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Make an impact on real world problems in a single weekend!
HSI is back! Join Hack for Social Impact once again to tackle real-world challenges! We are teaming up with non-profit partners to present you with important, pressing, & well-scoped challenges. These problems can be solved by you!
Last year's winners went to present at UN Climate Conference & build startups that get accepted to YC & raise seed funding. More info in 2024 recap on the website.
Your weekend hack can be next year's success story!
For this year's challenges, we have partnered with 6 Bay Area organizations on problems that need your technical expertise:
Homelessness:
1.Project Homeless Connect: A 92% funding cliff threatens homelessness services in one of the largest SF organizations serving local communities
2.California Homeless Youth Project: Homeless youth face exhausting, repetitive intakes across agencies-trauma-informed AI can capture needs once & streamline access to housing, health, & safety.
Climate:
3. Point Blue Conservation Science: Massive biodiversity datasets remain underused despite their potential to shape federal & state policy & direct multi-million-dollar habitat funding-natural-language tools & impact tracking can democratize access.
Real Estate Corruption:
4.Center for Investigative Reporting: Hidden corruption is buried in terabytes of real estate filings-network analysis can trace ownership webs & expose financial flows.
Justice:
5.The Innocence Center: Wrongfully convicted people still use a manual repetitive paper applications- can AI generate structured case files to accelerate exonerations?
Information Democracy:
6.Mission Local: Critical civic records are siloed or hidden behind slow request processes-Can AI fuse datasets, flag anomalies, & surface accountability stories in real time?
In addition to cash prizes & perks from our sponsors, winners will get the chance to implement their ideas with our partners & drive meaningful change.
For more information on the event & a recap of last year, visit our website!
Our Sponsors:
Google, Bild AI (Hack for Social Impact 2024 team -> sponsor, accepted into YC immediately after the hackathon & raised seed funding from OpenAI's first investor)
Interested in joining the HSI team? Contact us!
Interested in becoming a sponsor? Contact us!
Interested in pro-bono work? Join the list!
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