An invitation to learn together
What gets in
the way of the work?
We want to hear from people running charities and the networks that support them. Help us build around a real problem, not an assumed one.
For charity teams
Bring one difficult handover.
Perhaps a donor update loses its owner, a grant deadline lives in someone’s inbox or a team cannot find the evidence behind a decision. We are proposing short discovery conversations about a specific piece of work.
You could describe the process in general terms, review a public resource or try a fictional example in the software. An initial conversation does not require an account, a migration or a commitment to use Charity OS.
For network organizers
Help make the shared resources useful.
Tell us whether a guide fits the people you support. Correct a listing, suggest a missing local organization or identify a question that deserves better shared guidance.
If a resource is useful, you decide whether it belongs in your community. We are not asking for a membership list or treating your network as an advertising channel.
Begin with something you can inspect.
The start guide offers six practical jobs: donor follow-up, fundraising costs, grant deadlines, team handovers, evidence and useful resources. Choose one, review its proposed first-week steps and take an editable plan back to your team. The planner works on this page without an account.
If you write to us, name the job and one general question. We can discuss which existing guide fits, what needs correcting or whether a fictional software example would help. There is no agreed consulting engagement, implementation capacity or response deadline until we discuss it with you.
A proposed first conversation
- The job. Walk through one recurring task and where a handover becomes difficult.
- The current method. Explain what already works and what must be preserved.
- The cost. Describe time, duplicated work and missing information without sharing sensitive records.
- The next test. Decide whether a guide, a small software example or no change would be useful.
We suggest about twenty minutes as a starting point, with the format and timing agreed together. This is a proposed discovery process, not a completed study or evidence that our tools improve outcomes.
What is available to explore
- Website improvements and OS pilots: private concepts, exact change review and a separate fictional-data trial.
- Fundraising knowledge and practice: method guides, a full-cost planner and follow-up schedules.
- Networks and founder programs: selected official-source guides with access and scope limits.
- Shared Charity OS: organization records, roles, linked tasks, review and recovery. Start with a fictional example.
- The public repository: inspect the code, suggest a correction or contribute through a pull request.
The OS implementation plan explains what is built and what remains. The software does not replace specialist accounting or case systems, and this invitation does not establish a funded program, professional accreditation or an institutional partnership.
Choose what you share.
Use an example without donor, staff or beneficiary records. Any interview notes should stay private to the agreed participants. Publication of an organization’s name, a quotation, a recording or a case study needs separate permission; a conversation alone supplies none.
For a private conversation, write to hello@charitology.org with your organization or network, the role you hold and the question you want to discuss. Please begin with a short description rather than attachments or personal case information. We will agree a next step together.
For a public directory suggestion, use the network suggestion form. It asks for official organization sources. Opening it publishes nothing; submitting an issue makes its content public.