No. 010 · Nonprofits & Community
Code for Community — free software for nonprofits, built by volunteers.
Visit the site →The system
Code for Community is a Clear Road Labs initiative: skilled developers volunteer their time to build custom software for nonprofits at no development cost — the nonprofit covers only its own hosting, domain, and API usage. Most nonprofits can't afford a fifty-thousand-dollar build; this changes the math to zero.
The starting catalog is fifteen working applications — case management, grant tracking, volunteer scheduling, event registration, and more — built end to end by The Software Factory and explorable as guided demos with sample data. Intake is open on both sides: nonprofits bring projects, developers bring hours. The first cohort is being matched now.
The system shipped
Nonprofits bring the workflow. Volunteers bring the hours. The software stays open.
Nonprofit Intake
Bring the workflow that hurts; projects get scoped and matched to volunteers.
Volunteer Bench
Developers contribute real builds — portfolio-grade work, mission-aligned.
The 15-App Catalog
Working applications from The Software Factory, explorable as guided demos.
Open Source
Everything ships MIT-licensed. What one nonprofit builds, all nonprofits keep.
In production
The fifteen-app catalog is live and intake is open on both sides — the first cohort of nonprofits and volunteers is being matched now.