Development of a Digital Platform to Connect Restoration Projects with Funding Organizations

The organization faces difficulties in efficiently connecting project developers seeking restoration funding with organizations and individual funders interested in supporting land restoration initiatives. Currently, the matching process is manual, limiting reach and scalability despite successful initial funding efforts. The manual approach hampers efforts to accelerate restoration projects across diverse regions and to meet ambitious global reforestation goals.

A non-profit organization focused on environmental restoration and land conservation, aiming to facilitate funding and project collaboration globally.

• Create an integrated web and mobile platform to streamline the connection process between project developers and funders.
• Enable project creators to submit detailed project pitches including goals and requirements for land restoration efforts.
• Allow funding organizations to browse, search, and identify suitable projects based on criteria such as location, funding amount, and environmental objectives.
• Facilitate direct communication and connection between project proposers and funders through the platform, with offline management options.
• Achieve rapid user onboarding and growth, targeting increased engagement from both project developers and funders worldwide.
• Position the platform as a key tool in supporting the global goal of restoring billions of trees through efficient funding matching.

• User and organization account creation with multi-access profiles for internal team collaboration.
• Project pitch submission module allowing detailed descriptions of restoration goals, scope, location, and funding needs.
• Search and filtering tools for funders to browse and find projects based on regional, financial, and environmental criteria.
• Search and filtering tools for project developers to identify suitable funding organizations based on their interests and objectives.
• Matching and connection feature that enables users to initiate contact and negotiate offline for project funding or support.
• Responsive web platform and mobile app to ensure accessibility and engagement across devices.

• Mapping and geolocation services for project location visualization
• Authentication systems for secure user access
• Notification and messaging services for user engagement
• Data analytics tools for usage tracking and reporting

• Scalability to support increasing user base and project volume, targeting thousands of organizations and projects.
• High availability with 99.9% uptime to ensure platform accessibility.
• Data security compliance, especially for personal and financial data, including encryption and secure authentication.
• Performance benchmarks ensuring page load times under 3 seconds on average.

By implementing this platform, the organization aims to drastically improve the efficiency and scale of land restoration funding efforts. The platform is expected to facilitate hundreds of restoration projects and connect billions of trees worth of funding, contributing to global reforestation targets, and significantly accelerating the pace and reach of environmental conservation initiatives worldwide.