# Announcing Our 2019 Des Moines Charity Hack Nonprofits

We’re excited to announce the 2019 nonprofits benefiting from our annual hackathon. Revealed this evening at our kick-off event, they will be receiving the assistance of a combined 100 volunteers who will help create websites, databases, mapping tools, and more, for free over the next 48 hours. Follow along on [Facebook](http://facebook.com/dsmhack), [Twitter](http://twitter.com/dsmhack), and [Instagram](http://instagram.com/dsm_hack) as we help these nonprofits over the next 48 hours. And, tune in live Saturday night on Facebook to watch the final project presentations!

## dsmHack's 2019 Nonprofit Organizations

**Adaptive Sports Iowa’s goal is to bring fun, excitement and exercise to enhance the quality of life of amazing athletes with physical disabilities in Iowa.** [Learn more about Adaptive Sports Iowa.](http://adaptivesportsiowa.org/)

**Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Iowa** helps children realize their potential and build their futures through a mentoring network. [Learn more about Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Iowa.](http://www.bbbsia.org/)

**Community Support Advocates** provides support services to almost 1100 individuals. The individuals supported experience a wide range of disabilities, including intellectual disabilities and other developmental disabilities, brain injury, mental illness and substance abuse. [Learn more about Community Support Advocates.](https://teamcsa.org/)

**Free Clinics of Iowa** is the largest network of free medical clinics in the state of Iowa. [Learn more about Free Clinics of Iowa.](http://www.freeclinicsofiowa.org/)

**Habitat for Humanity** is dedicated to eliminating substandard housing locally and worldwide through constructing, rehabilitating and preserving homes. [Learn more about Habitat for Humanity.](https://www.habitat.org/)

**Iowa Homeless Youth Centers works to eliminate homelessness among children, youth and families in Central Iowa.** [Learn more about Iowa Homeless Youth Centers.](https://www.yss.org/locations/iowa-homeless-youth-centers/)

**Iowa Radio Reading Information Service for the Blind** recruits volunteers to read print publications aloud for Iowans who cannot comfortably hold print material or access the words on the page. [Learn more about Iowa Radio Reading Information Service for the Blind.](https://www.iowaradioreading.org/)

**Les Dames D’Escoffier Greater Des Moines** is a philanthropic organization of women leaders in the fields of food, fine beverage and hospitality. [Learn more about Les Dames D’Escoffier Greater Des Moines.](https://www.facebook.com/damesdsm/)

**Make-A-Wish Iowa** is making wishes come true for children diagnosed with critical illnesses. A wish is granted every other day in the state of Iowa. [Learn more about Make-A-Wish Iowa.](https://iowa.wish.org/)

**United Upper Nile South Sudanese Community Association in Iowa** supports immigrant and refugee communities in the state.

**Walnut Creek Watershed Association** was developed to address environmental and flooding concerns seen throughout the watershed and in the creek. [Learn more about Walnut Creek Watershed Association.](http://www.walnutcreekwatershed.org/)