FAQ
GENERAL
Zazengo is a free, shared, online platform for inspiring, managing and tracking impact.
Record your social action and watch your impact grow. Be energized as you witness how your individual actions impact the larger community.
As a member, use self-organizing tools to help coordinate projects, initiatives, volunteerism, or any activity where people need to connect.
Invite friends, join projects, find an organization, share stories and keep connections up-to-date with the latest happenings.
Features include the ability to track impact; create a project, campaign or an organization; generate reports; start discussions; manage to-do lists and announce events.
Users can identify their skills and interests and be matched with organizations and projects.
Organizations can brand Zazengo with their logo and color schemes, create widgets for their website, and even be a part of Zazengo's shared revenue model.
Zazengo helps you turn your social network into an impact engine!
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IS ZAZENGO REALLY FREE?
Yes. Our goal is to provide a platform that is free and easy to use so everyone can benefit from our services.
Best of all, Zazengo can be a source of earned income for membership-based organizations that engage their members to participate and use our platform for organizing projects and initiatives in their own communities.
Instead of paying for a tool to track members’ action, Zazengo generates revenue through advertising and new opportunities for partnership with cause-oriented media and existing partners.
As the hosting provider for the platform, we keep 50% of the advertising revenues to cover our expenses. The remaining 50% is then shared with Organizations that use our platform.
This revenue share drives interest in usage of the Zazengo platform and rewards those organizations that are most active.
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WHY WOULD I USE ZAZENGO?
There are numerous reasons why one would want to use Zazengo.
Keep a resume of your "Social Actions." Keep track of your volunteer hours, beach clean-ups, connections made, number of times you've used reusable bags…anything that is an impact to you. 
Create a Project, Campaign or an Organization and track it's impact. Be matched with others that have skills and interests you desire. Announce events, create to-do lists, share impact stories, start discussions and print reports. Set which metrics you’d like to track and as a group witness how each individuals’ actions add up to create a larger impact. 
Turn supporters into impact generators!
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WHAT ARE ZAZENGO'S FEATURES?
Zazengo features include:
The ability to track and manage your Impact.
Enter projects. Start discussions. Capture impact stories.
Announce events. Create to-do items. List skills needed.
Print reports. Find like-minded people.
See how your impact, coupled with the communities impact,
create real change and impacts the world.
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