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No ads, no paywall, no trackers. Foundations, institutions, and readers keep it that way.

Foundations & institutions

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The founding-year proposal: mission, impact metrics, budget, and governance.

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Readers

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Voluntary, any amount, no paywall in return — everything stays free either way.

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Companies

Corporate giving

Companies support the platform through donations and matched giving — with public thanks, and the same firewall as every other funder. We sell nothing.

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The promise

What support buys

Nothing but the public's right to the numbers. Funders are listed publicly, reported to quarterly, and firewalled from editorial decisions.

What we measure ourselves by

Year-one targets · quarterly reporting
DimensionMetricYear-one target
ReachFigures published · feed impressions250 · 2m
TrustFigures verified · uncorrected errors100% · 0
DepthLong reads · embedded dashboards10 · 4
ReuseData-pack downloads · citations2,500 · 50
Local impactGhana figures · training participants60 · 100

The founding-year budget

US$86,000 · sought across 3–5 funders

A two-person newsroom with professional tooling and a training programme. No single funder above 40%; unspent restricted funds returned or rolled forward by agreement.

Editorial team
$51k
Editor, data journalist, contributors
Tools, legal & audit
$14k
Hosting, BI licences, CLG compliance
Training & comms
$13k
Workshops, brand, campaigns
Contingency
$8k
~9% — currency, equipment

Full line-item budget, governance detail, and grant structures are in the funder dossier — request it above.