About Collective

Our mission

Most of the good work in a city never makes the news. The local paper that used to cover the food bank, the land trust and the Saturday cleanup has fewer reporters every year, and the feeds that replaced it show people what keeps them scrolling, not what is happening down the street.

So the people doing the work tell the story themselves, one post at a time, and hope the right person sees it. Usually the right person doesn’t. Not because nobody cares. Because nobody built the place where caring could find the work.

Nonprofits are doing more than you know. We want you to know.

We built Collective to be that place. Every story here is published by the organization that did the work, in its own words and its own colors. Anyone can read it, add the organizations they care about, and say what they would actually do: show up, volunteer, give, or pass it on. When one of those organizations needs exactly that, we pass it on.

Collective’s mission is to make the good work in every city impossible to miss, by giving the organizations doing it a home that reaches new people, and giving everyone else an easy way to be part of it.

How Collective works

For people, Collective is free, and it always will be. There are no ads, and nobody pays to be featured.

Organizations with budgets under $50,000 use every tool for free. Larger ones pay a flat monthly price set by their budget, never by the size of their list, and our prices are suggestions. When someone gives through Collective, they add a small fee on top that they see before they pay, so the gift reaches the organization whole.

The organization’sThe donor’s fee: card processing and Collective

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