Our Social Impact
The Radiant Hearts Foundation is Blue Coding's social impact arm, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit funding grassroots projects that strengthen communities across Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Blue Coding was founded in 2014 in the Dominican Republic as a small nearshore staffing company. Over the next decade, we grew steadily, adding offices, team members, and projects across the region. By 2020, we had expanded across Latin America, acquired Resolve Digital, and built an international team across more than ten countries.
As we grew, one question kept coming up: how can we give back to the communities where our people live and thrive?
We started with ad-hoc donations and a long-running partnership with Animales en Peligro, Inc., an animal shelter local to our team in the Dominican Republic. It taught us something important: small, well-placed support can change lives, but giving back effectively takes structure. Larger NGOs absorbed too much in overhead, and smaller NGOs and individuals often did not have the capacity to access funding. Vetting local organizations was difficult. Our team wanted to help, but there was not a clear path.
So we built one. In 2022, we founded the Radiant Hearts Foundation to find, vet, and fund high-impact local projects, and to open that pathway up to other companies that want to give back too.
”I was born in Venezuela and moved to the Dominican Republic at 17. After college, I worked in the software development industry, first locally in the Dominican Republic and then remotely for companies in the US. Through my work, I met many talented developers in Latin America who were eager for new opportunities.
They had the talent, experience, and the right culture fit to match the best developers anywhere in the world. I started Blue Coding in 2014 to connect this talent with companies in the US and Canada. We started small—I found our first client on Reddit and hired my friend Alex to help in the evenings.
We’ve doubled or tripled in size every year since, and now have a team of over 100 amazing developers across more than 15 countries.”
David Hemmat
We believe the people closest to a problem are usually best equipped to solve it. Our role is to find those people and organizations that are already serving their communities, and work with them to provide the funding and technical resources they need to grow their impact. The Radiant Hearts Foundation works alongside grassroots organizations, engaging in conversation to understand their needs and offering grants to provide the resources they need to expand their capacity and serve their communities.
”I was born in Venezuela and moved to the Dominican Republic at 17. After college, I worked in the software development industry, first locally in the Dominican Republic and then remotely for companies in the US. Through my work, I met many talented developers in Latin America who were eager for new opportunities.
They had the talent, experience, and the right culture fit to match the best developers anywhere in the world. I started Blue Coding in 2014 to connect this talent with companies in the US and Canada. We started small—I found our first client on Reddit and hired my friend Alex to help in the evenings.
We’ve doubled or tripled in size every year since, and now have a team of over 100 amazing developers across more than 15 countries.”
David Hemmat
The foundation works alongside grassroots organizations and individuals carrying out projects in five focus areas across Latin America and the Caribbean:
Supporting community health initiatives in underserved areas.
Expanding access to quality learning for children and adults.
Supporting initiatives that protect and advance the dignity, freedom, and rights of vulnerable communities.
Backing programs that create economic opportunity and dignity.
Funding spay and neuter campaigns and care for stray and at-risk animals.
We focus on long-term development partnerships, but reserve a portion of our budget for immediate, time-sensitive needs. Every organization we fund is vetted, and we follow each grant through to execution and reporting.
Radiant Hearts operates as a trusted partner, both for the local organizations we fund and for the companies that fund through us.
● We identify and vet grassroots organizations across Latin America and the Caribbean.
● We design grants together with the organization, focused on measurable outcomes.
● We follow through on execution and report back on impact.
● We capture media, imagery, and stories that partners can use for their own Corporate Social Responsibility reporting.
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