Turn the Sales Pitches You Already Get Into Charity Donations

If you’re a manager, IT admin, HR lead, or founder, you are being sold to right now. Check your inbox: demo requests, “quick 15 minutes?”, LinkedIn DMs from strangers with calendars attached. The average decision-maker receives dozens of pitches a week and gives all of that attention away for free — mostly by deleting it.

Here’s a different idea: charge for it — and give the money to charity.

Your attention has a market price. Set it.

On DonaTalk, you create a listener profile in about two minutes: who you are, what kinds of pitches you’ll hear, your favorite charity, and your minimum donation ($10 and up — busy executives set $50+). When a salesperson wants your time, they commit that donation up front.

• You stay in control. Accept only the pitches that look genuinely relevant. Decline the rest — the pitcher isn’t charged, and you owe nobody anything.
• Your charity gets paid, not you. The donation goes to the cause you named. There’s no tax weirdness for you and no awkward “paid to chat” feeling — you’re fundraising with time you’d otherwise spend deleting emails.
• The pitches get better. A $10+ commitment filters out mass spam automatically. What’s left are sellers who looked at your profile and decided you specifically were worth it.

The math for a busy professional

Say you accept two pitches a month at $25. That’s $600 a year to your local food bank, animal shelter, or scholarship fund — generated entirely from conversations you might have taken anyway, with better-qualified sellers, on your schedule.

For nonprofits: your supporters’ calendars are an untapped donation stream

This works at organizational scale, too. A nonprofit whose supporters sign up as listeners — each naming that nonprofit as their cause — turns its entire professional network into a steady fundraising engine. Board members and executive directors are ideal: they get pitched constantly, and every meeting they take funds the mission. If you run a nonprofit and want help getting your supporters on board, reach out — we’re building partner tools exactly for this.

Your inbox is already a marketplace; you’re just the only one not getting paid. Create your listener profile and put a price on your time — for a cause you love.