#TechForClimate campaign by Tech To The Rescue unlocks tech resources to help over 120 nonprofit organizations build ClimateTech solutions.
Tech To The Rescue is a Poland-based foundation that transforms the way nonprofits operate, providing them with access to pro bono digital services offered by partner tech companies. TTTR has already facilitated over 250 impactful collaborations between IT companies and NGOs, of total market value estimated at $6 million.
TTTR’s last campaign – #TechForClimate – focuses on climate-oriented non-profits, acting in the area of renewable energy, carbon removal, green transport, climate education, forest, oceans and land conservation, and others.
Over 120 non-profit organizations from around the world have submitted their Climate Tech projects, and first collaborations have just begun.
| Project name: Interactive map for monitoring forest plots |
| Non-profit partner: Sengires fondas – The Ancient Woods Foundation (Lithuania) |
| Tech partner: Think Evolve Consultancy LLP (India) |
| About the project: The Ancient Woods Foundation preserves old, primeval forests. Based on more than 50 scientific criteria, it seeks out and purchases the most biologically valuable forest plots, allowing them to develop naturally and protecting them from any human activity Together with Think Evolve Consultancy, The AW Foundation wants to create an interactive map that can be used both for internal purposes (monitoring, research) and for the public (visits). The map would locate actual plots and guide people to avoid crossing the boundaries of protected areas. |
| Project name: Data visualization platform to illustrate CO2 emissions eliminated by youth transit |
| Non-profit partner: Small Change Fund (Canada) |
| Tech partner: MVP Match (Germany) |
| About the project: The project aims to transform the way Canadians use transit, as Canada’s transportation sector currently produces 27% of GHG emissions. For years, Small Change Fund has been implementing free youth passes for public transportation in cities across the country. Now the non-profit wants to create an online tracking system to illustrate the climate benefits and the volume of CO2 emissions eliminated by youth transit use: every day, week, month and year. The system would track youth transit uptake and the corresponding reduction in transit-related pollution and present the data in a compelling way to illustrate the environmental value of the project. |
| Project name: Website with map showing renewable energy in NYS & Automated job listing database |
| Non-profit partner: Renewable Energy Long Island (US) |
| Tech partner: Tribe AI (US) |
| About the project: Renewable Energy Long Island (reLI), promotes clean, sustainable energy use and generation on Long Island. reLI is committed to accelerate the transition to a 100% renewable energy economy. The reLi wants to build a website with a map of NYS & every municipality therein that would show each municipality’s renewable energy mix –. how much is produced within that municipality vs how much is the municipality consumed. Also, the non-profit is planning to build a database that would automatically pull job reports in this field to our website without continuously updating it manually. |
| Project name: Online platform to encourage sustainable commute to school |
| Non-profit partner: Fundacja Rodzic w mieście – Parent in the city foundation (Poland) |
| Tech partner: 2n (Poland) |
| About the project: Parent in the City Foundation works in the field of urban parenting and encourages parents to walk or bike through the city with their children. Data shows that morning traffic caused by parents using cars to get to school is responsible for about 25-30% of all car traffic. The intensive use of cars causes air pollution (93% of children in cities breathe toxic air) and dangerous situations (when parents stop in a hurry or park cars on sidewalks or crosswalks). The project aims to encourage parents to use bicycles more often by developing a tool to help them on their daily commute to kindergarten or school. |
Quotes:
Jacek Siadkowski, CEO at Tech To The Rescue:
As a humanity, we have probably never faced a greater challenge than climate change. We know that technology can help – but the key is to unite and connect the resources of key stakeholders. We see non-profit organizations as critical players in mitigating climate change, especially for local communities. And they need technology to have 2, 5, or 10 times the impact - this is where Tech To The Rescue can help by matching them with a trusted tech partner.
Ben Kinsella, Product Lead at Tribe AI:
Our team at Tribe AI is so grateful to have taken part in TTR's #TechforClimate campaign. As a distributed network of ML and AI professionals, we are passionate about finding ways to leverage data and technology to help solve some of the toughest environmental and climate challenges.
About Tech To The Rescue
Since 2020, Tech To The Rescue has been selecting digital projects in the social sector and finding companies willing to implement them pro bono or low bono. Currently, over 1400 companies and 840 NGOs from 5 continents are part of the community and over 250 impactful projects have been launched.
In 2022, Tech To The Rescue launched several campaigns on problem areas such as #AnimalWelfare, #TechForClimate and #TechForUkraine – an immediate crisis response to the war in Ukraine. In just a few days, over 540 companies from 40 countries pledged to support nonprofits helping Ukraine, and over 110 NGOs from Poland, Ukraine, Romania, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States submitted their projects. Digitization of the third sector in Ukraine was urgently needed, as nonprofits lacked resources to develop strategic digital solutions in a professional manner. Read more about the Ukraine campaign here.
Partners of Tech To The Rescue include Ashoka, Voice, NVO Akceleratirous, Biji Biji, Sektor 3.0, and Google.org.
For more information, contact: media@techtotherescue.org