Zagwa

Pro-social software for mission-driven organizations.

Small, durable web tools — built for nonprofits and civic projects that need to do more with less. Lightweight to run, simple to maintain, made to last longer than the grant cycle.

Selected work

Penlight

Chi Hack Night · GNHUSA

Enabling “participatory auditing” in local government — letting community-led groups design their own evaluation rubrics around the metrics that matter most to their wellbeing.

WellbeingEffect

A natural-experiment research framework for evaluating the impact of events and policies — pairing the Rossouw–Greyling approach to passive GNH measurement with the CausalImpact method for geo-testing.

Curriculumulator

Crash Course · Complexly · 2019

A tool to help educators make use of Crash Course's educational video library — built in a day with the Missoula, Montana team. Made possible by Nielsen's Global Impact Day.

Fieldhouse

in development

Helps new arrivals to Chicago learn the city — its landmarks and history, its street grid, its neighborhoods. Shaped by time spent as an ESL teacher's assistant at RefugeeOne.

Contact

Have a mission-driven problem worth solving?
Reach the questionmaster at qm@zagwa.net.