Turn your organisation into visible impact.
Verified NGO and corporate accounts, built to back causes at scale. Public hubs and directories, multi-seat teams, a CSR pledge board, donation matching, and petition co-sponsorship. All the credibility, and none of the custody.
Verified NGO and corporate accounts, each with tailored tools
Companies can match donations and publish CSR pledges
Your verified badge travels onto every cause you back
Built for organisations that mean it
Verification unlocks a full toolkit for showing up credibly and backing causes at scale, without Ardent ever holding the money.
Verified NGO & corporate accounts
Register as an NGO or a company, submit your documents, and earn a verified badge after review. Verification is what unlocks hubs, directories, branding, and CSR tools, and what makes your backing count.
Public hubs & directories
Every verified org gets a public hub with its mission, focus areas, and a live feed of the campaigns, petitions, events, and services it runs, plus a place in a browsable, filterable NGO or corporate directory.
Backing that shows across the platform
Your verified badge and name (and logo, for NGOs) appear on every campaign and petition you run or support, so supporters can see the credible organisation standing behind a cause.
Multi-seat teams & analytics
Invite colleagues as admins, editors, or viewers and run everything from one shared dashboard, with org-wide analytics: petitions and signatures, campaigns and totals raised, events, and services at a glance.
A public CSR pledge board
Companies publish public CSR commitments to a shared board. Each pledge is reviewed before it appears, then fulfilled through Ardent's giving rails or off-platform, because Ardent custodies no funds.
Donation matching & co-sponsorship
Propose to match donations to a cause (say two cedis for every one, up to a cap), or co-sponsor a petition to add institutional weight. Both are admin-reviewed, and a match is tallied against real donations, never money parked with Ardent.
Plug Ardent into your stack
Show your campaigns, events, and verified profile on your own website, sync activity to your own tools with webhooks and Zapier, and read everything through our public API and SDKs.
One page that carries everything you have actually done
An organisation on Ardent is not a profile picture and a mission statement. It is the campaigns, petitions, events, roles and services your organisation has published, gathered under one name.
A hub, not a bio
Your public page carries your story, your logo and cover, your sector and size, where you work, how to reach you, and then everything you have published: petitions running now, events coming up, roles you are hiring for, services you offer. Somebody deciding whether to trust you can see the work rather than the claim.
Everything you have published, on one page
Region and district, so local people find you locally
Read correctly by search engines
Claim what you published before the organisation existed here
Work you posted under your own name, or before you joined the organisation, can be claimed into it. That is how a five-year history stops being scattered across the personal accounts of whoever happened to be at the desk that week.
Campaigns, events, services and volunteer roles
The organisation becomes the author, and stays it
Verification, with the documents to back it
Apply to be verified by submitting your registration certificate, photographed from your phone or uploaded as the PDF you already have. It is reviewed by a person. A verified organisation gets a badge, appears differently in the directories, and can do things an unverified one cannot.
Apply from the web or the app
Track the application and what you have submitted
A published record of what verification actually means
A team, with roles that mean something
Invite colleagues and decide what each seat may do. Owners and admins manage seats. Hiring is deliberately a separate team: holding an organisation seat does not hand somebody your applicants, because those are two different kinds of trust.
Seats you invite, not passwords you share
Recruiting access is separate on purpose
A seat can be removed without touching what that person published
How organisations get started
01
Register & get verified
Sign up as an NGO or a company and submit your documents. Verification unlocks the full organisation toolkit.
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Build your hub & team
Set up your public profile, appear in the directory, and invite colleagues with the right roles.
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Back causes
Run or support campaigns and petitions, publish a CSR pledge, or propose a donation match.
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Show the impact
Your verified badge stamps everything you back, and org analytics track it all in one place.
Commitments on the record, where somebody can hold you to them
The point of publishing a commitment is that it stops being deniable. Everything here is a declaration made in public, and none of it moves money through Ardent.
Publish a pledge
A verified company can file a corporate commitment on the public CSR board: what you are backing, and to what extent. It appears with your name on it, which is the entire mechanism. Nobody has to take your word for what your company said it would do.
Public, attributed, and dated
Attach it to a specific campaign, and appear on that campaign's page
Offer to match
A verified company can propose to match donations to a campaign up to a cap it sets. The proposal is published so supporters can see it, and the settlement happens between the company and the cause. Ardent records the declaration; it does not hold, route or release any of it.
A published cap, so the offer is specific
Settled directly, never through Ardent
Co-sponsor a petition
Add your organisation's name to a petition and it shows as backed by organisations. A local petition with four NGOs behind it reads differently to the office it is addressed to, and none of those NGOs had to hand over control of it to say so.
Your name and badge on the petition
The original author keeps control
A board anybody can read
The CSR board is public. Commitments from every organisation sit in one place, so a company's record is visible next to everybody else's rather than buried in a report nobody downloads.
One public board across all organisations
Your own commitments tracked in your dashboard
Real commitment on the record, and Ardent still holds none of the money.
An organisation account unlocks capability and credibility, never a shortcut around the rules. Giving flows through the normal rails or off-platform, and Ardent custodies no third-party funds.
Being an NGO or a company never buys a fundraising shortcut: the only gate is public fundraising being enabled, exactly as it is for everyone else.
CSR pledges are public commitments, fulfilled through Ardent's giving rails or off-platform. Ardent moves and holds none of that money.
Donation matching is display and tally only: the multiplier is computed against real, settled donations and capped, never funds parked with Ardent.
CSR pledges, matches, and co-sponsorships are all reviewed by admins before they go public, so 'Backed by' always means something.
Public org profiles are served through a PII-safe directory projection; registration documents, addresses, and DPO contacts are never exposed.
Backing and co-sponsorship are endorsements, not control: the campaign or petition always stays with its owner.
Everything for organisations
What is built and switched on, grouped by what you would be trying to do.
Your public page
- Logo, cover, story and tagline
- Sector, size, founded year and website
- Region and district
- Contact details and social links
- Everything you have published, gathered
- A verification badge when granted
- Followers, and a feed your supporters receive
Being found
- An NGO directory
- A companies directory
- Filter by sector, size and location
- Structured data for search engines
- Your branding carried onto everything you publish
Verification
- Apply with your registration certificate
- Photograph it from your phone or upload a PDF
- Track the application and its documents
- Reviewed by a person, not a checkbox
- A published explanation of what the badge means
Your team
- Invite colleagues to seats
- Roles that decide what each seat may do
- Owners and admins manage seats
- A separate hiring team for recruiters
- Act as the organisation with a switcher, not a second login
Publishing as the organisation
- Petitions and campaigns
- Events
- Job postings
- Marketplace listings
- Volunteer opportunities
- Posts, replies and communities in Ardent Social
- Claim work published before you joined
CSR and partnerships
- Publish a pledge to the public CSR board
- Attach a pledge to a specific campaign
- Propose matching up to a cap you set
- Co-sponsor a petition
- An organisation-wide overview of everything you run
Questions, answered
Anyone representing an NGO or charity, or a company, can register the matching account type. You submit supporting documents (registration, tax, and the like), and an admin reviews them before your account is marked verified. You can start using the platform right away, but verification is what unlocks public hubs, directories, branding, CSR pledges, matching, and co-sponsorship.
No. Account type never bypasses fundraising. The single gate on running a fundraiser is whether public fundraising is enabled for you (or you are a Foundation cause), and that is identical for every account on Ardent. Verification adds trust and tools, not a money shortcut.
A verified company proposes a match on a campaign: a ratio, such as one-to-one, up to a cap. Once an admin activates it, Ardent computes the matched amount from the campaign's real, settled donations and shows the remaining match capacity. Ardent never moves or holds the matched funds; the company fulfils its match through the normal giving rails or off-platform. It is a public, accountable commitment, not an escrow.
It is a public wall of company CSR commitments. A verified company writes a pledge (with an optional amount and focus area) from its dashboard, an admin reviews it before it appears, and then it is fulfilled through Ardent's secure giving rails or off-platform. As the board itself states, Ardent custodies no funds here.
Yes. The account owner can invite colleagues as admins, editors, or viewers, and manage the whole team from the org dashboard. Everyone works under one verified organisation, and org-wide analytics roll up all of its petitions, campaigns, events, and services in one view.
It means a verified organisation has publicly endorsed or co-sponsored that cause, shown with your badge (and logo, for NGOs). It is a credibility signal, reviewed by an admin before it appears. It never gives you any control over the campaign or petition, which always stays with its owner.
A declaration is a promise made in public, not a payment made through us
Every pledge, match and co-sponsorship on Ardent is a statement your organisation has published under its own name. It is deliberately not a transaction. Ardent Africa does not hold, route or release money on behalf of any organisation, and there is no account, balance or payout anywhere in this product for it to pass through.
A pledge is published, attributed and dated, and settled directly by you
A matching offer names a cap, and the money moves between you and the cause
No balance, no payout, and nothing to withdraw
Being verified is free, and there is no paid tier that buys placement or a badge
Publishing as an organisation is free, in every product on the platform
A seat is an invitation you control, never a shared password
Put your organisation behind real change.
Register, get verified, and unlock hubs, teams, CSR pledges, matching, and co-sponsorship. All the credibility of standing behind a cause, with none of the custody.