Charity Nation
Where Communities Practice Charity
Your community bulletin board
Charity Nation is a free community notice board, like the bulletin board at your grocery store or church, but accessible from your phone or computer.
It connects neighbors who need help with neighbors who want to help. No registration required. No fees ever. No data collection. Just simple, local charity made easy.
A Note on your Kitchen Table
CharityNation is just a tool, like having a community bulletin board available at your kitchen table. But tools matter when used by people with willing hearts.
The Problem We're Solving
Something precious has been slipping away from us, so slowly that we barely noticed it happening. Do you remember when neighbors knew each other's names? When someone got sick and meals just appeared on their doorstep without anyone having to organize it through an app? When the elderly widow down the street never had to ask for help because everyone just knew to check on her?
We've been moving forward so fast that we left people behind. Corporate influence took over charity work, turning neighbor helping neighbor into transactions managed by distant companies. Churches sit half-empty. People don't know their neighbors' names. Someone throws away excess food while their neighbor goes hungry.
We have the technology to connect instantly with strangers across the world, but we've lost the ability to connect with the person living next door. CharityNation is about correcting that imbalanceâmoving forward together, at a pace where everyone can reach the destination comfortably by helping each other.
Moving Forward Together
We need to be clear: we're not trying to go back to the old days when horses carried us from place to place. Progress is good. The advances we've made are real and valuable. But we moved in too much hurry. In our rush toward tomorrow, we left too many people behind.
We were mesmerized by shiny promises and chased mirages instead of doing the harder work of digging wells for water. We chose shortcuts and spectacle over sustainable solutions. We chose speed over inclusion. We chose "getting ahead" over "bringing everyone along."
CharityNation is about balance. We embrace the good that modernization brings, but we make it inclusive. We use technology, but we don't let it use us. We advance, but we advance together. We hold onto the values that make us humanâcaring, loving, helpingâvalues we're supposed to learn from childhood but somehow unlearn as we grow up.
"Why should I waste and throw excess food into the garbage when my neighbor sleeps hungry? Why should the elderly woman down the street sit alone all week when I pass her house every day? These aren't just inefficienciesâthey're moral failures."
How It Works
Post a Need
Need help with groceries? Companionship? Moving furniture? Post it. You control how far your message reachesâfrom just your street to your whole city.
Offer Help
Have time to visit an elderly neighbor? Skills to share? Extra items to give away? Post what you can offer.
Connect Directly
No middlemen. No corporate oversight. Just neighbors connecting with neighbors. Your data stays yours.
Stay Safe
We keep scammers out through geo-verification while keeping the experience simpleâas easy as pinning a note on a bulletin board.
Beyond Divisions
One of the most heartbreaking losses in our communities is how divided we've become. We've sorted ourselves into camps based on politics, religion, race, economicsâand then we've been taught to see each other as enemies instead of neighbors.
"When you're helping an elderly neighbor with groceries, you don't ask who they voted for. When you're receiving help moving furniture after a job loss, you don't care about the theology of the person holding the other end of the couch. CharityNation creates space where divisions fade in the face of simple human need and genuine care."
We're not naiveâwe know these divisions are real and run deep. But charity practiced locally, face to face, neighbor to neighbor, has power that transcends our disagreements. Love lived out in practical action speaks louder than all our arguments.
Who Runs It
MAXSYS International (a 501(c)(3) nonprofit) builds and maintains the platform. That's our partâthe technology, the infrastructure, the security that keeps scammers out while keeping the experience simple.
But CharityNation doesn't belong to us. It belongs to you, to your community, to the local volunteers and leaders who will make it real in your neighborhoods. These aren't paid positions or formal roles. These are simply neighbors who step up because they see the need and want to be part of the solution.
We're completely open to your input. Tell us what works, what doesn't, and what you need. This isn't our vision imposed on youâit's your needs shaping how we build. We'll adjust for your convenience and comfort, because the platform serves the community, not the other way around.
Our Commitment
- đĄď¸ Your data stays yours. We don't collect, monitor, or sell it.
- â We keep scammers out through geo-verification while keeping the experience simple.
- đ 100% free, forever. No ads, no premium tiers, no hidden costs.
- đ¤ Built for the common good, not corporate profit.
What We're Building Toward
Close your eyes and imagine your community five years from now. The church that was struggling to find volunteers now has more people offering to serve than they have opportunities to place them. The elderly neighbors who were isolated and lonely now have regular visitors who genuinely care about them. The single mothers who were drowning under the weight of doing everything alone now have a network of support that shows up without being asked.
Imagine walking through your town and actually knowing people, stopping to talk not because you have to but because you want to, because these are your people and this is your place and it matters. Imagine your children growing up in a world where helping each other is normal, where community isn't something they read about in history books but something they experience every day.
Imagine charity flowing naturally through your community like water through a healthy watershedânot controlled and channeled by corporate infrastructure, but following the natural contours of need and care, reaching every dry place, giving life wherever it goes.
This isn't about going back. It's about going forward the right wayâtogether, with no one left behind, building on foundations strong enough to hold everyone, choosing substance over spectacle, choosing community over competition.
What We're Asking
We need you. Not your moneyâCharityNation is free and will always be free. Not your dataâwe don't collect it, we don't sell it, we don't want it. We need something far more valuable: we need you to be part of this.
We need you to remember how to be a neighbor again. We need you to be willing to post when you need help, even though we've been trained to be ashamed of needing anything. We need you to be willing to offer help, even though our busy lives have taught us to keep our heads down. We need you to be willing to connect with people who might not look like you, think like you, or vote like youâbecause they live near you and they're part of your community and that's enough.
For Churches
Talk to your pastor about using CharityNation to live out the call to love your neighbor in practical ways.
For Organizations
Explore whether this tool could help you coordinate volunteers and connect people with services.
For Everyone
Tell us what you need. Your input shapes where we go next. We're here to serve, not to dictate.
An Invitation
We're not asking you to join a program or buy a service. We're inviting you to help rebuild something beautifulâthe authentic connections that make life worth living, the community care that used to be as natural as breathing.
CharityNation is just a tool, like having the community bulletin board available at your kitchen table. But tools matter when used by people with willing hearts. Together, we can move forward without leaving anyone behind. Together, we can make charity local and personal again. Together, we can build communities worth belonging to.
Will you join us?