List of hackathons about non-profit in 2016

Madanyu is inviting you to join a hackers day at King's College to take on computer challenges to solve problems that we face when working with schools and learning centres across the world! You will be forming form small teams to solve challenges with who you will be completing each challenge and earn points. At the end of the day, the winning team with most points will be invited to join the Summer expeditions to India, Kenya, and Mozambique!

Wigan Council, in association with Leigh Hackspace, are running the first ever Wigan Borough 'The Deal In Action' Civic Hackathon to help the Council better understand the needs of the local population, and develop new and innovative digital solutions to local problems.

NHS Navigation Hackathon invites you to come and build an app that will help migrants understand how to use the NHS. If you’re a coder, healthcare professional or have personal experience then you can contribute. The aim of the hackathon is to build the basic structure of an App to help migrants understand how the UK healthcare system works.

Code for the Kingdom Hackathon is bringing together technologists, entrepreneurs, creative’s, and anyone with a love for technology and faith, to developing solutions for real-life society, community, families, and spiritual life issues. Providing the opportunity to use your talent and be the change that is needed and helping release the oppressed, teaching God’s Word, healing the sick, feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, and supporting the church. Tackling challenges with 21st century technologies to serve God’s Kingdom and encourage Christian innovators. A Nashville Area judging panel will choose the awards for best projects.

Join the Red Cross Hackathon focused on the interactions between culture, language, religion, and social cohesion in modern Australia. Participants with a range of perspectives and diverse backgrounds are invited to come together to define a specific ‘problem’ relating to social cohesion and workshop a potential solution in a sprint-style of workshopping. With a clearly defined problem, participants then brainstorm solutions or ‘hacks’ to develop innovative solutions. The types of ideas can be tech-based or not but should focus on an information-drive, systems type solution. Groups will go through an ‘ideation’ phase where they will come up with ideas, a prototype phase where ideas will be tested, and the pitch which will be delivered at the Practitioners’Forum.

The 2016 Hack-A-Thon to support those on the autism spectrum. Experts, individuals on the autism spectrum, their families and those who want to help can come together in an open collaboration event where everyone participates in sharing ideas to hack solutions for autism. There will be three tracks addressing therapy, employment and technology, a Pitch-It event where ideas/innovations are pitched to a team of judges, a Birds-of-a-feather lunch where you can meet with others interested in the same topic/interests, and Keynote talks from people who are making a difference. This is a non-profit event with a mission to fund, create and support opportunities that improve the personal and professional lives of people on the Autism Spectrum. Technology, therapy and employment play a key role to enable them to show their unique talents and abilities in this fast paced world.

This hackathon gives you the opportunity to learn how to program and at the same time do something good! It would be helpful to know the basics of HTML, CSS and JS but it is not a problem if you don't. There will be three to four social projects for web design. Participants will look for a social project that they want to support in the Hackathon and let their imagination run wild! Together with passionate hackers you will form teams to design web applications for a good cause, meet new people and learn how to code!

This is a mini hackathon organized for the Black History Month 2016. This event will be focused on the black trans community through a variety of virtual events featuring trailblazing technologists, culminating with this one day hackathon in San Francisco.

The Square kilometer Array (SKA) Africa project's aim is to change humanity and life as we know it. With this hackathon will provide the SKA Knowledge for you to search for uses of the data that will result and realise socio-economic value for the people of South Africa.

This Qredo Hackathon, wil help ios or Android app developers discover how easy Qredo SDK makes it to get app security right. Bring your own equipment and development tools and be among the first app developers to work with the Qredo open sourced privacy SDK. Win prizes for the best apps developed during the weekend.  The Qredo SDK, documentation, sample code and support of the Qredo dev team will be provided You can compete as an individual or in teams of up to 5 people