What NEED does this meet?

Make a person find the charity he/she likes and can trust.

What is the APPROACH?

Using social network aspects (as a means to provide quality content, not as a goal on itself). Decentralizing the way the content is created.

Simply said; You can have a personal page that states what charities you support and who your friends are.

You can read all about the project at www.makingthesite.com

What are the BENEFITS to people?

Makes it easier to find a charity they can trust. In particular smaller charities that get outshouted at the moment.

What is the COMPETITION?

greatnonprofits.com is the closest I think. Also Care2connect.com
Also there are a lot of centralized charity websites.

Greatnonprofits is about evaluations and might be great, Helpalot has more of a focus on social networks.

Care2connect looks like it is trying to do a thousand things, thereby not making it easier to find charities. Helpalot will be made with making charities findable as a main focus.

What BUDGETS & LOGISTICS are required?

I’m no expert on estimating how much it would cost. It would have about 40 static pages and it will hugely scalable. It is supposed to include every charity in the world, so you’ll needs some solid coding.

It’s not possible to build it in a week, but it’s also not like Helpalot requires you to invent new stuff.