Slightly far (and thankfully so), away from the glamorous goals of decimating currencies and financial institutions, blockchain organizations have been silently working on deep impact social causes spanning Funding & Donations, The Environment, Food & Agriculture, Gender & Sexuality, Government, Healthcare & Medicine
The team at Breakermag has undertaken some great work in identifying and shortlisting a list of 75 organizations around the world who are using blockchain for social impact!
Do read through them and check out the original work at Breakermag as well. And, as you review the critical and even heart wrenching causes these teams are working towards, do spend a moment to see you / your organizations could address some of these causes as well.
I. Funding & Donations
Atix Labs : Helping small social good
enterprises gain access to (transparent) funding
Binance Charity Foundation: Bringing accountability to charitable donations
BitGive Foundation : Letting donors follow their bitcoin donations step-by-step
Blockchain4Humanity : Acting as an accelerator for blockchain projects that aim to affect social change
Disberse : Making it more efficient to send and receive funds between donors and aid organizations around the world
Fidelity Charitable : Letting people make charitable donations using bitcoin
GiftCoin : Letting charitable donors track how and when their money is spent
Ourmala : which offers yoga classes to refugees.
Giveth : Removing intermediaries from charitable giving
Pineapple Fund : Using bitcoin to fund multiple charitable organizations
Ripple for Good : Supporting organizations that increase global financial inclusion
RootProject : Creating a decentralized community around crowdfunding
Sustainability International/Sela : Fostering communication among stakeholders to keep track of project finances
The Giving Block : Helping nonprofits receive cryptocurrency donations/working with blockchain-related nonprofits
XRP Tip Bot: Rewarding content creators and commenters on social platforms Twitter, Reddit, and Discord
II. Environment
Bitlumens: Distributing solar power in areas without access to power grids
Blockchain Climate Institute: Raising awareness of and developing blockchain solutions problems stemming from climate change
Brooklyn Microgrid : Developing a locally powered clean energy microgrid in Brooklyn
Ecochain: Helping companies track their environmental footprints
Electron: Using decentralized technologies to increase energy efficiency
Fishcoin: Tracking the supply chain of caught fish; collecting data on ocean
acidification
Grid Singularity: Democratizing energy through an open source tech platform, incentivization system, and blockchain energy summit
Ixo Foundation: Tangibly and transparently measuring the impact of charitable donations
M-PAYG : Democratizing access to solar energy
Nori : Reversing climate change by incentivizing carbon dioxide removal from the atmosphere
Power Ledger: Providing low-cost, renewable energy worldwide
SOLShare : Delivering solar power to low income rural communities, beginning in Bangladesh
SolarCoin: Incentivizing people to produce/use solar energy
III. Food and agriculture
AgriDigital : Facilitating supply chain management for farmers and storage operators
Bext360: Bringing accountability to supply chains for coffee, seafood, timber, and cotton
Coin22/Agri-Wallet: Helping smalltime farmers save, spend, and get paid responsibly and securely
Foodshed.io : Connecting the growers of sustainable, local food to wider markets; monitoring food safety
Grass Roots Farmers’ Cooperative: Promoting small-scale, sustainable farmers and bringing transparency to the food supply chain
Goodr: Getting surplus food from grocery stores and restaurants to people who need it
Halotrade : Bringing transparency to supply chains
Viant: Verifying assets in the following sectors: oil and gas, healthcare, transportation, real estate, and education
IV. Gender and sexuality
Callisto: Providing a way for survivors to create time-stamped records of their assaults and connecting them with legal services
CryptoChicks: Helping women get into more leadership roles in blockchain and AI
LGBT Token: Creating an economic global community for people who identify as LGBTQ+
RTI: Fostering more timely,
reliable, and secure reporting of domestic violence crimes
She(256): Making the blockchain space more gender-inclusive
Vault: Making it easier for employees to report workplace misconduct and
companies to track it
Women in Blockchain:
Providing a supportive space for
women working in/learning about blockchain
Democracy Earth: Decentralizing democracy
OSCity : Addressing misappropriation of government funds
UtoPixar/Coinsence: Creating platforms where community members can collaborate and make group decisions
Votem: Making voting transparent, accessible, secure, and verifiable
V. Healthcare and medicine
Geneyx : Providing a genetic data platform to aid in research and drug development
Kidner: More effectively linking organ donors to patient matches
MediLedger: Using blockchain tech to comply with the Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) and bring secure interoperability to medicine tracking
Prescrypto: Providing a secure prescription platform for developing countries that consolidate user’s medical histories
VI. Government
Democracy Earth: Decentralizing democracy
OSCity : Addressing misappropriation of government funds
UtoPixar/Coinsence: Creating platforms where community members can collaborate and make group decisions
Votem: Making voting transparent, accessible, secure, and verifiable
VII.Identity and banking
AID:Tech : Bringing transparency to payments—including donations,
remittances, welfare, and aid funding
BanQu: Providing
the unbanked (often refugees and the extremely impoverished) with an economic
identity (like a credit history)
BitLand: Offering a
blockchain-based land registry to those who don’t have official deeds to their
land
BitPesa: Making business transactions cheaper, faster, and simpler
between countries in Africa and markets in the rest of the world
ChromaWay/Postchain: Providing smart contracts for land registration
Circles: Creating and distributing a global Universal Basic Income
Civic : Verifying
identities and preventing ID theft
