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Building for Good: How Civil Society Organizations Are Automating on Cloudflare

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Hi everyone, it's Shii-chan! Today is a story about organizations working for society with Cloudflare.

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What was announced?

The Cloudflare Blog showcased how non-profits are automating their work on Cloudflare. Through its developer services startup program, Cloudflare awarded $7.5 million in credits to 30 non-profit organizations.

Why it matters

For organizations running on limited staff, building their own tools to cut manual work is a real boost. These examples show how technology helps on the ground.

Dive Deep

The organizations and their projects:

  • LebTown (a Pennsylvania newsroom): built a custom editorial management system tracking stories from pitch to publication, tools converting county real estate PDFs into structured data, and an AI copyeditor agent integrated with WordPress
  • Kaya Guides (mental health, India): a WhatsApp-based app pairing people with trained counselors. It processes approximately 500,000 WhatsApp messages monthly, had supported 10,439 people as of September 2026 with 2,325 currently enrolled, and runs a live AI system giving counselors real-time feedback
  • The Snorkelling Society (UK): SnorkelMap, a web and mobile app for the global snorkeling community to discover locations and share experiences, using Cloudflare for secure storage and cyberattack protection

Collaborative engineering projects:

  • Freedom House: an interactive dashboard automating the identification of transnational repression cases from public reporting
  • Global Network Initiative: a dashboard tracking regulatory proposals and advocacy opportunities across jurisdictions
  • Article One: a risk assessment tool that processes documentation and identifies human rights risks in corporate operations

Wrap-up

  • $7.5 million in credits for 30 non-profits
  • Cloudflare powers newsrooms, mental health support, and community apps
  • In human rights work, collaborative dashboards and risk assessment tools are emerging

Worth a read if you like seeing technology used for social good!

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