About bakoffice

Business Model

We are a nonprofit, so we don't have a business model gimmick. We will donate our time and resource while fundraising to operate bakoffice longer term. What will we not do? We won't have freemium model where we give away a limited-version knowing you'll eventually have to upgrade to a paid version. We won't run ads in the app. We don't have a tip jar. And we won't sell your data.

How can we do this? Building software once and then offering it to thousands of nonprofits actually costs relatively the same as building it for just one nonprofit. So why not leverage the "software as a service" model for good, instead of profit?

Apart from hosting, the one real hard cost we incur are the tools to process text messages and send email. We forecast it will be inexpensive, but each active nonprofit will likely incur about $20 a month in those costs bakoffice will pay to third parties. Until we receive our 501(c)3 determination letter, the founders plan to cover this expense. After that, we plan to offer a "donate what you like" model that still allows nearly all nonprofits to use bakoffice for free, while we fundraise to support the overall mission of bakoffice.

Founding Team

The Team at bakoffice has decades of technology, organizational management, and non-profit experience. Each bring their own unique work and life experiences into the work of bakoffice.org.

Board of Directors

Founding Team