A business liaison with a clipboard talking with a bakery owner in the doorway of her corridor storefront, a new awning half installed above them

Linden Park Neighbors · business corridor · Tuesday

Rosa’s new awning went up this week. Verified by photo and site visit, and the CED grant report is already half written.

Grant management & impact reporting

The people do the work. The record keeps up.

Block captains, business liaisons, corridor merchants, and staff already tell the story every day. MissionAligned files what they share, with its source, into one structured record. When a funder asks, it is already there.

Tech as the support structure, not the job.

Every source your team already uses lands in the same shape: who, what, which program, what it counts as, what evidence. That shape is what turns a good week into a grant report.

Everyone around the work is already telling the story.

Block captains, business liaisons, corridor merchants, and staff share what they see. MissionAligned files each one with its source, its program, and what it counts as: an output, a need, an outcome. That line under every photo is the whole product.

  • A bakery owner in an apron behind her counter, looking off toward the street

    Merchant, corridor bakeryRosa

    Still open a year after the façade grant. Hired a neighbor from the cleanup crew.

    via Follow-up form, consent on file

    Filed · Outcome · Storefront open at 12 months

  • A business liaison on the corridor sidewalk beside a newly opened storefront, checking his phone

    Business liaisonHassan

    Walked the corridor. Two vacant storefronts newly occupied since spring.

    via LinkedIn post, imported

    Filed · Outcome · Vacant storefront occupied

  • A block captain on a rowhouse stoop filling in a check-in form, a yard bag beside her

    Block captain, Maple StreetCarla

    Weekly check-in: cleanup done, forty neighbors out, two fences repainted.

    via Captain check-in form

    Filed · Output · Block check-in

  • The business corridor manager at a networking breakfast table, mid-conversation

    Business corridor managerSofia

    Thirty merchants at the networking breakfast. Twelve asked about façade grants.

    via Program note

    Filed · Output · Assistance · 12 needs logged

Illustrative example. Names and photographs are not of a specific organization.

Same week, same team. Two ways to keep it.

The data and grants coordinator at a desk with a laptop, folders, and a printed spreadsheet

The pile

Everything goes into Notion: captain check-ins, a grant spreadsheet, screenshots, a report draft. At deadline, someone asks Notion AI what happened and gets a guess with the survival numbers missing.

The record

  1. Sep 01Merchant surveyRosa’s Bakery applied for a Storefront Improvement Grant: awning and lighting.Need loggedBusiness Corridor
  2. Sep 02InstagramNetworking breakfast: thirty corridor merchants traded referrals.Attendance · 30Business Corridor
  3. Sep 04Budget importCost per façade phase $4,100, down from $4,900.EfficiencyBusiness Corridor
  4. Sep 05Follow-up form“Still open a year after the grant. Hired a neighbor.”OutcomeBusiness Corridor

Each entry arrives already structured: who, what, which program, what it counts as, and the evidence. The Q3 grant report is a view of these rows, not a reconstruction of them.

Read the full comparison with Notion

The record, as it looks in the beta today.

Real screens. Most of what you see is populated on day one from filings your organization already has, then kept current by the sources you connect.

  • Public Mission Profile page for a neighborhood organization, with programs, finances, and public form links

    Mission Profile

    Programs, finances, and mission summary, imported from your 990 and budget on day one.

    Filled from
    Form 990 · annual budget
    One EIN, about a day of setup
  • Social sources screen importing the organization's own Instagram posts as drafts with full provenance

    Social import

    Instagram and LinkedIn posts arrive on their own, each one tagged to a program with its source kept.

    Filed as
    Output · Story · Need
    Approve each, or let it run
  • Mission Funding view showing grants in preparing, submitted, and closed stages, each with linked proof

    Funding

    Every grant and its report, with the evidence rows already attached.

    Reused in
    Grant reports · Board packets · Donor updates
    No re-typing, no scramble

For foundations: replace the grant report with a live view of every grantee.

Give each grantee the operating record above, and the report writes itself. You get a signal that updates every week instead of every year, and a view across the whole cause instead of a stack of PDFs.

Trust & consent

Built carefully for public mission work

Making mission activity public is powerful and sensitive. These are the commitments the beta is built around.

You control what becomes public

Organizations decide what is published, what stays internal, and what gets taken down. Public pages never expose private constituent or staff data — public stats are safe aggregates, not individual records.

Evidence stays source-backed

Every piece of mission evidence keeps its provenance — who shared it, where it came from, and the consent attached to it. AI helps you draft and organize; it does not make unsupported impact claims on your behalf.

Hardening before we widen

Public forms, reactions, and follows are being rate-limited and abuse-tested before we open to broader traffic. That's why beta is small.

Not a replacement for your stack

MissionAligned is not a CRM, accounting system, email platform, or social media scheduler. It's the mission engagement and evidence layer alongside them — one day to add, and no staff time to keep running.

Request beta access

We are onboarding community development corporations and nonprofits that support small businesses first, a small number before broader release. Setup takes about a day, most of it imported from your 990 and budget, and there is no ongoing admin after that. Beta organizations should have at least one grant report due in the next six months.

A merchant signing a one-page form at a counter beside a phone showing a storefront photo

From the founders

The first 50 people who request beta access get free lifetime memberships for the organizations they are connected to.

45 of 50 remaining. 5 people have already requested access.

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