Comic Relief & Paul Hamlyn Foundation Launch New Tech for Good Website

• To help charities and social enterprises be more ready next time there’s a tech for good funding opportunity
• To help funders feel more confident and knowledgeable about how to fund tech for good projects

This is important because although charities have amazing potential to address social challenges through tech many don’t yet understand the guiding tenets of Tech for Good, nor how to apply them. At the same time most charitable trusts and foundations lack the knowledge and confidence of how to make grants for digital products and services.

The Hub’s content programme is part of Comic Relief and PHF’s Tech for Good 2018 funding programme, and its evaluation. This programme includes four features:

1. Twelve grant funded projects who’ll be designing and building their digital service or product between July 2018 - March 2019. Funding award announcement due late May 2018.
2. A programme evaluation, run by inFocus. This’ll be following the projects’ experiences through a series of interviews. And, for the first time, they’ll interview projects from the two previous Tech for Good funding programmes. That way they can find out about their post-grant experiences and longer term impact.
3. Charity funder meetups - Cassie Robinson will be bringing existing and potential charity tech funders together to learn from each other and tech for good experts through bi-monthly London meetups.
4. A full content programme of 40 articles, videos and audio recordings designed to help charities and funders both progress towards the Hub’s goals. Delivered by Joe Roberson, this content will be driven by evaluation evidence but crafted for reader usefulness and enjoyment.

If you’re interested in Tech for Good, or if you think your organisation could be delivering digital services or products to your beneficiaries then the Hub will help you. Same goes for funders. Sign up here or read more.