Comments on: Cutting Edge Non-Profit Development

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By: taylor

taylor — Sat, 16 May 2009 18:02:51 +0000

There are two directions this effort could go in. One is more of a micro approach. The other being a macro approach (tricky I know).

Micro being that a group of guys ban together to donate time towards A website or AN application for ONE non-profit. I have done this before with LifeNetworks and several others as well. And while this is satisfying it isn’t what I am envisoning here.

The macro approach would be an approach that would ned some fairly significant angel funding to get off the ground. But once the flywheel was turning it shouldn’t require any funding to keep it going.

Once the funding was in place the next step would be to do analysis of the big software/web expenses non-profits have today. Maybe CRM? Or possibly web content management? The example I always use is bulletin creation software… because we know how pivotal that can be. Then Gorilla-Labs would then bang out web hosted solutions for these problems at ridiculously cheap monthly fees (covering mainly the monthly hosting and residual costs only). So, in essence it becomes a macro-micro-loan type investment that perpetually pays dividends back to the larger goal of providing dirt cheap solutions to missionaries, pastors, non-profit CIOs who can’t afford to pay the going rate today for these services.

Christians should see this more from a socialistic standpoint than from a profit opportunity. Myself included. But the allure of dollar signs and esteeem can be blindingly bright.

By: pop pop

pop pop — Sat, 16 May 2009 15:19:57 +0000

VTaylor: your idea is terrific…Just one problem. Most nonprofits don’t even realize they need what you are offering!
Have u talked to Mike Stuber about this idea?
Also, take a look at I-AM. (org or com). My friend Gordon is spreading the Gospel in many languages and having special impact on Moslems who want to know more about Christ in a non-threatening (semi-secret) environment. Gordon is just begging for technical help. Some of his programming was done by an Egyptian Moslem who wouldn’t accept their agreed-upon fee once he knew that the work was totally about Jesus.

Yes there are nonprofits out there who really need and looking for what God is calling u 2 do! DrJ