List of hackathons about non-profit in 2020

Sustainability and data professionals in the Netherlands! Navara and The Rock Group invite you to take part in their Data Science and Sustainability Hackathon in Amsterdam! In this hackathon, you'll be challenged to help Too Good To Go and their app that helps battle food waste. You'll be asked to collaborate with like-minded individuals to develop concrete ideas to use data science and sustainability to increase the impact Too Good To Go and their app. Prior to the event, get answers to your hackathon questions on the expert tips page!

Calling UX designers, developers, product owners, marketers, programmers, sales execs, HR professionals, and others who support the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQIA+) community! You're invited to participate in the Employee Diversity Hackathon – Brighton Pride 2020. The theme of the event is how General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) data is processed for transgender employees as they undergo gender transition. You'll be part of a multi-disciplinary team of 4-6 people. Your team will design and prototype a high-impact GDPR solution to one of three set challenges related to storing data with regards to LGBTQIA+, with particular emphasis on trans persons record keeping. Collaborate and compete for your share of a £4,000 cash prize pool. The winning project will have an original idea, that innovative, customer-focused, and well-executed.

Startup types and techies in and around Kiel and Schleswig-Holstein! You're invited to take part in the 3-day PrototypingJam, where you can start your own project, or solve as a challenge faced by a sponsor company or non-profit organization. Spend three days collaborating to design and prototype a website, app, video game, robot, or whatever springs to your mind! Pitch your project to all participants for the recognition of your peers. Maybe you'll follow up to complete your project at Prototypingweek which takes place two weeks after PrototypingJam. The tips page contains lots of practical info on hackathon participation!

DecentralHacks is a community-driven hackathon that spans over an entire week and encourages developing blockchain-centric solutions that can affect social good, especially in fields like FinTech, healthcare, and education. The event will take place from August 21st to 28th, and will be conducted entirely online. Whether you’re a novice or a veteran developer, a student or a master, DecentralHacks is the perfect opportunity for you to demonstrate your skills and witness the competitive yet welcoming blockchain developer community at its best.

Mandatory quarantine orders necessitated by the spread of COVID-19 have given rise to a dramatic increase in gender-based violence across the globe. In honour of South Africa’s Women’s Month, Microsoft is sponsoring a 11-week hackathon, challenging teams of 3-6 people to develop applications to support those experiencing gender-based violence.

Helix Hacks is a hackathon designed to inspire and empower young coders to pursue and develop their programming skills. Over the course of 30 hours, teams of 2-4 particpants will work to develop a software project that helps to solve a real-world problem. Due to quarantine, we have converted to an online hackathon so that our participants still have the same opportunity to learn and explore. We guarantee the same amount of fun, experience, and opportunity despite the hackathon being virtual. Website - https://helixhacks.com Participation is completely FREE and almost no or very minimal coding experience required to participate. Sign-up to get a chance to win many amazing prizes, meet some wonderful new people, attend numerous interactive workshops, gain guidance from experienced mentors and present to highly qualified judges. ~ Helix Hacks Team

National University of Singapore Pharmaceutical Society (NUSPS)isorganising ‘Beyond! Health Hack 2020’, a virtual hackathon for future healthcare professionals from across Asia-Pacific. Organised in partnership with the International Pharmaceutical Students’ Federation and International Federation of Medical Students Association.

The third M+ Hackathon, ‘City of Objects’, will take place online on 1–15 August 2020. We invite students, designers, artists, technologists, and cultural enthusiasts to embark on a journey that explores the concept of objects through different lenses—everyday life, personal and cultural identities, and virtuality. The format of this hackathon will be in the style of a two-week online design thinking workshop where facilitators Chun-wo Pat and Christian Marc Schmidt will invite participants to create projects that examine, interpret, and activate objects in a visual culture context. Participants are encouraged to make use of design practices to engage with a wide range of materials, from photographs to data sets. The M+ Collections open data set will also be made available through the M+open accessprogramme—over 6,200 records can be explored on the M+Collections Beta platform, via theM+ GitHub repositoryand thepublic M+ API. No knowledge of coding is required to participate in this hackathon, and any out-of-the-box software and techniques can be used. Read more and join the discussionhere.

We believe that you learn best by doing. That's why we're launching a hackathon - to empower the next generation to learn and refine real world skills through team-building and tangible product creation. ModHacks is a 48-hour competition for you to learn through creation. At the end, you'll get to pitch your product, whether entirely new or a continuation of a previous idea, to a panel of judges, for cash and prizes

Bloom (bloomstartup.tech) is a student-led organization that aims to close the tech gender barrier in society. We empower girls from around the nation and give them the tools they need to become the future generation’s inventors, engineers, and entrepreneurs. Our program, a 4-day makeathon (July 23 - 26),encourages girls in high school to solve a problem in their community and pitch it to a panel of judges.Over the course of the makeathon, girls gain a plethora of experience in identifying problems and thinking of innovative solutions.