Can I ever drop my blog post or podcast episode here?
Yes, but only under Rule 'Disclose your affiliation', meaning in a comment where you clearly state your connection and explain how the resource answers the question at hand.
Subreddit guides
r/nonprofit rules, stats, and what to post
A source-backed Rankhog guide to r/nonprofit: public rules, community context, posting fit, and startup-promotion risk before you publish.
By Anthony Riera, founder and operator of Rankhog.
Subreddit guides combine public Reddit source URLs, captured rules, visible verification dates, and Rankhog's account-safety workflow.
Current public stats
- Members
- 94,934
- Verified
- September 30, 2026
- Category
- Nonprofit professionals and volunteer-run organizations
Rules can change, so Rankhog keeps verification dates and the original public Reddit sources visible.
Rule summary
- Do not promote: Do not promote your nonprofit or company, yourself, or any product, service, project, support, or event — whether paid, pro-bono, free, or volunteered.
- Disclose your affiliation: If your stuff (like an article or video) is directly relevant to a discussion, you may mention it in a comment, but you must explain how it is relevant and disclose your affiliation. If you only participate to plug your stuff, your comments will be removed.
- Do not solicit: Do not ask for donations, votes, likes, or follows. No soliciting volunteers, board members, interns, job applicants, vendors, or consultants. No market research, client prospecting, lead capture or gated content, or recruiting research participants or product/service testers. Do not share surveys.
- Put in effort: Before posting, you must do your own research, search the sub for similar discussions, and [**read the wiki**](/r/nonprofit/wiki/index). Got questions about starting or running a new nonprofit? [**Read the wiki**](/r/nonprofit/wiki/index) first. Do not ask questions that have recently been asked and answered, are easily googled, or are answered by the wiki. Do not make vague posts like, “How do I find grants?” Instead, provide some info about your situation. Length ≠ effort.
- Do not share personal info: This includes things like phone numbers, emails, or mailing addresses.
- Do not ask which CRM, database, or fundraising platform to use: You may only post about using your current CRM, database, or fundraising platform more effectively. [Learn more](https://reddit.com/r/nonprofit/comments/fafq7v/the_ban_on_which_crm_database_posts_is_now/).
- Do not ask how to research, report, or verify fraud or misconduct at a nonprofit you don't work for: This is answered in [the wiki](https://www.reddit.com/r/nonprofit/wiki/index). r/Nonprofit does not provide legal advice. Consider talking to a lawyer.
- Do not create link-only posts or comments: Provide enough context so visiting the link is not necessary.
- Be good to one another: No disrespect. No personal attacks. [Learn more](https://reddit.com/r/nonprofit/comments/l5n12i/it_seems_that_this_needs_to_be_emphasized/).
- Follow Reddit’s rules: a.k.a. [reddiquette](https://www.reddithelp.com/en/categories/reddit-101/reddit-basics/reddiquette).
- Help improve quality: See something that doesn't belong? Report it. But don't report something just because you disagree with it or don’t like it.
- If you violate any rule, you may be banned without warning: Moderators can remove or prohibit any content they feel is not in the sub’s best interest. The rules do not capture every possible behavior that is not allowed in the r/Nonprofit community. [Message the mods](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=%2Fr%2Fnonprofit) if you have questions about the rules or to check if a post is allowed. Do not message individual moderators.
Works well
- Answering a struggling director's question about donor communication with tactics drawn from your day-to-day role, no pitch attached
- Opening a debate thread on a thorny sector issue like overhead ratios or donor fatigue, backed by your lived experience
- Leaving a disclosed-affiliation comment pointing someone to your detailed guide once it truly resolves their specific blocker
- Posing a focused scenario-based question, naming your org type, headcount, and constraint, so replies can actually help
Avoid
- Posting anything that promotes your nonprofit, company, product, service, project, or event, including free or pro bono offers
- Asking for donations, votes, likes, or followers in any form
- Recruiting volunteers, board members, interns, employees, contractors, or survey participants through this community
- Sharing surveys or doing market research or lead capture disguised as conversation
- Starting a thread asking which CRM, database, or fundraising platform someone should pick
- Creating a post or comment that is just a link with no surrounding context explaining why it matters
What r/nonprofit Is For
This is a home for people who work at or volunteer for nonprofits, plus anyone thinking seriously about the social sector. People talk about daily operational problems, funding realities, bigger debates about philanthropy and movement building, and career paths in mission-driven work. It runs on shared experience between peers, so the tone leans toward helping colleagues solve real problems rather than showcasing wins. Before anything goes live, the expectation is simple, search the sub, read the wiki, then post within the rules.
Rules That Matter Before Posting
'“Do not promote” is the biggest wall here, and it blocks promoting your nonprofit, company, yourself, or any product, service, project, support, or event, even when it is free or pro bono.' '“Disclose your affiliation” is the narrow door around it, letting you bring up your own relevant material in a comment if you explain the relevance and admit your connection.' '“Do not solicit” kills requests for donations, votes, likes, follows, volunteers, board members, hires, vendors, leads, surveys, and research participants.' '“Put in effort” means you need to show your homework, search past discussions, read the wiki, and describe your actual situation rather than firing off a vague question.' '“Do not create link-only posts or comments” requires enough context that nobody needs to click your link to understand the point.' '“Do not ask which CRM, database, or fundraising platform to use” is unusually specific and worth knowing, though questions about getting better results from a system you already run are fine.' '“If you violate any rule, you may be banned without warning” sets the stakes, since removal can come with no second chance.'
What To Post
Come in as a participant, not a promoter. Share lessons learned from your own nonprofit work, respond thoughtfully to other people's operational struggles, and join broader conversations about the sector. If you have genuinely helpful resources tied to a live discussion, put them in a comment with a plain statement of your affiliation and a clear reason they matter right now. For questions, bring context, such as your budget size, staffing reality, or the exact problem blocking you, after checking the wiki and searching older threads first.
What To Avoid
Any promotional framing fails fast, so skip launches, announcements, discount codes, and look-at-us posts entirely. Solicitation trips get you removed quickly, especially donation drives, volunteer calls, hiring pushes, and survey sharing. Low-effort questions fail too, like broad grant-hunting asks with zero detail about your organization. Link dumps without written-out context break the linking rule. Asking strangers to compare CRMs is blocked outright. And remember the meta risk, breaking any rule can mean a ban with no advance notice.
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Common questions about r/nonprofit
I want to ask which donor database other orgs recommend. Is that okay?
Not as a standalone post, since Rule 'Do not ask which CRM, database, or fundraising platform to use' bans those threads outright.
What makes a question acceptable here versus low-effort?
A clear yes, provided you give real background on your organization and role instead of a vague request, because Rule 'Put in effort' rewards specifics over generic asks.