We build. We respond. We engage. Build with BetaNYC.
We build toward four freedoms that belong to every New Yorker: the freedom to connect, the freedom to learn, the freedom to innovate, and the freedom to collaborate. Internet access as a prerequisite to civic life. Data literacy as public infrastructure. Technology built with communities, not for them. A government you can actually participate in.
BetaBuilders sustains BetaNYC’s work — shoulder to shoulder.
What your support sustained in 2025
9,991
New Yorkers at our events
74
events across the five boroughs
6,394
at NYC Open Data Week
3,430
helped apply to Community Boards
47,000
reached by the Boundaries Map
Every BetaBuilder gift sustains this in 2026. Read the full 2025 Impact Report.
Democracy is not given. It is built.
We build on Lenapehoking — the homeland of the Lenape, displaced over four centuries of settler colonialism and still its rightful stewards — and on a city raised by enslaved and indentured hands. We hold that history honestly. And we hold this alongside it: the freedoms New York does have were built by the people it tried to leave out. (Read our full history and land acknowledgment.)
Juan Rodriguez, a free man of African and Portuguese descent, became the city’s first non-Native resident in 1613 through dialogue and trade. The immigrant women of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire built our labor laws. The Young Lords and the Stonewall generation built rights withheld from Latino, Black, immigrant, and queer New Yorkers.
They built with the tools of their time. We build with ours — civic design, technology, and data. You’re not giving a donation. You are building civic infrastructure.
Become a BetaBuilder
Pick the level that fits. Every monthly gift goes directly to the programs below — no overhead mystery. Monthly is the default; you can switch to a one-time gift in the form.
Freedom, liberty, and democracy are not given. They are built. you support our local democracy. this is the way. ↓
Informed Neighbor
$5/month · $60/year
The weekly newsletter — 5,300+ readers
- Exclusive Online Space
- Members-only 2026 summer party invite
- Member Happy Hours
- BetaNYC sticker pack
Civic Hacker
$10/month · $120/year
Your support helps fund an intro data or AI 101 class — 1,089 trained in 2025
✓ Everything above, plus exclusive annual swag.
Borough Builder
$26/month · $312/year
A Mapping for Equity event in your borough!
✓ Everything above, plus discounted tickets to selected BetaNYC Events
System Architect
$50/month · $600/year
Our Civic Innovation Workforce Development workshops.
✓ Everything above, including exclusive gatherings & VIP access to selected events.
Full Stack Sustainer
$100/month · $1,200/year
A Civic Innovation Fellows’ monthly stipend
✓ Everything above, including annual donor & BetaNYC team lunch.
Why monthly?
Building never finishes. The newsletter goes out every week. The classes run all year. The maps get made one borough at a time. A monthly gift is how the building keeps going — without you having to think about it again.
Already giving monthly?
You’re a Legacy Builder — thank you. You’ve been sustaining this work before we had a name for it. Your existing commitment stays exactly as it is. To move to a new BetaBuilder level, reach out and we’ll take care of it.
We will never sell or share your information. Your gift stays between you and us.
BetaNYC is a project of The Fund for the City of New York, a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Gifts are made to The Fund for the City of New York (EIN 13-2612524) and are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. You can also give by check (payable to The Fund for the City of New York, memo “BetaNYC”) or by stock or DAF — contact us for instructions.
Want to meet the community you’re sustaining? Come to a BetaBuilder Night.