Help build NableU: practical support, agency and systemic change

Finding support should start with the person who needs it: how they communicate, what matters to them and the life they want to build. Too often, people have to spend their energy navigating the system before they can get anything useful from it.

I’m Nathan Organ, founder of NableU Community Systems Incorporated, a registered NSW incorporated association. We’re building NableU to make support easier to find and organise, strengthen community connections and address the barriers that repeatedly get in people’s way.

This work has already started. NableU has a beta platform under development. You can see previews at nableu.org. We’ve also published submissions on disability support, privacy, AI, disaster inclusion and other systems affecting people’s agency at nableu.org/advocacy.html.

The next step is to test what we’re building with disabled people, identify barriers and improve it based on their experience. We also need to resource the research and advocacy that challenge systemic failures.

Your donation will support platform development and accessibility, practical testing, research and public advocacy, and qualified legal assessment or selected systemic action where the evidence and professional advice justify it.

My experience navigating these systems has shaped this work, and individual experiences can reveal wider patterns. This campaign is not raising money for my personal legal bills. Where a personal experience informs systemic work, that distinction and any overlap must be clear. Donations cannot guarantee a legal outcome.

If you can contribute, thank you. If you can’t, sharing the campaign with someone who cares about practical support and systemic change can help too.

HOW YOUR SUPPORT WOULD BE USED

Our overall fundraising target is A$50,000. GoFundMe currently displays an initial milestone of A$9,000, which forms part of that total.

The proposed breakdown is below. All amounts are in Australian dollars.

1. Independent testing and audits

Full allocation: $14,000

First milestone: $3,000

Independent security, privacy, accessibility and relevant compliance reviews. The initial funding would support scoping and targeted testing.

2. Development and improvements

Full allocation: $10,000

First milestone: $1,500

Completing priority development and fixing issues identified through practical testing and independent audits.

3. Paid lived-experience testing

Full allocation: $8,000

First milestone: $1,500

Compensating disabled and neurodivergent people for their time, practical testing and feedback, with accessibility support where needed.

4. AI model hosting and operation

Full allocation: $6,000

First milestone: $500

Covering AI hosting and operating costs outside current grant support, with an allowance for continuity after that support ends. Grant-covered expenses would be accounted for separately.

5. Platform hosting and infrastructure

Full allocation: $3,000

First milestone: $500

Application hosting, storage, backups and monitoring. This allocation is separate from AI hosting costs.

6. Research and public advocacy

Full allocation: $4,000

First milestone: $500

Evidence gathering, consultation, submissions and accessible publication of our work.

7. Qualified legal assessment

Full allocation: $3,000

First milestone: $1,000

Professional assessment of selected systemic issues within the campaign’s purpose. This allocation is not for personal legal bills and does not promise a legal outcome.

8. Processing fees and contingency

Full allocation: $2,000

First milestone: $500

Donation processing charges and an allowance for unexpected costs.

TOTAL

Initial milestone: A$9,000

Overall fundraising target: A$50,000

A NOTE ABOUT THESE FIGURES

These are proposed funding allocations, not supplier quotes. Final spending would depend on the funds raised, agreed scopes and actual costs.

Testing and audits would help identify gaps and assess our systems. They do not guarantee certification or compliance.

Our aim is to turn support into practical improvements: a more accessible platform, independently assessed safeguards, and research and advocacy that address the barriers people encounter.