קוֹל קוֹרֵא · An open call to the community · v6

Post what you need. Vetted vendors come to you.

The other directions help you find a vendor. This one flips it: you write a short Open Call — the project you're hiring for — and the vendors your peers already vouched for answer it. You'll only ever hear from people a fellow organization staked their name on. No strangers, no cold pitches, no spam.

Post an Open Call Draft · #NEW
Only vetted vendors can see & answer
Live · Open Calls board Waiting

Your call posts here. Vetted vendors who match get notified — and answer.

The reverse marketplace

Demand posts. Vetted supply answers.

Every other direction sends you hunting through vendors. Here, you state the need once and the community's pre-vetted vendors come to you — the direction of the whole marketplace is flipped.

STEP 01

You post an Open Call

A few lines: what you're hiring for, the category, remote or a place, and roughly when. Two minutes, no account-building, no vendor list to wade through.

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STEP 02

Only vetted vendors see it

The call reaches vendors who were nominated by a real CauseMatch client and match your category. Nobody self-lists their way in. That gate is the whole point.

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STEP 03

Answers arrive — with proof

Each response carries the vendor's named endorsement — who vouched for them and what they did. You compare people your peers already trust, not cold pitches.

Open Calls · answered by the community

The board right now

Real requests from sister organizations. Each one is answered only by vendors a peer already staked their name on. Open a call to see who came forward — and who vouched for them.

Brand & Design Open · answering
A day school needs a full campaign rebrand before the fall giving push.
Where Remote Timeline By September Posted 2 days ago

Vendors who came forward

AC
Ateret Creative Vetted
Vouched by Rabbi David Cohen, Beth Shalom Academy — "the campaign brand felt like us, and it raised more than any year before." See profile →
KR
Kol Rina Media
Vouched by Rivka Klein, Yeshiva Ohr — offering the launch film to go with the rebrand.
OP
Ohr Print House
Vouched by 2 orgs — can carry the rebrand into the donor mailers.
and 1 more vetted vendor answering — vouched for by a peer.
Events & Galas Open · answering
A federation is looking for a gala producer for our LA annual dinner.
Where Los Angeles Timeline By December Posted 5 days ago

Vendors who came forward

SE
Simcha Event Productions Vetted
Vouched by Aaron Gold, ED, Maimonides LA — "our biggest night of the year, and I didn't worry once." Glatt kosher, in LA.
NJ
Nesiya Journeys
Vouched by 3 orgs — can add a donor mission tie-in around the dinner.
and 3 more vetted vendors answering — each vouched for by a peer.
Print & Mail Open · answering
A shul needs premium mailers donors will actually keep.
Where Monsey / Remote Timeline By October Posted 1 week ago

Vendors who came forward

OP
Ohr Print House Vetted
Vouched by 3 orgs — "mailers donors keep on the fridge." Premium print & mail, Monsey.
and 2 more vetted vendors answering — each vouched for by a peer.
Video & Story Open · answering
We need a Giving-Tuesday campaign film that makes donors feel the mission.
Where Remote Timeline By November Posted today

Vendors who came forward

KR
Kol Rina Media Vetted
Vouched by Rivka Klein, Campaign Chair, Yeshiva Ohr — "people cried at the dinner. Then they gave."
and 2 more vetted vendors answering — each vouched for by a peer.
CRM & Data Open · answering
A federation needs its Salesforce cleaned up before year-end appeals.
Where Remote Timeline By December Posted 3 days ago

Vendors who came forward

TP
Tzedakah CRM Partners Vetted
Vouched by 4 orgs — "your donor data, finally trustworthy." Remote, Salesforce specialists.
and 1 more vetted vendor answering — vouched for by a peer.

The other side of the call

Vendors don't pitch cold — they answer a call that fits.

A vetted vendor sees only the calls that match what they do. When one fits, answering takes a tap — and their response arrives already backed by the people who vouched for them. It reads as a warm, earned reply, not a sales blast.

Vetted vendors answer · every response inherits the vendor's named endorsements automatically.

Ateret Creative · your matching calls 1 match
Open Brand & Design
A day school needs a full campaign rebrand before the fall giving push.
Why you're seeing this: matches your category and remote availability — you've done a day-school campaign rebrand before.
Your response — pre-attached "Happy to help. Beth Shalom's rebrand + matching microsite raised 38% more the next year." Endorsement from Rabbi David Cohen travels with this reply.
Brand & Campaign Design Vetted · nominated by a client

Ateret Creative

Miriam Adler · Founder & Creative Director · Jerusalem, works remotely with US orgs

Miriam started Ateret because Jewish organizations deserve design as serious as their mission. She builds campaign identities and matching-day microsites that a whole community feels proud to share — the kind of work that turns a fundraising strategy into something people actually want to open. She reached this board the only way anyone does: a client she'd delivered for put her name forward.

6
Organizations endorsing
11×
Hired through the community
~3 hrs
Typical response time

What she does

Brand systems Annual-campaign creative Matching-campaign microsites Donor mailers Rebrands

One-liner she leads with: "Campaign identities and matching-day microsites for Jewish nonprofits."

Projects — outcomes, not titles

Beth Shalom Academy — annual campaign rebrand & $2M matching microsite

A refreshed identity and a matching-day campaign site for the day school's biggest ask of the year.

↑ Raised 38% more than the prior year

Federation Giving Tuesday toolkit

A templated social + email kit any partner org could pick up and run with, on brand, in a day.

Adopted by 20 partner organizations

How a profile is built · the trust layer

Two sources, kept visibly separate.

A profile here can't be self-written. It's assembled from the person who hired the vendor, and later, the vendor's own voice — so you always know which words are whose.

Step 1 · In the client's words

A short interview with the reference

The client who hired the vendor answers ~6 questions. This is the hard-to-fake trust layer — a real name, a real org, and the real work.

  • What did you need going in?
  • What did the vendor actually do?
  • What changed — the outcome?
  • Would you hire them again?
  • Who should hire them — and who shouldn't?
Step 2 · In the vendor's words

A voice note from the vendor

Later, the vendor records a short voice note about what they do and a favorite project. Auto-transcribed. This is the warmth layer — story, not spec.

0:41

"I started Ateret because Jewish organizations deserve design as serious as their mission. My favorite projects are the ones where the campaign becomes something the whole community feels proud to share."

First-class WhatsApp · חֶסֶד in one message

Post a call — or get answers — without leaving WhatsApp.

Most of this community already lives in WhatsApp. So an Open Call can start there, and the vetted answers can land there too.

Honest read · the direction I was most skeptical about

Where the Open Call wins — and where it loses.

Flipping the marketplace is the boldest bet of the six. It's worth being straight about both sides.

+ Where it wins

  • Qualified inbound. Vendors get warm demand instead of chasing it — they tend to love this, which keeps supply engaged.
  • A recurring reason to return. A new call is a live event; the board gives the community a reason to come back, not a static directory they visit once.
  • Real demand signal. CauseMatch learns exactly what its orgs are hiring for — a data asset none of the other directions produce.
  • The vetting gate still holds. Only nominated vendors answer, so posting a call never invites strangers or spam.

– Where it loses

  • Can feel transactional. A "post a job, get responses" flow risks eroding the prestige and dignity if the copy and curation aren't careful — it must never read like Thumbtack.
  • Empty-board risk early. Before there's a steady flow of calls, the board can look quiet — a cold start on the demand side this time, not the supply side.
  • Requests need light curation. Calls themselves may need a gentle editorial touch so the board stays high-signal and on-tone.

Sample profiles shown are illustrative.