# dsmhack.org > AI-optimized mirror of dsmhack.org containing 23 pages totalling 7,148 words of clean markdown content, structured data, and semantic HTML. Original source: https://dsmhack.org/. Last updated: 2026-06-15T16:12:16.934Z. Each page is available as HTML (with JSON-LD structured data) and Markdown (text-only, ideal for LLMs and RAG). ## Articles & Blog Posts - [blog/announcing-2020-des-moines-charity-hack-nonprofits/index.html](/content/blog/announcing-2020-des-moines-charity-hack-nonprofits/index.html) (1 words) - [blog/remote-tools-for-the-new-normal/index.html](/content/blog/remote-tools-for-the-new-normal/index.html) (1 words) - [Announcing Our 2019 Des Moines Charity Hack Nonprofits](/content/blog/announcing-our-2019-des-moines-charity-hack-nonprofits.html): 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.Follo, (388 words) - [dsmHack 2020: Final Projects](/content/blog/dsmhack-2020-final-projects/index.html): The 48 hours of our annual hackathon always goes by quickly – but our teams are able to accomplish numerous solutions to help the selected nonprofits succeed in the future. This year, nearly 81 volunteers worked with 11 nonprofits. Here’s what they accomplished: Anawim Housing is dedic, (871 words) - [dsmHack 2019: Final Projects](/content/blog/dsmhack-2019-final-projects/index.html): The 48 hours of our annual hackathon always goes by quickly - but our teams are able to accomplish numerous solutions to help the selected nonprofits succeed in the future. This year, nearly 100 volunteers worked with 11 nonprofits.Here’s what they accomplished: Adaptive Sports Iowa: A complete o, (806 words) - [dsmHack 2022](/content/blog/dsmhack-2022/index.html): The hack is complete! Catch the livestream recordings of the opening and closing ceremonies and keep reading to learn how we helped 6 great nonprofits this year., The hack is complete! Catch the livestream recordings of the opening and closing ceremonies and keep reading to learn how we helped 6 great nonprofits this year. (742 words) - [Giving Tuesday with the Community Foundation of Greater Des Moines](/content/blog/giving-tuesday-with-the-community-foundation-of-greater-des-moines.html): Giving Tuesday is a global generosity movement unleashing the power of radical generosity. GivingTuesday was created in 2012 as a simple idea: a day that encourages people to do good. Since then, it has grown into a year-round global movement that inspires hundreds of millions of people to give, co, (531 words) - [Let's Talk Tech! Why you need a Tech Plan](/content/blog/lets-talk-tech-why-you-need-a-tech-plan/index.html): Nonprofit organizations face many barriers as they work to move forward the causes that they represent. Often, budgets are tight and the allowance for technology assistance is unobtainable. This problem is what led to the launch of dsmHack with our signature event: the Des Moines Charity Hack, an an, (377 words) - [[The 2024 {dsmHack} Des Moines Charity Hackathon for Nonprofits Sparks Innovation and Impactful Solutions](/content/blog/the-2024-dsmhack-des-moines-charity-hackathon-for-nonprofits-sparks-innovation-and-impactful-solutions/index.html)](/content/blog/index.html): Blog Posts for dsmHack, Blog Posts for dsmHack (240 words) - [Welcome to the new, new dsmHack website!](/content/blog/welcome-to-the-new-new-dsmhack-website/index.html): The dsmHack website was rewritten back on September 17, 2016 by a great team! Over the years it has begun to show it’s age and we have been wanting a new website that was easier to maintain and a bit more modern. Strange right? We run a nonprofit that literally builds such websites for several no, The dsmHack website was rewritten back on September 17, 2016 by a great team! Over the years it has begun to show it’s age and we have been wanting a new website that was easier to maintain and a bit more modern. Strange right? We run a nonprofit that literally builds such websites for several nonprofits every year. Truth is we deal with the same problem those nonprofits deal with. Not enough time or resources to put the effort in required. (200 words) - [The hack is back!](/content/blog/the-hack-is-back/index.html): Click here to register for the 2022 hackathon! We are excited to announce that dsmHack will be returning June 2nd - 4th, 2022 at West48 in West Des Moines ! Volunteer tickets go on sale April 12th, 2022. So, please block your calendar and save this link to purchase tickets. A lot, (376 words) - [dsmHack 2023 Charity Hackathon Concludes](/content/blog/category/press-release/index.html) (34 words) - [No Hackathon in 2021](/content/blog/no-hackathon-in-2021/index.html): For the first time in seven years, the dsmHack Hackathon is cancelled due to concerns over increasing rates of COVID-19 infections in Iowa. Those who have attended past hacks know, the atmosphere is everything. You can feel the buzz in the air when you bring together nonprofits and develope, (201 words) - [The 2024 {dsmHack} Des Moines Charity Hackathon for Nonprofits Sparks Innovation and Impactful Solutions](/content/blog/the-2024-dsmhack-des-moines-charity-hackathon-for-nonprofits-sparks-innovation-and-impactful-solutions.html): PRESS RELEASE Des Moines, IA - September 21, 2024 – The annual {dsmHack} event concluded Saturday – uniting technology professionals from across Iowa to tackle projects for four selected nonprofits. Over 48 hours of intense problem-solving, the teams harnessed their skills, creativity, , (327 words) - [dsmHack 2023 Charity Hackathon Concludes](/content/blog/2023-hack-concludes/index.html): dsmHack 2023 was a great success! 7 nonprofits were served by amazing technical professionals giving their time and talents, dsmHack 2023 was a great success! 7 nonprofits were served by amazing technical professionals giving their time and talents (524 words) - [Hack postponed to June 2-4, 2022](/content/blog/category/uncategorized/index.html) (98 words) - [Let's Talk Tech! Passwords!](/content/blog/letstalktech-passwords/index.html): As the number of passwords, accounts and systems we use have increased, so have the bad actors trying to take things that don’t belong to them.  Board members Antoinette Stevens and Lynn Woody talk about passwords with the hope that non-profits can keep themselves just a little bit safer in this, (466 words) - [Salesforce for Nonprofits](/content/blog/salesforce-for-nonprofits/index.html): After reconnecting with a Des Moines connection (we used to take yoga classes together), I was reminded about the power of community connections.  Through mutual friends at the Greater Des Moines Community Foundation (who dsmHack will be speaking with next month), Joseph Piearson and I got togethe, (488 words) - [[dsmHack 2022](/content/blog/dsmhack-2022/index.html)](/content/blog/category/hack-recap/index.html) (71 words) - [The hack is back!](/content/blog/category/news/index.html) (52 words) - [The hack is back!](/content/blog/category/blog/index.html) (16 words) - [Hack postponed to June 2-4, 2022](/content/blog/hack-postponed-to-june-2/index.html): The dsmHack annual charity hackathon, originally scheduled for late March 2022, is still on but will be postponed until June 2-4, 2022 due to high COVID counts in Polk County and forecasted numbers through winter., The dsmHack annual charity hackathon, originally scheduled for late March 2022, is still on but will be postponed until June 2-4, 2022 due to high COVID counts in Polk County and forecasted numbers through winter. 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