Code 'Til Dawn - Nonprofit Project Night

Join us at CIC for Nonprofit Project Night at Code 'Til Dawn where we're building tech solutions for impactful St. Louis Nonprofits November is all about supporting St. Louis nonprofits!! TechSTL, Turnberry Solutions, and CIC @ Cortex are bringing together St. Louis nonprofit organizations with teams of developers, designers, data analysts, product builders, and other tech professionals for one fast-paced evening of community problem-solving. Each nonprofit will bring a real technology challenge or project that a team can tackle during the evening. That could mean building or prototyping a website, app, chatbot, AI agent, database, dashboard, digital campaign, automation, or something completely unexpected. From 5:00–11:00 PM, participants will form teams around nonprofit projects and spend the evening designing, building, testing, and creating something tangible that can help these organizations better serve the St. Louis community. What makes this Code 'til Dawn different? • Nonprofit projects selected from across the St. Louis region • Cross-functional teams of developers, designers, analysts, strategists, and product builders • Roughly four focused hours of collaborative building • Experienced mentors available to help teams work through technical and product challenges • Dinner, drinks & treats provided for all participants • A chance to apply your skills to a real community need while meeting some of the region’s best builders You do not need to come with a team or a project. Just bring your skills, curiosity, laptop, and willingness to jump in. Early-career technologists, experienced professionals, students, founders, designers, developers, analysts, AI builders, and technical leaders are all welcome. We’ll help connect participants with projects where their experience can add value. Our Nonprofit Tech Projects: -- House Everyone STL is seeking technical support to help prepare a volunteer management app for use by St. Louis emergency shelters this winter. Originally developed through SLU’s Open Source program with additional mentorship from WWT’s Women in Tech ERG, the project will focus on defining and completing the critical work needed to move the platform from development into real-world use—helping shelters better coordinate volunteers and respond to community needs during the coldest months of the year. https://houseeveryonestl.org/ -- Show Me Peace is seeking technical support to strengthen and scale the Salesforce database powering its community violence intervention work across St. Louis City. The project will focus on improving workflow automation, connecting interventions with conflicts and shooting incidents, and making reporting more accurate and efficient—helping frontline teams spend less time managing data and more time supporting the community. https://www.showmepeace.org/ -- STL HELP lends free medical equipment across the St. Louis region, and its data which is required frequently for funder reports is scattered across 53 Jotform forms. A team will build a read-only pipeline to feed a live dashboard of appointments, donations, and clients (by location, equipment type, ZIP, county, veteran status, and age). The main challenge is data cleanup: mapping forms, standardizing fields, and counting items. STL HELP's new WordPress site with Gravity Forms should be live by event day, so a design that can switch data sources is a plus. Stretch goals are historical data, funder report exports, and nightly refresh. https://www.stlhelp.org/ -- The Snow Foundation is seeking technical support to explore an app for collecting and integrating longitudinal health data from people living with Wolfram syndrome, including vision, hearing, blood sugar, and sleep metrics. The goal is to create a more consistent way to capture at-home data that can strengthen understanding of the disease’s progression while also supporting the validation of clinical trial outcome measures and the development of new therapies for this rare, devastating childhood-onset condition. https://thesnowfoundation.org/ -- AIWAF is an open-source adaptive web application firewall that helps protect web applications by detecting suspicious requests and traffic patterns. At Code Til Dawn, we’ll work on a security testing sandbox to test its Python, JavaScript, and Java integrations, identify gaps, and improve protection while keeping legitimate traffic flowing. https://aiwaf.org/ -- VetBiz is seeking tech professionals to help design and develop a centralized, searchable database that brings together publicly available business information, identifies potential veteran-owned businesses, and establishes a process for verifying and maintaining business information. https://vetbiz.com/ -- STL Neighborhood Foresters is building a dashboard sharing the scope of need and volunteers' impact on neighborhood trees. We will focus on highlighting patterns in key metrics including tree mortality and planting and age of tree inventory update data changes while also highlighting the recent and cumulative hours regular residents have contributed to moving those metrics and creating long-term improvements in the health and distribution of our urban trees. https://stlnf.org/ -- NAMI St. Louis provides Mental Health Awareness presentations in schools throughout the region. At the conclusion of each presentation, we collect a presentation evaluation from each student. These evaluations, which include Likert Scale and short answer responses, are completed on individual sheets of paper. The data and comments from those pages are then transcribed by hand into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. We are seeking an automated data entry solution. https://www.namistl.org/ -- Mentors in Motion empowers youth in underserved communities through mentoring, tutoring, and creative learning programs. MIM Kids platform will be an innovative learning tool for pre-k through 5th grade students as a supplement learning tool to the classroom to help students grow to be more proficient in literacy and mathematics. The tool will aim to make learning fun with games, music and other creative development tools. https://mimstl.org/ -- Cortex is trying to understand how they can better connect the 5100+ individuals in Cortex with each other to collectively solve problems. There are a lot of silos between sectors and between buildings, we want it to be easy for our members to find each other and the resources to grow their businesses and organizations. The team is interested in an AI powered solution that does not require constant manual updated. https://www.cortexstl.org/ -- Move2STL, a free relocation initiative of the International Institute of St. Louis, seeks technical support to strengthen its digital marketing and lead-generation strategy. Volunteers will assess the program’s website, social media, and candidate intake process to identify opportunities to improve visibility, increase qualified relocation leads, and streamline conversions. The project will explore affordable AI-powered tools and automation to simplify marketing, track outreach effectiveness, and create a sustainable system manageable by a small team. The goal is to deliver actionable recommendations and, if feasible, a working prototype that improves candidate engagement and intake. https://www.iistl.org/move2stl/ For the Tech Community This is your chance to spend a Friday night doing what Code til Dawn does best: building something real, alongside great people, for a purpose. It’s free. Dinner is provided. And we have a lot of fun. Friday, November 6th from 5:00–11:00 PM CIC @ Cortex (20 South Sarah) Please RSVP. Space is limited. Free Parking is available in the gated lot across the street from CIC, using code 2800 to open the gate.