What we will count, how we will count it, what we will publish, and the models this work is built on. No number appears here until it is verified.
Free For Charity serves small nonprofits today with volunteer time alone. The counts behind that work exist in its records; we will publish them here, with the method, once the board approves which figures are public. Until then this page describes the measurement system the two staff will run from year one, so a funder can see what will be reported and how.
Free For Charity as a whole seeks to support 100 charities at a time through their digital infrastructure establishment and management journeys. The Technology Monastery is specialized for the charities among those 100 that are further along in maturity, or that have rarer needs, and that call for higher-level, longer-term volunteers. It will start with a group of not more than 20, while Free For Charity's conventional volunteers serve the remaining 80. When a rare need is met, that charity graduates back to conventional support, which opens a slot.
The theory of change is short. A full-time Volunteer Manager and Program Coordinator turn a volunteer-run program into a staffed one. Staff open standing pipelines of people and work. A place to live for a season turns short volunteers into long ones. More long volunteers, served by AI-assisted methods, means more of the rare, long work gets done, which stretches every grant those charities already receive.
The Monastery cohort: not more than 20 of the 100 charities Free For Charity seeks to support at a time; services delivered per cohort charity; charities graduated back to conventional support each year; and charities served per staff member across the whole 100, published each year as AI-assisted delivery matures.
How we count: The intake tracker, from application to written hand-over, and the graduation log.
Residents served and the share who complete a season; volunteers still active twelve months after their first season; residents who leave with a portfolio, a reference and a next step.
How we count: Volunteer records and exit interviews, counted by the Volunteer Manager.
Pipelines open with a signed agreement, and placements per pipeline per year.
How we count: The partner agreements file and the placement log.
Incidents and near misses, with response time and what changed afterward.
How we count: The incident log, reviewed by the board.
Support by source, the share from the largest single source, the endowment balance against its target, and funder reports delivered on time.
How we count: Free For Charity's books and the annual filing.
The replacement cost of what each charity receives at no cost, using a published per-charity method the board approves.
How we count: Market prices for domains, email, website builds, hosting and policy work, reviewed yearly.
No existing program combines free technology for charities with a mixed residential service cohort on stewarded land. Pieces of it exist and work, and we borrowed from each. None of these organizations is affiliated with the Technology Monastery.
The evaluation plan and the logic model are part of the proposal we share with funders directly: Clarke Moyer at clarkemoyer@freeforcharity.org, or text 520-222-8104.
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