Data Insights Platform for Nonprofits

Know your data. Share your story.

dalgo.org · GitHub (DalgoT4D) · Digital Public Good · Project Tech4Dev

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Dalgo is a data insights platform built exclusively for nonprofits. It brings scattered programme data into one trusted source your whole team can act on — for monthly reflections, funder reporting, and everyday decisions. Built by a nonprofit, for the social sector.

This repository holds the source for the Dalgo website, dalgo.org. The Dalgo platform itself is developed in the open at github.com/DalgoT4D.

The problem

Programmes generate data in a dozen places — surveys, chatbots, spreadsheets, case-management tools. For most M&E and programme teams, every monthly reflection means cleaning, analysing, and preparing decks by hand, often a week of work before anyone can look at a number. The data arrives late, and leadership ends up deciding on figures they can't fully stand behind.

What Dalgo does

Automate the chaos. Custom-built connectors for the tools NGOs already use — KoboToolbox, CommCare, SurveyCTO, Avni, Glific, MGrant, ODK — plus 600+ more sources through Airbyte. Data lands in a warehouse that belongs to your organisation, cleaned and consolidated on a schedule, with no manual crunching.

Illuminate the story. That clean data becomes dashboards leadership can act on, reports that generate themselves, and impact pages that show funders what the work achieves.

The result is better decision-making — the reason nonprofits stay. The hours saved along the way are the proof.

Core capabilities:

• Data integration — every source syncing into your own warehouse
• Dashboards & charts — self-service views for programme teams, leadership, and donors
• Reports & alerts — scheduled reporting and notifications, without the repetitive prep
• Trust & access — role-based access, and data that stays yours

Who it's for

• Programme & M&E teams — automate the cleaning, analysing, and deck-building that eats the month
• Leadership — dashboards and credibility to give funders real visibility
• Field teams — real-time data where the work happens
• Funders — impact pages that show what a programme actually achieved

Proof

25+ nonprofits across multiple sectors run their data on Dalgo, with under 10% churn.

• STiR Education — monthly review prep went from one week to one hour, across six regions, handled by one person.
• SHRI — reporting effort fell from 20+ hours a week to under one.
• SHOFCO — caseworkers went from 12+ hours a week to about two on navigation and report generation.
• SNEHA — monthly reports became daily field access, scaling from one programme to three and more.

"It's thrilling to finally see an affordable service built on open-source software to support non-profits in making evidence-based decisions."

— Jacob Hughey, Core Team Member, The Agency Fund

Open source, and your data stays yours

• Open source — the platform is developed in the open at DalgoT4D, licensed AGPL-3.0.
• Digital Public Good — recognised by the Digital Public Goods Alliance.
• Your data, your warehouse — data lives in your organisation's own warehouse. Dalgo processes it only to run the service you signed up for. DPDP-readiness is in progress.
• Predictable pricing — no per-user, per-source, or per-row charges. Flat from one programme to five and beyond.

Dalgo is co-built with the sector — organisations like STiR Education, SNEHA, SHRI, and Antarang — and supported by an ecosystem that includes the Agency Fund, Goalkeep, and Dasra.

Community

Dalgo runs an open community for nonprofit data practitioners:

• Decoding Data — a LinkedIn newsletter on nonprofit data, every two weeks
• Monthly webinars — live product sessions and sector data education
• WhatsApp community — peer support across the social sector
• Plus a newsletter, published stories, and offline meetups

Running this site on your own computer

You don't need to know how to code to do this — just follow the steps below in order.

1. Install Node.js (one-time setup)

Node.js is the program that runs the site's build tools. If you're not sure whether you already have it, open a terminal and type:

node -v

If you see a version number (like v20.11.0), you already have it — skip to step 2. If you see an error instead, download and install it from nodejs.org (choose the "LTS" version), then try node -v again.

2. Install the project's tools (one-time setup, per copy of the project)

From the project folder, run:

npm install

This downloads the small set of tools the site needs to build. You'll only need to do this once (or again if it's ever deleted).

3. Build the site

npm run build

This takes the source files and turns them into the files the website actually uses. Run this command any time someone changes a file in the components/ or pages/src/ folders — it's what keeps the live site in sync with those changes.

Important: the live site (Vercel) does not run this build step itself — it just serves whatever files are committed to the repository. So after running npm run build, make sure to commit and push the files it changed (app.bundle.js, everything under pages/*.entry.js, and the updated .html files) — otherwise your changes won't show up on the live site.

4. Preview the site locally

npm run dev

This builds the site (same as step 3) and then starts a small local preview server. Once you see a message like:

Dalgo site running at http://localhost:8080

open http://localhost:8080 in your web browser — that's the site, running on your own computer. Press Ctrl+C in the terminal to stop it when you're done.

Note for anyone actively editing components: if you're making a lot of small changes and want them picked up automatically, run npm run watch in one terminal (it rebuilds every time you save a file) and npm run dev in another (to keep previewing). Most people won't need this — npm run dev alone is enough for a one-off preview.

About

Dalgo is an initiative of Project Tech4Dev — building open-source, affordable technology for the social sector.

• Website — dalgo.org
• Start a free trial — dashboard.dalgo.org
• Platform source code — github.com/DalgoT4D
• Contact — support@dalgo.org

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