Hack for Social Impact 2025
🚀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, and well-scoped challenges. These problems can be solved by you!
🏆 Last year's winners went to present at UN Climate Conference and build startups that get accepted to YC and 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 and streamline access to housing, health, and safety.
🌎Climate:
3. Point Blue Conservation Science: Massive biodiversity datasets remain underused despite their potential to shape federal and state policy and direct multi-million-dollar habitat funding—natural-language tools and 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 and 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?
ℹ️Information Democracy:
6.Mission Local: Critical civic records are siloed or hidden behind slow request processes—Can AI fuse datasets, flag anomalies, and surface accountability stories in real time?
🌟In addition to cash prizes and perks from our sponsors, winners will get the chance to implement their ideas with our partners and drive meaningful change.
For more information on the event and a recap of last year, visit our website!
Interested in joining the HSI team? Contact us!
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