social impact

In the coming months, we’re scaling, expanding, and launching new programming to further DEI within open source communities.

This year, we took GitHub Gives, our company-wide giving campaign, to new heights and wanted to share our learnings to provide best practices in programming a successful hybrid giving campaign for employees.

We are pleased to announce the expansion of All In for Students! All In for Students introduces college students to open source and provides them with the education, technical training and career development to prepare them for a summer internship in tech.

Read about how the GitHub Social Impact, Tech for Social Good and Policy teams participated in the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly, including events we hosted with the World Health Organization and the UN Development Programme.

Students have the opportunity to connect with GitHub employees at GitHub Universe 2022 through Micro-Mentoring sessions hosted by GitHub Social Impact.

Read the new GitHub report on OSS in India, Kenya, Egypt, and Mexico. Available now in English, and in Spanish and Arabic later this year.

Join us on the GitHub All In journey.

As part of our ongoing commitment to ensure GitHub’s conferences are accessible and inclusive to people from all walks of life, we’re offering 30-minute, 1:1 micro-mentoring sessions with GitHub employees.

The GitHub Social Impact and Policy teams are issuing a Request for Proposal (RFP) for a researcher to define a list of publicly available GitHub platform usage metrics by country for international development, public policy and economics disciplines.

We’re proud to share the new and improved Social Impact at GitHub website, and we’re really excited to share what our team has been working on! GitHub’s mission is to…

As the world becomes more interconnected and complicated, so too does the expanse of open source ecosystems. While the majority of open source software (OSS) lies with corporate technology companies,…

The year 2020 has upended nearly every aspect of society. In a panel for GitHub Satellite back in May, we briefly covered some of the ways in which our social…

We’re thrilled to announce an opportunity to connect with employees at GitHub during GitHub Universe. This year, Universe will take place virtually December 8-10 and we’d love to “see” you…

Learn more about open source’s impact in the social sector from the Open Source for Good research paper.

GitHub is now a proud sponsor of Hack Your Future, a not-for-profit coding school for refugees and other people that have limited access to education and the labor market. Learn more about the latest campaign, Behind the Source.