Making a difference together.
Going beyond the digital experience to make a positive impact on the human experience.
Going beyond what is expected to help and support others has been a long standing value of Crowd Favorite. We have carefully selected charities and organizations that align with our values, support underserved and underrepresented communities, and whose donations go predominately to those they serve.
We are going beyond the digital experience to make a positive impact on the human experience- and hope you will join us. To participate, please contact Giving@CrowdFavorite.com.
Charities of Focus 2025
Benetech
Benetech works with different communities of students with learning variabilities. These are students who struggle to read and learn due to learning challenges like dyslexia, as well as blindness, low vision, cerebral palsy, and other physical disabilities. They ensure that all learning materials are accessible through their leading global edtech platform, while also transforming the way content is created. They recognize the importance of providing learning materials and support to students with learning differences or disabilities—whether in rural or urban communities, in charter, public, or private schools, or through homeschooling.
First
Founded in 1989 by inventor Dean Kamen, FIRST® (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) is a global nonprofit (501(c)(3)) organization that prepares young people for the future through a suite of inclusive, team-based robotics programs for ages 4-18 (PreK-12). Our programs are suitable for schools or structured afterschool activities and receive support from a vast network of volunteers, educators, and sponsor/donors, including over 200 Fortune 500 companies.
Legal Momentum
The first and longest-running legal defense and education fund for women. Their vision is for all women and girls to realize their full potential. Committed to ensuring economic and personal security for all women and girls, they advance equity in education, the workplace, and the courts—providing an expert legal voice to seek justice. Through their five areas of legal impact, they work every day to achieve this mission.
Earth League International
Earth League International (ELI) is an innovative non-governmental organization that fights environmental/wildlife crime by merging the worlds of conservation, intelligence, investigation, research, and analysis. As pioneers in the use of professional intelligence applied to environmental crime and crime convergence, ELI has been at the forefront of utilizing professional intelligence to combat environmental organized crime. With a proven history of success, ELI identifies and investigates the most important environmental criminals and transnational wildlife trafficking networks globally.
First
Develop for Good powers social good through students from all colleges and backgrounds. The Bay Area nonprofit especially prioritizes making its valuable, hands-on project experiences accessible to underserved and underrepresented students in tech to accelerate their careers. It strives to empower the next generation of diverse tech leaders to learn by doing good, all while furthering the digital transformation of the nonprofit sector. At its core, Develop for Good hopes to create a world where students, nonprofits, and corporations are dedicated to furthering technical education, advancing digital equity, and helping one another unlock their fullest potential.
InReach
InReach (formerly AsylumConnect) is a trans-led tech nonprofit building the world’s first open-source, verified LGBTQ+ resource platform. Free to use, it connects LGBTQ+ individuals—especially immigrants, BIPOC, and those facing rejection—with trusted, affirming services. Dedicated to ensuring unrestricted access to essential resources, InReach is shaping a future where every trans and queer person can thrive. This growing global network offers a crucial lifeline for those navigating complex systems to find safety and community.
World Central Kitchen
World Central Kitchen (WCK) is the disaster-relief nonprofit founded by chef José Andrés in 2010 after the Haiti earthquake, built on a simple idea: show up first and serve fresh, culturally familiar meals fast.
Partnering with local cooks, restaurants, and volunteers, WCK has created a community-first model that gets food where it’s needed within hours, not weeks, and then invests in longer-term resilience through programs like the Food Producer Network that strengthen local food systems. Since its start, WCK has served more than 500 million meals to families affected by conflict, natural disasters, and climate-driven crises around the world.
Software Freedom Conservancy
Software Freedom Conservancy is a nonprofit organization centered around ethical technology. Their mission is to ensure the right to repair, improve and reinstall software. They promote and defend these rights through fostering free and open source software (FOSS) projects, driving initiatives that actively make technology more inclusive, and advancing policy strategies that defend FOSS (such as copyleft).
Waterkeeper Alliance
Waterkeeper Alliance is a global movement of community-based advocates united for clean and abundant water for all people and the planet.
The Alliance mobilizes citizen science, legal advocacy, and local action to create global impact and collectively advance a shared mission to protect everyone’s right to clean water.
Spanning across six continents, their global movement strives to be an accurate reflection of the communities they work to protect.
NumFOCUS
NumFOCUS is a nonprofit promoting open practices in research, data, and scientific computing. Founded on the belief that open source tools fuel discovery and collaboration, NumFOCUS provides fiscal sponsorship, funding, and community support for essential scientific computing projects.
By uplifting projects like Jupyter, NumPy, and Pandas, NumFOCUS helps ensure that researchers, educators, and organizations worldwide have access to sustainable, transparent, and accessible software. Its mission lowers barriers, amplifies innovation, and helps make open science the default.
K9s For Warriors
K9s For Warriors is the nation’s largest provider of trained service dogs for military veterans, built on a simple belief: no hero should be left to fight their battles alone.
By rescuing dogs from high-kill shelters and pairing them with veterans living with PTSD, traumatic brain injury, or military sexual trauma, K9s For Warriors saves two lives at a time — one dog and one warrior.
Through an intensive, residential training program, each veteran learns to rebuild trust, regain independence, and rediscover purpose with a loyal companion by their side every step of the way.
Children Rescue Coalition
Child Rescue Coalition (CRC) is a nonprofit on a mission to protect children from sexual exploitation, built on a powerful idea: use technology for good to stop abuse before it happens.
Partnering with law enforcement agencies around the world, CRC provides free, proprietary technology that tracks and identifies predators sharing child sexual abuse material online, helping authorities make arrests and rescue children in real time.
Since its founding, CRC’s tools have helped rescue more than 3,500 children and lead to thousands of arrests across 100+ countries, proving that data and compassion together can save lives.
Looking Back:
Our Giving Journey
Over the years, we’ve supported many incredible causes. Explore the charities we’ve partnered with and their missions.
About Crowd Favorite
The Crowd Favorite name originated from our founder Alex King who, while watching a golf tournament, heard the announcer talking about a player and how, although that player was at the top of his sport, still took the time to look fans in the eyes, shake their hands, and sign their autographs until the last person got one. Alex wanted the same for his company and its clients.
As an expert developer and Open Source Software enthusiast, he set out to create an agency for established and scaling brands where clients could get elite technology services with a friendly, authentic, and approachable experience.
Today, we continue to use that ethos as our North Star – whether that means working with our clients and partners, giving back to the Open Source Community, giving back to underserved and underrepresented communities through Crowd Favorite Giving Days, or supporting our team in their professional growth – we embody the traits of a Crowd Favorite.