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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.

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

22/04/2026

Customisation = costly. And we say No. Here’s why. We’re back with episode 3 of Drop it Like it’s FOSS. This time with Pranav () & Akanksha (), the two people from our tribe who are most likely to say, “if I had a penny for every time we’ve heard tools are not flexible enough”

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13/04/2026

At GitHub Constellation 2026 this Saturday, we got to be in a room full of open source maintainers from across India, talking policy, community support, and how GitHub’s roadmap could translate into real momentum for digital infrastructure in the social sector.

During the AMA with Kyle Daigle, COO of , we unpacked several of these ideas in depth, particularly the need to embed governance and identity directly into GitHub’s emerging ecosystem of AI agents. As coding LLMs proliferate, GitHub is uniquely positioned to evolve into a connective mesh where agents can discover, fork, and build on one another’s work dynamically.

Last year, when we were in the same room we spoke about ‘discoverability.’ We’re past that stage now. Now, the question is how to enable decentralized contribution where open source plays a central role, and building infrastructure that sustains tools built keeping people-first.

It was a Saturday well spent. The open source community is always finding ways to make their contribution count, and we had a great time bringing our work into the room.

Thank you for inviting us Karan!

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

08/04/2026

It’s almost standard these days: the quick “before vs after” impact story. With Sunbird Trust() this story has been unfolding for 5 years. From the Tech4Good Summit we hosted in 2019 to building their Fundraising Management System (FMS) in 2025.

Thank you for letting us walk alongside you on this journey. Swipe to see why the FMS worked for them and how they approached adopting tech. Also, check out their pathbreaking work in the North East: https://sunbirdtrust.com.

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

03/04/2026

24 hours before our Insight Out day, here’s the BTS: the planning, the panic and everything in between. Wait till you see what this became 😉

17/03/2026

Abhiram (), fondly Abhi for us, our youngest engineer, joined us as an intern about two years ago through our wonderful community partners at . A thriving mix of students, builders and curious minds who look at tech with both passion and play.
At the Tink-Her-Hack Woman Makers celebration on the 14th, we saw over 300 incredible women builders from across Kerala, out of 6000 who participated, come together. It was a space with talent and hope. People showing up with honesty, sharing their journeys, celebrating each other, and building with heart. A day of women in tech owning their space, not just through code but through community.
And there was Abhi. Among the students, quietly guiding, mentoring, and showing up in his own way. He moderated the session Akhila Somanath led on building technology for good, the community way. The conversations moved beyond code. They spoke about participation, about the courage to experiment, about building and shipping, and about the one thing that truly holds it all together for us at T4GC, community.
He said something that stays with all of us.
“I wake up every morning excited to hack a problem for our community. We are not afraid of the outcome. We just try to solve a small part of a bigger problem. That is our role, and we love it.”
And that is what this journey is about. Showing up, building with care, and finding meaning in the small pieces we get to solve together.

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

06/03/2026

Websites don’t build themselves. We checked.

So OASIS and Tech4Good Community built as an experiment where we pair students who can build with nonprofits that need websites, give them a week, and see what happens when the work is done together rather than outsourced.

Four nonprofits joined the pilot. .commons, .co.in, and Each was paired with a small student team working on Ghost, the open source publishing platform. What followed wasn’t a hackathon or a design sprint in the usual sense. It was a week of daily conversations where the websites took shape.

Students discovered that building for social change organisations is not just about layout and code. It requires understanding the work well enough to ask the right questions. What actually needs to be communicated. Who the site is for. What must change as the organisation grows.

Nonprofits discovered something equally useful i.e. that explaining their work clearly is often the hardest step in building a website.

Throughout the week, teams moved through feedback loops while the T4GC engineering team stayed close by on Discord to resolve technical questions. By the time everyone gathered at in Bangalore for the final sprint, the websites were already standing, this was a day reserved for refining them and handing them over.

The result was four websites built in a week.

Cheers to Samagata Foundation, OASIS, Vishal Arya ( ), Shemeer, , the T4GC crew, and all the nonprofit teams and students who put in invisible hours from selection and pairing to content training, daily check-ins, engineering support and the final sprint.

But the real outcome was us cracking the process behind this, so if you are a nonprofit that has been putting off building a website, or living with one that no longer reflects your work, the next cohort of Ghosted might be worth considering.

Apply Now: https://lnkd.in/gMZGnGwK (link in bio)

04/03/2026

A few weeks ago we asked:
Does your tech feel intentional… or accidental?

On Feb 23rd in Bangalore, we got to explore that question with one of the most curious, chatty, and downright brilliant groups we’ve ever hosted as Dasra’s DPW tech partners for the day.
The highlight was a fiery tech budgeting session that went on for hours with ideas flying, questions bouncing, and people sketching real, usable plans that they could actually take back and use.
We also demystified tech beyond software as people, processes, and products. And we tackled the cloud, open source, and all the “wait, what?” questions with a lot of curiosity and coffee.

Massive love to the team for trusting us to co-create this day.

And to everyone who brought themselves for this in-person event on a Monday.
Here is a peek of experiences, moments, and laughs on what unfurled.

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

27/02/2026

This month, the tide brings us two Flounders, two absolute forces of nature. Different currents. Same ocean. Open waters.
FOSS United, our partners in building open source, steady and community-first.

Akhila Somanath |

Rinju Rajan | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

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