Students building real technology for real communities

Nonprofits and community organizations often need technology they can't afford to build. At the same time, talented university students are looking for ways to apply their skills on work that actually matters.

DSSD connects the two. Students at our numerous university hubs take on scoped projects, and ship tools that partners actually use: dashboards, web apps, interactive maps, data pipelines. The work is free for the organization and formative for the students.

We started in 2020 with one team. Our student hub model has since grown into a multi-campus network, with a central team that helps hubs find partners, get started, and maintain quality across the board.