Table of Contents

Our Mission at Hack4Impact

Academy Overview

Why Join Academy?

What You'll be Doing

What We're Looking For

Life at Hack4Impact

How to Apply

🌍 Our Mission at Hack4Impact

Unite students to build well-engineered, user-centric, and impactful products for social change.

Hack4Impact believes in using tech for good. We believe in technology’s huge potential to empower activists and humanitarians to create lasting and impactful social change. We connect student software developers with nonprofits and other socially responsible businesses to develop powerful new tools for social change, enabling them to further their mission and better engage their clients. We work to foster a tight-knit community of dedicated students collaborating together to build a better society and to make technology more accessible and inclusive to underserved communities.

🎓 Academy Overview

Are you passionate about technology and social good, but just starting out in the field? Don’t let that hold you back from applying to Hack4Impact! We’re looking for proactive learners, team players, and creative minds who want to make an impact, but might not have the skill set yet. Keyword: yet. As a Hack4Impact Academy member, you’ll learn the technical and collaborative tools needed to be a successful software developer and contributor to a project team. If you’re selected for Academy, know that we see great potential in you, not only as a developer, but as an active member of our community and the greater community of social good.

🏫 Why Join Academy?

  1. Learn web development. At Hack4Impact, we firmly believe that one person's knowledge is everyone's knowledge. You'll learn from members who used to be in your shoes, and receive a personalized, hands-on approach to the foundations of web development that you won't receive anywhere else.
  2. Build a product with dedicated teammates. We've all worked on a group project where 1 or 2 of your teammates didn't do anything at all. It sucks. At Hack4Impact Academy, you'll work with teammates who are passionate about learning and building what will likely be your first full-fledged application!
  3. Join a tight-knit community. We are a small group of students with high aspirations who care a lot about the world we live in. Our internal community has been referred to by members as a family, where people are free to discuss everything from their academics to their personal life.