GetCourageNow.org is a non-profit tech startup developing a mobile-friendly, open-source, one-stop, groundbreaking volunteer recruitment app.
Our mission is to answer what most grass roots organizers often call the mother of all challenges–
How can the progressive grassroots organizations of today recruit, commit, support and cleverly organize massively larger numbers of volunteers than we can right now, to do much bigger impact tasks–before it is too late to save democracy and mother nature as we know it? And conversely, how can the still untapped 3-6 million potential activists out there yearning for major change quickly find the right campaign to join, and the right role that fits their skills and preferences?
Drawing from latest research in behavioral economics and evidence based organizing, GetCourageNow is based on a unique integration of four functionalities, one of which is called crowdacting (not crowdfunding). So think:
“Kickstarter and more meets movement organizing.”
We’ll be open source & free to most nonprofits and expect to play a major role to enable XRebellion, Fridays for Future, Sunrise Movement, Childrens Strike for the Environment to recruit the vast numbers they need to take on the necessary resistor and striker roles in order to succeed.
AVAILABLE POSITIONS AT GetCourageNow:
- PT Senior or Near Senior-Level Golang Web App Developer
- PT/FT Frontend Flutter Developer and/or UI Designer (possible CXO)
- PT Project Manager (option to combine with Director/User Testing)
- PT/FT Director of User-Testing (Co-Founder)
- PT/FT Marketing Director (Co-Founder)
CURRENT STATUS:
CTO/lead engineer has more than 20 yrs programming experience and is one of Germany’s top security architects, and so devoted he like the product director are currently working fulltime without pay
3 years of R&D, all userstories (about 30) and workflow(s); everything well organized in our own shared google drive
Completed demo (though will be further improved to better describe more powerful Peer-bonding and behavioral economics features). Ask us for this
Alpha native apps (IOS and Android) created for an electoral version of GetCourageNow for 2018 American midterms to help take back the Senate
Over 20 reviews from top organizers and tech activists
Product director (defacto Chief Innovation Officer) is PhD psychologist and original founder and CEO of CoupleWise.com, which is expected to be serving 100-200,000 couples by June 2020, for which he was often the PM as well. CoupleWise has won two national and two international startup awards.
Only $25,000 available so far for development and testing, but finding new major donor leads every week, and currently being considered by two foundations for $20k and $80K.
Answers to most questions can be found on our FAQ