Case study · Social impact
Donera
Transparency for every rupee a charity spends.
- Product
- Donera
- Service
- Design and development
- Sector
- Social impact
- Built by
- Wow Labz
At a glance
What it makes visible
Charities, donors, banks and vendors, rather than a donor and a black box.
The spending trail is auditable rather than summarised in an annual report.
Not knowing where the last donation went is the single biggest blocker to giving again.
Money leaves a charity to a supplier, so the trail has to reach that far to mean anything.
The brief
People stop giving because they never find out what happened
Charitable giving has a retention problem, and it is not really about money. A donor gives, receives a receipt, and then hears nothing specific ever again. What arrives later is marketing, not accounting.
That silence is the single biggest blocker to repeat giving. It is not that donors suspect fraud — it is that they have no way to know their contribution did anything, so the next donation becomes an act of faith rather than a decision.
The obstacle to a second donation is never knowing what the first one did.
The build
Why the vendor matters
Most transparency initiatives stop at the charity's own reporting, which means they answer the question the charity chose to answer. Bringing banks and vendors into the same ecosystem is what turns self-reporting into something auditable, because the trail continues past the point where the charity's own account ends.
The stated goal is straightforward: transparency for every rupee a charity spends, aimed squarely at the reason people give once and not twice.
How it works
Everyone who touches the money
Charities and donors
The two obvious parties, in one place, with visibility running in the direction it usually does not: from the donor into the spending.
Banks and vendors too
The part that makes it real. Money leaves a charity to suppliers, so unless the trail reaches the vendor it stops exactly where the interesting question starts.
An auditable trail
The output is a record of how charities actually use what they raise, which is a different artefact from a published summary of intentions.
Stack
What it was built with
Questions
Donera, answered
What is Donera?
A platform that brings charities, donors, banks and vendors into one ecosystem where every participant can see how funds move, producing an auditable trail of how charities use the money they raise.
Why include banks and vendors?
Because money leaves a charity to suppliers. A trail that stops at the charity's own reporting only answers the question the charity chose to answer.
What problem does it target?
Repeat giving. Donors give, get a receipt and hear nothing specific again, and that silence is the single biggest blocker to a second donation.
How is this different from a charity publishing its accounts?
Published accounts are a summary the organisation produces about itself. An auditable trail across banks and vendors is a record none of the participants controls alone.
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