Tech for Good communities in France and Europe: the 2026 guide

"Tech for Good" means digital work that serves the common good: tools built for nonprofits, projects for the climate, health or inclusion, tech professionals who give their time. In France, the movement does not fit inside a single organisation. It rests on some twenty communities, each with its own audience and its own way of working.

This guide starts with France, sorted by what you want to do: give your time, find help for your nonprofit, freelance on work that matters, make digital more sustainable, or meet your peers. It then crosses the border, with the European communities you can join from anywhere or find in your own country. Each entry says who the community is for, what happens there and what it costs.

Everything was checked on 15 October 2026 on each organisation's own website. Figures are the ones each organisation publishes.

The landscape at a glance

You work in tech and want to give your time

Data For Good

Data For Good is a "100% volunteer, 100% open source" association founded in 2014. It brings data and software volunteers together around public-interest projects: climate, social justice, democracy. Work runs in acceleration seasons: a volunteer team supports one organisation for about three months, and all the code is open.

The association reports 8,000 volunteers, 140 completed projects and more than 100 partner nonprofits. Support is free for the organisations selected.

For whom: developers, data scientists and data analysts who want to work as a team on a concrete project with a clear start and end.

Share it

Share it is an association launched with Ashoka and based at Station F. It has custom digital tools built for nonprofits and social entrepreneurs by corporate tech teams volunteering their skills. A project lasts three to ten months.

Share it reports 104 projects supported since 2018. Its current programmes cover AI (IA for Good, and forwa for European nonprofits) and cybersecurity (Cyber for Good ESS).

For whom: employees whose company runs a skills-based volunteering programme. For nonprofits, support is free, provided the project serves the public interest and the organisation has at least two permanent employees.

NoCode for Good

NoCode for Good matches social economy organisations with no-code experts, for volunteer or discounted missions. It also runs webinars and workshops. It publishes no figures and its website does not date its latest activities: check with them directly before committing.

For whom: no-code profiles (Airtable, Notion, Make, Bubble…) who want to put their tools at the service of nonprofits.

JeVeuxAider.gouv.fr

France's public volunteering platform is not a Tech for Good community, but it has an "IT" category and a "skills-based volunteering" tag. Since the start of 2026 it has published 12,297 missions of all kinds. It is the broadest entry point for a one-off mission close to home.

You freelance and want work that matters

Freelance For Good (makesense)

Freelance For Good used to be called Social Declik and is now part of Jobs that makesense. It serves freelancers working for the ecological and social transition in three steps: an onboarding track (the Tremplin), a Qualiopi-certified training course and a community that gives access to missions.

The programme reports 200 freelancers in its community and more than 500 supported. Joining the community requires at least five years of experience and one completed freelance mission. Discovery resources are free; the training is paid.

For whom: experienced freelancers in any trade who want a network and missions in the impact sector.

Freelance roles from impact organisations are also gathered every day on Inpactum's Tech for Good jobs page, alongside permanent, fixed-term and volunteer positions.

You run an impact tech company

Tech for Good France, within Mouvement Impact France

The Tech for Good France community grew out of the FEST (France Éco-Sociale Tech), launched in 2018 by more than 70 entrepreneurs and investors. It joined Mouvement Impact France when the movement was created in 2020, together with the Mouves. The movement describes it as its pilot community, bringing together leaders who build digital solutions for the transition.

Mouvement Impact France reports 30,000 member companies across all its communities. It offers events, impact measurement tools and advocacy. Membership is paid; the fee is not published.

For whom: founders and leaders of tech companies with impact at the core of their business model.

makesense

makesense has been mobilising citizens, entrepreneurs and employees around social and environmental projects for some fifteen years. It reports 300,000 engaged citizens and 8,000 entrepreneurial projects supported in seven countries. Its jobs arm, Jobs that makesense, lists roles in the impact economy.

Ticket for Change

Ticket for Change has supported impact entrepreneurs since 2014: an entrepreneur track, a programme for 18 to 28 year olds, and intrapreneurship inside companies. Its focus is impact entrepreneurship in general rather than tech. It reports more than 1,000 impact businesses launched.

You run a nonprofit and need help

Several communities above work directly for nonprofits: Data For Good and Share it support digital projects free of charge, and NoCode for Good offers missions at a discounted rate.

Solidatech

Solidatech is a programme launched in 2008 by Les Ateliers du Bocage, a cooperative that belongs to Emmaüs France. It provides discounted software and refurbished hardware, plus training and a diagnostic. More than 45,000 nonprofits have signed up since it began. Sign-up is free.

Social Good Accelerator (SOGA)

SOGA is a Franco-European association that advocates for the social economy in European digital policy. It trains social economy organisations, connects them and is building an observatory of the digital social economy. It counts more than 50 member and partner organisations.

For whom: networks, federations and foundations rather than small nonprofits.

Latitudes

Latitudes, founded in 2017, now focuses on critical digital education. It produces open resources (La Bataille de l'IA, Future of Tech, Open Data University) for school pupils, students and teachers, and trains trainers. It reports having trained 80,000 people since it began. Its resources are free, under a CC BY licence.

To see where to start, Inpactum's digital self-assessment maps your nonprofit's practices in ten minutes, with no account and no ranking.

You want more sustainable, more ethical digital work

• Designers Éthiques: a research-action association on responsible design. Guides on eco-design, accessibility and persuasive design, training, an online community and local groups in Nantes, Lyon and Brussels.
• Institut du Numérique Responsable: an association that grew out of the Club Green IT and created the Responsible Digital charter (1,080 signatories) and a label. It mainly serves large organisations.
• Boavizta: a working group of organisations producing methods, open data and a calculation engine for the environmental footprint of digital services.
• La Fresque du Numérique: a half-day collaborative workshop on the environmental impact of digital technology and AI, attended by 175,000 people.
• Framasoft: a popular education association founded in 2004 that offers free software services (Framadate, Framaforms, PeerTube) widely used by nonprofits, and is 94% funded by donations.

You want to train for a tech career

Simplon, a social enterprise with ESUS accreditation founded in 2013, trains people far from employment in software development, cybersecurity, data and AI. Its courses are funded. It had trained more than 56,000 people by 31 December 2025.

WinSide, a social economy company based in Nancy and Qualiopi-certified, has trained people over 50 in no-code, AI and automation since 2018. Its NoCodeuses bootcamp, open to women aged 45 and over, prepares for the RNCP "Product Builder No-Code" qualification (level 6) in two months, and two further tracks run as work-study programmes. Courses are eligible for CPF and France Travail funding. WinSide reports 1,500 people trained and 83% positive outcomes since 2018. During their training, learners build no-code and AI tools for nonprofits.

You want to meet the ecosystem

The next Numérique en Commun[s], the national event for public-interest digital work led by ANCT and the Inria Foundation, takes place on 12 and 13 January 2027 in Rennes. It brings together local authorities, nonprofits and companies.

Beyond France: Tech for Good communities in Europe

The same split between volunteering, nonprofit support and impact entrepreneurship exists across Europe. The organisations below were checked on 15 October 2026, like the French ones.

Give your time on a tech project

• Tech To The Rescue (Poland, working across Europe and beyond) matches social impact organisations with tech companies that volunteer their teams. Its current programmes focus on AI: the AI Impact Lab for a first AI project and the AI Impact Scaling Program for longer support. It partnered with more than 100 social impact organisations in 2025.
• DataKind UK (London, a registered charity since 2013) has volunteer data experts work with charities, community interest companies and social enterprises, free of charge. It reports more than 2,200 volunteers and more than 280 organisations helped.
• CorrelAid (Berlin, a registered association since 2015) is a network of volunteer data scientists who run "Data4Good" projects for nonprofits, alongside training on data and responsible AI. Nonprofits can book a free 30-minute consultation.
• Code for Germany, run by the Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland, gathers some twenty local volunteer groups that build open-source, public-interest tools such as environmental sensors and open data apps.
• Commit Global, which grew out of Code for Romania (founded in Bucharest in 2016), builds free, open-source digital tools for civil society and runs a "Civic Tech 911" help service for organisations in difficulty.

Get help for your nonprofit

• CAST (UK, a registered charity) helps charities adopt digital tools and AI through courses, resources and peer groups, most of them free. Its Digital Leads Network grew to more than 550 members from almost 400 charities between March 2025 and April 2026.
• TechSoup Europe (Warsaw, a foundation since 2009) gives nonprofits, libraries and museums discounted access to software and hardware, plus training and civic tech programmes. It plays across Europe the role Solidatech plays in France.

Learn tech skills

• ReDI School of Digital Integration (a nonprofit founded in Berlin in 2015, with schools in Germany, Denmark and Sweden) runs free coding courses for migrants and other marginalised groups, with mentoring from tech companies. It reports more than 33,000 learners and 4,800 volunteers.
• Fundación Cibervoluntarios (Spain, founded in 2001) trains people left behind by digital technology through a network of digital volunteers. In 2025 it counted 4,500 volunteers and more than 280,000 participants, according to its listing at the ITU's WSIS Forum 2026.

Build or fund an impact tech company

• Norrsken (a Swedish foundation created in 2016) runs community houses for impact startups in Stockholm, Barcelona and Brussels, with Amsterdam announced, and invests through its own funds. Membership is paid, with reduced rates for impact organisations, and members are selected.
• Impact Hub (a global network coordinated from Vienna, founded in 2005) links locally owned coworking spaces, incubators and accelerators for impact entrepreneurs, with hubs in many European cities.
• Bethnal Green Ventures (London, investing since 2012 and the first UK venture capital firm certified as a B Corp) backs early-stage tech for good startups with an initial investment and a twelve-week programme, twice a year.
• Social Tech Trust (London, a charity founded in 2008 as Nominet Trust) invests in early-stage tech ventures that tackle inequality.
• Ashoka selects leading social entrepreneurs as Fellows in more than 95 countries, Europe included. It is a selective network rather than a community you can sign up to.

Online communities with a European audience

Climate Change AI (AI and climate research) and Work on Climate (career changes into climate jobs, run through Slack) are global communities with many European members. Neither has a formal European chapter: everything happens online.

What has disappeared

A few names still appear in older articles:

• Pro Bono Lab, a pioneer of skills-based volunteering founded in 2011, went into compulsory liquidation in June 2025 for lack of funding.
• The Tech for Good Tour, launched in 2019 by makesense and Latitudes, has not run since 2023.
• Catalyst, the UK network for digital capacity in civil society launched in 2019, closed on 31 March 2026. Its resources remain available under a Creative Commons licence.
• Techfugees, the community building tech for displaced people, announced a relaunch in 2025 but has published nothing since September 2023.

Where does Inpactum fit?

Each of these communities serves one audience. Inpactum starts from a simple observation: a nonprofit looking for an expert, a developer looking for meaningful work and a foundation supporting its grantees rarely meet in the same place. Inpactum brings them into one space: a directory, a peer-support forum, hand-picked resources and Tech for Good jobs, refreshed every day. The Tech for Good jobs barometer publishes the figures as open data.

Inpactum replaces none of the communities in this guide. Many of its members belong to them too, and that is the point: connecting people who are already acting.

Is a community missing, or has something changed? Write to contact@inpactum.com: the guide is updated after every verified report.

Sources

Official websites consulted on 15 October 2026: Data For Good, Share it, Freelance For Good, makesense, Mouvement Impact France and its FAQ, NoCode for Good, JeVeuxAider.gouv.fr statistics, Ticket for Change, Solidatech, Social Good Accelerator, Latitudes, Designers Éthiques, Institut du Numérique Responsable, Boavizta, La Fresque du Numérique, Framasoft, Simplon, WinSide, Numérique en Commun[s].

European organisations, official websites consulted on 15 October 2026: Tech To The Rescue, DataKind UK, CorrelAid, Code for Germany, Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland, Commit Global, CAST, our impact, TechSoup Europe, ReDI School, Fundación Cibervoluntarios, Norrsken, Impact Hub, Bethnal Green Ventures, Social Tech Trust, Ashoka FAQ, Climate Change AI, Work on Climate, Catalyst legacy hub, Techfugees.

Third-party sources:

• Maddyness, La FEST, nouveau mouvement de la tech for good, May 2018
• Carenews, Le Mouves devient le Mouvement Impact France
• Mediatico, Pro Bono Lab ferme ses portes, July 2025
• data.gouv.fr, Data For Good organisation page
• ITU, Fundación Cibervoluntarios at the WSIS Forum 2026
• Charity Commission for England and Wales, Social Tech Trust register entry