Golden Hint

Golden Hint is a free place where charities help each other. Trade skills hour for hour in the Expertise Exchange, follow a clear path to starting a charity, and find plain-English guides, templates and answers from people who've done it. Golden Hint is from the Rouben Malian Memorial Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. It has no ads and nothing to buy. THE EXPERTISE EXCHANGE Your treasurer knows bookkeeping; the charity down the road knows grant writing. Offer what your people are good at, ask for what you need, and agree each exchange in the app. An hour of help earns a credit; spend it on help you need. Credits are hours, not money. Foundation staff check every organization before it can post. START A CHARITY Eight stages from "should I?" to growing, each with a plain explanation, the real government fees and timescales, templates and a checklist that ticks on your phone and syncs with the website. FIVE FREE TOOLS Should I start a charity? · Structure chooser · First-year budget builder (share it as a spreadsheet) · Board recruitment planner · Compliance calendar with federal and state deadlines. LIBRARY Guides on fundraising, finance, governance, volunteers, technology and more; templates for bylaws, policies and minutes; a glossary; and the charity regulator for every state. What you've opened stays readable offline. COMMUNITY Free workshops and webinars (sign up, add them to your calendar), peer circles of up to 12 charities that meet regularly, mentoring over a few weeks, credit pools that funders and companies set aside for charities, and a public impact report. YOUR WHOLE TEAM Invite colleagues to your organization. Admins manage members and decide whether members can post and propose; everyone can message, join circles and sign up for events. FILES AND NOTIFICATIONS Attach a draft, a budget or a photo to a message or a circle post; files stay private to the people in the conversation. One notification centre for proposals, messages, event reminders and "did it help?" check-ins, with push and email you control. FOR FUNDERS AND COMPANIES Funders see how their credit pools are used, by area and state, with a report to share. Companies see the hours their people gave and the credits they've granted to charities. FORUM AND NEWSLETTER Ask a question, answer one, and accept the answer that helped. Read past newsletters and the annual report, and suggest a resource for the library. SAFE BY DESIGN Report or block any organization or member from anywhere they appear. Foundation staff review every report within 24 hours. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No ads, no tracking and no third-party analytics. Sign in with a code sent to your email; there's no password. Export your data or delete your account from the app at any time. Credit rules are drafts under legal review and may change with 30 days' notice. General information, not legal or tax advice.