First Dollar Drive  ·  June 2026  ·  30 days

Bangladesh scored
1.74 out of 5.0.
Citizens measured it.

Not governments. Not expert panels. Not Western institutions. Citizens. For the first time in history. Help us scale it from 86 voices to 1,000.

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Bangladesh  ·  April 2026  ·  N=86
1.74/5
Overall Fairness Index  ·  First ever
Governance & Leadership1.70
Justice & Rule of Law1.81
Economy & Resources1.88
Public Services & Welfare1.44
Accountability & Institutions1.85
Scale: 1 = Completely Unfair → 5 = Completely Fair
All five domains below 2.0. Strong unfairness consensus across every domain.
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Tax-deductible for eligible US donors
Harvard, Stanford, UPenn, Northwestern, Michigan  ·  Independent academic engagement May 2026
$0 institutional grants received before this campaign
The story

We built this before
anyone gave us a dollar.

CARO is a Washington D.C.-based nonprofit building the world’s first citizen-administered, independently governed measurement of structural governance fairness. The Fairness Index doesn’t ask whether citizens like their government. It asks whether they perceive their governance system as structurally designed to be fair.

In April 2026, we deployed it in Bangladesh for the first time. 86 verified citizens. 25 questions. Five governance domains. The answer: 1.74 out of 5.0. Every single domain below 2.0.

That number didn’t come from a foreign expert panel or a government-commissioned survey. It came from citizens measuring their own system, in their own language, through a platform we built. It is the first score of its kind ever produced — anywhere.

“The failure of governance is not a failure of individuals — it is a failure of architecture. CARO is building the measurement instrument, the civic pipeline, and the framework to make structural fairness enforceable. Bangladesh is where we prove it.”
A.N.M. Nuruddin  ·  Founder & Chief Architect, CARO  ·  Falls Church, VA

Now we need to scale it. 1,000 verified voices across all 8 divisions of Bangladesh. 300 trained Equitism Leaders — one in every parliamentary constituency. Bangladesh’s first Annual Governance Fairness Report, published and distributed to civil society, media, and governance reform bodies. Then the next country.

What was built before this ask
$868K+
Total organizational value built before $0 institutional funding
13,670
Documented volunteer hours contributed since December 2023
2,259+
Verified civic participants across Bangladesh
211/300
Parliamentary constituencies with CARO presence
392
Campus Ambassadors across 247 universities
$0
Institutional grants received before this campaign
Independent academic engagement
Scholars at Harvard Allen Lab, Stanford HAI, UPenn, Northwestern, and University of Michigan engaged independently with CARO’s published work in May 2026 — before any institutional funding decision.
Every tier is real

Your contribution funds
a specific deliverable.

Not a general fund. Not overhead. Each amount below maps directly to a measurable output in CARO’s scaling plan.

$10
Civic Contributor

Funds one verified FI respondent — one person added to the dataset, phone-confirmed, demographically logged. $10 is one voice in Bangladesh’s governance fairness record.

✓ Named in CARO’s public Founding Supporters list
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$25
Leader Builder

Funds one Equitism Leader training kit — bilingual handbook, governance observation log, constituency assignment documentation. One trained fairness advocate deployed.

✓ Named in CARO’s public Founding Supporters list
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$50
Data Publisher

Funds one month of FI data publication — analysis, web update, open dataset refresh. The data stays public and accessible to any researcher, journalist, or reform actor, anywhere.

✓ Named in CARO’s public Founding Supporters list
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$100
Civic Co-Creator

Funds one Campus Ambassador coordination session — keeping the 392-university civic pipeline active. Digital certificate issued. Your name in the founding record.

✓ Digital certificate: CARO Civic Co-Creator
✓ Named in Founding Supporters list
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$500
Report Supporter

Named in Bangladesh’s first Annual Governance Fairness Report — published Q1 2027, distributed to 200+ civil society organizations, media outlets, and governance reform bodies.

✓ Named in Annual Governance Fairness Report
✓ Digital certificate + Founding Supporters
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$1,000
Founding Partner

Named permanently on carononprofit.org as a Founding Partner of the Bangladesh proof of concept. Named in the GGL empirical paper. This is the record that exists before anyone else invested.

✓ Permanent on carononprofit.org
✓ Named in GGL paper + Annual Report
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Bangladesh is the first chapter.
Help us write it.

We have been running on $0 for 30+ months. No overhead. No administrative absorption. Every dollar goes directly to measurement, training, and publication. The architecture is built. The data is real. The ask is specific.

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