For diaspora mutual aid societies
CivicPool helps your society fund a dignified funeral within days, the way our elders did, with every dollar on the record.
Eshitabu shiamasikaThe book of tears.
In western Kenya, every village elder kept a ledger of what each family gave at a funeral. Missing it was taboo, and the practice lives on today.
CivicPool carries that book forward, so your village's support is kept safe and no family becomes a public charge.
Four steps, from the first call to the last receipt.
A member reports the death with evidence. The family's sponsor and a society officer both confirm it.
Every member pays the same set amount by the first Friday.
The funeral home is paid directly, ahead of anything else.
The burial fiduciary files a full accounting within sixty days.
When a society funds a funeral, it performs a public service: a burial that never has to fall to the state. Each one is recorded in the society's annual Public Benefit Report.
The money is your society's. CivicPool just keeps the book.
Contributions go straight to the society's own U.S. bank account through Stripe. CivicPool never holds funds and is not a money transmitter.
Every disbursement needs two people to approve it.
Tamper-evident logs, kept for seven years.
Members here in the United States, relatives at home. Family members can belong to different villages, and sponsors and stewards know every member. Member numbers are issued once and never reused.
Built with The $50 Club of Delaware Inc., a 501(c)(3) public charity of Kenyan Americans.
Taken at payment, never added on top.
Members pay exactly the society's contribution amount.
The platform's share of each contribution: 1% for operations and 2.5% for the service.
The platform's share is waived for a founding society's first six months.
Operating expenses are passed through at cost and net to zero every month. Optional add-ons, such as society branding, are billed monthly.
No. Contributions are member-to-member gifts collected by the society, as the community's agent; no benefit amount is promised.
In the society's own U.S. bank account, settled by Stripe.
Yes, as covered relatives. Every payee must be a U.S. person with a U.S. account.
An invite code, a phone number or e-mail, and the details of covered relatives.
A validation queue, calls, disbursements, statements and settings, in the same app.
All you need is the invite code from your society's administrator.
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