Lend your technical expertise to a DPG

This list of DPGs is ever-evolving. Below are just two examples of projects and how you can lend your skills to make a positive impact today.

Human Essentials is an inventory management system for essentials banks. An organization’s essentials bank works to distribute items to their partners and people in need, and Human Essentials helps to track the inventory of those banks, as well as provide statistics about their inventory flows. The banks maintain inventory, receive donations and other human essential supplies (for example, diapers, menstruation supplies), and then issue distributions to community partner organizations. Human Essentials supports over 200 registered essentials banks across the United States and Canada for free and is currently helping over three million children receive diapers. It has also supported over 400,000 people in need of menstruation supplies. How you can help: Human Essentials needs help with a range of issues that are great for beginners and more advanced developers, including implementing password complexity requirements and an improvement for manual testing.

ODK is an open source mobile data collection platform that works across a range of SDGs and is primarily used by organizations working in social impact. The tool has been used for a variety of services, from monitoring cash assistance to 1.6 million foreigners in Türkiye to guiding conservation of flatback turtles in Australia. It helps researchers, field teams, and other professionals build powerful forms to collect whatever data they need.

How you can help: are you a front-end developer? ODK needs help with front-end improvements to make the platform more user-friendly.