Sponsor Code for San Francisco - Code for San Francisco - San Francisco's weekly event to build, share, and learn about civic tech

Support Code for San Francisco

We believe in civic innovation, open data, and open source collaboration.

Code for San Francisco is a community searching for technological solutions to social challenges. We are an all volunteer group of technologists, designers, coders, data scientists, and engaged citizens. Our weekly hack night is open to anyone interested in making San Francisco a better city. See what a typical night looks like.

We depend on the generous support of local organizations to help us run events and for our projects to accomplish their goals. When you donate to Code for San Francisco, you’re supporting the creation of civic technology solutions for the local community.

If you are interested in supporting our organization, please reach out via fundraising@codeforsanfrancisco.org.

Donations are managed through Code for America, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation and your donation is tax deductible.

How we work

Our weekly hack nights offer the San Francisco civic tech community a safe space for experimentation, learning and practicing skills, taking chances, and asking questions, all to effect and encourage positive change. Whenever possible, we proactively reach out to those who are left out, excluded, ignored, or discriminated against. We fail without their involvement.

Can’t make it to hack night? Our projects are organized through Slack and Github. Remote volunteers are welcome.

In addition to our weekly hack nights which draw ~50 participants, we also hold special events throughout the year including:

Demo nights twice a year to showcase what our volunteers have been working on (check out February's event)
National Day Of Civic Hacking as part of a nation-wide collection of events (check out 2017's event)
Open Data Day, as part of a global celebration of open data (check out 2018's event)

Some of our projects and groups see our projects page for many more »

Adopt-a-Drain

Launched in October 2016, the Adopt a Drain Program enables San Francisco residents to "adopt" one of the City's 25,000 storm drains, keeping it free of debris. While helping to reduce localized flooding, the program also fosters community engagement by encouraging San Franciscans to take an active role in improving their neighborhood.

It has since been adopted by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission.

Data Science Working Group

The Data Science Working Group’s primary purpose is to efficiently assess, inspire, and tackle Code for San Francisco’s data science needs, as well as to help the City and other brigades with their data science needs whenever appropriate. Since their inception, they have worked on a number of successful projects in partnership with local, state, and federal governments.

SF Fire Risk

Predicting the relative risk of fire in San Francisco's buildings and public spaces using SF Open Data.

We Vote

We Vote is a nonprofit, volunteer-driven movement, dedicated to bringing social collaboration to voting. They use use technology to make democracy stronger by increasing voter turnout

User Experience Working Group

Our working group exists to promote learning and mutual improvement among its members, while also providing support and advisory services for project teams and the Brigade as a whole.

We believe this group is important because it helps reinforce user-centered design principles that are essential for the delivery of effective digital products and services.

SBA Data Analysis & Visualizations

Data Science Working Group working with the Small Business Administration (SBA) to create interactive applications, models, visualizations, and much more.

How your support will be used

Your generous gift will support our meetups and events throughout the year:

Dinner each week
Name tags, paper pads and other basic materials
Meals for special events throughout the year like National Day of Civic Hacking and Open Data Day
Software subscriptions to support operations

National Day of Civic Hacking 2017

Sponsorship levels

$250: Hack night sponsor

Sponsor one of our hack nights. Your name and logo will appear on the event page and any materials for the evening, recognition via our Twitter and Facebook the evening of. If a representative is available for the sponsored evening, they will be invited to speak during the opening remarks.

Example of placement on agenda

$1000: Official sponsor

Sponsor hack night for a month! Your name and logo will appear on the event pages and any materials for 4 weeks worth of hack nights as well as recognition through our Twitter and Facebook throughout that time. Logo placement on our homepage at the "Official sponsor" level for 12 months following the donation. If a representative is available for one of the sponsored evenings, they will be invited to speak during the opening remarks.

Example of Twitter mention (average of 500 impressions per day in 2018)

$2500: Sustaining sponsor

Invitation to give a presentation OR to conduct a workshop during of our weekly hack nights. Sustaining sponsor gifts will be covered on our blog, in our newsletter, and on our Twitter and Facebook. Logo placement on our homepage at the "Sustaining sponsor" level and on our Meetup group for 12 months following the donation.

Example of blog post

$5000: Major sponsor

Major sponsors are invited to promote events, recruit volunteers, and coordinate with the Core Team on other avenues of partnership on a continuing basis. Major sponsor gifts will be covered on our blog, in our newsletter, and on our Twitter and Facebook.Includes logo placement on home page at the "Major sponsor" level and Meetup group for 12 months following the donation.

Example of placement on homepage

Please reach out via fundraising@codeforsanfrancisco.org.