Our values

GoodEWorkers brings remote workers together to build useful technology for nonprofits. Our values guide how we organise that work, how we treat each other, and where we put our skills.

Four words. Two describe how we work: Openness and Autonomy. Two describe whom we care for: Care for our people, Solidarity with the organisations we support.

How we work

Openness Write it down. Build in the open.
Autonomy Trust people with their work and their time.

Whom we care for

Care Look after yourself. Look after each other.
Solidarity Put our skills where they can make a difference.

How we work

Openness

Write it down. Build in the open.

Knowledge should be accessible to the people who need it. We put decisions, working practices and the reasoning behind them in writing, so people can understand and contribute on their own schedule. Participation should not depend on being in the right meeting or knowing an unwritten rule.

The same principle shapes what we build. Our default is to publish our code as open source, so others can use it, improve it and contribute back. We want more people to take part in the open source community.

Openness applies to our methods and code. Personal information, confidential partner material and sensitive health data stay protected.

This page is open source too: suggest a change on GitHub (opens in a new tab).

Autonomy

Trust people with their work and their time.

We judge work by what it delivers. Online status, hours at a desk and reply speed tell us little about whether something useful has been done.

We agree on responsibilities and expectations, then give people room to organise their contribution. Written updates help everyone stay informed without requiring everyone to be available at once.

Time to focus, slow replies and space for life are part of how we work. Health, family and responsibilities outside GoodEWorkers belong in the plan. When circumstances change, we adjust together.

Whom we care for

Care

Look after yourself. Look after each other.

The wellbeing of our contributors is part of what makes a project successful. We want people to have room for sleep, health, family and a life beyond their contribution. Asking for help or reducing a commitment should be possible without guilt.

Working remotely also means making room for connection. We make time to welcome people, share knowledge, check in and ask for support. Belonging deserves attention and resources.

People should be able to work independently and still feel part of a community.

Solidarity

Put our skills where they can make a difference.

Nonprofits, hospitals and other organisations serving essential needs deserve access to excellent technology. Limited budgets or technical capacity should not shut them out.

We bring our skills to the challenges they identify, with the ambition to make modern, capable tools accessible to the people who need them. That means listening carefully and choosing technology that is useful, maintainable and suited to its setting.

Our responsibility extends beyond our own piece of the work. We care whether the people receiving it can understand it, use it and keep it working.

Putting our values into practice

Each year, we commit to one to three initiatives. This gives our community a shared focus and a clear place to direct its time and skills.

In 2026, our focus is hospitals and health‑related technology.

Our values guide how we contribute. Our initiatives show where we put that commitment to work.

Explore our initiatives