Ardent Africa is the platform the Foundation runs its causes, partnerships and reporting on. This is what it carries, and what the Foundation does on each part of it.
They share a founder and a name. They do not share a job, and keeping the difference legible is part of the accountability.
The platform, the verification, the payment integrations, the moderation tooling and the public policies are Ardent Africa’s. Its Terms, Privacy Policy and Fees page are the authoritative versions for everyone, the Foundation included.
Grantmaking, programme delivery, field verification and volunteer placement are the Foundation’s. It uses the platform on the same public terms as any other organisation, with one difference: Foundation causes take no platform fee.
Ardent Africa never custodies third-party funds. Donations to Foundation causes settle to the Foundation, ticket sales settle to the event organiser’s own payment account, and marketplace and job payments never touch the platform at all.
Donations to Foundation causes run on the platform’s zero-fee path. The same platform shows you the progress and the reporting afterwards.
Verified causes taking donations by mobile money or card, with a live progress bar and published impact reports.
Every fundraising and hybrid cause on Ardent today is a Foundation cause. They are verified automatically, badged as the Foundation, and run on the zero platform fee path, so the whole gift reaches the work.
The subject vocabulary everything on the platform is filed under, from education to emergency response.
The Foundation’s four focus areas are causes on the platform, so a donor who follows one of them sees Foundation work alongside everything else filed the same way.
Grant partners, corporate funders and community organisations use these surfaces directly. The Foundation does not sit between a partner and any of them.
Verified profiles for NGOs and charities, with team seats, analytics, and a public hub each organisation controls.
Grant partners and prospective partners are listed here with their verification state visible. It is the directory the Foundation’s own due diligence starts from.
Corporate profiles with their public giving record, employee programmes, and the causes they back.
The corporate partners the Foundation co-funds programmes with have profiles here, and the co-branding the Foundation offers partners renders on these pages.
Public corporate pledges to a cause, tracked against what was actually delivered, with a board companies manage themselves.
Signing, volunteering, organising, finding work. None of these require a donation, and most do not require a Foundation relationship at all.
Campaigns that collect signatures and address named decision makers, with public updates and recorded victories.
Petitions are open to everyone, the Foundation included. A petition can be co-sponsored by an organisation, which is how the Foundation backs a partner’s advocacy without taking it over.
Openings posted by campaign organisers and organisations, searchable by skill and location.
Distinct from Foundation volunteering, and deliberately so: these are opportunities listed by organisers across the platform. Someone the Foundation cannot place directly can still find work here.
A job board with no placement fee, in-app messaging, and private candidate contact details.
Reporting obligations, public reviews, and the safety service the Foundation is answerable for. These are the surfaces where the Foundation is the subject rather than the author.
Published accounts of what a cause spent and what it changed, attached to the cause they belong to.
Impact reporting is a condition of taking donations on Ardent, not a courtesy. Foundation causes are held to it like any other, which is where a donor goes to check the Foundation’s own claims.
Entity profiles carrying reviews from real, verified interactions, and a TrustScore built only from those.
The Foundation is a reviewable entity here like any other organisation, and its TrustScore is computed the same way. The Foundation does not score itself.
Polls and multi-page surveys with branching, file uploads, and batch invitations.
Parts of Ardent Africa are switched on progressively, by region and by readiness. This page reads the platform’s own public settings to decide what to show, so a surface listed here is one the platform reported as available. If something is not accepting anything yet, its own page will say so rather than this one guessing.
Terms of Service, the Privacy Policy, the Donor Guarantee and the Fees page live on Ardent Africa and cover Foundation activity too. There is deliberately no second, Foundation-flavoured copy of any of them.
Grant applications, corporate partnerships and volunteer placements all start here, and continue on the platform.
Get InvolvedThis is where a company that wants to fund Foundation work commits publicly and is then measured against it. It is the self-serve version of the partnership conversation.
Listings for services and goods, with discovery and trust tools. Ardent never handles the money between buyer and seller.
NGOs, campaigns and the Foundation can list cause-related goods and impact products here. Settlement is arranged off-platform, so a partner keeps its own commercial relationship.
Event pages with QR tickets, offline check-in, and seating, on the organiser’s own payment keys.
Open to the Foundation and its partners for convenings, launches and fundraisers. Ticket money goes to the organiser’s own payment account, never through Ardent.
The Foundation and its grant partners hire here on the same free terms as everyone else. The optional support tip a job poster can leave is a gift to the Foundation, never a payment to an employer.
A timeline, follows and connections, and @handle profiles for the people and organisations doing the work.
Where Foundation updates and partner updates reach people who already follow the work, without going through an advertising auction.
Spaces where a community organises around a cause, a place, or a piece of work.
Grant partners and volunteer cohorts use groups to coordinate. The Foundation does not moderate a partner’s group.
Voice-only live rooms for community conversation, with optional recording. There is no money path.
Available to the Foundation and its partners for open community sessions. Nothing is charged and nothing is sold in a durbar.
Time-boxed collective goals that a community works towards together.
A way to rally a community around a Foundation focus area without asking anyone for money.
Foundation accounts get the full survey tier: multi-page forms, branching, file upload questions and batch invitations. That is the instrument behind partner reporting and needs assessments.
Community hazard reports, reviewed by a person before anything is published or sent.
Ardent Safety is operated by the Ardent Africa Foundation. The Foundation is the data controller for every report filed through it and reviews them during office hours. Nothing publishes automatically.
