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Social Impact
The Social Impact team empowers nonprofits and the greater social sector to drive positive and lasting contributions to the world with GitHub products, our brand, and our employees.
How we’re making a difference
Together with GitHub Tech for Social Good, Kurante has formed a new open source community of monitoring & evaluation practitioners in more than 10 countries in four continents! This community is lowering the barriers for an important social sector vertical to understand if, how and when to use open source solutions, and we’re doing it in an inclusive way.
We are very happy with GitHub’s Skills-Based Volunteering program! The outcome of the project provides a great entry point for DHIS2 web application developers and serves as a first stop in our redesigned DHIS2 Developer Portal welcome page.
Tides can’t say enough how honored we are to be partnering with GitHub. Their work shows how embracing an innovative and thoughtful approach to corporate social impact creates positive benefits for employees, nonprofits and the communities they serve, and ultimately the company.
Leading the Open Source in the Social Sector report research was a unique opportunity to identify critical insights at an incredibly important intersection. The research has already strengthened social sector open source capacity and has led to more research opportunities for Olive Branch International to engage with GitHub Tech for Social Good and use the knowledge gained from the engagement to navigate other open-source opportunities for the social sector.
A critical Diversity, Inclusion, Access and Race Equity lens is needed to truly yield equitable social good. The GitHub Tech for the Social Good team has taken on this lens to ensure that any program outcome, however well intentioned, does not disadvantage the very people it seeks to engage, particularly BIPOC, LGBTQI+, and under-resourced communities.
Our work
Tech for Social
Good
Tech for Social Good leverages GitHub’s platform and products, community and people to strengthen the social sector’s efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Its major programs focus on research, community building, and Skills-Based Volunteering.
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Employee Giving
Employee Giving leverages the power of employee charitable donations, volunteerism, and mentorship to help social sector partners reach those in need.
Volunteering
GitHub employees love to volunteer virtually and in their local communities. Every hour that employees volunteer, they will receive a $20 credit to donate to a nonprofit of their choice, up to $15,000.
Matching
When an employee donates to a nonprofit that they care about, be it human rights or climate change organizations, we match each donation dollar for dollar, up to $15,000.
GitHub Gives
GitHub employees participate each December in our giving campaign to raise funds for our local communities. In 2020, as a company, we raised over $2 million for nonprofits around the world.
Latest insights
Guide to initiating a Skills-Based Volunteering Program
Concrete steps on what to consider when starting an SBV program
Social Impact at GitHub Universe 2021
The GitHub Social Impact team is excited to host a number of events at Universe and we invite you to join us!
Apply now for GitHub Universe 2021 micro-mentoring
To kick the conference off, we’re thrilled on behalf of GitHub Social Impact to start the week with micro-mentoring sessions!
Engagement Opportunities
We currently do not have any engagement opportunities. Please check back for updates.
Sign up for a non-profit account on us.
GitHub non-profit accounts are designed for official non-profit organizations that are non-government, non-academic, non-commercial, non-political in nature, and have no religious affiliation. Qualifying non-profits are eligible for a Team account with unlimited private repositories and unlimited users.
Request a free Team plan Not a nonprofit? Submit a request for your social good project, and we’ll let you know if you qualify for a discount.