Volley Witness™ · AI-enabled impact reporting
Volley Witness™ connects what happens on the ground with the people who make it possible. It turns raw, heartfelt evidence from the field into verified stories of change: the voice of the recipient, in the language of the donor.
The problem
The largest transfer of wealth in history is under way, and donors still can't see which causes create real change.
Why good work goes unfunded
set to change hands in the US by 2045
Label
FACT label definition (opens in a new tab) Taken from a record we can name, such as a client engagement record. Adapted from the framework, which says “taken from an official record.”
Source
$84 trillion set to change hands in the US by 2045
Cerulli Associates, U.S. High-Net-Worth and Ultra-High-Net-Worth Markets 2021 (published January 2022)
As of
January 2022
A projection: $84.4 trillion in wealth transfers through 2045, $11.9 trillion of it to charities.
Labeled under the Honesty Framework™ v1.0 (opens in a new tab), an open standard from Works Better Corporation.
of first-time donors did not give again
Label
CALC label definition (opens in a new tab) Arithmetic on facts, with the formula shown.
Formula
100% minus the 19% first-time donor retention rate the Fundraising Effectiveness Project reported for 2024
Source
81% of first-time donors did not give again
Fundraising Effectiveness Project, 2024 year-end data, as reported by NonProfit PRO
As of
2024
The lowest first-time donor retention on record. Overall donor retention was about 43%.
Labeled under the Honesty Framework™ v1.0 (opens in a new tab), an open standard from Works Better Corporation.
Buried evidence
photos, voice notes and stories sit in phones and spreadsheets
The organizations doing the best work lose out to whoever has the biggest marketing budget.
Donors hold back, good causes struggle to find support, and the cycle continues.
Each person gets exactly what they need, while the AI and a nonprofit steward keep everything honest from start to finish.
For the donor
Impact reports
No more wondering. Donors see verified impact, project by project, from the people closest to the work.
For the nonprofit
Steward workbench
Your field evidence becomes your best fundraising tool, and the story stays attached to the record your team runs on.
For the field reporter
Field reporter app
Your reports become the evidence that opens up funding for the work you see every day.
Volley Witness™ takes in field evidence such as photos, audio and video and turns it into metrics people can trust. Stewards validate, reports update, and donors receive the story with the evidence attached.
Field reporters share text, photos, heart-language audio and video from the field reporter app.
AI transcribes and translates, tags each item against the project’s goals, and notices what is missing.
A nonprofit steward confirms the metrics, adds notes and decides what is published.
Donors get a report with media and verified results, and the same record flows into Salesforce.
Flow at a glance
Reporter shares evidence; the AI transcribes, translates and tags it.
Steward confirms the metrics in the workbench and adds notes.
Donor sees a report with the evidence behind every result.
Transparency as a default setting
Safeguards
The people in the field come first. These protections run on our servers, not only on the reporter's phone. Read more in our privacy policy and on the Trust page.
Project portfolio
Ministries and nonprofits already using Volley Witness™, from drone deliveries in South Sudan to youth soccer in Latin America.
Live projectShadow Warriors Project · South Sudan
Volley Witness™ keeps the evidence for this airlift honest: privacy-protected field photos, plan targets labeled apart from verified outcomes, and one project record shared by the partners who run it.
All Things Possible · Global
The first organization on the platform. An ECFA-accredited ministry using Volley Witness™ to organize field media and press coverage into steward-approved evidence, project by project.
Misión Hope · Youth soccer
Soccer as a door to hope for young people. The pilot brings the stories the team already shares on social media into reports donors can trust.
Projects began on Mirage, the earlier name of Volley Witness™. Faces in field photos are blurred to protect the people in them.
We are looking for pilot partners: nonprofits and ministries that want their field evidence to tell the story, and leaders who can introduce us to them.
Volley Witness™ is part of the Volley platform: verified field reports flow through Volley Proof™ into Volley Signals™ and the Salesforce records your team already uses. It was originally developed as a hackathon project called Mirage.