Safety
Partners & Advocates
Education
Cambridge, MA, USA
Voices Vote Now
The progressive movement is changing. Gone are the days of clipboards and paper lists. In today’s world, the movement requires big data, big analytics, big strategy and big solutions. VVN provides seamless integration between the databases, consultants and software platforms required to succeed in the 21st century.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Washington, DC, USA
National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform
NICJR works to reduce incarceration and violence and to improve outcomes for system-impacted individuals.
Human Rights & Equality
Partners & Advocates
Oakland, CA, USA
Texas Policy Lab
By providing scientific insight, and independent, timely evaluations of current social and economic programs and new initiatives in the state of Texas, the Texas Policy Lab increases the state government’s capacity to provide critical public services, effectively and efficiently steward public investment, and deliver successful outcomes for its residents.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Houston, TX, USA
USC Dornsife Public Exchange
Public Exchange connects a wide range of academic researchers with policy, industry, and non-profit partners that need their expertise to tackle complex challenges. Our goal is to amplify social impact by making academic expertise more easily accessible than ever before, and apply academic rigor to addressing the world’s most intractable issues. As a first-of-its-kind program based at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Public Exchange connects partners with the right team of USC researchers, defines a scope and timeline, and provides project management from start to finish. Our model provides Public Exchange partners with the data, analysis and evidence-based recommendations they need to solve big challenges.
Education
Partners & Advocates
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Climate Change
Health & Well-Being
Los Angeles
Achievement Network
ANet is a nonprofit dedicated to the idea that every child deserves an excellent education and the opportunities it provides.
Education
Partners & Advocates
Boston, MA, USA
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget is a nonpartisan, non-profit organization committed to educating the public on issues with significant fiscal policy impact. As an independent source of objective policy analysis, we regularly engage policymakers of both parties and help them develop and analyze proposals to improve the country’s fiscal and economic condition.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Washington, DC
The END Fund
Private philanthropic initiative working to control and/or eliminate neglected tropical diseases (NTDs)
Health & Well-Being
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY, USA
The Greenlining Institute
We envision a nation where communities of color thrive and race is never a barrier to economic opportunity.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Human Rights & Equality
Partners & Advocates
Oakland, CA, USA
Race Forward
The mission of Race Forward is advance racial justice by building awareness, leadership, and solutions.
Human Rights & Equality
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY, USA
Oakland, CA, USA
Amazon Watch
Amazon Watch is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 1996 to protect the rainforest and advance the rights of indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with indigenous and environmental organizations in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability and the preservation of the Amazon's ecological systems.
Environment
Climate Change
Human Rights & Equality
Partners & Advocates
Oakland, CA, USA
Washington, DC, USA
Jannus, Inc.
Jannus is a not-for-profit health and human services organization that successfully helps individuals, families and communities in transition — from infancy to healthy childhood, from illness to health, from refugee to working citizens, and from isolation to community. Jannus changes lives with mission-driven, highly-skilled professional staff, caring and committed volunteers and a portfolio of more than 20 diverse programs and services that promote community health, advance public policy and create economic opportunity.
Health & Well-Being
Poverty Alleviation & Economic Development
Partners & Advocates
Global Peace & Safety
Boise, ID, USA
Center for Open Science
Our mission is to increase openness, integrity, and reproducibility of research.
Partners & Advocates
Charlottesville, VA
Ingenuity Inc
Ingenuity’s mission is to ensure that every student, in every grade, in every school, has access to the arts as part of a well-rounded education.
Education
Partners & Advocates
Chicago, IL
Robin Hood Foundation
Robin Hood is New York City’s largest poverty-fighting organization. We support low-income families by building and fueling the most impactful nonprofits across all five boroughs that are elevating people from poverty.
Poverty Alleviation & Economic Development
Partners & Advocates
Education
New York, NY, USA
Scale Justice
We believe no one should face losing their safety, family, home, or livelihood because justice is out of reach. From helping domestic violence survivors obtain protection to enabling low-wage workers to combat wage theft, we make the law work for the many, not the few.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY, USA
National Conference on Citizenship
The National Conference on Citizenship (NCoC) is dedicated to strengthening civic life in America. At the core of our joint efforts is the belief that every person has the ability to help their community and country thrive. We pursue our mission through a nationwide network of partners involved in a cutting-edge civic health initiative, our cross-sector conferences and engagement with a broad spectrum of individuals and organizations interested in utilizing civic engagement principles and practices to enhance their work.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Remote
National Security Archive
Founded in 1985 by journalists and scholars to check rising government secrecy, the National Security Archive combines a unique range of functions: investigative journalism center, research institute on international affairs, library and archive of declassified U.S. documents ("the world's largest nongovernmental collection" according to the Los Angeles Times), leading non-profit user of the U.S. Freedom of Information Act, public interest law firm defending and expanding public access to government information, global advocate of open government, and indexer and publisher of former secrets.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Public Infrastructure
Partners & Advocates
Washington, DC, USA
Flatiron Health
4 open tech
roles
Accelerating the fight against cancer requires the entire industry to work together. Our products connect community oncologists, academics, hospitals, life science researchers and regulators on a shared technology platform. Together, we can learn from the experience of every patient.
Health & Well-Being
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY, USA
New America
1 open tech
role
We are dedicated to renewing America by continuing the quest to realize our nation's highest ideals, honestly confronting the challenges caused by rapid technological and social change, and seizing the opportunities those changes create.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Washington D.C., DC, USA
J. Paul Getty Trust
Getty advances and shares the world’s visual art and cultural heritage for the benefit of all.
Public Infrastructure
Partners & Advocates
Los Angeles, CA, USA
RAICES
RAICES is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit agency that promotes justice by providing free and low-cost legal services to underserved immigrant children, families, and refugees.
Human Rights & Equality
Global Peace & Safety
Partners & Advocates
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Austin, TX, USA
Corpus Christi, TX, USA
Dallas, TX, USA
Fort Worth, TX, USA
Houston, TX, USA
San Antonio, TX, USA
Giga (the UN initiative for connectivity)
Giga is a joint initiative of UNICEF and ITU to connect every school in the world to the Internet by 2030. Working with corporate and non-profit partners, Giga maps schools’ Internet access in real time, creates models for innovative financing, and supports governments contracting for connectivity.
Human Rights & Equality
Education
Partners & Advocates
Poverty Alleviation & Economic Development
Public Infrastructure
Health & Well-Being
New York, NY
Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption
The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption is a national nonprofit public charity dedicated exclusively to finding permanent homes for the more than 150,000 children waiting in North America’s foster care systems.
Human Rights & Equality
Partners & Advocates
Columbus, OH
American Heart Association
The American Heart Association is the nation’s oldest and largest voluntary health organization. Its purpose is to help prevent America’s No. 1 and No. 4 killers, heart disease and stroke. The AHA is an advocate of good health, promoting positive behaviors, nutritious eating habits and healthy lifestyles. It also funds cutting-edge research and professional education programs.
Health & Well-Being
Partners & Advocates
Dallas, TX, USA
Scarborough, ME, USA
Chicago, IL, USA
Greenville, SC, USA
Nashville, TN, USA
Mozilla
16 open tech
roles
Mozilla makes browsers, apps, code and tools that put people before profit.
Public Infrastructure
Human Rights & Equality
Education
Partners & Advocates
Mountain View, CA, USA
Chicago, IL, USA
Houston, TX, USA
New York, NY, USA
Atlanta, GA, USA
Denver, CO, USA
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Austin, TX, USA
Edmonton, CA, USA
Ford Foundation
We believe in the inherent dignity of all people. But around the world, too many people are excluded from the political, economic, and social institutions that shape their lives.
Partners & Advocates
Climate Change
Environment
Human Rights & Equality
Public Service & Civic Engagement
New York, NY
Ashoka: Innovators for the Public
Ashoka identifies and supports the world's leading social entrepreneurs, learns from the patterns in their innovations, and mobilizes a global community that embraces these new frameworks to build an "everyone a changemaker world."
Partners & Advocates
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Arlington, VA, USA
The Social Science Research Council
The Social Science Research Council, an independent, international nonprofit, mobilizes necessary knowledge for the public good by supporting scholars worldwide, generating new research across disciplines, and linking researchers with policymakers and citizens.
Partners & Advocates
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Demand Progress
Demand Progress and our more than two million members seek to protect the democratic character of the internet — and wield it to make government accountable and contest concentrated corporate power.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Silver Spring, MD, USA
Council on Foreign Relations
Founded in 1921, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is a leading nonprofit membership organization, research center, and publisher, with headquarters in New York, an office in Washington, DC, and programs nationwide. It is dedicated to increasing America's understanding of the world and contributing ideas to U.S. foreign policy. CFR's 5,000+ members are leaders in international affairs and foreign policy. CFR also publishes Foreign Affairs, the preeminent magazine on global issues, and provides up-to-date information about the world and U.S. foreign policy on its award-winning website, CFR.org.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Public Infrastructure
New York, NY, USA
Washington D.C., DC, USA
Beyond Conflict
Advancing peace using leaders who have helped navigate their countries beyond conflict. Formerly the Project for Justice in Times of Transition.
Global Peace & Safety
Partners & Advocates
Boston, MA, USA
Global Investigative Journalism Network
The Global Investigative Journalism Network serves as the international hub for the world’s investigative reporters. Our core mission is to support and strengthen investigative journalism around the world—with special attention to those from repressive regimes and marginalized communities.
Public Infrastructure
Partners & Advocates
Washington, DC, USA
Ballot Initiative Strategy Center
BISC’s mission is to strengthen democracy by implementing a national progressive strategy for ballot measures rooted in building state-based power. The Ballot Initiative Strategy Center (BISC), a 501(c)(4) organization, is the only progressive organization that works across many policy, organizing, and political organizations, with local, state, and national leaders to analyze and support the ballot measure landscape.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Washington, DC.
Teach For America
Teach For America works in partnership with urban and rural communities in more than 50 regions across the country to expand educational opportunity for children. Founded in 1990, Teach For America recruits and develops a diverse corps of outstanding leaders to make an initial two-year commitment to teach in high-need schools and become lifelong leaders in the effort to end educational inequity. Today Teach For America is a force of over 60,000 alumni and corps members committed to profound systemic change. From classrooms to districts to state houses across America, they’re reimagining education to realize the day when every child has an equal opportunity to learn, to grow, to influence and to lead. Teach For America is a proud member of the AmeriCorps national service network. For more information, visit www.teachforamerica.org and follow us on Facebook and Twitter.
Education
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY, USA
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) is an independent population health research center at UW Medicine, part of the University of Washington, that provides rigorous and comparable measurement of the world's most important health problems and evaluates the strategies used to address them. IHME makes this information freely available so that policymakers have the evidence they need to make informed decisions about how to allocate resources to best improve population health.
Health & Well-Being
Partners & Advocates
Seattle, WA, USA
Vermont Oxford Network
VON improves the quality, safety, and value of care for newborn infants and their families through a coordinated program of data-driven quality improvement, education, and research. VON consists of more than 1300 member centers collaborating to improve neonatal care worldwide.
Health & Well-Being
Partners & Advocates
33 Kilburn Street Burlington, VT 05401
KU - Center for Public Partnerships and Research
At the Center for Public Partnerships and Research, we envision healthy, happy, thriving communities for us all. Our work is focused on helping others impact social change, for good, by optimizing the well-being of children, youth, and families.
Partners & Advocates
Lawrence, KS, USA
Conservation Northwest
We have a 30-year track record of success protecting and connecting wildlands in Washington and British Columbia, and working to restore our region’s iconic wildlife including wolverines, wolves, fishers, lynx, mountain caribou and grizzly bears.
Environment
Partners & Advocates
Seattle, WA, USA
Casey Family Programs
Casey Family Programs’ mission is to provide and improve — and ultimately prevent the need for — foster care
Human Rights & Equality
Partners & Advocates
Education
Seattle, WA, USA
GRAIL
10 open tech
roles
We are a healthcare company focused on saving lives and improving health by pioneering new technologies for early cancer detection.
Health & Well-Being
Partners & Advocates
Menlo Park, CA, USA
Arab American Institute
The Arab American Institute is a non-profit civil rights organization
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Human Rights & Equality
Partners & Advocates
Washington, DC, USA
The Boston Foundation
We bring people and resources together to solve Boston’s big problems.
Partners & Advocates
Boston, MA, USA
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
1 open tech
role
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens is a collections-based research and educational institution serving scholars and the general public.
Public Infrastructure
Education
Partners & Advocates
San Marino, CA, USA
MGGG Redistricting Lab
The MGGG Redistricting Lab is a non-partisan research group studying applications of geometry and computing to U.S. redistricting. Our mission is both technical and civic, and we aim to drive cutting-edge research, amplify the voices of the public and the civil rights community, and improve accountability in the redistricting process.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Medford, MA, USA
Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse
The Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse, a project of the Law School, is seeking a 20-hours-per-week, remote within the United States (if desired) full-stack developer to work on a full-site revamp and additional development projects, for a term-limited (though possibly renewable) two-year appointment. The developer will work on both the front- and back-end of the Clearinghouse, a document and data repository with whose front-end application has over 15,000 public users per month and whose back-end coordinates over 50 student and staff contributors per year. The Clearinghouse is currently in the midst of a migration from existing technology to a new Django web application, and to a new host, using AWS RDS and S3. Responsibilities for the developer will include some system administration, but the majority of the role will be development and refinement of front- and back-end applications, including creating (new) APIs.
Human Rights & Equality
Partners & Advocates
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
The Marfan Foundation
The Marfan Foundation's mission is to save lives and improve the quality of life of individuals with Marfan syndrome and other genetic aortic conditions.
Health & Well-Being
Partners & Advocates
Port Washington, NY, USA
Environmental Working Group
Our mission is to empower people to live healthier lives in a healthier environment. With breakthrough research and education, we drive consumer choice and civic action. EWG is a non-profit and non-partisan organization.
Environment
Health & Well-Being
Partners & Advocates
Washington, DC, USA
Unidos US
We serve the Hispanic community through our research, policy analysis, and state and national advocacy efforts, as well as in our program work in communities nationwide. And we partner with a national network of nearly 300 Affiliates across the country to serve millions of Latinos in the areas of civic engagement, civil rights and immigration, education, workforce and the economy, health, and housing.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Human Rights & Equality
Global Peace & Safety
Partners & Advocates
Washington, DC, USA
Reflective Earth
The mission of Reflective Earth is to slow or stop global warming by increasing reflectivity of the earth with cost-effective methods that present no significant environmental risks with funding from donations, selling carbon offsets, and governments.
Climate Change
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY, USA
American Lung Association
For more than a century, the American Lung Association has led the fight for healthy lungs and healthy air. Today, we are focused on eliminating tobacco use and related lung disease, improving overall air quality for all and reducing the burden of lung disease on patients and their families.
Health & Well-Being
Partners & Advocates
Chicago, IL, USA
Partnership to End Addiction
Partnership to End Addiction is a national nonprofit uniquely positioned to reach, engage and help families impacted by addiction. With decades of experience in research, direct service, communications and partnership-building, we provide families with personalized support and resources — while mobilizing policymakers, researchers and health care professionals to better address addiction systemically on a national scale. For more information, visit www.drugfree.org.
Health & Well-Being
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY, USA
CarbonPlan
CarbonPlan is a nonprofit research organization working on improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions with open data and tools. Our team analyzes the design and implementation of climate programs across the public and private sector.
Climate Change
Partners & Advocates
Seattle, WA
San Francisco, CA
Portland, OR
New York, NY
GreenLatinos
GreenLatinos is a national non-profit that convenes a broad coalition of Latino leaders committed to addressing national, regional and local environmental, natural resources and conservation issues that significantly affect the health and welfare of the U.S. Latino community. We envision a healthy and equitable society where communities of color are liberated from disproportionate environmental burdens, free to breathe fresh air, drink pure water, access clean transportation and enjoy our majestic public lands, ocean, and waters.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Environment
Partners & Advocates
Bouldeer, CO, USA
Delivery Associates
Effective governments optimize their resources to deliver for their citizens. It is easy to make promises to people, but far harder to turn vision into reality. Delivery Associates build expertise in governments around the world to implement effectively for results that matter.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
London, England
Carbon180
Carbon180 is a new breed of climate-focused NGO on a mission to fundamentally rethink carbon. We work with leading scientists, businesses, and policymakers to build a world that removes more carbon than it emits.
Climate Change
Partners & Advocates
Washington, DC, USA
Reproductive Freedom for All
For over 50 years, our organization and members have unapologetically helped lead the charge on both the state and national levels to protect and advance reproductive freedom through grassroots organizing, electoral change, and political advocacy.
Health & Well-Being
Human Rights & Equality
Partners & Advocates
Washington, DC
Girls Who Code
Girls Who Code is on a mission to close the gender gap in technology and to change the image of what a programmer looks like and does
Human Rights & Equality
Education
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY, USA
GSMA Mobile for Development
The Mobile for Development team drives innovation in digital technology to reduce inequalities in our world.
Partners & Advocates
Public Infrastructure
London, England
Open Knowledge Foundation
We believe open knowledge can empower everyone, enabling people to work together to tackle local and global challenges, understand our world, expose inefficiency, challenge inequality and hold governments and companies to account.
Public Infrastructure
Partners & Advocates
London, England
The Day One Project
The Day One Project is on a mission to find the best ideas to inform the Federal Government's science and technology policy agenda.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Washington, DC, USA
Aspen Tech Policy Hub
The Aspen Tech Policy Hub takes tech experts, teaches them the policy process through fellowship and executive education programs, and encourages them to develop outside-the-box solutions to society’s problems. We model ourselves after tech incubators like Y Combinator, but train new policy thinkers and focus the impact of their ideas. We’re building new ideas for policymaking — every fellow must complete one practical policy output during their time with us — and an alumni base of technologists who understand policy and want to engage with it.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Washington, DC , USA
Biomilq
We’re on a mission to provide the next generation every opportunity to thrive by producing cultured breastmilk that offers supplemental nutrition to mother’s milk with the convenience of formula.
Food & Agriculture
Health & Well-Being
Partners & Advocates
Durham, NC, USA
Good Reason Houston
We see a future where every child, in every neighborhood, excels in a world-class public school and thrives in the Houston of tomorrow.
Education
Partners & Advocates
Houston, TX, USA
The Public Interest Network
The Public Interest Network runs organizations committed to our vision of a better world, a set of core values, and a strategic approach to getting things done.
Partners & Advocates
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Denver, CO, USA
Evidence Action
We measurably reduce the burden of poverty for hundreds of millions of people... and we have the data to prove it.
Poverty Alleviation & Economic Development
Partners & Advocates
Health & Well-Being
Public Infrastructure
Washington, DC, USA
Vital Voices Global Partnership
We search the world for women leaders with daring vision for change, and partner with her to make that vision a reality. Through long-term investments that expand her skills, connections and visibility, we accelerate her efforts, improving the world for us all.
Human Rights & Equality
Partners & Advocates
Washington, DC, USA
Pipeline Safety Trust
The Pipeline Safety Trust is a nonprofit public charity promoting pipeline safety through education and advocacy by increasing access to information, and by building partnerships with residents, safety advocates, government, and industry, that result in safer communities and a healthier environment.
Environment
Partners & Advocates
Bellingham, WA, USA
18F
18F partners with agencies to improve the user experience of government services by helping them build and buy technology.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
San Francisco, CA, USA
Washington, DC, USA
New York, NY, USA
Chicago, IL, USA
Committee for Children
Committee for Children is a global nonprofit whose work is at the forefront of an irrepressible movement. A leader in the field, we champion the safety and well-being of kids through social-emotional learning (SEL) to fulfill our vision of safe children thriving in a just and peaceful world.
Human Rights & Equality
Education
Partners & Advocates
Seattle, WA
The Field Museum
The Field Museum fuels a journey of discovery across time to enable solutions for a brighter future rich in nature and culture.
Public Infrastructure
Education
Environment
Partners & Advocates
Chicago, IL, USA
Education Resource Strategies
We are a national non-profit that partners with district, school and state leaders to transform how they use resources (people, time, and money) to create strategic school systems that enable every school to prepare every child for tomorrow, no matter their race or income.
Education
Partners & Advocates
Watertown, MA, USA
Committee to Protect Journalists
The Committee to Protect Journalists promotes press freedom worldwide by defending the rights of journalists to report the news without fear of reprisal.
Human Rights & Equality
Public Infrastructure
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY, USA
Ark Biotech
Ark Biotech is powering the most important infrastructure buildout of this generation to transform how people consume protein. Ark is a B2B company engineering and designing next-generation production systems for the cultivated meat industry. We are a venture-backed startup driven by a desire to create a better food system for the planet and its inhabitants.
Climate Change
Food & Agriculture
Partners & Advocates
Boston, MA, USA
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press was founded by leading journalists and media lawyers in 1970 when the nation’s news media faced an unprecedented wave of government subpoenas forcing reporters to name confidential sources. Fifty years later, we are the only national organization focused on providing pro bono legal services to reporters and news outlets. Our mission is to protect the right to gather and distribute the news; to keep government accountable by ensuring access to public records, meetings, and courtrooms; and to preserve the principles of free speech and unfettered press, as guaranteed by the First Amendment.
Partners & Advocates
Public Infrastructure
Washington D.C., DC, USA
New Leaders
Our mission is to ensure high academic achievement for all children, especially students in poverty and students of color, by developing transformational school leaders and advancing the policies and practices that allow great leaders to succeed.
Education
Health & Well-Being
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY, USA
Center for Care Innovations
We spark, seed, and spread innovations that strengthen the health and well-being of historically underinvested communities. We create lasting change in collaboration with our partners in the health ecosystem.
Health & Well-Being
Partners & Advocates
Oakland, CA, USA
Murmuration
3 open tech
roles
Murmuration organizes a network of partners and equips them with the insights, tools, and services needed to help communities build and activate the power to transform America.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Human Rights & Equality
Education
New York, NY
New York Public Library
Inspire lifelong learning, advance knowledge, strengthen communities.
Education
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Public Infrastructure
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY, USA
Center for Community Alternatives
CCA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We seek talented, dedicated individuals who possess a strong commitment to CCA’s mission, including those with relevant personal experience in terms of recovery and/or justice involvement
Human Rights & Equality
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Rochester, NY, USA
Syracuse, NY, USA
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Institute for People, Place, and Possibility (IP3)
IP3 is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization working to create healthy, equitable, sustainable communities. We provide knowledge and know-how surrounding data and technology, rooted in our deep passion for community partnerships.
Health & Well-Being
Partners & Advocates
Columbia, MO, USA
Federal Public Defender Sentencing Resource Counsel
The right to the assistance of counsel for persons of limited financial means is a constitutionally mandated, critical component of our criminal justice system - it is one of the foundations upon which the liberty of all Americans is grounded.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Washington, DC, USA
Center for Social Media and Politics, New York University
NYU’s Center for Social Media and Politics is an academic research institute dedicated to studying how social media impacts politics, policy, and democracy. Social media has transformed politics around the world and the way we receive and engage with information. NYU’s Center for Social Media and Politics (CSMaP) hosts a global community of scholars to study this impact. Our rigorous, policy-relevant research harnesses social media data to study politics in new ways and explores how social media affects public opinion and political behavior. Through innovative research, teaching, and outreach, CSMaP advances scientific knowledge and informs public policy and discourse in the digital age.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Education
Public Infrastructure
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY, USA
Vera Institute of Justice
1 open tech
role
We envision a society that respects the dignity of every person and safeguards justice for everyone. Our mission is to end the overcriminalization and mass incarceration of people of color, immigrants, and people experiencing poverty.
Human Rights & Equality
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Brooklyn, NY
Drugviu
We are making finding medication experiences of Asian, Black, Latino & Native Americans easier – so we can make medicine more inclusive.
Health & Well-Being
Partners & Advocates
Chicago, IL, USA
America Achieves
America Achieves creates clear pathways for economic advancement, civic engagement, and success for all in a rapidly changing economy.
Education
Poverty Alleviation & Economic Development
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY, USA
Washington D.C., DC, USA
Atlanta Regional Commission
1 open tech
role
The Atlanta Regional Commission is charged with peering into the future and working with our partners across the community to plan for a better, brighter tomorrow.
Public Infrastructure
Health & Well-Being
Partners & Advocates
Poverty Alleviation & Economic Development
Atlanta, GA, USA
New Classrooms
We imagine a world where personalized learning is just the way students learn — a world where every student attends a school that meets them where they are, adapts to the unique ways they learn, and develops habits for lifelong success.
Education
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY, USA
WeRobotics
Extreme inequality, social injustice and unsustainable development are powering the climate crisis and exacerbating the pandemic. We need a radically inclusive and just approach to tackle these problems. The most important question is not which emerging technologies to use, or even how to use them. The most important question is Who? Who gets to use these technologies? Who gets to lead the application of these technologies? We want the answer to be: local experts with lived experience who know best how to create positive social impact effectively and sustainably in their countries.
Partners & Advocates
Public Infrastructure
Wilmington, DE, USA
xD
We're an emerging tech innovation lab affiliated with the US Census Bureau
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Poverty Alleviation & Economic Development
Partners & Advocates
Suitland, MD, USA
Washington, DC, USA
ETS
To advance quality and equity in education by providing fair and valid assessments, research and related services. Our products and services measure knowledge and skills, promote learning and performance, and support education and professional development for all people worldwide.
Education
Partners & Advocates
Princeton, NJ, USA
The National Wildlife Federation
2 open tech
roles
The National Wildlife Federation is a non-profit organization that works to unite all Americans to ensure wildlife thrive in a rapidly changing world.
Environment
Partners & Advocates
Merrifield, VA, USA
Medic Mobile
Medic Mobile is a nonprofit organization on a mission to improve health in the hardest-to-reach communities.
Health & Well-Being
Partners & Advocates
San Francisco, CA, USA
Headspace Health
We’ve created the world's most comprehensive and accessible mental healthcare platform, offering mindfulness and meditation tools rooted in science, plus coaching, therapy, and psychiatry for every mind at any moment.
Health & Well-Being
Partners & Advocates
San Francisco, CA, USA
Defenders of Wildlife
Defenders of Wildlife works on the ground, in the courts, and on Capitol Hill to protect and restore imperiled wildlife and habitats across North America. Together, we can ensure a future for the wildlife and wild places we all love.
Environment
Partners & Advocates
Washington, DC, USA
The Markup
The Markup is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates how powerful institutions are using technology to change our society. We are a new kind of media organization, staffed with an unparalleled roster of quantitative journalists who pursue meaningful, data-driven investigations.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Public Infrastructure
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY, USA
HTI Labs
As a women-led organization, we recognize the power that comes from bringing together those who understand the problem, create technology to address it, and implement solutions. We leverage this integration to develop solutions empowered by creativity and technology.
Human Rights & Equality
Partners & Advocates
Global Peace & Safety
Omaha, NE, USA
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
The principal mission of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law is to secure equal justice for all through the rule of law, targeting in particular the inequities confronting African Americans and other racial and ethnic minorities.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Human Rights & Equality
Washington, DC
Brennan Center for Justice
The Brennan Center for Justice is a nonpartisan law and policy institute. We strive to uphold the values of democracy. We stand for equal justice and the rule of law. We work to craft and advance reforms that will make American democracy work, for all.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Human Rights & Equality
Washington, DC
New York, NY
Sixth Amendment Center
At the Sixth Amendment Center, we believe in using the most effective means – most efficient, cost-effective, time-effective means that will yield a workable solution – to address the particular issue faced by the particular jurisdiction that seeks our help.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Boston, MA, USA
Democracy Fund
Democracy Fund invests in organizations working to ensure that our political system is able to withstand new challenges and deliver on its promise to the American people.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Washington, DC, USA
Society of Professional Journalists
The Society of Professional Journalists is dedicated to the perpetuation of a free press as the cornerstone of our nation and our liberty. To ensure that the concept of self-government outlined by the U.S. Constitution remains a reality into future centuries, the American people must be well informed in order to make decisions regarding their lives, and their local and national communities. It is the role of journalists to provide this information in an accurate, comprehensive, timely and understandable manner. It is the mission of the Society of Professional Journalists: — To promote this flow of information. — To maintain constant vigilance in protection of the First Amendment guarantees of freedom of speech and of the press. — To stimulate high standards and ethical behavior in the practice of journalism. — To foster excellence among journalists. — To inspire successive generations of talented individuals to become dedicated journalists. — To encourage diversity in journalism. —
Public Infrastructure
Education
Partners & Advocates
Indianapolis, IN, USA
Indianapolis, IN, USA
Immunization Action Coalition
The Immunization Action Coalition (IAC) works to increase immunization rates and prevent disease by creating and distributing educational materials for healthcare professionals and the public that enhance the delivery of safe and effective immunization services.
Health & Well-Being
Partners & Advocates
Saint Paul, MN, USA
UnitedWeDream
Since 2008, UWD’s members have been at the forefront in the fight for immigrant rights. Together, we’ve won huge victories like DACA and, with you on our team, we are ready to win even more! Together, we fight for education, economic, racial, gender, reproductive and environmental justice. We fight to build power within our communities, justice, and dignity for all–regardless of immigration status.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Global Peace & Safety
Washington, DC, USA
Busara Center
Our work always starts with removing assumptions and pre-conceived notions about culture and context to look at the world through a fresh perspective. We spend a long time listening, learning, designing and discarding potential solutions before we find the ones that may work. Then we test, scale, break, and iterate, again and again until we have it right.
Partners & Advocates
Delhi, India
Lagos, Nigeria
Ewing, NJ, USA
Nairobi, Kenya
Reboot
Reboot solves civic problems. We work with change agents in government, civil society, and philanthropy to achieve their social missions.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY, USA
Verified Voting
VerifiedVoting.org is a non-partisan non-profit organization that advocates for legislation and regulation that promotes accuracy, transparency and verifiability of elections. We believe the integrity and strength of our democracy relies on citizens’ trust that each vote be counted as cast.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Philadelphia, PA, USA
TechCongress
TechCongress gives talented technologists the opportunity to gain first-hand experience in federal policymaking and shape the future of tech policy through a one-year Congressional Innovation Fellowship with a Member of Congress or Congressional Committee.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Climate Change
Environment
Public Infrastructure
Washington, DC
Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation
The Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation (Schusterman) is a global organization that seeks to improve lives, strengthen communities and reduce inequity. Our philanthropic vision is grounded in a commitment to pursue justice, repair the world and treat all people with dignity and civility. We invest in efforts to improve public education in the United States, strengthen the Jewish people and Israel, and address the needs of marginalized individuals and communities.
Partners & Advocates
Tulsa, OK, USA
Washington D.C., DC, USA
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
1 open tech
role
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute advances the health of children by turning scientific discovery into medical innovation.
Health & Well-Being
Partners & Advocates
Philadelphia, PA
Morgridge Institute for Research
Improve human health through innovative, interdisciplinary biomedical discoveries, spark scientific curiosity and serve society through translational outcomes, in partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Health & Well-Being
Partners & Advocates
Madison, WI, USA
Attuned Education Partners
Attuned builds the capacity of PK-12 organizations to drive educational equity and excellence for underserved students. Our team of practitioners partners with school systems to prioritize, tailor, and implement a diverse set of proven practices. We blend rigor and empathy, planning and implementation, district and charter expertise, and aspirations of quality and scale.
Education
Partners & Advocates
Virtual
International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP)
IRAP is a global legal aid and advocacy organization, working to create a world where refugees and all people seeking safety are empowered to claim their right to freedom of movement and a path to lasting refuge. IRAP currently operates out of offices in the USA, Germany, Jordan, and Lebanon.
Global Peace & Safety
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY
Stockholm Environment Institute York
SEI York, based at the University of York, has a diverse research agenda including air pollution, climate change, sustainable consumption and human health. Using a range of participatory approaches, such as citizen science, we help policymakers in the UK and around the world, make informed decisions for a sustainable future.
Partners & Advocates
Climate Change
Environment
Stockholm, Sweden
Better Food Foundation
Better Food Foundation nurtures compassionate, thriving food systems by incubating innovative and emergent strategies. We amplify community led-advocacy, and seed transformational change to the policies and narratives that guide the way we eat. We envision a world in which anti-oppressive food systems and plant-based food cultures nourish communities and regenerate the planet.
Food & Agriculture
Partners & Advocates
Washington, DC, USA
United Hospital Fund of New York
United Hospital Fund works to build an effective and equitable health care system for every New Yorker. An independent, nonprofit organization, we are a force for improvement, analyzing public policy to inform decision-makers, finding common ground among diverse stakeholders, and developing and supporting innovative programs that improve health and health care.
Health & Well-Being
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY, USA
Open Society Foundation
The Open Society Foundations work to build vibrant and inclusive democracies whose governments are accountable to their citizens.
Human Rights & Equality
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY, USA
ProPublica
1 open tech
role
ProPublica is an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism with moral force. We dig deep into important issues, shining a light on abuses of power and betrayals of public trust — and we stick with those issues as long as it takes to hold power to account.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Public Infrastructure
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY
Ultraviolet
We're a powerful community of 1 million people across the country working to improve the lives of women and girls of all identities, and all people impacted by sexism, by disrupting patriarchy and creating a cost for sexism.
Human Rights & Equality
Partners & Advocates
Murray, UT, USA
American Association for the Advancement of Science
1 open tech
role
AAAS is an international non-profit organization dedicated to advancing science around the world.
Partners & Advocates
Washington, DC, USA
Results for America
Results for America is helping decision-makers at all levels of government harness the power of evidence and data to solve our world's greatest challenges.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Washington, DC
Institute for Future Intelligence
In search of educational solutions in the era of artificial intelligence
Clean Energy
Climate Change
Education
Environment
Health & Well-Being
Public Infrastructure
Partners & Advocates
Natick, MA
University of California Los Angeles
UCLA’s primary purpose as a public research university is the creation, dissemination, preservation and application of knowledge for the betterment of our global society.
Human Rights & Equality
Partners & Advocates
San Francisco, CA, USA
Woodwell Climate Research Center
Woodwell Climate Research Center advances scientific discovery and solutions to address the world’s climate challenges. Originally founded as the Woods Hole Research Center in 1985, our world-leading research and education helps individuals, communities, and nations understand the realities of climate change, recognize the impact it is having everywhere on our planet, and embrace the urgent action needed to safeguard the future of life on Earth.
Climate Change
Partners & Advocates
Falmouth, MA, USA
FHI 360
FHI 360 is a nonprofit human development organization dedicated to improving lives in lasting ways by advancing integrated, locally driven solutions.
Partners & Advocates
Health & Well-Being
Durham, NC, USA
Southern Poverty Law Center
The Southern Poverty Law Center is dedicated to fighting hate and bigotry and to seeking justice for the most vulnerable members of our society. Using litigation, education, and other forms of advocacy, the SPLC works toward the day when the ideals of equal justice and equal opportunity will be a reality.
Human Rights & Equality
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Montgomery, AL, USA
American Museum of Natural History
The American Museum of Natural History is one of the world's preeminent scientific and cultural institutions.
Public Infrastructure
Education
Environment
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY, USA
Citizen for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW)
Americans deserve a government that is ethical, accountable, and open. At CREW, we use aggressive legal actions, in-depth investigations, and innovative policy and reform work to achieve that vision. We take on big fights against powerful opponents, from the President of the United States to wealthy dark money donors.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Public Infrastructure
Partners & Advocates
Washington, DC
The Hunt Institute
The Hunt Institute is a recognized leader in the movement to transform public education. Marshaling expertise from a nationwide partner network, The Institute brings together people and resources that help build and nurture visionary leadership and mobilize strategic action for greater educational outcomes and student success.
Education
Partners & Advocates
Durham, NC, USA
More In Common
More in Common works on both short and longer term initiatives to address the underlying drivers of fracturing and polarization, and build more united, resilient and inclusive societies. More in Common’s teams across the United States, the United Kingdom, France and Germany work closely together and share a commitment to advancing our mission. While there are similar forces threatening democratic societies, we have established separate national teams with their own national strategies, because we believe strategies to strengthen resilience against the forces of division must build on each society’s unique national and regional characteristics.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Climate Change
Remote
Learning Collider
We use tools from economics and machine learning to instrument digital platforms for real-time research and social impact. Our work engages key determinants of social mobility: education, housing, and employment.
Partners & Advocates
Education
Poverty Alleviation & Economic Development
New York, NY, USA
Knight-Georgetown Institute
The Knight-Georgetown Institute (KGI) serves as a central hub for translating research into practical resources that policymakers, journalists, and private and public sector leaders can use to tackle information and technology issues in real time.
Partners & Advocates
Global Peace & Safety
Washington, DC
The Children's Defense Fund
Children’s Defense Fund builds community so young people grow up with dignity, hope, and joy.
Partners & Advocates
Education
Health & Well-Being
Washington, DC, USA
United Today, Stronger Tomorrow - Communities Respond to COVID
United Today, Stronger Tomorrow is a national pilot project that identifies constituencies and institutions impacted by COVID and tests innovative organizing efforts to connect them to both short-term work developing and implementing equitable COVID response policies and longer-term advocacy work that will create a more democratic, equitable, racially just, healthy, and environmentally sustainable post-COVID world. We are currently developing projects in NY, IN, CO, and a regional project in the upper Midwest.
Partners & Advocates
Health & Well-Being
Human Rights & Equality
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Denver, CO, USA
Code.org
2 open tech
roles
Code.org is a nonprofit dedicated to expanding access to computer science in schools and increasing participation by women and underrepresented minorities.
Education
Partners & Advocates
Seattle, WA, USA
Everytown for Gun Safety
2 open tech
roles
Everytown is a movement of Americans working together to end gun violence and build safer communities.
Global Peace & Safety
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY, USA
Washington D.C., DC, USA
NanoString Technologies
Life sciences tools for analysis and diagnostics used to cure disease
Health & Well-Being
Partners & Advocates
Seattle, WA, USA
Anti-Defamation League
ADL is the leading anti-hate organization in the world. Founded in 1913, its timeless mission is “to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all.”
Partners & Advocates
Human Rights & Equality
New York, NY
Advocacy Institute
The Advocacy Institute is committed to supporting the legislative advocacy of social justice and movement-building organizations in New York City and State.
Partners & Advocates
Brooklyn, NY, USA
San Francisco, CA, USA
Otherlab
An independent research & design lab pairing creativity & rigor to innovations in sustainable energy and robotics.
Clean Energy
Partners & Advocates
San Francisco, CA, USA
Education Analytics
We use data to help you make better decisions on policies and programs that lead to school and student success.
Education
Partners & Advocates
Madison, WI
Harmony Labs
We're on a mission to understand how media influence works at scale and to experiment with using media to support an open, resilient democratic society.
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY, USA
Funders for LGBTQ Issues
Funders for LGBTQ Issues works to increase the scale and impact of philanthropic resources aimed at enhancing the well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer communities, promoting equity, and advancing racial, economic and gender justice.
Human Rights & Equality
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY, USA
Election Reformers Network
The founding members of Election Reformers Network have worked to support hundreds of election processes in scores of countries over a thirty-year period, with organizations such as Democracy International, International Foundation for Electoral Systems, National Democratic Institute, and The Carter Center. This work focused on supporting the range of institutions critical to democracy including civic organizations, political parties, election administration and legislative bodies. Our approach emphasized nonpartisanship and did not prioritize any particular country (such as the US) as a model.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Remote
The Good Food Institute
We envision a world where alternative proteins are no longer alternative.
Food & Agriculture
Environment
Partners & Advocates
Health & Well-Being
Washington, DC, USA
Wild Me
Wild Me is a non-profit organization applying machine learning to speed and scale wildlife conservation.
Environment
Partners & Advocates
Portland, OR, USA
Thousand Brains Project
Develop a deep understanding of intelligence in the brain and use those principles to build better artificial intelligence. All code and research is open-source to be used by anyone to make a positive impact.
Public Infrastructure
Partners & Advocates
Climate Change
San Francisco, CA
Stanford Impact Labs
Stanford Impact Labs invests in highly-motivated teams of researchers and practitioners from government, business, nonprofit organizations, and philanthropy. These teams—impact labs—work together on social problems they choose and where practical progress is possible. With our support, they can rapidly develop, test, and scale new solutions to social problems that affect millions of people worldwide.
Education
Partners & Advocates
Stanford, CA, USA
GovExec
As the market-leading information platform, for over fifty years GovExec has empowered the government ecosystem to engage and support government leaders as they work to achieve their missions across federal, defense, and state and local agencies. All powered by the largest and most sophisticated database in the public sector, GovExec’s platform services are three-fold—data that informs, media that connects, and marketing services that activate. Reaching nearly three million government influencers each month, GovExec’s brand and platform portfolio includes Government Executive, GovTribe, Nextgov, Public Sector 360, Government Contracting Institute, Government Marketing University, Defense One, Military Periscope, The Atlas for Cities, Route Fifty, City & State New York, City & State Pennsylvania, and a strategic investment in Power Almanac.
Public Infrastructure
Partners & Advocates
Washington, D.C, USA
NY Department of Education
The New York City Department of Education (DOE) is the largest school district in the US, serving 1.1 million students in over 1,800 schools.
Education
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY, USA
Verité
As an independent, non-profit, civil society organization, Verité is recognized for its unique credibility. Since 1995, we have partnered with hundreds of corporations, governments, and NGOs to illuminate labor rights violations in supply chains and remedy them to the benefit of workers and companies alike.
Human Rights & Equality
Partners & Advocates
Amherst, MA, USA
Metropolitan Area Planning Council
1 open tech
role
The Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC) is the regional planning agency serving the people who live and work in the 101 cities and towns of Metropolitan Boston.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Public Infrastructure
Partners & Advocates
Boston, MA
Center for Policing Equity
Center for Policing Equity measures bias in policing. That means we can stop it. Working directly with police to measure behaviors and revise policies results in fewer people killed and fewer people in jail.
Human Rights & Equality
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Los Angeles, CA, USA
New York, NY, USA
Life Epigenetics
Life Epigenetics is at the forefront of researching epigenetics and its role in human health and wellness. Our team primarily focuses on the research and development of predictive models for a wide range of human health & wellness factors using a variety of clinical markers, quantitative biomarkers, and epigenetic data.
Health & Well-Being
Partners & Advocates
Minneapolis, MN, USA
Project On Government Oversight
The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) is a nonpartisan independent watchdog that investigates and exposes waste, corruption, abuse of power, and when the government fails to serve the public or silences those who report wrongdoing.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Washington D.C., DC, USA
Evidation
Evidation Health is a new kind of health and measurement company that provides the world’s most innovative biopharma and health care companies the technology and guidance they need to understand how everyday behavior and health interact.
Health & Well-Being
Partners & Advocates
USA
remote
Santa Barbara, CA, USA
San Mateo, CA, USA
Knight Foundation
Our goal is to foster informed and engaged communities, which we believe are essential for a healthy democracy.
Partners & Advocates
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Public Infrastructure
Miami, FL, USA
Propel
2 open tech
roles
We build software for low-income Americans who are often overlooked by traditional tech innovation.
Health & Well-Being
Poverty Alleviation & Economic Development
Partners & Advocates
Brooklyn, NY
Allen Institute for AI
5 open tech
roles
AI2 is a non-profit focused on contributing to AI research and engineering efforts intended to benefit the common good. Join us to tackle an extraordinary set of scientific and engineering challenges.
Partners & Advocates
Public Infrastructure
Seattle, WA, USA
Opentrons
Opentrons builds affordable, open-source liquid handling robots for scientists.
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY, USA
Freedom of the Press Foundation
protects, defends, and empowers public-interest journalism in the 21st century.
Public Infrastructure
Partners & Advocates
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Education
New York, NY
Earthworks
Earthworks is a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting communities and the environment from the adverse impacts of mineral and energy development while promoting sustainable solutions.
Environment
Partners & Advocates
Washington D.C., DC, USA
Karp Strategies
Karp Strategies is an equity-driven urban strategy consultancy for community-economic development planning, community and stakeholder engagement, and real estate and urban planning strategy, design, and implementation.
Public Infrastructure
Poverty Alleviation & Economic Development
Partners & Advocates
Public Service & Civic Engagement
New York, NY, USA
Earthjustice
Earthjustice is the nation's premier environmental law firm, defending our fundamental right to a healthy environment.
Environment
Climate Change
Partners & Advocates
San Francisco, CA
The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights
CHIRLA, the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, is an immigrant-centered and immigrant-powered organization working to achieve a just society fully inclusive of immigrants.
Human Rights & Equality
Global Peace & Safety
Partners & Advocates
Los Angeles, CA, USA
National Center for Victims of Crime
We are the nation's leading resource and advocacy organization for crime victims and those who serve them. Please join us as we forge a national commitment to help victims of crime rebuild their lives.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Human Rights & Equality
Partners & Advocates
Arlington, VA, USA
Research Improving People's Lives
We are a tech for social impact nonprofit that works with governments to help them use data, science, and technology to equitably improve policy and lives. We bring together
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Education
Poverty Alleviation & Economic Development
Partners & Advocates
Portland, Maine, USA
Providence, RI, USA
Houston, TX, USA
Austin, TX, USA
United States
San Francisco, CA, USA
Seattle, WA, USA
Government Performance Lab
The mission of the Harvard Kennedy School Government Performance Lab (GPL) is to speed up our nation’s progress on difficult social problems by improving how state and local government human service agencies function and how their dollars are spent.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Poverty Alleviation & Economic Development
Partners & Advocates
Cambridge, MA, USA
American Promise
At American Promise, we believe that all people are created equal, that freedom is the unbreakable aspiration of humankind and each of us, and that responsibility for ensuring the conditions for the survival of equality and freedom, and for a healthy society, is ours and every American’s. We work to ensure that our staff, donors, volunteers, and supporters reflect the tremendous diversity of the American people as we strive together on the most American of national projects: amend the US Constitution so that our government reflects our wishes rather than those of the powerful, wealthy elite. We’re ending big money corruption in our politics to win voice and freedom for all Americans.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Remote
The Urban Institute
The Urban Institute is the trusted source for unbiased, authoritative insights that inform consequential choices about the well-being of people and places in the United States. We are a nonprofit research organization that believes decisions shaped by facts, rather than ideology, have the power to improve public policy and practice, strengthen communities, and transform people’s lives for the better.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Washington, DC, USA
Innovations for Poverty Action
Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) is a research and policy nonprofit that discovers and promotes effective solutions to global poverty problems. IPA brings together researchers and decision-makers to design, rigorously evaluate, and refine these solutions and their applications, ensuring that the evidence created is used to improve the lives of the world’s poor. In recent decades, trillions of dollars have been spent on programs designed to reduce global poverty, but clear evidence on which programs succeed is rare, and when evidence does exist, decision-makers often do not know about it. IPA exists to bring together leading researchers and these decision-makers to ensure that the evidence we create leads to tangible impact on the world. Since its founding in 2002, IPA has worked with over 575 leading academics to conduct over 650 evaluations in 51 countries. This research has informed hundreds of successful programs that now impact millions of individuals worldwide.
Poverty Alleviation & Economic Development
Partners & Advocates
New Haven, CT, USA
Washington, DC, USA
ReFrame
We build narrative power to win
Human Rights & Equality
Public Infrastructure
Partners & Advocates
United States, Fully Remote
Nuna
3 open tech
roles
Data can be a powerful driver of change—but only when it’s acted upon with empathy. Our technology, data, and analytics solutions help healthcare payers and providers get the answers they need to make quality care more affordable for millions of people.
Health & Well-Being
Partners & Advocates
San Francisco, CA, USA
Center for Information Technology Policy
The Center for Information Technology Policy is an interdisciplinary research center at Princeton University that sits at the crossroads of engineering, the social sciences, law, and policy.
Partners & Advocates
Princeton, NJ, USA
The Nature Conservancy
The Nature Conservancy is a global environmental nonprofit working to create a world where people and nature can thrive.
Environment
Partners & Advocates
Arlington, VA, USA
Opportunity Insights
Based at Harvard University, our team's mission is to develop scalable policy solutions that will empower families throughout the United States to rise out of poverty and achieve better life outcomes.
Partners & Advocates
Poverty Alleviation & Economic Development
Education
Cambridge, MA, USA
Center for Democracy & Technology
At the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT), we believe in putting democracy and individual rights at the center of the digital revolution.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Public Infrastructure
Partners & Advocates
Washington, DC, USA
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities is dedicated to pursuing federal and state policies designed to reduce poverty and inequality and restore fiscal responsibility in equitable and effective ways.
Poverty Alleviation & Economic Development
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Washington, DC, USA
Together Senior Health Inc
Help and hope for people with Alzheimer's or dementia
Health & Well-Being
Partners & Advocates
San Francisco, CA, USA
League of Conservation Voters
The League of Conservation Voters builds political power for people and the planet. We influence policy, hold politicians accountable, and win elections in order to create safe and healthy communities protected by a just and equitable democracy.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Environment
Climate Change
Clean Energy
Partners & Advocates
Washington, DC
Surgo Ventures
Our mission is to use all the tools available from behavioral science, data science, and artificial intelligence to unlock solutions that will save and improve people’s lives.
Health & Well-Being
Partners & Advocates
Washington, DC, USA
Partnership for Public Service
The Partnership for Public Service is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to building a better government and a stronger democracy.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Education
Poverty Alleviation & Economic Development
Washington, DC
Conservify
Conservify seeks to empower conservationists and communities by lowering the barriers to entry for effective conservation. Through providing the appropriate platforms, apps, and connected conservation devices, we can democratize the data and action around the protection of a species or reserve
Environment
Partners & Advocates
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Abt Associates
Abt Associates is a mission-driven, global leader in research, evaluation and implementing programs in the fields of health, social and environmental policy, and international development. Known for its rigorous approach to solving complex challenges, Abt Associates is regularly ranked as one of the top 20 global research firms and one of the top 40 international development innovators. The impact of our work in more than 60 countries is significant and wide ranging. Our global staff of 2,700 conducts innovative studies and implements remarkable projects—from carrying out malaria prevention activities in 17 African countries as part of the President’s Malaria Initiative and playing a key role in Mexico’s climate change mitigation actions, to identifying potential barriers to flu vaccination among U.S. health workers and pregnant women and examining whether career pathways programs can improve employability in high poverty regions.
Partners & Advocates
Baton Rouge, LA, USA
Atlanta, GA, USA
Boulder, CO, USA
Chicago, IL, USA
Durham, NC, USA
Rockville, MD, USA
New York, NY, USA
Cambridge, MA, USA
Health Leads
We partner with communities and health systems to address systemic causes of inequity and disease. We do this by removing barriers that keep people from identifying, accessing and choosing the resources everyone needs to be healthy. Learn more about how we work by watching the video below:
Health & Well-Being
Poverty Alleviation & Economic Development
Partners & Advocates
Human Rights & Equality
Boston, MA, USA
Carbon Direct
Carbon Direct was founded in 2019 to drive real climate impact by scaling carbon management through science. Our team brings together deep experience and expertise in carbon science and policy, as well as commercial markets and technology.
Climate Change
Partners & Advocates
San Francisco, CA, USA
Seattle, WA, USA
New York, NY, USA
Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, Inc.
The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, America’s Black think tank, provides compelling and actionable policy solutions to eradicate persistent and evolving barriers to the full freedom of Black people in America. We are the trusted forum for leading experts and scholars to participate in major public policy debates and promote ideas that advance Black communities. We use evidence-based research, analysis, convenings, and strategic communications to support Black communities and a network of allies.
Partners & Advocates
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Washington, DC, USA
Natural Resources Defense Council
NRDC works to ensure the rights of all people to clean air, clean water, and healthy communities.
Environment
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY, USA
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Brooklyn Botanic Garden is an urban botanic garden that connects people to the world of plants, fostering delight and curiosity while inspiring an appreciation and sense of stewardship of the environment. In the Garden, in its community, and well beyond, BBG inspires people of all ages through the conservation, display, and enjoyment of plants; with educational programs that emphasize learning by doing; and with research focused on understanding and conserving regional plants and plant communities.
Public Infrastructure
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY, USA
Susteon
We are an experienced team energized by the potential for innovation to help build a cleaner, more secure and affordable energy future. With a core focus on hydrogen, CO2 and other low carbon technologies, we aim to accelerate practical solutions designed to tackle climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Climate Change
Partners & Advocates
Cary, NC, USA
Simons Foundation
We work to advance scientific discovery through grantmaking, research and public engagement.
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY
Lawyers for Net Zero
Lawyers for Net Zero is a non-profit working with one of the most powerful sectors in UK society; the in-house legal community, to deliver significant climate action. VISION: Lawyers play a key role in the practical activity required to maintain a sustainable future for us all. FOCUS: we are currently exclusively focused on in-house counsel and teams due to their key role in business and society
Climate Change
Partners & Advocates
London, UK
Future Now
The Future Now umbrella includes The States Project and The Lawmaker Network. Its initiatives focus on improving Americans’ lives by winning state legislative majorities and working with them to achieve goals for the common good.
Partners & Advocates
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Washington, DC, USA
Breakthrough Energy
Breakthrough Energy is dedicated to helping humanity avoid a climate disaster. Through investment vehicles, philanthropic programs, policy advocacy, and other activities, we’re committed to scaling the technologies we need to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.
Climate Change
Clean Energy
Partners & Advocates
Washington, DC, USA
Kirkland, WA, USA
Greenpeace Canada
Greenpeace Canada is an independently funded, non-profit organization that works towards a greener, more peaceful world, and to confront the systems that threaten people and the planet by carrying out peaceful acts of civil disobedience and engaging the public.
Partners & Advocates
Climate Change
Environment
Toronto, ON, CAN
National Alliance on Mental Illness
NAMI is the National Alliance on Mental Illness, the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness.
Health & Well-Being
Partners & Advocates
Arlington, VA, USA
Management Sciences for Health
MSH, a global nonprofit organization, partners with governments, civil society, the private sector, and health care workers to build resilient and sustainable health systems. Our mission is saving lives and improving the health of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
Health & Well-Being
Partners & Advocates
Medford, MA, USA
Alliance for Climate Education
The Alliance for Climate Education seeks to educate young people on the science of climate change and empower them to take action.
Climate Change
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Boulder, CO, USA
Giving Tech Labs
We create technology for the public interest.
Partners & Advocates
Seattle, WA, USA
Acadia Center
Acadia Center is a non-profit, research and advocacy organization committed to advancing the clean energy future.
Climate Change
Clean Energy
Partners & Advocates
Rockport, ME, USA
Boston, MA, USA
New York, NY, USA
Hartford, CT, USA
Providence, RI, USA
Alliance for Young Artists & Writers
The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards are presented by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers. The Alliance is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to identify students with exceptional artistic and literary talent and present their remarkable work to the world through the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. The Awards give students opportunities for recognition, exhibition, publication, and scholarships. Students across America submitted nearly 320,000 original works this year in 29 different categories of art and writing.
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY, USA
UCLA Health
UCLA Health System is among the most comprehensive and advanced healthcare systems in the world.
Health & Well-Being
Partners & Advocates
Los Angeles, CA, USA
American Bar Foundation
Expanding knowledge. Advancing justice.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Education
Partners & Advocates
Chicago, IL, USA
The Alan Turing Institute
The Alan Turing Institute is the national institute for data science and artificial intelligence, with headquarters at the British Library
Partners & Advocates
London, UK
Public Health Institute
1 open tech
role
PHI is home to over 700 staff and 200 programs that touch virtually every area of health. PHI programs help farmworkers eat more healthily in California’s Central Valley, girls gain access to education in Nigeria, and hospitals support healthier populations across the US.
Health & Well-Being
Partners & Advocates
Oakland, CA, USA
Washington, DC, USA
World Resources Institute
We envision an equitable and prosperous planet driven by the wise management of natural resources. We aspire to create a world where the actions of government, business, and communities combine to eliminate poverty and sustain the natural environment for all people.
Partners & Advocates
Washington, DC, USA
Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement
PACE (Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement) is a member-centric philanthropic laboratory for funders seeking to maximize their impact on democracy and civic life in the United States. Our members share a belief that America will be healthier and more successful, resilient, and productive, if democracy is strong and the office of citizen is treated as central to how it functions. We believe that American democracy will thrive when all of its people are informed and engaged in the process of creating it.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Washington DC, USA
The New Teacher Project
A national nonprofit founded by teachers, TNTP helps school systems end educational inequality and achieve their goals for students.
Education
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY, USA
E3 Alliance
Our mission is to transform education systems through data and collaboration so all students succeed.
Education
Partners & Advocates
Austin, TX, USA
OpenNews
At OpenNews, we believe that a community of peers working, learning and solving problems together can create a stronger, more representative, and ascendant journalism. We organize events and community supports to strengthen and sustain this ecosystem.
Public Infrastructure
Education
Partners & Advocates
Mountain View, CA, USA
Hunger Free Colorado
Our mission is to connect people to food resources to meet existing needs and drive policy, systems and social change to end hunger.
Poverty Alleviation & Economic Development
Health & Well-Being
Food & Agriculture
Partners & Advocates
Denver, CO, USA
Gates Foundation
1 open tech
role
We are a nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world.
Partners & Advocates
Seattle, WA, USA
HERHealthEQ
HERHealthEQ's vision is to reduce female mortality in developing nations by providing access to medical device EQuipment, creating an EQuitable standard of care. Women are the cornerstone of the family unit. When a woman becomes ill and does not receive the care she needs, the entire family unit is at greater risk of remaining in a cycle of poverty.
Health & Well-Being
Human Rights & Equality
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY, USA
Demos
We pioneer bold progressive ideas, reinforce them with original research and analysis, and equip grassroots partner organizations to move them into practical reality. Through cutting-edge policy research, inspiring litigation and deep relationships with grassroots organizations, Demos champions solutions that will create a democracy and economy rooted in racial equity.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Human Rights & Equality
Partners & Advocates
Remote
BlueLabs Analytics
2 open tech
roles
BlueLabs is an analytics and technology solutioning firm. We revolutionize how organizations approach their most complex challenges.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Poverty Alleviation & Economic Development
Washington D.C., DC, USA
Stand.earth
Stand was created to challenge corporations and governments to treat people and the environment with respect, because our lives depend on it. Born as Forest Ethics, we were founded nearly twenty years ago by a group of dedicated people who were working day in and day out to solve a big problem: What do you do when the health and foundation of communities and their environment are being undermined? Over the years, our work and our approach has evolved from a dedicated focus on forest protection to taking on some of the root causes of climate change and environmental injustice.
Environment
Partners & Advocates
Bellingham, WA, USA
San Francisco, CA, USA
The Lab at DC
Design policy and program interventions that are tailored to the District, based on theory and evidence from academic and industrial research, as well as analyses of available administrative data.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Washington, DC, USA
Kimetrica
Kimetrica’s mission is to increase the effectiveness of spending in the social sector. We provide software, research, survey, and modelling and impact simulation services for evidence-based decision-making and learning. We work with governments and non-profit organizations to increase the impact and efficiency of their social investments, enhance accountability, manage critical risks, and build donor or taxpayer confidence.
Partners & Advocates
Broomfield, CO, USA
Unite Us
1 open tech
role
Our person-centered platform and community engagement process build and manage coordinated care networks of organizations across the continuum of care. We work hand-in-hand with each community to bring together the best providers for the people who need them most.
Health & Well-Being
Partners & Advocates
Poverty Alleviation & Economic Development
New York, NY, USA
Immigration Policy Lab
The Immigration Policy Lab (IPL) at Stanford University evaluates and designs policies surrounding the integration of immigrants and refugees worldwide.
Global Peace & Safety
Partners & Advocates
Education
Stanford, CA
Palo Alto, CA
Priorities USA
Priorities USA is building permanent infrastructure to engage Americans of all backgrounds at all times -- not just on the eve of an election. We are helping build a powerful progressive movement that informs, energizes, and empowers average Americans to fight and win for their priorities in 2020 and beyond.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Washington, DC, USA
Westmark School
Westmark School is a creative and supportive college preparatory school dedicated to educating, empowering, and celebrating students with distinct learning styles, providing the tools necessary to achieve successful and fulfilling futures.
Education
Partners & Advocates
Los Angeles, CA
FairVote
FairVote is a nonpartisan champion of electoral reforms that give voters greater choice, a stronger voice, and a representative democracy that works for all Americans.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Tacoma Park, MD, USA
BetaNYC
We empowers individuals and local communities to build a civically engaged technology ecosystem and provide for an honest and inclusive government. We want New York’s governments to work for the people, by the people, for the 21st century.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY, USA
Freedom House
Our work amplifies voices calling for freedom and empowers human rights defenders and civic activists to advance democratic change.
Human Rights & Equality
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Washington D.C., DC, USA
Sunlight Foundation
The Sunlight Foundation is a national, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that uses civic technologies, open data, policy analysis and journalism to make our government and politics more accountable and transparent to all.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Public Infrastructure
Washington, DC, USA
Energy Impact Center
The Energy Impact Center is a research institute that explores climate risk, environmental data, and energy technology.
Climate Change
Partners & Advocates
Washington, DC, USA
United Nations
The United Nations is an international organization founded in 1945. It is currently made up of 193 Member States that work together to maintain peace and security; address humanitarian issues; economic development and now climate change.
Human Rights & Equality
Poverty Alleviation & Economic Development
Global Peace & Safety
Partners & Advocates
Education
New York, NY, USA
Partnership on AI
In support of our mission to benefit people and society, the Partnership on AI conducts research, organizes discussions, shares insights, provides thought leadership, consults with relevant third parties, responds to questions from the public and media, and creates educational material that advances the understanding of AI technologies including machine perception, learning, and automated reasoning.
Partners & Advocates
Public Infrastructure
San Francisco, CA, USA
The Center for Election Science
We are a nonpartisan nonprofit dedicated to empowering people with voting methods that strengthen democracy.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Remote
Southern Environmental Law Center
To protect the basic right to clean air, clean water, and a livable climate; to preserve our region’s natural treasures and rich biodiversity; and to provide a healthy environment for all.
Partners & Advocates
Environment
Climate Change
Charlottesville, VA, USA
Center for Biological Diversity
The Center for Biological Diversity, a national 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to the protection of imperiled plants, animals, wild places, and environmental justice.
Environment
Climate Change
Partners & Advocates
Tucson, AZ, USA
Digital Promise
We work at the intersection of education leaders, researchers, and technology developers to improve learning opportunities for all and close the Digital Learning Gap. Because when all learners have equitable access to technology, when everyone participates, and when everyone learns, we all benefit from a more engaged, informed and just society.
Education
Partners & Advocates
Washington D.C., DC, USA
Issue One
Issue One is the leading crosspartisan political reform group in Washington, D.C. Our mission is more critical than ever: Our democratic republic is under greater stress than it has been in generations, as the fates of democracies all over the world face uncertain futures. Issue One is fighting to protect U.S. elections, lessen political polarization, limit the influence of big money over politics, and improve the ability of Congress to solve problems.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Washington, DC
National Employment Law Project
NELP is a national non-profit with offices in New York, Washington, D.C., and Berkeley, promoting federal, state, and local policies designed to ensure that all workers and all who aspire to work—particularly people of color, women and the unemployed—can achieve and sustain economic opportunity and security through their labor. In furtherance of this mission, NELP works to dismantle structural racism, reduce economic inequality, and build worker power. For more information, see www.nelp.org.
Poverty Alleviation & Economic Development
Human Rights & Equality
Partners & Advocates
Berkeley, CA, USA
New York, NY, USA
Washington D.C., DC, USA
Human Rights Campaign
The Human Rights Campaign is America's largest civil rights organization working to achieve lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer equality.
Human Rights & Equality
Partners & Advocates
Washington, DC
Freenome
7 open tech
roles
Freenome is a dynamic company operating at the intersection of biology, technology, and medicine. If you crave challenges, understudied problems, and the chance to see your work impact the millions of lives touched by cancer, there’s no better place to be. At Freenome, we’re connecting people with next-generation blood tests for early cancer detection powered by our multiomics platform.
Health & Well-Being
Partners & Advocates
South San Francisco, CA, USA
SkyTruth
Sharing the view from space to promote conservation for people and the planet.
Environment
Partners & Advocates
Climate Change
Shepherdstown, WV
Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago
Chapin Hall is an independent policy research center at the University of Chicago that provides public and private decision-makers with rigorous research and achievable solutions to support them in improving the lives of children, families, and communities. Chapin Hall partners with policymakers, practitioners, and philanthropists at the forefront of research and policy development by applying a unique blend of scientific research, real-world experience, and policy expertise to construct actionable information, practical tools, and, ultimately, positive change for children, youth, and families.
Education
Partners & Advocates
Poverty Alleviation & Economic Development
Chicago, IL, USA
Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University
The Knight First Amendment Institute defends the freedoms of speech and the press in the digital age through strategic litigation, research, and public education. Our aim is to promote a system of free expression that is open and inclusive, that broadens and elevates public discourse, and that fosters creativity, accountability, and effective self-government.
Public Infrastructure
Partners & Advocates
Public Service & Civic Engagement
New York City, NY, USA
Solstice
Solstice was founded to advance equity and inclusion in America. We are committed to living those values, not just in the work we do to promote environmental and energy justice, but in how we grow as an organization. We seek always to expand leadership opportunities for marginalized communities in the global transition to clean energy.
Clean Energy
Partners & Advocates
Cambridge, MA, USA
New York, NY, USA
Center for American Progress
The Center for American Progress is an independent nonpartisan policy institute that is dedicated to improving the lives of all Americans, through bold, progressive ideas, as well as strong leadership and concerted action. Our aim is not just to change the conversation, but to change the country.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Washington D.C., DC, USA
Syria Justice and Accountability Centre
Working toward a Syria defined by justice, respect for human rights, and rule of law — where all Syrians live in peace.
Partners & Advocates
Human Rights & Equality
Global Peace & Safety
Washington D.C., DC, USA
ACLU of Washington
The ACLU of Washington is the state affiliate of the ACLU, the nation's premier civil rights and civil liberties organization.
Human Rights & Equality
Partners & Advocates
Seattle, WA, USA
Stanford Computational Policy Lab
At the Stanford Computational Policy Lab, we use technology to tackle pressing issues in criminal justice, education, voting rights, and beyond. By bringing a computational perspective to public policy, we aim to improve the lives of millions of people — especially those affected by systemic injustices.
Partners & Advocates
Education
Stanford, CA, USA
Institute of International Education
The IIE proudly supports flagship educational and cultural exchange programs on behalf of the U.S. Departments of State and Defense, in addition to government, corporate and foundation programs.
Education
Partners & Advocates
Poverty Alleviation & Economic Development
New York, NY, USA
Washington D.C., DC, USA
United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW)
The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) is a labor union made up of 1.3 million hard-working men and women in the U.S. and Canada. We are a 501(c)(5) nonprofit organization that believes in the power of ordinary people coming together to improve their lives and make a lasting difference for all working people.
Human Rights & Equality
Partners & Advocates
Washington, DC, USA
World Wide Web Foundation
The Web Foundation works to advance a free and open web 'for everyone' by influencing government and corporate policies to ensure everyone can use the web freely and fully.
Public Infrastructure
Human Rights & Equality
Partners & Advocates
Washington, DC, USA
National Audubon Society
1 open tech
role
The National Audubon Society protects birds and the places they need, today and tomorrow, throughout the Americas using science, advocacy, education, and on-the-ground conservation.
Environment
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY, USA
Earth Species Project
Earth Species Project is an open-source collaborative and nonprofit dedicated to decoding animal communication. We believe that an understanding of non-human languages will change our ecological impact on this planet.
Environment
Partners & Advocates
Remote
Center for Progressive Reform
Center for Progressive Reform envisions a government that uses the full force of its power to curb climate change and ensure a sustainable environment, economic justice, and healthy workplaces and communities for all.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Climate Change
Partners & Advocates
Washington, DC, USA
EnviroIssues
For over 30 years, EnviroIssues has helped to bridge the gap between the planning of built environments, and the communities and natural resources affected by those development decisions.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Environment
Partners & Advocates
Portland, OR, USA
Portland, OR, USA
Seattle, WA, USA
Girls Inc.
In partnership with schools and at Girls Inc. centers, we focus on the development of the whole girl. She learns to value herself, take risks, and discover and develop her inherent strengths.
Health & Well-Being
Education
Human Rights & Equality
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY, USA
The Hub Project
1 open tech
role
The Hub Project builds coalitions and provides resources, capacity, infrastructure, and expertise to partners in the progressive movement. With experience in communications, digital, organizing, and research, we bring our skills to advocacy campaigns working to strengthen our democracy, protect access to health care, and ensure the economy works for everyone.
Partners & Advocates
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Washington, DC, USA
World Justice Project
1 open tech
role
The World Justice Project® (WJP) is an independent, multidisciplinary organization working to advance the rule of law worldwide. Effective rule of law reduces corruption, combats poverty and disease, and protects people from injustices large and small. It is the foundation for communities of justice, opportunity, and peace—underpinning development, accountable government, and respect for fundamental rights.
Human Rights & Equality
Global Peace & Safety
Partners & Advocates
Washington, DC, USA
Seattle, WA, USA
University of Chicago Urban Labs
UChicago Urban Labs was founded to help cities discover what works to improve human lives
Partners & Advocates
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Chicago, IL, USA
Data Science and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
We work to develop data science for social good, public policy, and practice.
Partners & Advocates
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Stanford RegLab
Working with government agencies to design and evaluate programs, policies, and technologies that modernize governance
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Stanford, CA, USA
The Learning Agency Lab
Armed with the science of learning, our mission is to help both individuals and organizations harness the power of learning to solve problems -- and develop insights. Through strategic support, dedicated communications, and powerful research, we help our partners succeed.
Education
Partners & Advocates
Washington, DC, USA
Common Sense Media
Common Sense is the nation's leading nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of kids and families by providing the trustworthy information, education, and independent voice they need to thrive in the 21st century.
Education
Health & Well-Being
Partners & Advocates
Washington, DC
San Francisco, CA
New York, NY
Los Angeles, CA
Patrick J. McGovern Foundation
We are tech-inspired global changemakers, optimists, and visionaries advancing AI and data solutions to create a thriving, equitable, and sustainable future for all.
Partners & Advocates
Public Infrastructure
Boston, MA
Cohen Veterans Bioscience
Cohen Veterans Bioscience is a national, nonpartisan research 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to fast-tracking the development of diagnostic tests and personalized therapeutics for the millions of veterans and civilians who suffer the devastating effects of trauma-related and other brain disorders.
Health & Well-Being
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Cambridge, MA, USA
New York, NY, USA
Change Research
Change Research conducts research to understand public opinion. We aim to democratize access to public opinion research, in order to create a world where leaders have near-constant contact with the pulse of public opinion and can make more informed decisions.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Environment
Washington, DC
San Francisco, CA
B Lab Global
1 open tech
role
B Lab is the nonprofit network transforming the global economy to benefit all people, communities, and the planet.
Poverty Alleviation & Economic Development
Environment
Partners & Advocates
Climate Change
Philadelphia, PA
New York, NY
London, UK
Denver, CO
Mothers Out Front
We build our power as mothers to ensure a livable climate for all children.
Climate Change
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
San Francisco, CA
New York, NY
Denver, CO
Boston, MA
Arlington, VA
Wiggle Room
Dynamic child care that works for working parents and early childhood educators.
Poverty Alleviation & Economic Development
Education
Partners & Advocates
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Unite America
1 open tech
role
Unite America is a movement of Democrats, Republicans, and independents working to bridge the growing partisan divide and foster a more representative and functional government. We’re focused on scaling and accelerating the movement to put voters first, and ensure that the right leaders have the right incentives to solve our country’s greatest problems.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Denver, CO
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
At the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), we focus on creative answers to today's energy challenges. From breakthroughs in science to new clean technologies that power our lives, NREL researchers are transforming the way the nation and the world use energy.
Clean Energy
Climate Change
Public Infrastructure
Partners & Advocates
Golden, CO
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy. The Museum lives in two iconic sites in New York City—The Met Fifth Avenue and The Met Cloisters. Millions of people also take part in The Met experience online. Since its founding in 1870, The Met has always aspired to be more than a treasury of rare and beautiful objects. Every day, art comes alive in the Museum's galleries and through its exhibitions and events, revealing new ideas and unexpected connections across time and across cultures.
Education
Public Infrastructure
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY, USA
Public Agenda
Public Agenda is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening democracy and expanding opportunity for all Americans.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY, USA
Government Accountability Project
Government Accountability Project’s mission is to promote corporate and government accountability by protecting whistleblowers, advancing occupational free speech, and empowering citizen activists. Founded in 1977, Government Accountability Project is the nation’s leading whistleblower protection and advocacy organization. Located in Washington, DC, Government Accountability Project is a nonpartisan, public interest group. In addition to focusing on whistleblower support in our stated program areas, we lead campaigns to enact whistleblower protection laws both domestically and internationally.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Washington, DC, USA
Environmental Investigation Agency
Environmental non-profit seeking to protect the environment with intelligence.
Environment
Climate Change
Global Peace & Safety
Partners & Advocates
Washington D.C., DC, USA
Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation
The Beeck Center improves systems that are the foundation for daily life, using data, design, technology, and policy as instruments for equitable societal change.
Partners & Advocates
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Washington, DC
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
We are a world-class medical destination at the forefront of transformative education, science, medicine and healthcare. From heart disease to cancer, Alzheimer’s to COVID-19, we are solving the biggest health problems today and advancing the life-changing discoveries of tomorrow. At the CU Anschutz Medical Campus, the possibilities are truly endless.
Health & Well-Being
Education
Partners & Advocates
Aurora, CO, USA
Convergence | Center for Policy Resolution
We convene individuals and organizations with divergent views to build trust, identify solutions, and form alliances for action on critical national issues. We bring deep knowledge of policy and process and work with leaders and doers to move past divergent views to identify workable solutions to seemingly intractable issues.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
San Francisco, CA
Washington, DC
Remote
WEPOWER
WEPOWER's mission is to activate community power to re-design education, economic, health, and justice systems to be just and equitable for all.
Human Rights & Equality
Poverty Alleviation & Economic Development
Partners & Advocates
St. Louis, MO, USA
Anitab.org
At AnitaB.org, we envision a future where the people who imagine and build technology mirror the people and societies for whom they build it.
Human Rights & Equality
Partners & Advocates
Belmont, CA, USA
Upturn
Upturn promotes equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of digital technology. Our research and advocacy combines technical fluency and creative policy thinking to confront patterns of inequity, especially those rooted in race and poverty.
Partners & Advocates
Human Rights & Equality
Poverty Alleviation & Economic Development
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Washington D.C., DC, USA
Affect
At Affect, we come to work every day because we want to solve the biggest problems in mental healthcare. We don’t wait for the “next big thing”; we are out chasing it, building it, and improving it.
Health & Well-Being
Partners & Advocates
Cambridge, MA, USA
350.org
We're an international movement of ordinary people working to end the age of fossil fuels and build a world of community-led renewable energy for all.
Climate Change
Clean Energy
Partners & Advocates
San Francisco, CA, USA
New York, NY, USA
Fight for the Future
Fight for the Future is dedicated to protecting and expanding the Internet’s transformative power in our lives by creating civic campaigns that are engaging for millions of people.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Public Infrastructure
Boston, MA, USA
National LGBTQ Task Force
The National LGBTQ Task Force advances full freedom, justice and equality for LGBTQ people.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Human Rights & Equality
Partners & Advocates
Washington, DC
New York, NY
Miami, FL
MIT Sociotechnical Systems Research Center
We bring together faculty, researchers, students and staff from across MIT to develop collaborative, holistic and systems-based approaches for the study of the high-impact, complex, sociotechnical systems that shape our world.
Partners & Advocates
Global Peace & Safety
Climate Change
Cambridge, MA, USA
The Jackson Laboratory
At The Jackson Laboratory (JAX), we apply passion, innovation and ever-increasing precision to make it possible to live fully — without disease. JAX’s mission is bold: to discover precise genomic solutions for disease and empower the global biomedical community in the shared quest to improve human health.
Health & Well-Being
Education
Partners & Advocates
Bar Harbor, ME, USA
The Human Diagnosis Project
The Human Diagnosis Project (also referred to as “Human Dx” or “the Project”) is a worldwide effort, created with and led by the global medical community, to build an open intelligence system that maps the steps to help any patient. By combining the collective intelligence of medical professionals and trainees with machine learning, Human Dx intends to enable more accurate, affordable, and accessible care for all.
Health & Well-Being
Partners & Advocates
San Francisco, CA, USA
RTI International
An independent nonprofit research institute dedicated to improving the human condition
Partners & Advocates
Health & Well-Being
Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
Fort Collins, CO, USA
Waltham, MA, USA
Chicago, IL, USA
Public Policy Lab
We're a non-profit that works at the intersection of human-centered design and public policy. We partner with government to design great public services with low-income and at-risk communities.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law and Policy
The Tech Institute is a hub for policymakers, academics, advocates, and technologists to study and discuss how to center humans and the social good, using technology as a tool.
Partners & Advocates
Global Peace & Safety
Washington, DC, USA
Center for Effective Government
At the Center for Effective Government, we work to strengthen institutions of democracy and improve the capability of our government to solve public problems. Solving the problems of government ineffectiveness is hard work, and requires a multi-faceted theory of action. The Center for Effective Government organizes its work and activities, and builds bridges between its stakeholders—scholars, students, practitioners, leaders, journalists, and advocates—around three key areas: ideas, education, and engagement.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Chicago, IL. USA
Vital Strategies
We are a global public health organization that designs solutions to pressing health problems. Our reach includes five international offices, a global network of leading experts and impact in 73 countries.
Health & Well-Being
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY, USA
StriveTogether
StriveTogether was founded on a simple principle: Those who care about a community’s children — from parents and educators to civic leaders and local employers — can accomplish more by working together than by working apart.
Poverty Alleviation & Economic Development
Education
Human Rights & Equality
Partners & Advocates
Cincinnati, OH
Internet Bar
Internetbar.org Institute (IBO) was founded to be a bar organization for the Internet. Traditionally, bar associations connect, educate and define professional standards for those who are members (lawyers).
Human Rights & Equality
Public Infrastructure
Partners & Advocates
Houston, TX, USA
Gladstone Institutes
To ensure our work does the greatest good, Gladstone Institutes focuses on conditions with profound medical, economic, and social impact—unsolved diseases of the brain, the heart, and the immune system.
Health & Well-Being
Partners & Advocates
San Francisco, CA, USA
Los Angeles Coalition for Reproductive Justice
The Los Angeles Coalition for Reproductive Justice (LACRJ) is a coalition of over 20 social justice and health organizations collaborating to enhance reproductive health, rights, and justice in Los Angeles.
Health & Well-Being
Human Rights & Equality
Partners & Advocates
Los Angeles, CA, USA
GDI
Our mission is to catalyse change. We aim to disrupt the business model of disinformation, breaking the perverse incentives that exist to create and disseminate disinformation online. GDI provides independent, neutral and transparent data and intelligence to advise policymakers and business leaders about how to combat disinformation and its creators.
Public Infrastructure
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY, USA
London, UK
The Center for Victims of Torture
The Center for Victims of Torture works toward a future in which torture ceases to exist and its victims have hope for a new life. We are an international nonprofit dedicated to healing survivors of torture.
Human Rights & Equality
Global Peace & Safety
Partners & Advocates
Minneapolis, MN
Crowdpac
Crowdpac is the social network for politics where Progressive Candidates and Constituents Ignite Change in Our Democracy
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Washington, DC, USA
Tuple Health
We’re physician-led and committed to understanding the problems involved in taking care of patients. We design new models of care and build the technology to make them happen.
Health & Well-Being
Partners & Advocates
Washington, DC, USA
Commonwealth Fusion Systems
15 open tech
roles
Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) was spun out of MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center to leverage the decades of fusion research combined with the innovation and speed of the private sector.
Clean Energy
Partners & Advocates
Cambridge, MA, USA
The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research
We’re dedicated to speeding research from the lab to practical breakthroughs patients can feel in their everyday lives.
Health & Well-Being
Partners & Advocates
New York, NY, USA
Arizona Coalition for Change
Arizona Coalition for Change is a Black-led organization with a dynamic multicultural team that empowers everyday people to transform their community through building civic power, leadership development, and community collaboration. We advocate for lasting progressive public policies that change the dynamics for our communities by putting people first. We work to develop and uplift voices in our communities to take on our nation's most pressing issues.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Tucson, AZ
Phoenix, AZ
Remote
ReJoule
From the start, we recognized how a lack of battery health information could lead to huge waste across the ecosystem, particularly at a battery’s end-of-life. Our goal is to enable repurposing, which extends batteries’ useful lives and allows them to store energy again and again! Thus, the name ReJoule: Energy, Again.
Clean Energy
Environment
Partners & Advocates
Signal Hill, CA, USA
ORCID
ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier (an ORCID iD) that you own and control, and that distinguishes you from every other researcher. You can connect your iD with your professional information — affiliations, grants, publications, peer review, and more. You can use your iD to share your information with other systems, ensuring you get recognition for all your contributions, saving you time and hassle, and reducing the risk of errors.
Partners & Advocates
Public Infrastructure
Bethesda, MD, USA
Center for Translational Data Science (CTDS)
The Center for Translational Data Science (CTDS) at the University of Chicago is a research center whose mission is to develop the discipline of translational data science to impactful problems in biology, medicine, healthcare, and the environment. We envision a world in which researchers have ready access to the data needed and the tools required to make data driven discoveries that increase our scientific knowledge and improve the quality of life. We architect ecosystems of large-scale commons of research data, computing resources, applications, tools, and services for the broader research community to use data at scale to pursue scientific inquiry and accelerate discovery. Learn more at https://gdc.cancer.gov/ , https://gen3.org/ , https://stats.gen3.org/ , and https://ctds.uchicago.edu/.
Health & Well-Being
Partners & Advocates
Environment
Chicago, IL, USA
Results for Development
Working with change agents around the globe to create self-sustaining systems that support healthy, educated people.
Partners & Advocates
Health & Well-Being
Washington, DC, USA
Center for Research on Computation and Society
The Center for Research on Computation and Society (CRCS), at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, brings together computer scientists and scholars from a broad range of fields to make advances in computational research that serve public interest.
Partners & Advocates
Cambridge, MA, USA
NAACP
We envision an inclusive community rooted in liberation where all persons can exercise their civil and human rights without discrimination. Our mission is to achieve equity, political rights, and social inclusion by advancing policies and practices that expand human and civil rights, eliminate discrimination, and accelerate the well-being, education, and economic security of Black people and all persons of color.
Public Service & Civic Engagement
Partners & Advocates
Human Rights & Equality
Baltimore, MD, USA
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