Non Profits
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- shitehawke0
I have found that most non profits actually have money to spend, after working with several small NPC's and NGO's. I always charged them even though I thought I was being cheeky and found that while my rate was reasonable (I always gave them a good rate but never told them i was giving a discount etc) they never once quibbled over the price or told me I was too expensive. But sometimes while working on a project the scope might go outside of my original estimate and I usually let it slide.
It seems that while you thought you were doing the right thing by helping them out, ultimately by offering your services free of charge they have no real understaning of the work you put into the designs nor do they appreciate it. By charging for your services your work becomes valuable to them, it costs to make changes and so they start to realise that in order for jobs to run smoothly and stay on budget their input is needed and so they can take ownership of it.
Im not saying that this is the way to go, its just my experience of working with those types of groups.