Participedia Competitors

Our Community is where Australia's not-for-profits and schools go for help. A multi-award-winning social enterprise, Our Community is the Centre for Excellence for the nation's 600,000 not-for-profit organisations and schools, providing advice, tools, resources and training. Our Community helps community groups & schools deal with their challenges by providing practical products and services to strengthen the community sector. We do this by helping community organisations & schools find new funds, members, staff and board/commitee members. Our Community also runs GiveNow, the Funding Centre, Institute of Community Directors Australia (ICDA), the Communities in Control conference and the SmartyGrants grantmaking platform.

CitizenLab is a SaaS platform used by local governments to engage their community in policy-making. 400+ cities around the world use CitizenLab to engage, consult, and deliberate with their residents and to manage their input. It's our mission to make public decision-making more inclusive, participatory, and responsive.

Ethelo is a globally recognized Canadian civic-tech platform used by hundreds of municipalities and public institutions to surface broad agreement on complex choices and inform policy decisions. The platform guides participants through clear engagements that help them prioritize options, weigh trade-offs, and understand real-world constraints (costs, timelines, etc.). In addition to standard survey functions, Ethelo measures both the most strongly supported options and the consensus (least-conflict) solution most people can accept - producing actionable information and defensible decisions that leaders can table with confidence and communities can trust.