GitHub
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
$5M+ GitHub employee donations in 2021
18 countries across six continents participate in Social Impact programs
30+ events participated in 2019-2021 with more than 17,000 people attending
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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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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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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
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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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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
Our work
Tech for Social Good
Tech for Social Good (TSG) 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.
Employee Giving
Employee Giving leverages the power of employee charitable donations, volunteerism, and mentorship to help social sector partners reach those in need.
2,200+ nonprofits received donations from GitHub employees in 2022
10,000+ volunteer hours completed by GitHub employees in 2022
7,500+ free team licenses have been distributed to-date
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 December 2021, as a company, we raised over $1.98 million for nonprofits around the world.
Latest insights
Apply now to our Open Source Community Manager Program to support DPGs!
Tech for Social Good is excited to announce the launch of our new Activating Developers initiative, and our new OS Community Manager Program to support digital public goods. Read More
Tech for Social Good
Social Impact, Tech for Social Good at CSW 2023
Read about the two CSW67 side-events Social Impact, Tech for Social Good is hosting. Read More
Tech for Social Good
How Tech for Social Good supported the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2022
Read about how Tech for Social Good mapped its time to the SDGs in 2022 Read More
Engagement Opportunities
Digital Public Goods Open Source Community Manager
Applications are now open!
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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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