List of hackathons about non-profit in 2016

5th-8th grade students in San Jose. Ask your parents to sign you up for the Scratch Hackathon for 5th-8th Graders, a premiere hackathon for elementary and middle school kids. You'll meet with kids like you and work in teams to compete for prizes. You don't have to be an expert Scratch coder! There are prizes for beginners and for advanced students at both the elementary and middle school levels.

Our military fights every day to protect all the people we know and love. Join the VetsinTech Fall 2016 Gala to support homeward bound veterans assimilate into the tech community. Money raised from this event will be used to help veterans get jobs, go back to school, and start their own businesses. The gala will have many ways to participate including a sponsor reception, dinner, entertainment, awards, raffles and both live and silent auctions.

Women and people of color! Come and hack for diversity at the Strideforce Hosts Hack for Diversity! You'll be part of a team — architect, business analyst, designer, developer, salesforce admin, and SME. Your challenge will be to prototype an app to help nonprofits better serve their trainees in the effort to get them employed. Collaborate with like-minded developers with aspiring developers to begin to build the application interface.

Digital game enthusiasts! Think you can design an awesome game that has social relevance? Come along and showcase your techie and design skills at the 2016 Startup Hackathon Monterey Bay. This three-day technology development competition features a "Game-a-thon", where you will collaborate to create Digital Games that solve community problems. You'll work in a team to design and create a game that addresses one of the community problems that will be presented to you.

A one-day event where participants conceptualize and create projects that have no value whatsoever.

Are you interested in open research? Do you revel in exploring innovative approaches to communicating results and sharing outputs? Come and participate in the Open Research for Academics hackathon sponsored by the British Academy! Collaborate, or work on your own, to take concrete steps to make your own research more open. Maybe you can share a dataset, set up a research blog or project website, plan an engagement project, pitch a news article, or create a video biography or podcast.

Developers, designers, businesspeople! Are you interested in tackling Switzerland's food waste? Come and participate in the FoodHack Geneva. Join like-minded individuals to collaborate in on the creation of solutions to help reduce the amount of wasted food and food-related emissions. You'll be part of a team that is expected to conceive, build, and present a great solution to tackle food waste. Potential solutions might include: »Mobile Apps, »On-Demand Services, »Online Gaming, »Concept Stores, or »Innovative Packaging.

Calling students—ages 18-30—from all academic disciplines: urban planning, civil engineering, environmental sustainability, architecture, biology, business and others! Participants will network and learn from green infrastructure industry experts. Participate in the Green Infrastructure Hack-A-Thon! Design your own green infrastructure! Design solutions to: »Reduce storm water flooding! »Increase shade and decrease energy usage in the city! »Increase the natural plants, insects, birds and livability of our city! The best designs will be made into real green infrastructure!

IT developers, graphic & web designers and software techies! Come and participate in HackathonCon 2016 and collaborate on a cross-functional team on a given topic. This event is held in association with ConversionCon and IndustryCon.

Softchoice invites female employees, customers, partners and students to participate in the first ever Softchoice Women in Technology Hackathon. You'll spend a day of invention, collaboration, and imagination in one of Softchoice's offices across Canada and the USA. Working in a group, you will create a concept for a product, service or initiative that will improve the lives of disadvantaged young women and girls in communities around the world.