You are taking the money and you are a non-profit organisation; how can this be?

PATRON4change is a non-profit project of the Option 2.0 Plattform zur Stärkung der Zivilgesellschaft Association. Our purpose is not to make profit, but to invest the money we charge as a commission fee into the platform maintenance and the people who help us to do it. This is a classic non-profit approach. But before we come to this point 100% of the work will be done on a volunteer basis.

Commissions make it possible for us to become independent,scalable and efficient. They will also cover the costs of platform operations, contributions transaction settlement and supporting collaboration between changemakers and patrons. In addition to this they cover the costs for money transactions of our external partner Stripe. More details here.