List of hackathons about non-profit in 2016

Interested in the plight of refugees? Think you know how technology solutions could help? PeaceGeeks & Simon Fraser University invite you to come and participate in #PeaceHacks. You'll collaborate with like-minded individuals in a mini-hackathon, where you'll explore ways in which innovative technology solutions can help increase access to services for refugees and strengthen intercultural integration.

The Ministry of Education, University and Research invites students in and around Caserta and Napoli to sign up for the hackathon at the Week PNSD Caserta 2016. You will be challenged to hack in areas such as logic and computational thinking, education to media, STEM and educational robotics, educational innovation, art and digital culture, and environmental design.

Interested in how technology can help improve the lives of people with disabilities? Want to use your creativity and skills to build apps that provide greater accessibility? Come and join the Neue Nähe, the hackathon for more inclusion and participation that is sponsored by Aktion Mensch and Microsoft Deutschland. You can choose from three projects, which are available on GitHub: »Interchangeable Communication »Extend Accessibility Now »Inclusion Promoting Life Hacks

Are you shocked by the amount of food that is wasted, while people around the world are starving? Do you believe that in today's' world, there is a technology solution that could help reduce that waste in Austria and maybe distribute the food to where it's needed? Come and participate in the Food Waste Hackathon Vienna. This event is an opportunity to collaborate with like-minded individuals to reduce food waste in Austria.

Hackers in and around Brussels! Interested in issues of gender equality? Are you a supporter of open data? Amazone & the Brussels Regional Informatics Centre (CIRB-CIBG) invite you to sign up for the first HACKATHON - Open Data & Gender. The goal of this event is to leverage technology to help stimulate commitment for gender equality in Brussels and the surrounding area. You will be challenged to design and create innovative gender-smart apps that are based on open data.

Coders, designers. hackers in Reunion! DIECCTE, Simplon Meeting, and Digital Meeting invite you to sign up to participate in the Hackathon NxSE. This is the first hackathon in Reunion dedicated to mobilizing developers / designers and students at digital technology schools. You'll collaborate with like-minded technologists to help address challenges related to training and start-ups. You will be expected to develop a prototype solution to a problem that will be unveiled at the event.

Kids, aged 9 to 15! Form a team of four and sign up to participate in the Startup For Kids Mini Hackathon. Give free rein to your imagination around a theme that you'll be given at the event. Your team can choose how you wish to address the theme: »Making an animated object »Write a story (illustrated or not) »Creating a video game

Scientists, engineers, computer scientists, designers! If you're 18 or older and are creative and have a love of science, then come and participate in Science Hack Day Dublin. This is a 36-hr hardware and software hackathon where participants are challenged to make interesting things. You'll be challenged to an intense period of collaboration, making, hacking, and building of ‘cool stuff’. Who knows what awesome stuff you'll be able to create?

Interested in good policing? Come and participate in a day-long hackathon and explore data science models and D3 visualizations to help the efforts of the Citizens Police Data Project. You'll be helping to support a national model of transparency and accountability for police actions. You'll collaborate with like-minded individuals on a project in one of three broad areas: »Data Visualization: Using d3, Gephi, and any other visualization tools, create a compelling and informative story. »Data Science: Create a propagation model to understand the impact of reassigning police officers. »Data Engineering: Add functionality to ResponseBot, CPDP's chatbot.

Want to help break down the barriers to female entrepreneurship? Want to help more women enter and succeed in the technology sector? Come and participate in the Lady Problem Global Hackathon Series in Santiago, Chile! Collaborate with like-minded women—and men—in an effort to build creative solutions to realize the potential of the female half of our world population! You'll be asked to hack a solution to one of the following challenges: »Health: Help women access health resources to ensure that they can have successful careers, regardless of whether or not they choose to have children. »Safety: Help ensure that women can be safe when they go to, are at, and come home from work. »Economic Empowerment: Help women gain financial literacy and access the resources they need to grow their businesses. »Culture: Help women access better mentorship and feel less isolated in the workplace.