Year Two

San Francisco 2025

Building on the success of our inaugural event, Hack for Social Impact returned to San Francisco with five challenge areas and expanded nonprofit partnerships.

November 8–9, 20251885 Mission St, San Francisco

Winning Projects

Winners and project details will be announced soon. Stay tuned!

Problem Statements

Teams partnered with frontline NGOs across five challenge areas to unlock data, track impact, and scale operations.

Homelessness

  • Project Homeless Connect

    Building a unified fundraising hub to close a 92% funding cliff and keep critical services running.

  • California Homeless Youth Project

    Designing trauma-informed AI intake tools so young people can share their needs once and access care faster.

Climate

  • Point Blue Conservation Science

    Unlocking biodiversity datasets with natural-language tools and impact tracking to steer habitat funding.

Corruption

  • Center for Investigative Reporting

    Surfacing hidden ownership webs inside terabytes of real estate filings through network analysis.

Justice

  • The Innocence Center

    Automating structured case files so advocates can accelerate exonerations for the wrongfully convicted.

Information Democracy

  • Mission Local

    Fusing civic datasets to flag anomalies, surface accountability stories, and expand public access.

2025 Prizes

General Prizes

Open to all teams

First Place

$3,000 project grant or $2,000 cash

Second Place

$1,500 project grant or $1,000 cash

Third Place

$500 cash

Google Technology Prize

Best use of Google technology

First Place

$1,000 GCP credits per member

Second Place

$800 GCP credits per member

Third Place

$500 GCP credits per member

Crowd Favorite

$500 cash

2025 Sponsors

Platinum

Eudia

Gold

Google11LabsBild AI

Shout Outs

CloudflareWefunderDaytona

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