We ask Local Charities to: be officially registered with the relevant and legally recognized institutions in the country where they operate AND/OR be officially registered with the relevant and legally recognized institutions in their country(ies) of origin AND/OR be an official subsidiary, project or initiative of a registered company, collective or foundation. Organizations and individual initiatives without any official status of any kind will not be accepted.

Your Charity must implement operations and projects that are meant to achieve one or more of the charitable purposes as defined by the law, including but not limited to: advancing health, education, religion, culture or public welfare; advocating for social justice and human rights; preventing or relieving the suffering of animals; and protecting or restoring the natural environment.

We request that the organizations we list under the Environment, Animals and People pillars be 100% tax-exempt non-profit organizations. That is to say their income must ONLY be used for charitable actions and the maintenance of the organization’s existence (rent, wages, transport costs, etc.). No organization distributing dividends to shareholders will be accepted.

Organizations we list under the Social Enterprises pillar can be for-profit businesses, but they must prove that they: empower their local communities by creating jobs, paying fair wages and providing free education or capacity-building trainings AND reinvest at least half of their profit back into programs that maximize local improvements in social or environmental well-being AND offer ethical products or services that put the planet, human or animal health, and community welfare before profit.

We choose to list on our platform the very small organizations which get close to no governmental support and have a total annual budget of less than US$ 250,000. This amount is not set in stone, however, and we may accept organizations with bigger budgets if they are facing challenges of stability and growth, and really could use the help. We define a Local Charity as an organization that is established for purposes and activities directly, measurably and solely benefitting the regional area where the organization is located. 

Our initiative is a global one, and we are reaching out to an international public. Keep in mind that the people who find you on our website, are touched by your story and wish to give you something might not speak your language. We highly recommend that at least the donation page and the “about” story on your own website be written in English. If that’s too complicated, maybe consider activating an automatic translation functionality on your website. Please note, our team is English-speaking and all official documents attesting of your partnership with us will be in English. It is also handy if at least one person in your organization can speak English relatively fluently, in order to participate to our online community-building events. We love speaking to you in person!

Last, but not least, we are a transparent organization and we expect the same from the Charities we work with. We may require to see evidence (photos, testimonials from your organization’s beneficiaries, local news article, yearly reports etc.) of concrete local actions and projects which you are CURRENTLY undertaking, using the donations you receive. This is to show our givers and website users that you are accountable for the use you make of their gifts and that they can trust their money will indeed be allocated to the cause they chose.