I'm surprised about the "What is my donation doing?" section, because my experience is that most nontechnical nonprofits suck at this too. (Unless they have a very specific "your $50 donation buys a family a cow"-type marketing model, but those tend to be pretty misleading: https://blog.givewell.org/2009/11/05/donor-illusions/)
Many nonprofits have overhead like 80% (salary cost, management bonuses, marketing). Direct expense accountability is their cryptonite, and they will do everything to obfuscate it!
Non-profits similarly have a problem that also hounds for-profits: Fundraising as a separate activity detracts from the primary mission, and balancing between the two is a struggle.
As someone working on a tech nonprofit right now, I find a ton of value in your post and really appreciate the time you took to elucidate the minutiae of seeking funding from qualified donors. Thank you.
The more basic solution is for the non-profit to just add the info. Grab a squarespace template and just type in the info.
If anything, someone should just make an AI that sucks in all the things she mentioned and add it to the NPO's pages. As she mentioned, most NPO work is just marketing and fundraising, and hopefully a little bit of doing some of the work you started it for.
I'm surprised about the "What is my donation doing?" section, because my experience is that most nontechnical nonprofits suck at this too. (Unless they have a very specific "your $50 donation buys a family a cow"-type marketing model, but those tend to be pretty misleading: https://blog.givewell.org/2009/11/05/donor-illusions/)
Many nonprofits have overhead like 80% (salary cost, management bonuses, marketing). Direct expense accountability is their cryptonite, and they will do everything to obfuscate it!
Non-profits similarly have a problem that also hounds for-profits: Fundraising as a separate activity detracts from the primary mission, and balancing between the two is a struggle.
My favourite tech non-profit is Software Freedom Conservancy, I think it does quite well on these points.
https://sfconservancy.org/
As someone working on a tech nonprofit right now, I find a ton of value in your post and really appreciate the time you took to elucidate the minutiae of seeking funding from qualified donors. Thank you.
Sounds like a SaaS offering waiting to be built
They exist already.
The more basic solution is for the non-profit to just add the info. Grab a squarespace template and just type in the info.
If anything, someone should just make an AI that sucks in all the things she mentioned and add it to the NPO's pages. As she mentioned, most NPO work is just marketing and fundraising, and hopefully a little bit of doing some of the work you started it for.
100% agreed. Awesome!
Here is our 501(c)(3) tech non-profit. All corporate profits are directed to children. Clear and transparent.
https://aid.aideo.us/
I just clicked around your site and I have no idea what your organization does.