TFN pairs developers with civil society organizations to build real tools. nonprofits.live is where those tools live — one secure, monitored, cost-transparent platform for the whole ecosystem.
Platform
Before nonprofits.live, every NGO project ended up on a different developer's personal Vercel or Render account. Handoffs were messy, billing was invisible, and nothing was monitored. This platform fixes that.
Each NGO operates in its own organization. Projects, billing, and member access are fully scoped — one team's workload can never affect another.
A background daemon reads CPU and RAM from every running container every 15 minutes, building a continuous resource ledger per project — no manual monitoring needed.
Aggregate compute-hours and GB-hours into a clean monthly invoice per organization. Fair, usage-based pricing — NGOs pay for what they actually use.
JWT authentication, bcrypt passwords, TLS 1.3 everywhere. Every API call is organization-scoped — you only ever see your own data.
Push to GitHub and the platform builds, tags, and deploys automatically via GitHub Actions → GHCR → VPS. From commit to live in under 3 minutes.
The npl CLI puts the full control plane in the terminal. Create orgs, provision projects, inspect resource usage, and generate invoices — no web console required.
How it works
TFN engineers get access to the npl CLI and are productive immediately —
no cloud console, no YAML files, no coordination with a DevOps team.
01 — Authenticate
Run npl login, enter your credentials, and a signed JWT is saved locally. That's the only setup required on a new machine.
02 — Create your org
Each civil society group gets its own organization. Admins invite members by email. All projects and invoices are scoped to the org.
03 — Spin up a project
A single CLI command creates a workspace on the shared VPS. Connect a GitHub repo in the Dokploy panel and it redeploys on every push.
04 — Monitor & invoice
Check resource usage any time with npl project status. Generate a full cost breakdown for the month with npl org invoice.
Documentation
Full reference docs for the CLI, REST API, and system architecture — open source on GitHub.
Every npl command, flag, and interactive prompt — with real terminal output examples.
All 9 REST endpoints — request/response shapes, auth requirements, error codes, and curl examples.
How Traefik, npl-server, Dokploy, the telemetry daemon, and the billing engine all fit together.
Step-by-step operator checklist for hosting npl-server on a VPS via Dokploy — env vars, mounts, and Traefik setup.