At its core, Aurora is a non-profit organization. All profits generated by the farm and its activities are channeled into local community projects in Santa Fe, Veraguas.

Once we committed to funding local projects seriously, we faced a practical question: how do we track them in a way that is genuinely transparent, not just administratively convenient? Beneficiaries deserve to see how decisions are made. Donors deserve to see where money goes. And anyone else who is interested should be able to follow along without having to ask.

Existing tools were either too generic, too opaque, or designed for organizations far larger than ours. So we built our own.

The application tracks everything: economic transactions, project objectives, deadlines, critical evaluations, donation records, and statistics. Photos and documents are attached directly to each project, so anyone following a grant can see real progress rather than curated updates.

We include critical assessments deliberately: a project that underdelivered is as visible as one that exceeded expectations. Honest accounting of failure is part of what transparency means.

We made it public by default, and the next step is making it fully open source on GitHub. If you run a community fund, a local foundation, or any kind of giving program and want a tool built around radical transparency rather than institutional image management, you are welcome to take it, adapt it, and make it your own.