[werber]

Does anyone know of something similar for matching technical people with non profits? I’m suddenly filled with free time and want to find a non profit with short term technical needs. Ideally looking to help lgbtq organizations if that helps

[Normal_gaussian]

Your best bet is to draw up a list of 30 (at least) organisations that you are willing to help. Draw up a list of at least 10 "specific" examples of ways you can help.

Email those organisations with a brief introduction explaining who you are, that you have found yourself available, you specifically want to help organisations like theirs [because X], and that you are willing to help in the following ways [...].

You'll get one or two back in the timeframe you are available for that have actually had your message read by someone both senior and knowledgable enough to work out how they can make use of you.

[kristopolous]

At least before its acquisition, grindr had its hand in a bunch of non-profit tech stuff.

I don't know if they consolidated it to a specific website. The times I ran into them, they were focused on homeless lgbt (they thought some app would help) and other kinds of public health initiatives involving racism, transphobia, safe spaces, all that ... don't assume the attitude of the users on the platform reflect that of the company, they seemed to be pretty upstanding. [1]

It looked like they had an extensive network. You could probably reach out to them over a general email address ...

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[1] this isn't uncommon. LA Weekly and Village Voice used to do good, well financed local journalism but most of the funding came from backpage, a site where sex workers advertised. Browsing for a night a thrills financed reporters covering city council meetings, really.

[anticsapp]

I never knew grindr did that, that's awesome.

[artur_makly]

Checkout https://Catchafire.org it has an extensive directory of NGOs that which you filter by various criteria.

I had the privilege to lead all product UX and UI on this new version. happy to do the same again for the right startup. just DM me.

[mattmanser]

Getting Https error on the site.

[artur_makly]

apologies...http://catchafire.org/

[rijoja]

Hi, not LBQT strictly even though there's an ideological underpinning in the project that aims to help those.

What I'm doing short term is to try to enable people with disabilities to write on computers.

I noticed that this might fill a gap in VR usage for productive purposes.

At heart I want to be openminded and work honestly against the truth so I'd like to set up a non profit to further this research.

Have a lot of cool ideas. Can't do very much atm as I ran out of funds was forced to apply for a job. Now my hands are a bit tied by the IP clause in my contract.

http://tbf-rnd.life

trbefrrnd at gmail.com

[roshanj]

Check out https://ovio.org/ -- they target matching developers with Open Source projects, and many of them are for non-profit causes (several COVID-19 related projects right now: https://explore.ovio.org/covid-19)

[rapnie]

I couldn't easily determine, but they seem a for-profit company. Do you know what their business model is?

[gogoincar]

Don’t know if you’re looking for paid work or not, but https://explore.ovio.org/projects could be a helpful place to browse.

[philipcamilleri]

hey Werber -- have you checked outintech and startout.org? (Also, for covid-related projects, helpwithcovid.com seems to be doing a great job). HTH.

[werber]

Never heard of either, thanks so much

[mijkal]

TWIF (The World Is Fun): https://www.theworldisfun.org