A Let's Do Work Program
Nonprofit Accountability Coalition
Community Power, Backed by Evidence
Billions of dollars are entrusted to nonprofits every year to solve our communities' most urgent problems. Communities deserve to know whether that money is actually reaching the people it was meant to help. The coalition organizes communities to ask hard questions, investigate public and philanthropic funding, elevate the voices of people served, and demand measurable results.
We are not an anti-nonprofit coalition. We are a pro-accountability coalition. We ask a different question than most: not just how much money an organization received, but what the community actually got for that investment - and who is doing this well.
Founded by DarNesha Bowman - a 25-year North Seattle organizer who has led a nonprofit from the inside and built Black Coffee Northwest from the ground up on community trust - this coalition exists because real accountability shouldn't be a matter of luck.
Read: Why I'm Building This →
Upcoming Event
Coalition Community Meeting
Join us for the first community meeting of the Nonprofit Accountability Coalition. This is a space for community members, organizers, nonprofit workers, researchers, advocates, and young leaders to come together to talk about nonprofit accountability, transparency, and community oversight.
We'll introduce the vision for the coalition, talk about our first focus on rent assistance, and discuss how we can collect community experiences, research the data, ask the hard questions, and create meaningful accountability.
We're building this together, across generations and experiences. Come listen. Come share. Come help us build. Every voice matters. Every interaction counts.
DateTuesday, September 8, 2026
Time6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
LocationVirtual - Google Meet
Register to receive the meeting link and calendar invitation. An agenda will be sent to registered participants 2 days before the meeting. We look forward to building this with you.
Register for the Community Meeting
How the Work Moves - Seven Steps, Every Time
1 · StoriesPeople with direct experience share what happened.
2 · DataScattered stories become a structured record.
3 · PatternsDo many independent people describe the same problem?
4 · ResearchContracts, budgets, records, and outcomes.
5 · QuestionsEvery organization gets a real chance to respond.
6 · Public AccountabilityFindings published, including the organization's response.
7 · ReformSuccess is measured by actual fixes, not attention.
Three Generations, One Table
Intentionally intergenerational: emerging organizers, the working generation, and movement elders. Our Youth Accountability Lab brings organizers ages 18-25 into real research, interviewing, and organizing roles alongside experienced mentors, not underneath them.
Get Involved
Share your story, help with research, join the Youth Accountability Lab, bring a professional skill, partner with us - or just show up.
darnesha@blackcoffeenw.com
Our First Project
Rent Assistance Accountability Project (RAAP)
RAAP is our proof of concept for this entire process. It asks a simple question: how does rent assistance money move from public and philanthropic funding to the people who need it in the City of Seattle, King County, and Washington State - and does it actually get there? We intend to bring this same approach to other communities and other issues once RAAP has proven the model.
Documentation Matters
Every interaction tells part of the story. We have two simple ways for you to document your rent assistance experience - you can use either form, or both.
Quick Form
Use this when you need to quickly record a call, email, visit, update, or other interaction. Takes about one minute, and it's designed to be filled out in the moment so nothing gets lost to memory.
Quick Form - Log an Interaction
Long Form
Use this when you have more time to share details about your experience, what happened, and the outcome. You can share anonymously, and you don't have to answer every question.
Long Form - Share Your Experience
The information you provide helps us identify patterns, understand what people are experiencing, and build a stronger picture of how rent assistance programs are working. Document every interaction. Every entry helps build the record.
We protect the privacy and safety of everyone who shares. We verify before we publish, every organization gets a real chance to respond, and if we get something wrong we correct it publicly.
Read the Coalition Documents
