Make an impact together.
See the good you do.
Make an Impact helps local businesses and nonprofits find each other, work together, and keep a record of everything they accomplish.
Not ready to join? Try the demo first
The good so far
- Volunteer hours
- Counting since launch
- Value of time and help
- Counting since launch
- Active partnerships
- Counting since launch
- Nonprofits served
- Counting since launch
One partner logs every hour and dollar here, and the other confirms it. How we count →
Businesses want to help. Nonprofits need help. Too often, they never find each other.
Nonprofits spend hours looking for the right contact instead of serving their community. Businesses are asked for help all the time, but seldom by causes that fit their people or their skills. And when they do come together, no one keeps a record, so the good work goes unseen and the partnership ends after one event.
Make an Impact closes all three gaps:
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A trusted network.
Every business and nonprofit here is approved by the chamber, so you know who you're working with.
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Follow-through.
Partners stay in touch, log what they do, and keep going.
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A record you can share.
Every hour and every contribution is confirmed by the other partner, so you can see the good you do and show it to others.
There's a place here for you.
Nonprofits
Share what you need. Businesses offer to help.
- Volunteers, skilled help, in-kind donations, sponsorship or a board seat
- Approve every offer, or let them approve automatically
- Free for nonprofits, always
Businesses
Find causes that fit your team.
- Pick the causes and skills you care about
- Browse needs and offer help in one click
- A shareable record of your impact
Chambers and associations
Give your members a reason to stay.
- A console to approve members and keep the program running
- Impact reports for your board and members
- Your branding, your members, your data
Three steps, from need to impact.
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01 · Need
A nonprofit posts what it needs, or a business posts what it can offer: volunteers, skilled help, in-kind donations, sponsorship or a board seat.
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02 · Offer
A business offers to help, or a nonprofit asks. The other side says yes or no, so no one gets cold-called.
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03 · Impact
The partners work together and log what they did. The other side confirms it, and it becomes part of the record.
Demo
Try it before you sign up.
See Make an Impact as a nonprofit, a business or the chamber's staff, at the fictional Demo Chamber of Commerce. There's nothing to sign up for and no email to give.
- Pick a role and you're in. Switch roles any time from the bar at the top.
- Tips on each page explain what you're looking at. Turn them off any time.
- Everything in it is made up, and no email is ever sent. Other visitors use it too, and it's put back every night. Press Reset demo to start fresh.
New here? Start as the nonprofit to follow a need from the beginning.
Open the demoOnly what both partners confirm.
One partner logs each entry, and it counts only after the other partner confirms it. Volunteer hours are valued at the published Independent Sector rate for that year and state. In-kind donations are valued at the amount the business reports and the nonprofit confirms. Make an Impact never handles money. Cash that a business gives directly counts only after the nonprofit confirms it, and it's shown separately.
It started with one business saying yes.
Make an Impact began with a simple idea from a local chamber member: the businesses and nonprofits in our community should be able to find each other, work together, and see what they accomplish.
Patchnet AI designed and built Make an Impact and runs it as a volunteer project. That made it the first business to give its time to this community, before a single introduction was made.
We hope yours is next.
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