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Tech4Good is a social change initiative that works towards demystifying technology for nonprofits.

Founded in 2018, Tech4Good Community (T4GC) works towards strengthening the tech capabilities of locally rooted nonprofits & social enterprises solving for development challenges across sectors. The team has been raising awareness, building capacity, improving access to technology & in turn improving the quality of services to beneficiaries through online training & hands-on workshops, mentor connects, Tech4Good discounts & set up support to nonprofits.

17/06/2026

Vanakkam Chennai! An MIS nobody wants to touch? We heard something like this from our participant Jansi Leela, PURA (Peoples Upliftment in Rural Areas), at our Bangalore Insight Out and it pretty much captured the kind of real, everyday tech struggles social impact teams have to deal with.
Join us for a hands-on workshop exploring how organisations can use AI agents and open-source tools to uncover insights from their own data and automate routine tasks.

Date: June 27, 2026 | Venue: Partner: Spendflo, Chennai | Edition Partners: NalandaWay Foundation
10 spots available. Apply here:: https://ee.kobotoolbox.org/x/pdGKn47a

15/06/2026

The Buddhi Project by Design Beku is opening up a space to better understand how AI is being experienced across social change organisations and communities, its possibilities, concerns and real world implications. They’re currently gathering perspectives through a survey that will help shape future initiatives and resources grounded in evidence and lived experience, rather than assumptions.

Survey link: https://tally.so/r/7R9NOP (Open to all, with a special interest in inputs from social impact organisations)

Last week, we met Padmini, Founder and Director, and spent time in conversation around human-centred and participatory design, the role of open source and how AI and technology are shaping community contexts as coffee and the ideas carried further. Always good to see more opportunities making room for reflection, critique and shared learning.

| Praveen Kumar Singh | AJITH RAM | Napoleon | Anusha Meher Bhargava (nu/nu) | akanksha | Varshini Murali | അഭിram | CHANDRU | Vidya | .bg | Pranav Prabhu | Prasana Kumar | sanvi | Dhanraj Kunder | Jency Michael | 🇹 🇪 🇧 🇮 @🇲 🇪 🇸 🇸 🇮 | Sakthi K | Rinju Rajan | Akhila Somanath

12/06/2026

Caught on camera: a rare sighting of the “purple people” of T4GC’s creative crew, affectionately known as the “dodgers” (specialists in dodging cameras while crafting content for everyone else). Usually found on airplane mode, occasionally visible, always plotting the next post.
Got one too many pings asking who’s behind our socials, so here is a brief public appearance.

08/06/2026

The Bangalore sun was doing its best to test everyone’s commitment, but 44 nonprofits from across India showed up with questions, experiences and enough curiosity to power the , the venue as part of our Rebuild collab.

We spent the day exploring tech as a function of people, processes, products and culture; ran a hands-on budgeting lab on planning for operational and programmatic technology; and unpacked what to do when AI sounds very convincing and very wrong.

Questions about technology where there are no communication towers. Concerns about clicking the wrong button and having to start over. Language barriers during data collection. The challenge of investing limited tech budgets in long-term solutions instead of quick fixes were some of the pertinent conversation topics.
Participants used the space to voice long standing tech frustrations. Others came to discover community-vetted tools, rethink change management or learn from past technology missteps. All of them brought perspectives that reminded us that technology adoption is rarely about the technology alone.

As customary, here is a quick peek into a day that makes these gatherings worthwhile.

| Akhila Somanath | Rinju Rajan | | | | | | .sh | | | | | .bg | | | | |

01/06/2026

T4GC’s “Insight Out” is arriving in Chennai, this June. Hop aboard for a one day workshop exploring how social impact organisations can use AI agents installed locally to uncover insights from their own data and automate tasks without needing to code.

Folks at NalandaWay Foundation were participants when we tested this series in Bengaluru earlier this year. For this edition they have joined us as partners, helping bring together education focused organisations to discover shared challenges and exchange insights from each other’s work.

We’ll experiment with real datasets and explore open source AI frameworks, alongside other tools and workflows that make it easier to analyse data, design and build tools without depending on technical teams.

Bring your datasets if you’d like (we’ll have public ones too), along with your tickets of skepticism, curiosity and questions about AI.

25 spots available. Apply here: https://ee.kobotoolbox.org/x/pdGKn47a (link in bio)

Location and exact date will be announced soon. Reach out to [email protected] if you have any questions.

29/05/2026

f(L)ounders is our way of seeing founders in their unusual element and this time, it took us to Chandigarh for Samarthya’s 9-year celebration. Sahil, Sidharth, Ketika, Divya, Dr Mittali, Akhila, Rinju and many others brought their worlds with them and voices that stretched across communities and roles- kids, parents, sarpanches, bureaucrats. The day unfolded in layers of panels, music, plays and conversations that refused to stay on stage. And in-between all this was plates of chole, glasses of lassi, unexpected hugs, comforts of the familiar and new relationships colliding between the teams.

The Flounders.
The one where we show up in our element, hype, cheer, lean on, and have each other’s backs.
Laughter? Check. Tough chats? Check. Real, messy, unfiltered community? Double check.
Because behind the work are the bonds, layers, and chaos that let us be raw, reset, and keep motorin’ forward.

| Akhila Somanath | Rinju Rajan | | .bg | | | | | | | | | | Queena Lin | Dhanraj Kunder | Sanvi Sharma |

27/05/2026

10 Acumen Foundry Orgs X T4GC. Last year, we found ourselves in the Acumen Fall cohort. And now we get to work with Fellow orgs that inspire us daily. Over the next 8 months, we’ll be at it: holding each other to learn what it means to move from improvised to intentional systems. We’ll tell you more mid way, post etc. etc. For now, it’s a pre-monsoon season as we find our first 10.

Rinju Rajan | | | Akhila Somanath | | | | | | | | | | | | | Queena Lin | Sanvi Sharma | .bg | | Dhanraj Kunder

18/05/2026

There’s a cake in this picture.
But that’s not the announcement.

Idlistack is inching past beta.
We’ve moved from building into refining the build. Expect updates, learnings, tools, features and what we’ve been fixing moments.
Checkout: https://idlistack.com

| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Rinju Rajan | Akhila Somanath |

15/05/2026

Our friends at have a unique ability. They let us poke around the beautiful complexities and acrobatics around the nonprofit fundraising management system (FMS). We’ve been at it, building, tinkering, listening, chopping, layering, re-building, and the loop continues.

Thank you Ravitha, Sunil, Radhika and Rajashree. We (Akanksha, Yashaswi and Hazel + Dhanyashri from The Pranava Institute) have come back with at least three new “wait, but what if…” conversations to dig further.

If your nonprofit is curious about our FMS, email us at [email protected].

28/04/2026

Ajith(), our resident calm-in-the-chaos engineering wizard, was quietly lurking with our partnerships & events team recently, watching the real struggle unfold while the rest of us were out there “reading the room”.

Are people engaged? Are they bored? What do they actually want to say but won’t? Because, most social sector events think that they’re interactive.

That’s exactly why he built Rforum.

It helps you:
-Spin up events in minutes
-Run live polls + Q&As without the awkward silence
-Learn what your audience is thinking in real time
-Keeps everything (requests, notes, slides) in one clean place

Oh and it doesn’t let your audience’s questions vanish into the void. Ajith says, “you’re welcome”.

It’s open-source, yes, go snoop, and already running live.

If you’re hosting an event sometime soon:
-Go to https://rforum.t4gc.in/
-Use code: BUILT201
-Set up your event
-Your audience joins instantly

We’ve used it. It works. It saves you from guessing games.
Next time you’re “reading the room,” maybe, wing it with our RForum.

Rinju Rajan | | | | | | | Akhila Somanath | | | | | | | | | | .bg

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