Our Projects

All of Blueprint’s work is open source because we believe in building technology that makes us more open and connected.

1951 Coffee Company

1951 Coffee Company is a nonprofit specialty coffee organization that promotes the well-being of the refugee community in the United States by providing job training and employment to refugees, asylees, and special immigrant visa holders while educating the surrounding community about refugee life and issues. They are a local nonprofit, and you can support them in by visiting any of their coffee shops in Berkeley!

DC Central Kitchen

DC Central Kitchen is a nationally-recognized community kitchen that recycles food from around Washington, D.C. and uses it as a tool to train unemployed adults to develop work skills while providing thousands of meals for local service agencies in the process.

People Power Solar Collective

People Power Solar Cooperative is building a movement toward expanding access to affordable residential solar power in California. To do so, they crowdsource investments from low-income communities to install solar panels on homes and then distribute any revenue generated by the solar panels back to the community as dividend. By implementing this novel community-owned revenue-sharing model, People Power is on a mission to uplift communities using the power of renewable energy.

Rescuing Leftover Cuisine

Rescuing Leftover Cuisine (RLC) aims to become the world’s most widely used solution for companies and individuals to eliminate food waste in their communities, making food rescue sustainable and universal, and food hunger a thing of the past. By connecting companies and individuals with leftover food with food pantries and homeless shelters who need food donations, RLC strives to reduce food waste and food hunger at the same time.

Unloop

Unloop works with individuals with criminal records to provide an end-to-end educational pathway into careers in software development and tech adjacent roles. By empowering ex-offenders with relevant job skills, Unloop is driven to reduce the prison recidivism rate in America.

Rising Tides

The Arctic Institute is a Washington, D.C. based non-profit, which helps many coastal communities in the American Arctic to recover from climate change disasters. The affected communities need volunteers, who would guide them through adaptation and cultural preservation.

Free Software Foundation

Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a non-profit in Boston, MA with a mission to promote computer user freedom. The organization aims to secure freedom for computer users by promoting the development and use of free software and documentation—particularly the GNU operating system—and by campaigning against threats to computer user freedom like Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) and software patents.

San Francisco Art Institute

SFAI is a non-profit college with a diverse community of artists and scholars, dedicated to the intrinsic value of art. Technology is always redefining creativity and art in many different forms. But, how can we make it more accessible to everyone? We are partnering with the San Francisco Art Institute to tackle this challenge by contributing to the development of the digital art market.

HomePointr

How do we provide the homeless with quality shelter no matter where they are in the world? HomePointr CIC is a Scotland based non-profit that connects housing providers with referral agencies to efficiently pair homeless to the most suitable housing options.

Rocky Mountain Institute

RMI seeks to transform global energy use to create a cleaner, low-carbon future. To do this, they collect large amounts of detailed information on commercial buildings in order to analyze and suggest policies for reducing energy consumption. Our project aims to help RMI collect this immense amount of valuable data in a flexible, efficient way.

Re-Plate

Re-Plate is a Berkeley nonprofit that aims to use technology to eliminate food waste and hunger in the community. They collect surplus food donations from businesses and deliver the food to homeless shelters and people in need.

The DREAM Project

The DREAM Project is a nonprofit focused on education located in the Dominican Republic. The goal of DREAM is to provide high quality, holistic, and sustainable education to children, youth, and young adults in communities where there may not exist programs or opportunities for them to effectively take part in otherwise.

Veterans 360

Veterans 360 is a nonprofit organization founded in 2011 by Rick Collins. It is an organization that has had six years of active operations helping young veterans cope with transition and PTS/TBI challenges and has supported hundreds of young veterans with everything from simple financial support to complete PTS and mental health support.

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1951 Coffee Company

DC Central Kitchen

People Power Solar Collective

Rescuing Leftover Cuisine

Unloop

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Rising Tides

Free Software Foundation

San Francisco Art Institute

HomePointr

Rocky Mountain Institute

Re-Plate

The DREAM Project

Veterans 360

Lava Mae

Roots of Success

UC Berkeley Data Science Education Program

Forte

Berkeley Public Schools Fund

Project Homeless Connect

Oakland Digital Arts and Literacy

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