List of hackathons about non-profit in 2017

Transgender techies and allies! WeAreTechWomen invites you to sign up to participate in the Trans*Code International Transgender Day of Visibility Social and Hackathon. This is an all-day hackathon to mark International Transgender Day of Visibility. You'll collaborate to discuss and create ideas that will help raise awareness of -- and help counter -- the discrimination faced by the transgender community worldwide. Sign up here for the pre-hackathon social.

Lady Chicagoans! Chi Hack Night and Smart Chicago Collaborative invite you to participate in Women in Civic Tech: Amplifiers of Community Voice. The event will begin with a series of talks in celebration of Women’s History Month. Following those, you'll be able to participate in a mini-hackathon with your peers and members of the Chi Hack Night community, where you'll collaborate in groups and work on projects, discuss potential ideas, and share your skills.

Students in the North West! Are you interested in the impact of gardens on local communities? If so, then you should plan to participate in the upcoming UWB Hackathon series. And to prepare for that, the UWB Hackathon Planning Committee invites you to attend pre-Hackathon events. You'll get the opportunity to see demos of gardening techniques, as well introducing you to sensors, IoT devices and embedded systems.

Lady Chicagoans! Chi Hack Night and Smart Chicago Collaborative invite you to participate in Women in Civic Tech: Creators & Founders. The event will begin with a series of talks in celebration of Women’s History Month. Following those, you'll be able to participate in a mini-hackathon with your peers and members of the Chi Hack Night community, where you'll collaborate in groups and work on projects, discuss potential ideas, and share your skills.

AquaHacking is a five-month long hack-a-thon that catalyzes stakeholders who want to protect our freshwater – citizens, decision makers, practitioners, researchers, NGOs – to take action. AquaHacking challenges young digital designers and coders, aspiring water experts and entrepreneurs to develop applications that raise awareness about water issues, and that solve water problems. There is $75,000 in prize money available, in addition to access to local accelerators and mentors for winning teams. The Challenge: Water experts, hackers, engineers, and other creative minds work together as a team for 10 weeks to develop functional, marketable innovations to help solve Lake Erie’s water issues. The competition runs from April - September, with semi-finals in June and the finals in September. Anyone 18 or older is welcome. We are looking for creative minds, whatever their field of expertise, but especially students, water researchers, developers, digital designers, programmers, engineers, technology enthusiasts, entrepreneurs and people who want to save the world! The Issues Teams Have to Tackle This Year: Spreading #LakeErieLove All eyes on Erie Stopping the invaders to keep our fisheries fishable Stemming the plastic tide Taking on the algae monster Join us on March 29 at the University of Waterloo for an information session on how you can be a part of this innovative movement!

Young women and girls in and around Lagos Nigeria! Are you interested in computer programming? Venture Garden Group invites you to sign up to participate in the She Codes Africa event and hackathon. This all-female event comprises a photo session, an impact panel, the hackathon, followed by the award ceremony for the hackathon.

College students aged 18 and over! Are you passionate about tech? Want to showcase your skills with software and hardware — see how you measure up against your peers? UVa-Wise Abingdon invites you to sign up and participate in their inaugural WiseHacks hackathon! You'll get to spend 24 hours learning, networking and collaborating to solve a problem of your choice! Build your website, mobile app or hardware hack and demo a usable prototype to a panel of judges. Have fun, learn a lot, meet great people and maybe win some sweet prizes.

Moroccan techies and geeks in and around Tangier! Hack & Pitch invites you to sign up for Geeks On A Bus to the HEM Tangier Campus. This event is designed to promote entrepreneurship and encourage the creation of new technology startups. This will be one of twelve regional Hack & Pitch Hackathons and the best projects will be selected for a pre-acceleration program. Be prepared for Hack & Pitch with the best hackathon advice!

University students and middle/secondary school students — males and females! If you're a techie, then you're invited to sign up to participate in #codeathon ASEAN+ @ Singapore! You'll be challenged to collaborate in a team to conceive and build a rapid prototype software app that addresses the theme of “Technopreneurship for Gender Equality”

Open data enthusiasts in and around Nashville, TN! Code for Nashville invites you to sign up to participate in the Public Health Hackathon. You'll be challenged to use the web-based Mappler interactive mapping tool to mine and display the open data published by Metro Nashville in order to create compelling stories and tools for use by the administrators and citizens ot the metropolitan Nashville area.