OrgHQ

Our Story

Built by a Volunteer, for Volunteers

Three years ago I became president of a small professional association and learned how CE events actually got run: Eventbrite registrations that never became a clean member list, a vendor who ran our Zoom webinars — charged per event, slow to respond, and the recordings often never arrived — an admin who needed constant follow-up to get CE certificates out, and a president (now me) doing everything else by hand.

I figured the answer was out there, so in my free time I went looking.

First I tried to buy it. Nothing fit: the platforms a small association can afford covered only a fraction of the job, and the ones that covered most of it quoted prices we simply couldn't pay. Nobody was building for volunteer-run associations.

Then I tried to duct-tape it. Thinkific. Google Workspace with automations bolted on. Constant Contact. Mailchimp. Zapier. Even the “free” platforms that quietly take a cut of every transaction. I got close, but the stack was error-prone and still needed hands-on work before and after every single event.

Two years of trying, and nothing fully met our needs — not the products, not the patchwork.

So, nights and weekends — around a full-time job and finishing my nurse practitioner program — I built it myself. Registration, renewals, CE certificates, the webinar pipeline, the flyers, the emails. And it worked. Our events finally ran themselves.

Except for one problem: I had automated the association's work onto myself. Every automation needed a maintainer, and the maintainer was me. Boards shouldn't depend on a member who happens to code — that's just a different single point of failure.

That's the problem OrgHQ exists to solve. It's everything I built, rebuilt as a product any association can afford and any volunteer can run:

• → A branded website at your own domain, live in under a minute
• → Event registration and payments, straight to your bank
• → Webinars that run themselves — recordings included, every time
• → Membership plans with automatic renewals and reminders
• → CE certificates that issue themselves after events
• → Private board files that survive every officer transition
• → A treasurer’s ledger with reports that email themselves to the board

Members sign in with just their email — no passwords to reset. No lock-in: bring your data from Wild Apricot, Join It, AMO, or a spreadsheet, and export everything anytime. And nobody on the board has to be the tech person. Not even me, anymore.

My own association runs on it today. I've since rotated to past president and treasurer — and the books close themselves now, too.

If you serve on an association board — or know someone drowning in one — take a look: orghq.org. Free 14-day trial, no credit card, no sales call.

Built by a volunteer, for volunteers. 🚀

— Jason Fisher, past president & treasurer, Ohio Association for Healthcare Quality

Originally posted on LinkedIn when OrgHQ launched — republished here as written.