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by zachlatta 839 days ago
Hi - I'm the executive director of Hack Club (https://hackclub.com). We are a nonprofit that helps tens of thousands of teenagers learn to code each year, and in 2018 we launched an in-house fiscal sponsorship program called Hack Club Bank (https://hackclub.com/hcb/), originally for our students.

Our sponsorship program has expanded and we now serve organizations of all mission types, including software, climate, and social movements. We sponsor over 1,500 organizations, most of them grassroots, and receive donations from funders including Ford Foundation, Gates Foundation, and many others for them.

We've been helping many OCF groups that need a new fiscal sponsor, and 3 have transferred over already. For any groups reading this - we would be happy to work with you and continue supporting your work.

Please email me directly at zach@hackclub.com and I can connect you with the right person on our team.

There are two unique things about HCB that sets us apart: 1) we are software-enabled, with a custom Rails app for financial management, which offers dramatically better UX than most fiscal sponsors (there is a demo if you click the screenshot on https://hackclub.com/hcb/), including the ability to have physical spending cards, and 2) we are a nonprofit ourselves, and any excess fees go toward making HCB free for high school students and supporting their education.

4 comments

Just sent this comment to beehaw (fediverse instance). Open collective shuttering has them scrambling. Appreciate your willingness to help folks out with this!
Thanks for the headsup @BolexNOLA. Penguincoder here (of Beehaw) and we are tracking on this outreach. We definitely want to go with another well known and trustworthy fiscal host. Not sure that a Rails UX matters in this context but certainly nicer than some other banking front-ends...
Happy to help. Guess you know my HN and beehaw accounts now haha
Ask them to add you to this list they mention in the announcement: https://airtable.com/appQVOmXysA863DDc/shrdjThde0Xteoabu/tbl...
Hack Club Bank was awesome back when I was helping organize HackSC. Thanks for the software!
> donations from funders including Ford Foundation, Gates Foundation,

You know the projects “hack club” sponsor are going to be a particular “type”, and probably very weird and wasteful.

Could you explain it, instead of making weird implications, that only some insiders will understand?
HackClub.com purports to support Highschool coding clubs and building open source learning tools - I can't claim to know how successful this goal is, but it doesn't seem untoward or overly wasteful to me!