Dispatch #12 - When Rising Tides Lift Others First

What happens when the impact goes to someone else?

“You can’t be what you can’t see.”
- Marian Wright Edelman

At LiveImpact.io, our mission is simple: float all nonprofit boats. But we know that can feel complicated in practice, especially when visibility, attention, and dollars are on the line.

So, let’s get real.

We’re building a platform where people pledge real-world support for the causes and organizations they believe in, donating, volunteering, voting, boycotting, and showing up. But what happens when someone logs on intending to back your organization… and instead, they pledge to a different cause listed right beside yours?

They might not have known that the other group existed. They may have never considered taking action on that issue. But now they’ve seen it, and something about it speaks to them.

They click. They act. They give.

And just like that, someone else benefits.

What do you feel? A moment of loss? A flicker of frustration? Maybe even competition?

We get it.

Scarcity thinking is baked into the nonprofit sector. You’re told explicitly and implicitly that there’s only so much attention, so much funding, so many volunteers to go around. That someone else’s gain might be your missed opportunity.

But here’s the shift LiveImpact.io is working to make: this isn’t a zero-sum game. It’s a visibility engine. A movement multiplier. A public dashboard of what people care about, where they’re acting, and how collective impact unfolds in real time.

If your organization shows up there—even if someone clicks on something else first—they might come back. They might support both. Or maybe they tell a friend who is moved by your mission. That’s the power of showing up in a shared space designed for discovery, transparency, and action, not scarcity and silos.

We don’t expect this to be easy. Shifting from “mine” to “ours” rarely is. But the water’s rising, and we’re here to make sure every boat has a place in the current.

“Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.”
- Wayne Dyer