Donor Ranking and Projects (Release Notes v2.4)
Make better donations than anyone else on impactmarkets.io and maybe win prizes at some point
The first step toward the donor score has been taken. Now it is time to test whether there is any demand at all for this feature!
Over the coming weeks you’ll hopefully see more projects popping up on app.impactmarkets.io. These will be projects that want to use the platform to try to find donors. If you have any project proposals lying around from past, unsuccessful grant applications, please post them!
If you are a donor and you like what you see, please support these projects! But you also have another option: If you’ve already supported projects in the past that you’re proud of, you can ask whoever ran the project whether they want to submit it on our platform. If they do, you can register your donations, and once the project is finished, these donations can count toward your score. We’ll announce the top donors and may even have prizes for them!
But note: Projects also have a score, and it’s initially 0. So no matter your donation size, it’ll all multiply up to 0… That needs to change! Which brings us to the third way in which you can help with this effort: Please let us know if you’d like to help with the evaluation of finished projects.
In summary:
You can submit any project proposals you still haven’t gotten funding for.
You can record any donations you’re proud of and possibly win prizes.
You can ask others to submit their projects so you can register your past donations.
You can get in touch if you’d like to help with the evaluation of past projects.
Please get in touch (via Discord, email, or comment) if any of that sounds interesting to you! We’d love to see how you use the platform and what we can improve.
New stuff in release 2.4
Donor ranking
Can you donate so well that you can push the anonymous J. from the pool position? He made a lot of great donations, but most of them were in 2020 and later. Maybe you supported 80,000 Hours in 2011? Register your donation and rake in tons of credits!
You can potentially at some point win prizes, but maybe more importantly, you’ll help other donors decide whose donation decisions to follow. That way donors who want to focus on earning to give rather than in-depth charity research can save time and make better donation decisions.
Or of course you can convince me to upgrade or downgrade one of my charity ratings. Those still need a lot of work, and help is appreciated!
If you use our platform to successfully fund a project, it’d be great if you could later give back in the form of a prize for our top donors.
The initial donation data is from donations.vipulnaik.com, but we want to gradually transition to using only donations entered on our platform.
Projects without impact certificates
We’ve had a “New project” button (in lieu of the original “New certificate” button) for a while, but that was just a change of the label. We were worried that “certificate” might sound weird to people unfamiliar with impact certificates.
But now we actually have projects! These projects are a low-commitment way to get engaged with the platform, a gateway drug to impact certificates. It’s as easy as filling in two mandatory and four optional form fields.
When you create a project, you don’t commit to anything. But you allow people to donate to you (through a third-party website of your choosing) and to register their donations on the platform.
Eventually, such projects will be able to issue any number of impact certificates. Sale of these is disabled until we have more legal clarity.
Redesign
Lucie has redesigned the website to work better on mobile devices! If your screen is wide enough, you can now see three columns of certificates projects next to each other, but if it’s not, you can still use it!
Also the preferences have moved to the user profile to make space in the navigation bar.
Questions & answers
David V. built this amazing Q & A system for us. You can now use the comment section to ask questions of the organizers (but really anyone can answer). The answers are public too.
We hope that this will reduce the time that grant applicants have to put in up front to anticipate questions and concerns of funders while struggling through application forms that barely fit their intervention.
Magic Link Login
Rocky has implemented the “magic link” login for us! If you don’t want to use the Google login, you can now log in and sign up by just entering your email address, receiving a login link, clicking it, and done.
I hope all of these new features will make it easier for you to get your projects funded or to prove your track record as expert donor!