Good Neighbor Lab
Hello! Our programs strengthen neighbor-to-neighbor relationships, build resident-to-institution connections, and encourage hyperlocal innovation.
Join: #proj-good-neighbor-lab
Visit: goodneighborlab.org
Projects
All projects built by SF Civic Tech are:
- Open source
- Volunteer-driven
- Not-for-profit
- In service of the public good
Active projects
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Project Safehome
Project Safehome is a user-friendly website to help a user determine the earthquake risk level of an SF address. Ultimately, we hope to raise awareness for residents and encourage property owners and developers to improve the earthquake rating of their buildings in the city, reducing SF’s overall vulnerability to disaster. Try it out at safehome.report!
Join: #proj-earthquake
Visit: safehome.report
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SF Civic Tech Website
Join us in creating a new website for our transition from Code for San Francisco to SF Civic Tech! We’re building the new site from scratch using open source platforms, with an eye toward easy maintainability and cost.
Tech stack
Astro, Markdown, GitHub Pages
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Support SF Schools
Check us out at supportsfschools.org! Our target users are people who live or work in San Francisco and want to support local schools but don’t know how. This is a fun and important project to bring transparency, engagement, and dollars to the school district.
Sep 2024 update: Our MVP is live at supportsfschools.org! We focus on helping people connect with schools near where they live or work, and to find where to donate their money or volunteer their time. The MVP is high school only, so we’ll soon be expanding to elementary and middle schools.
Tech stack
React, Next.js, Tailwind, Postgres
Join: #proj-support-sf-schools
Completed projects
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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. Sign up and adopt a drain!
This project was adopted in-house by the SF Public Utilities Commission but could still use your contributions!
Contribute: sfbrigade/adopt-a-drain
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Lane Breach
Lane Breach was started by local cyclists concerned about the safety of biking in the city. This app captures bike lane safety issues and integrates with local 311 reporting. Subsequently, they’ll be analyzing this set of data to review the effectiveness of different types of streets.
Tech stack
iOS, Android
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Pandemic (PanDa) COVID-19 Dashboard
PanDa, the Bay Area Pandemic Dashboard, is the best tool available specifically for Bay Area residents. This collaboration between Code for San Francisco, Open Oakland, and Code for San Jose rigorously curates the most complete Bay Area data resource possible while surfacing insights using metrics that directly impact residents’ lives during Covid.
Project members are developing open source web scrapers for capturing data being posted in nine different ways to nine different county websites. Front end contributors are developing beautiful interactive data visualizations designed by UX Design contributors.
Contribute: sfbrigade/stop-covid19-sfbayarea
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PoliceTrends.org
PoliceTrends.org, by the Data Science Working Group, is a project to visualize the open budgets of San Francisco and Oakland and analyze trends in police spending and outcomes.
This project has expanded to include tools to test balancing the budget yourself to explore the challenges involved.
This project is currently focused on outreach and building community partnerships.
Tech stack
Python, Jupyter, Notebook
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ShelterTech
Less than half of nearly 28,000 people experiencing homelessness in the Bay Area have reliable access to the internet.
ShelterTech is a technology-focused nonprofit organization making it easier for this community to connect with resources that can help them address their challenges.
Begun as a project at Code for San Francisco, ShelterTech spun-off into it's own organization in 2006 and has grown to a volunteer organization with an annual budget over $100k.
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TheGiftOfTime
There are 10,000 volunteers in the Code for America Network. What if we could help those volunteers turn their time into corporate donations to local volunteer brigades, and help groups across the country achieve financial stability.
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WeVote
Plan your entire ballot in 6 minutes!
We are creating easy-to-use tools that cut through the election noise and help voters easily understand what's on their ballot. Our open platform empowers voters to create and share voter guides that aggregate information and opinions across personal networks. So you can help your friends be better voters too.
WeVote started at Code for San Francisco in 2014, and spun-off into an independent, open-source ballot information system.
Inactive projects
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3DStreet
How do you visualize what a street could be, with transit friendly options?
Add a bike lane, add a bus lane, and create a visual that can be used for advocacy. Already, this tool-in-progress has been used by reporters in Philadelphia to create visualizations for articles.
Tech stack
A-Frame, JavaScript
Join: #proj-3d-street
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Bay Area Relief Portal
The goal of the Bay Area SMB Resource Portal is to build a suite of tools and resources using web technologies for small and medium businesses across the Bay Areas.
Our dedicated team of volunteers built a working site called the Bay Area Relief Portal, which currently helps small businesses and non-profits easily search for and apply to funding sources (eg. grants & loans).
Currently we are looking to expand beyond the portal to include other forms of support such as pro bono legal services, educational workshops, funds for individuals/contractors, and hiring resources etc. We are also open to suggestions from the community on how we can improve the platform.
By building the Bay Area SMB Resource Portal we hope to help alleviate some of the negative economic impact faced by small business owners and help communities re-build and thrive.
Visit: sfbayrelief.org
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Brigade Analytics
Who is active on slack? How successful are we at onboarding and supporting new members? Are we a an organization attracting and retraining a diverse team? This team seeks to answer those questions using data science; including application APIs, self-reported statistics, surveys, and more.
Tech stack
Python
Join: #proj-brigade-analytics
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California Approves
Are you tired of voting for the lesser of two evils? Do you wish you could support your favorite candidate but worry they don’t have a chance of winning?
California Approves is an electoral-reform organization established in 2021 to promote approval voting and alternatives to "Choose-one" voting to fix this problem. How we vote is crucial to the justice of our political institutions and impacts every policy.
Tech stack
WordPress, Python
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Compass
10% of students in SFUSD have an Individual Education Plan (IEP) that details specific academic and behavioral goals. Data collection is both the backbone and achilles heel of this system. Good data provides guidance and proof of progress but is also onerous to collect. Let’s help our teachers and students by making data collection simpler, more flexible and maybe even a little fun.
Tech stack
Figma, TypeScript, Next.js, Postgres
Join: #proj-compass
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Intentional Walk
Intentional Walk is a program run by the San Francisco Department of Public Health, in partnership with the California Department of Public Health, SF Recreation and Parks Department, the San Francisco Giants, and Code for San Francisco to encourage San Francisco residents who are eligible for CalFresh/MediCal benefits to increase physical activity and develop healthy habits.
Tech stack
React Native, React, Python/Django, Postgres, Figma
Join: #proj-intentional-walk
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PolicyEngine
We compute the impact of public policy. Simulate and communicate the impact of proposed policy changes on individuals across the country.
Tech stack
Python, Javascript
Join: #proj-policyengine
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Routed
Everyday, paramedics make life and death decisions when choosing where to take patients. And they have to rely on their own experience to make the right choices.
The current $2m/year application used by the city is inadequate, so TeamBATS is piloting an app that helps paramedics know which ERs have available beds, and ERs can learn about patients who are en route.
Tech stack
React, Node, Express, Postgres, Gatsby
Join: #proj-routed
Contribute: sfbrigade/bats-server
Contribute: routedapp/routedapp.github.io
Visit: routedapp.org
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SF LifeLine
San Francisco Life Line is an organization founded by a group of paramedics from the San Francisco Fire Department in 2022.
The goal of the organization is to provide equitable and efficient care to all those we serve in our community
Tech stack
React, Vite, Fastify, Prisma, Postgres
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Water the Trees
Water The Trees is a platform that crowd sources tree planting and maintenance. We believe in the power of trees to restore natural habitat for animals, insects, and fauna. We are interested in continuous massive tree planting events to help sequester carbon and stabilize climate change extremes.
Water the Trees is an open source project run by tree planting volunteers at Sierra Club, Public Works, and developers at Code for San Francisco.
Tech stack
React, Mapbox, Node, Postgres/PostGIS, Martin/Rust, Nginx, Docker