Donate to Support Our Work

Charitable Donations

If you believe in our mission, please consider donating. All donations will solely go to support the Shared Data work. Shared Data is an initiative by Foundation for Shared Impact, a Section 88 tax-exempt charity. As such, you will also be issued a donation receipt for tax-exempt purposes. 

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If you instead want to make a direct wire transfer, please note the following details:

  •  Bank: The Bank of East Asia
  • Account Name: FOUNDATION FOR SHARED IMPACT LIMITED
  • Account Number: 015 266 680 07942

NB! Please specify in your transaction that the donation is for Shared Data. 

How Your Donation Will Support Shared Data

In order to scale, do more, and do better we need increased manpower, enhanced software and we need funding to help cover our costs of purchasing financial statements and other legal documents.

Manpower

Manpower

We are largely operated by volunteers and discretionary time from the directors of Foundation for Shared Impact. In order to scale our operations, we need more manpower, including project manager, research assistants, etc.

Software

Software

We believe in, and often advocate for, affordable and scalable software solutions - and to date we have largely used free software, including Airtable, Google DataStudio and more. However, due to the sheer scale of our data and operations, we are in the need of upgrading solutions and systems.

Shared Data Research

Legal Documents

We have currently covered all costs oruselves of acquiring financial statements of each charity from the HK Government’s ICRIS system (at roughly 21 HKD per file). To help us acquire and share more documents with the public, we need funding support.

PS! While we believe that charities themselves will know best how to allocate funding to best scale impact and operations, if there is a specific Shared Data purpose you would like to donate towards, please specify in your donation. That way we can keep you updated (and ourselves accountable) to your donation.

Some of Our Work To Date

Shared Data Long-Term Aspirations With external support, FSI aspires to successfully develop this new public open database and directory and then keep going! For example:
  •  We hope to develop an API and a resource database that address an array of creative solutions, ranging from powering a company’s employee giving program to enabling text notifications with suggestions of high-performing charities serving the causes respective donors care about most, and more.
  • We aspire to build fundraising-related solutions to enable the public to donate to charities directly on the platform, set up recurring donations, receive tax-receipts and more, including the possibility to create an “e-Wallet for charities” to enable small dollar transactions and cryptocurrency donations.
  • Since FSI has connections to The University of Hong Kong and other academic researchers, we envision using Shared Data to fuel academic research, providing insights on topics related to charitable and philanthropic giving throughout the sector.
  • We plan to build analysis and data visualization tools that make it easier for the general public to understand relevant data trends.
  • We hope to develop a more comprehensive and flexible impact measurement assessment tool that will make it easier for charities to share their results and impact-related information with the public, and which will aid the shift towards providing a more holistic assessment of charities’ effectiveness.
  • We aspire to include and share foundation pages and other funding opportunities, where such foundations and other private funders will be able to share information about themselves, application procedures, provide impact reports, and more.
  • We hope to work with funders (public and private) to integrate more uniform, online application processes to reduce friction and time necessary for NGOs to apply for funding.
  • We would love to see funders implement data dashboards that they can use to better track the impact of their giving in real-time.
  • Finally, we hope that through all of the above, we can drive the conversation about the next generation of Asian philanthropy.

Thank You for Your Interest!

Thank You!

Thank you for your interest in donating to Shared Data. If you are in no position to donate yourself, consider sharing it with someone you think could help. If you want to help us fundraise, we have created a solution here which will acknowledge you for any contributions you help us gain.

Thank you, and please stay tuned as there will be a lot more work and a lot more data to be shared.