Nonprofit Visibility & Giving Platforms Team

About the role

The Nonprofit Visibility & Giving Platforms Team will help The Animal Cause, Inc. become more visible and discoverable across the online platforms where donors, volunteers, corporations, foundations, grantmakers, sponsors, and other potential supporters find and evaluate nonprofit organizations. This team will identify where The Animal Cause already has a presence, determine where profiles need to be claimed or updated, identify platforms where the organization should establish a presence, and help prioritize the opportunities most likely to increase access to funding, volunteers, workplace giving, corporate support, grants, sponsorships, technology resources, and other mission-aligned opportunities. This is a research, registration, optimization, and implementation role. The objective is to build a practical visibility infrastructure that makes it easier for the right people and organizations to find The Animal Cause, understand who we are, verify our nonprofit status, understand our work, and identify appropriate ways to support it.

Mission Context

The Animal Cause, Inc. is building infrastructure to help vulnerable animals move from being unseen → visible → unsupported → supported → unfunded → funded → disconnected → connected → unready → placed into responsible pathways toward care. Visibility is therefore not merely a marketing exercise. It is part of the organization's ability to connect animals and animal-welfare work with people, resources, funding, volunteers, organizations, and communities capable of helping.

Core Responsibilities

• Conduct a nonprofit visibility audit
• Identify platforms where The Animal Cause is already listed
• Determine which profiles have been claimed
• Identify incomplete, outdated, or inconsistent profiles
• Identify platforms where The Animal Cause should establish a presence
• Research eligibility requirements
• Identify required organizational documentation
• Document registration requirements and deadlines
• Help prepare standardized organizational information
• Identify opportunities related to corporate giving
• Identify workplace-giving platforms
• Identify volunteer-recruitment platforms
• Identify matching-gift opportunities
• Identify grantmaker and foundation discovery platforms
• Identify corporate sponsorship opportunities
• Identify nonprofit technology and software-access opportunities
• Identify platforms that increase donor confidence and nonprofit credibility
• Help prioritize registrations and updates
• Maintain a visibility-platform tracker
• Document completed registrations and outstanding requirements
• Coordinate with fundraising, marketing, volunteer, technology, and administrative teams as appropriate

Platform Areas

Depending on the volunteer's experience, the team may research and work with platforms and systems such as:

• Candid / GuideStar
• Charity Navigator
• GreatNonprofits
• Benevity
• YourCause / Blackbaud
• CyberGrants / Bonterra
• Deed
• Double the Donation
• Idealist
• VolunteerMatch
• Catchafire
• Google for Nonprofits
• YouTube Nonprofit
• TechSoup
• Canva for Nonprofits
• Corporate giving platforms
• Workplace volunteer platforms
• Matching-gift platforms
• Nonprofit directories
• Other relevant nonprofit visibility, funding, volunteer, technology, or giving platforms

The list above is not intended to require experience with every platform.

Screening Questions

• What experience do you have with nonprofit directories, giving platforms, workplace giving, corporate social responsibility, fundraising, or nonprofit technology?
• Which nonprofit platforms have you personally worked with?
• How would you conduct an audit of an organization's online nonprofit presence?
• How would you determine which platforms deserve priority rather than simply registering everywhere possible?
• What information would you want standardized before updating multiple nonprofit profiles?
• How would you handle a platform requesting information that you are not authorized to provide?
• Describe a project where you had to research multiple systems, compare requirements, and organize the results.
• How would you distinguish between a platform that creates genuine funding or volunteer opportunities and one that provides little practical value?
• How comfortable are you maintaining a detailed tracker of registrations, requirements, access, and follow-up?
• How would you protect confidential organizational information while performing this work?
• What is your realistic weekly availability?
• Why are you interested in helping The Animal Cause, Inc. become more visible and connected to resources that can help animals?