OrgBaseHQ
The command center for clubs, nonprofits & small orgs.
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Eric Smith

OrgBaseHQ - The command center for clubs, nonprofits & small orgs.

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OrgBaseHQ helps small organizations manage members, track dues, plan activities, and monitor finances—all in one place. Free forever for teams up to 15. Built by JCI Mandaue as a social enterprise to fund community programs.

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Eric Smith
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I'm Eric, a longtime volunteer and past president of JCI Mandaue in the Philippines. After years of managing our chapter with scattered spreadsheets, Messenger groups, and way too many "who paid their dues?" conversations, I finally built the tool I wished existed. OrgBaseHQ is the simple command center for small organizations—clubs, nonprofits, community groups, professional associations, and any team that needs to track members, dues, events, and finances without enterprise complexity. What you get: Member management with profiles and status tracking Dues collection management tools Activity and event planning with attendance Financial tracking and reports Officer/governance history Donor and sponsor management Pricing is simple: Free forever for up to 15 members. Paid plans start at $9/mo as you grow—all features included at every tier. The social enterprise angle: OrgBaseHQ is a project of JCI Mandaue. Subscription proceeds help fund our community development programs. So when you pay, you're also supporting youth leadership and local projects in Cebu.
Agbaje Olajide

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Building the tool you needed as a chapter president, and funding community programs with the proceeds, is a powerful model. It builds instant trust with the exact organizations you're serving.

A key growth question: Your ideal users (club officers, nonprofit volunteers) are tightly knit within their own communities but fragmented across different organizations. What's the primary channel to bridge that gap—leveraging the network of existing associations (like JCI chapters), or through content that solves the universal pain points of "spreadsheet chaos" for volunteer leaders?

Eric Smith
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@olajiggy321 thanks for the upvote! Both channels matter because they solve different parts of the fragmentation problem. Associations like JCI give us a warm‑start distribution loop: trust is already built, officers talk to each other, and one chapter’s success story naturally spreads to the next. But that network alone won’t reach the thousands of unaffiliated clubs and volunteer‑run groups drowning in spreadsheet chaos. That’s where content comes in—teaching the universal pain points of volunteer operations, showing the before‑and‑after, and letting people self‑identify into the problem we solve. The real strategy is to run both in parallel: use associations for credibility and fast adoption, and use content to create an inbound engine that scales beyond any single network.