Direct Commitment Ratio

This measures Direct Expenses as a proportion of the total Project Budget.

Five Pillars

We use the Five Pillars of the United Nations to illustrate how the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals can be clustered into key themes. These pillars are: People, Planet, Prosperity, Peace and Partnership. For each project published on Maanch, we show which of the Five Pillars the project is addressing.

Funder

We define Funders as anyone looking to contribute to impact focused projects through Maanch technologies. Funders include Individuals, Wealth Advisors & Family Offices, Grant Making Foundations, and CSR Teams.

Maanch Metrics

The Maanch Metrics are a consolidation and set of visualisations based on the Impact information provided during the Project Creation process. The reports that make up Maanch Metrics are the SDG Profile, Five Pillars Graph, Global and In Country Needs Intensity Meters, Topic vs. Scope breakdown, and financial calculations. For more, take a look at Our Metrics

Needs Intensity

Needs intensity is a calculation of how great the need is for the intervention according to country data submitted to the UN around the 244 indicators for the SDGs. We show two meters on the platform, one which looks at needs intensity on a global scale, and one which looks at needs intensity within the context of the country where the project is taking place.

Payment Details

Payment details are taken so that we can efficiently facilitate the transactions on our platform. We use Stripe as our platform payment gateway, and none of your payment details will be stored by Maanch.

Profile

Each Maanch user creates a Profile. For Receivers, this enables you to create projects and generate our Impact Metrics. As a Funder, this allows you to find and fund aligned projects, and get a consolidated view of your funded projects through our Impact Dashboard.

Project Timeline

This is the amount of time that the funds raised will sustain the project. It can be anything up to five years after the end of the fundraising period of six months.

Project to Organisation Size Ratio

This measures Project Budget as a proportion of a Charity’s total annual Income.

Project Topic

These are the topics Funders can choose to refine their search and Receivers use to begin the impact assessment process for their projects. The topics form the base of our algorithms to assess impact.

Project Actions

We have outlined various courses of action within each Project Scope category to gather more detail on how the project will achieve its aims.

• Academic accreditation

  Providing academic education which results in accreditation for an individual / project / organisation

• Apprenticeships / vocational training

  Providing vocational education or apprenticeships to an individual / project / organisation

• Bringing new products or services to market

  Providing a channel through which products or services can be made available to individuals / communities / organisations

• Building online campaigns

  Raising awareness through leveraging online channels

• Building online communities

  Bringing people together around a topic / project online

• Building partnerships & efficiencies

  Being the nexus point between key partners and processes to accelerate change

• Building print campaigns

  Raising awareness through printed media, leaflets, promotions etc.

• Building new infrastructure

  Creating and deploying new infrastructure projects

• Creating / developing legislation

  Working with governments or regulators to contribute to new rules or laws for the benefit of your area of work

• Creating efficiency or improving infrastructure

  Maximising the potential of current infrastructure systems to deliver a better solution for stakeholders

• Data collection and analytics

  Collecting and analysing information with regards to your topic / area of work / stakeholders

• Delivering technology or tech-based solutions

  Deploying technology based services for the benefit of your stakeholders / area of work.

• Delivering workshops

  Bringing people together around your topic / stakeholders / areas of work in a workshop setting

• Enabling access to goods, services, or infrastructure

  Providing a route for consumers or stakeholders to gain access to what they need in terms of goods, services, or infrastructure

• Framework development

  Developing methodologies or approaches to tackle problems better / more efficiently

• Frontline service delivery in person

  Delivering services to your stakeholders directly, in person

• Frontline service delivery online

  Delivering services to your stakeholders remotely, online

• Hosting events / conferences

  Bringing people together to better understand or connect around your area of interest / stakeholders

• Informal education

  Providing education or training in a non-institutional context

• Lobbying

  Seeking to influence the status or makeup of legislation or regulations in the context of your stakeholders / project / area of interest

• Maintaining or restoring infrastructure

  Ensuring that infrastructure meets its original intended standard

• Modelling and prototyping

  Simulating or testing new interventions to combat existing problems or challenges.

• Organising forums & in person campaigns

  Raising awareness through in person campaigning or forums for discussion and learning

• Providing basic goods or materials

  Providing goods or "things" to your stakeholders

• Providing equipment to create efficiency

  Delivering goods in order to create an efficiency for your stakeholders / communities / areas of interest.

• Regulating activities

  Ensuring compliance with guidelines, rules or laws with regards to your area of interest

• Upskilling service providers

  Providing skills or development opportunities to improve the work of other service providers

Project Impact Geography

This indicates the country in which the project will take place. Where a project covers more than one location, Receivers have the option of creating one project per geography, or listing the other countries within the "region" section.

Project Intervention Type

We ask all projects to define what type of intervention they are carrying out: One-off, Recurring, Capacity Building, or Systems Change. We collect this to understand this project’s approach, and over time we will use this data to gain a deep understanding of the recipe for success in a given geography.

Project Outcome Indicators

These illustrate the expected outcomes of the project, both in the immediate and long term following the project taking place. These outcome indicators show what the organisation intends to measure, and what they assume will happen to that measurement following the intervention.

Project Reference Number

Our unique reference number for correspondence around a given project listing on our site. We use this to identify projects quickly if Funders or Receivers want more information from us about any listing.

Project Scope

Scope details the high level activity category of a project. We have devised ten categories which are used as filters for Funders, and categories for Receivers to allocate to a project according to the project’s theory of change. These are:

• Advocacy

  This category relates to projects which partly or wholly involve influencing policies and regulations.

• Catalysing

  This category relates to projects which partly or wholly involve incubating ideas or organisations and launching them into the market.

• Convening

  This category relates to projects which partly or wholly involve the organisation of conferences or networks.

• Provide Goods

  This category relates to projects which partly or wholly involve the supply of goods or products.

• Provide Infrastructure

  This category relates to projects which partly or wholly involve transportation, energy, physical spaces or structures, telecoms, waste or water management.

• Provide Services

  This category relates to projects which partly or wholly involve the supply of services or programmes.

• R&D

  This category relates to projects which partly or wholly involve academic or corporate research.

• Raise Awareness

  This category relates to projects which partly or wholly involve the provision of information by print, TV, radio or online.

• Training

  This category relates to projects which partly or wholly involve education, either academic or vocational.

Projects

At Maanch we invite organisations to adopt a project driven approach to funding. These projects are defined by the Receivers and have defined budgets, parameters and timelines so that we can accurately compute and project the impact.

Receiver

We define Receivers as anyone who is eligible to raise funds for their impact focused project through Maanch. These are currently UK Registered Charities, however we are also able to provide impact projections for social enterprises, social businesses and internationally registered charities.

Total Project Budget

This is the amount required to sustain the project, any core organisational expenses allocated to support the project, and any fees on transactions.

Transaction History

For both Funders and Receivers, we show a Transaction History which catalogs either the funds you have released through the platform, or the funds received through the platform.