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Discussion on: Working for non-profits organisations

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I work for free for a bunch of charities & built a few.

Large non profits can pay reasonably.

Smaller ones? I do extra work for clients & then give my free time + pay for devs to the charities for free. It requires a serious commitment, like you would for a paid job, same terms.

That is the only real way for them to be competitive (if no serious sponsors).

A charity should be spending 10-15% on admin so you can imagine how much you need to bring in to pay a high level tech person (SEO/SEM/dev/UI/content etc). A small tech team? Revenue needs to be millions so you have to do it for free/cost.

Building something you know has saved thousands of lives directly is better for your well being than all the money in the world. All the small arguments (like you see on social media) become unimportant.