Happy New Year! 2021 was a huge year for us here at Develop for Good, and we’re extremely excited to further our mission in 2022!
We’d like to thank all of our dedicated volunteers, nonprofit partners, donors, and the rest of the Develop for Good community. Cheers to what we can achieve this year 🙌🏼
📣 Volunteer & nonprofit applications have opened…and will stay open! 📣
Develop for Good will now be accepting student/mentor volunteer applications and nonprofit project proposals year-round. Due to popular demand, we’ll now be operating on a rolling basis, with new projects and volunteer cohorts launched every month. You heard us right; this means you have the flexibility to apply or submit a project request whenever you want!
We’d like to dedicate a special thank to you the Social Impact team @ Okta for a generous financial donation to our program:
“At Okta, we believe that nonprofits do society’s most critical work — and technology is essential to achieving and accelerating their impact. Develop for Good's work sits at an incredible nexus of technology and community impact, and we are thrilled to be able to support your work.”
Develop for Good’s 2021: Wrapped 🎁
Let’s take a look at Develop for Good’s year in review ✨
Our Impact 💪
We’ve increased our volunteer network to 1000+ student volunteers from around the world, who have accumulated 80,000+ volunteer hours.
Stellar Projects 🏆
We’re extremely proud to present the professional work delivered by our student volunteers to their nonprofit clients. Check out our published case studies here!
New Leadership 🚀
We welcomed new leadership to the Develop for Good team:
Ryan Scott, Ex-Design Lead at Airbnb, DoorDash and Palantir alum, and former Develop for Good Advisor, as a full-time Executive Director.
We thanked our very generous financial supporters who helped provide funding and resources for Develop for Good to operate and spread our mission of using tech for social good.
Media Spotlights 💡
Develop for Good was featured on some of the world’s top media platforms:
The Big Fix brings together developers, DevOps, and security practitioners to find and fix security vulnerabilities in a fun, inclusive way. This year, we aim to make software 100x more secure by identifying and fixing 202,200 security vulnerabilities!
For student & mentor volunteers: Sign up for the event by Feb 25 and you’ll learn (in just a few minutes!) how to find and fix security vulnerabilities in your projects (personal or professional) regardless of your skill level. And... If you fix at least one security vulnerability before the end of the event, you’ll get an awesome Big Fix shirt as well.
For nonprofits: Contact Bry Breckenridge (bry.breckenridge@snyk.io) if you’d be interested in having any of your open-source projects fixed for security vulnerabilities through this event!
100+ million lives impacted @ Fast Forward 🚀
Big news about the tech nonprofit sector: together, Develop for Good and our fellow Fast Forward alumni have impacted over 100M lives to date! More on this milestone and the state of #techforgood in Fast Forward's Impact Report!
