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Hack for LA's website

Repository for the current redevelopment of the Food Oasis Los Angeles website

Empowering Neighborhood Associations to improve the analysis of their initiatives using 311 data

DTLA Hack for LA is partnering with Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT) to develop a Traffic Demand Management (TDM) calculator tool. This tool will help planners at LADOT and real estate developers to meet the Los Angeles’s Mobility Plan goals by 2035.

A repository for the Product Management Community of Practice

Public Tree Map documents all ~35,000 public street and park trees in Santa Monica's urban forest. The map includes contextual information collected from open datasets and digitized city records. To reflect tree plantings and removals, the map updates every day. We're also working to add tree data from other cities in LA county. Work in progress:

Volunteer Relationship Management System: This is an ambitious project to create a system that will help us measure our human capital development, reduce repetitive tasks and processes, and improve outcomes.

We're working with community non-profits who have a Host Home or empty bedrooms initiative to develop a workflow management tool to make the process scalable (across all providers), reduce institutional bias, and effectively capture data.

Expunge Assist is a free digital tool specifically designed to aid Californians with arrest and conviction histories in clearing their criminal records.

Visualization of parking data to assist in understanding of the effects of parking policies on a neighborhood by neighborhood basis in the City of Los Angeles

Spare connects people in need of clothing and other essentials with people in the community who have things to spare. It is like a one-on-one Goodwill. We are hoping the donation can be a mechanism for building these connections throughout our community.

Heart is a project working directly with the LA City Attorney’s Homeless Engagement and Response Team. We are building a database and case management system to streamline their workflow and enable them to scale their program. Find us on the Hack for LA Slack #heart.

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LA Family Housing, an LA-based non-profit working to end the homelessness crisis, engaged the help of Hack for LA to identify and design a more efficient & effective solution for matching multiple individuals who experience homelessness as potential co-tenants, and placing the matched individuals in suitable shared housing units.

Empowering every HfLA team to create their own design system. 🛠️ 🧰 Please see our readme for more info!

A repository for HackforLA's BallotNav project

CivicTechJobs will be a platform to help prospective volunteers find interdisciplinary projects that will be useful for their career development while contributing to positive civic impact, and also a CMS (Content Mgmt System) for Hack for LA projects to be able to list their open roles.

Aggregate job opportunities for homeless service providers so that people can search for a job in the non-profit sector that fits their skillset.

Not debates, but recorded online video Q&A with candidates so voters can quickly can get to know them, for every candidate, for every election, across the US.

The Internship project provides an opportunity for students to work on open source projects in the fields of software, product development, project management, and UI/UX research and design at LA’s fastest growing Civic Tech non-profit organization during their summer.