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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

$2M+ GitHub employee donations in 2020

13 countries across five continents participate in Social Impact programs

15+ hosted events in 2019-20 with more than 15,000 people attending

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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.

Linda Raftree // Co-Founder of Kurante

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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.

Austin McGee & Debora Galeano // DHIS2

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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.

Erin Ceynar // Senior Advisor, Corporate Social Impact, Tides Foundation

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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.

Gina Assaf // Olive Branch International

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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.

Eboné M. Bishop // DEAI and Race Equity Advisor, CEO & Founder, Evolv

Employee Giving

Employee Giving leverages the power of employee charitable donations, volunteerism, and mentorship to help social sector partners reach those in need.

50+ non-profits received donations by GitHub employees

100+ mentees have been advised by GitHub employees

500+ free team licenses have been distributed

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

Tech for Social Good

Dive into Skills-Based Volunteering’s Pilot Project with DHIS2

Before the official launch of SBV, we tested it as a pilot project with the District Health Information Software 2 (DHIS2)

Tech for Social Good

Request for proposals: Defining standardized GitHub metrics

The GitHub Social Impact and Policy teams are issuing a Request for Proposals for a researcher to define a list of publicly available GitHub platform usage metrics by country for international development, public policy, and economics disciplines.

Tech for Social Good

The MERL Center website is now live!

Nearly two years ago, we started the Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning (MERL) Center as a community...

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Engagement Opportunities

Request for Proposals - Defining Standardized GitHub Metrics

The GitHub Social Impact and Policy teams are issuing an RFP for a researcher to define a list of publicly available GitHub platform usage metrics by country for international development, public policy and economics disciplines. New deadline to apply is Monday, 1 November 2021. Click here to see clarifying questions and answers.

Download the RFP

Participate in our Open Source Software research project

We need your help! We’re looking for participants who have experience with open source software in India, Kenya, Egypt and Mexico.

Learn more

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.

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Want to get involved?

Send us an email and our team will get back to you soon.

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