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by oakio 4514 days ago
Giver.io is a for-profit. I have worked with several nonprofits and still do. What I wanted to do is build a tool that made life easier for a lot of smaller nonprofits.

Many of the nonprofits that I have worked with have real trouble managing their needs, accepting donations online, and staying connected with givers.

With every donation online, nonprofits have to pay for credit card transactions and bank fees at the very least. Giver.io wants to make that process as simple and organized as possible for the nonprofit.

We do not see it as amoral in the least, but I am very glad that you brought that up. We must not be doing as good a job as we could at explaining the app.

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You need to be incredibly transparent, especially since you're appealing to non-profits and to people's desire to give to non-profits. You need to be totally up front about the cut you are taking.

And how are you vetting the non-profits? Simply that they are 501(c) orgs?