The Nepal clinic costs $12,141. Here is why we are only asking for $7,175
A full walk through the clinic budget: what it costs, what Statloba For Good pays for out of its own General Fund, and exactly what your gift covers.
Stories & Updates
The work, the money, and what we're learning.
Stories from the programs, case studies of what we build, news from SFG, and the reports we publish as money is spent, including what didn't go to plan.
18 posts
Free to the partner is not free to run: inside the General Fund
The $108,000 that pays for everything we give away, itemized like any other project, including the $65,000 salary line.
Why a bus fare is the program, not an expense
The costs that decide who gets to take part are rarely the ones that sound impressive. They are usually transport, food, and someone to travel with.
Chipata Girls F.C.: four funds, $20,300, and what each one unlocks
The Chipata budget is deliberately split into four separate funds, so you can back the part of the club's work you most want to exist.
Teaching AI literacy to girls who have never owned a laptop
What hands-on AI literacy actually looks like in a Kathmandu classroom: image classifiers, acting out how machines see movement, and spotting misinformation before you share it.
How to check a nonprofit before you give, including this one
A short, practical checklist for vetting any charity, and exactly where to find each of those things for Statloba For Good.
What $25 a month does that a one-time gift cannot
Recurring gifts are not just convenient. They are the only kind of money that lets a small nonprofit commit to something before it has the cash.
Case study: building an e-learning platform Atoot can run without us
What we are building for Atoot Nepal, why the handover matters more than the launch, and what we will publish when it is done.
Sport for development, explained without the jargon
What the phrase means, what it is good for, what it is not, and why we pair it with data rather than treating sport as the whole answer.
What a transport fund actually does for a girls' football club
$2,300 is the least glamorous line in the Chipata budget. It is also the one that decides who is still on the team in six months.
Why we publish what did not work
Every Statloba For Good project report has a section for failures and surprises. Here is why we committed to that before we had anything to put in it.
Youth Sports Academy, Portland: what we are building, and what we will not claim yet
Our first Oregon program is still a draft, and we are showing it as one rather than publishing a fundable budget we cannot yet defend.
Statloba For Good is live: fund the line, follow the dollar
Our new home on the web is open: every project itemized to the line, every dollar trackable from your gift to the outcome.
Why we itemize every budget, down to a bus fare
A total tells you nothing. A line item tells you what you are buying, what it costs, and whether the price is fair.
$282 is ten girls' bus fare: how to read a Statloba For Good budget
A walk through one real line item, what it pays for, and how to follow it from your gift to the receipt.
Where your money goes when you fund the General Fund
The least glamorous place to give, and the one that decides how many organizations we can say yes to next year.
Partner spotlight: Chipata Girls F.C.
Who the club is, what it is trying to protect, and the part of its story that is not ours to tell.
How we report: outcomes, spend, and what we got wrong
The reporting standard every Statloba For Good project is held to, published in advance so you can hold us to it.