Support Our Work
Foundation for Shared Impact (FSI) is a Section 88 tax exempt charity pursuing a mission of collecting, aggregating and disseminating data for the public good. Among these endeavours, we seek to develop Hong Kong’s first database of all Section 88 tax exempt charities in Hong Kong. This database, and the others we are creating, will help drive transparency and efficiency to the social impact sector.
However, in order to reach our goals, we are in need of both financial and practical support to expand and scale these operations.
Volunteer – Help us research!
One of the best ways you could support us is by helping us research organisations in our charity database. The first step would be to register and select a handful of organisations to research. Once you’ve done this, you can proceed to input the data of each organisation. You can read more about our volunteer research instructions here. To stay further connected, you are also welcome to join us on Slack.
Volunteer – Other
In order to make Shared Data truly impactful we need capable champions with relevant skills ranging from legal matters, web development, python scraping, information systems, fundraising and more. Contact us if you are interested in getting involved.
Donate
We would benefit greatly from any financial contributions to help make this project better.
In addition to the work hours we are putting into this, we are also taking on the cost of software and of acquiring financial statements of each charity from the Hong Kong Government’s ICRIS system (at roughly 21 HKD per file).
Please consider donating.
- We hope to develop an API and a resource database that address an array of creative solutions, ranging from powering a company’s employee giving program to enabling text notifications with suggestions of high-performing charities serving the causes respective donors care about most, and more.
- We aspire to build fundraising-related solutions to enable the public to donate to charities directly on the platform, set up recurring donations, receive tax-receipts and more, including the possibility to create an “e-Wallet for charities” to enable small dollar transactions and cryptocurrency donations.
- Since FSI has connections to The University of Hong Kong and other academic researchers, we envision using Shared Data to fuel academic research, providing insights on topics related to charitable and philanthropic giving throughout the sector.
- We plan to build analysis and data visualization tools that make it easier for the general public to understand relevant data trends.
- We hope to develop a more comprehensive and flexible impact measurement assessment tool that will make it easier for charities to share their results and impact-related information with the public, and which will aid the shift towards providing a more holistic assessment of charities’ effectiveness.
- We aspire to include and share foundation pages and other funding opportunities, where such foundations and other private funders will be able to share information about themselves, application procedures, provide impact reports, and more.
- We hope to work with funders (public and private) to integrate more uniform, online application processes to reduce friction and time necessary for NGOs to apply for funding.
- We would love to see funders implement data dashboards that they can use to better track the impact of their giving in real-time.
- Finally, we hope that through all of the above, we can drive the conversation about the next generation of Asian philanthropy.
- We hope to develop an API and a resource database that address an array of creative solutions, ranging from powering a company’s employee giving program to enabling text notifications with suggestions of high-performing charities serving the causes respective donors care about most, and more.
- We aspire to build fundraising-related solutions to enable the public to donate to charities directly on the platform, set up recurring donations, receive tax-receipts and more, including the possibility to create an “e-Wallet for charities” to enable small dollar transactions and cryptocurrency donations.
- Since FSI has connections to The University of Hong Kong and other academic researchers, we envision using Shared Data to fuel academic research, providing insights on topics related to charitable and philanthropic giving throughout the sector.
- We plan to build analysis and data visualization tools that make it easier for the general public to understand relevant data trends.
- We hope to develop a more comprehensive and flexible impact measurement assessment tool that will make it easier for charities to share their results and impact-related information with the public, and which will aid the shift towards providing a more holistic assessment of charities’ effectiveness.
- We aspire to include and share foundation pages and other funding opportunities, where such foundations and other private funders will be able to share information about themselves, application procedures, provide impact reports, and more.
- We hope to work with funders (public and private) to integrate more uniform, online application processes to reduce friction and time necessary for NGOs to apply for funding.
- We would love to see funders implement data dashboards that they can use to better track the impact of their giving in real-time.
- Finally, we hope that through all of the above, we can drive the conversation about the next generation of Asian philanthropy.
Other? Contact us!
