Sigh..just sat down to do a funding application for our #CommunityFridge to discover the charity is now using a portal. In theory.. fine.. saves having to input basic data every time.. but.. it quickly became clear it was US based, the questions to register our organisation were odd and seemed a bit dodgy, do funders really need to know tax references? Usually they just ask charity or company number and board info, accounts etc all are available to see online. Felt like some data harvesting AI thing so stopped and searched a bit to discover the portal is run by US firm #Blackbaud who have an appalling track record of hacks and lax data security. Not only that, they have also recently teamed up with #Anthropic to use #Claude more in the non-profit sector. They are clearly only using a UK Charity Commission database to verify organisations are real. If you are a CIC or other sort of non-profit have to go through incredibly complex hoops including vast amounts of paperwork and submit director ID and they (or Claude) still may decide you don't qualify. So ..for a £2500 grant that we had a very slim chance of getting anyway.. no thanks, I'll leave well alone.