Pond

We help find & fund tools nonprofits need to be successful

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We help find & fund tools nonprofits need to be successful

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Pond transforms how nonprofits find and fund the right tools & services to maximize their impact. By centering the buyer’s needs and truly valuing their time, we’ve disrupted how tech is discovered, sold and paid for where it’s needed most.

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Maker

Hi I’m Mitch! I started Pond to give every nonprofit organization equal access to the best tech. I dreamed of a market solution and not one dependent on philanthropy - which has failed the sector to date in ensuring maximum tech enablement. When we built our first version of the nonprofit tech marketplace in 2020, we learned that we needed to do even more to lower nonprofit hurdles of limited time, money, expertise and trust in technology. So we reimagined the marketplace in 2021 to be one where vendors shopped for potential customers (matched like a dating app!) and paid them for their time. Pond’s innovative, but obviously simple, model incentivizes nonprofit leaders to share more about their problems, saves them tremendous time in search / discovery of solutions and builds a balance of cash to fund the tools they are chronically underfunded for. If you work with a nonprofit or offer a solution that nonprofits use, we’d love to hear your feedback and encourage you to join Pond! It’s completely free to join - actually paying nonprofits to use it - and providers only pay if and when they connect with a potential customer they hand selected as a good fit. Jump in! 🐸

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4yr ago

Warmly

It's really surprising that this model hasn't come out sooner. Companies literally pour hundreds of thousands into Facebook ads that may or may not convert to leads. In most cases these leads never even respond. The idea of creating a marketplace for time is really unique. Great work!

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4yr ago

Product Hunt

Fantastic idea. I worked at a nonprofit for nearly ten years prior to tech. In fact, before arriving at Product Hunt, I was also interviewing for Director of Digital positions at charities in the UK. They liked that I "thought like a for-profit business" not just a nonprofit. Not trying to pat myself on the back - the point is nonprofits are so behind in their tech stacks. Many of them rely on clunky nonprofit tools too when there are better tools and funding opportunities. Will share this with my network!

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4yr ago

@sarah_wright7 thank you!! and we can echo everything you share...

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4yr ago

Pond

Maker

@sarah_wright7 Have heard so many stories like yours - so much reinvention of the wheel, finger wagging and no creation of infrastructure or systems that lead to sustainable and productive change! Excited to have your support in sharing with your nonprofit network and are happy to chat with anyone interested!

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4yr ago