Technology programmes and independent verification support our administration. They are separate from our field work.
These programmes support our administration. They are separate from the field work described in our field reports.
Google for Nonprofits access was approved on 10 August 2026, and Google Workspace for Nonprofits was activated in August. Product approvals are separate: Google Ad Grants has not been approved as of 6 September 2026. A finding about legal form and public benefit — not an endorsement, and we will not describe it as one.
On 30 July 2026 OpenAI confirmed School Aid MTÜ for its nonprofit discount, following charity verification carried out by Percent, now trading as Goodstack.
Who they are. OpenAI is the research company behind ChatGPT. Its nonprofit programme discounts those tools for verified charities rather than donating them outright — a smaller gesture than a grant, and an honest one.
Why it matters. School Aid has four people and a dog. There is no communications department, no grants officer, no translator, no analyst. Work that a larger charity would hand to a department has to be done by the same four people who also load the vans. Tools that compress that work are not a luxury here; they are the difference between running two country programmes and running none.
“Good news. You are approved for nonprofit grants and discounts from Microsoft.” Approval followed independent charity verification by Goodstack — because being verified once does not get you approved anywhere. It only means you are allowed to ask.
Canva confirmed School Aid MTÜ for Canva for Nonprofits on 29 July 2026.
Who they are. Canva is the Australian design platform used by hundreds of millions of people every month. Its nonprofit programme gives verified charities the full professional toolset at no cost.
Why it matters — and this one is less obvious than it looks. Small charities are quietly penalised for looking small. A donor deciding between two organisations they have never heard of will, consciously or not, read a clumsy leaflet as a sign of a clumsy operation. That instinct is unfair but it is real, and it costs good organisations money every day.
Design is also operational. A safeguarding poster on a classroom wall, an equipment label a storekeeper can read at a glance, a receipt a donor can actually understand — these are field tools, not decoration.
Approved 29 July 2026. monday.com states that it reviews every nonprofit application against its eligibility requirements in partnership with Goodstack.
Who they are. monday.com is a work-management platform used by well over 200,000 organisations to plan and track work across teams.
Why it matters. Our four people sit in four different places, across several time zones, and our work happens in Morocco and the Philippines. A mission has perhaps two hundred moving parts — quotations, customs paperwork, freight bookings, school lists, safeguarding checks, receipts — and any one of them, dropped, can leave a container sitting in a port at our expense.
Coordination failures do not look dramatic. They look like a delivery arriving after term has started. Getting this right is not administration for its own sake; it is the difference between equipment reaching a classroom in September or in January.
Submitted 27 July 2026 and approved 5 August 2026, following verification by Goodstack.
Who they are. Anthropic is the AI safety company behind Claude. Its nonprofit programme makes those tools available to verified charities on discounted terms.
Why it matters, stated plainly. A great deal of this charity's written work — funding applications, board papers, compliance filings, translations, this website — is produced by four volunteers who also have other lives. Nothing here replaces the judgement of the people who sign it, and every factual claim on this site is checked against a primary source before it is published. But the drafting, the checking and the sheer administrative weight of running a registered nonprofit across two continents are lighter than they would otherwise be.
We would rather say that openly than let anyone assume a four-person charity produces this volume of documentation by magic.
On 27 July 2026 Goodstack confirmed our account as verified.
Who they are. Goodstack — legally We Are Percent Limited, of Bell Yard, London, and known as Percent until its 2024 rebrand — is the independent validator that large companies use to check whether an organisation claiming to be a charity actually is one. It verifies organisations across more than 240 countries and territories, and its clients include LinkedIn, Atlassian, HSBC, Airbnb, Canva and Zoom. Last year it processed donations to close to a million organisations.
What a validator does, and what it does not do. Goodstack answers one question: is this organisation genuinely a charity under the law of the country it is registered in? That is the door. It is not the room. Anthropic, monday.com and OpenAI each took Goodstack’s verification as a starting point and then applied their own eligibility criteria, their own questions and their own decision — as did Microsoft, Google, Canva and Adobe on their own terms. Being verified once does not get you approved anywhere; it only means you are allowed to ask.
That distinction matters, because it is the difference between one achievement and nine. Each organisation on this page reached its own conclusion about School Aid MTÜ, separately, against its own standard.
That is worth more to a cautious donor than any statement we could write about ourselves.
On 13 July 2026 TechSoup Estonia wrote: "Congratulations! Your organization, School Aid MTÜ, has been successfully validated." It was the first independent confirmation this charity ever received, and every approval that followed rests on ground it broke.
Who they are. TechSoup is a nonprofit in its own right — not a company selling a service, but a charity that exists to get technology into the hands of other charities. Through a network of 66 partner organisations it reaches over a million NGOs, validates charitable status in 236 countries and territories, and verifies around 150,000 nonprofits every year on behalf of the technology industry.
What validation actually involves. Not a form and a promise. TechSoup examines an organisation founding documents against the charity law of the country it is registered in — in our case Estonian law and our entry in the Business Register — and satisfies itself that the organisation is genuinely constituted for public benefit and not for private gain. Ours took a little under a week from the day the papers went in.
Why it matters. A charity registered nine months earlier, with no history and no reputation, has nothing to offer a stranger except its paperwork. Somebody has to be willing to read that paperwork first. TechSoup did, and said yes. Every organisation that followed still ran its own assessment — but the first yes is the hardest one to get.