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MonthFund is a calendar-based community fundraising tool. An organizer creates a monthly campaign, invites participants, and each participant claims a day of the month. Day 7 means they raise donations equal to $7 per donor. Day 22 means $22 per donor. The goal is to fill all 31 days — creating a shared, visible scoreboard where every day claimed is a unit of collective accountability. It is not a generic donation page. It is a coordination system built around a single structure that repeats every month.

In traditional peer-to-peer fundraising, participants share a link and ask for donations with no defined structure. The ask is vague, the amount is undefined, and accountability is nonexistent. In MonthFund, every participant owns a specific day with a specific dollar amount. Their commitment is visible on the shared calendar. The structure creates accountability that a link alone cannot. It is closer to community organizing than to crowdfunding.

A calendar is universally understood. Everyone knows what a month looks like. When you see 18 of 31 days filled, you understand exactly where you are without reading a progress bar label. The calendar also creates natural, built-in accountability: each day is a discrete unit that belongs to a specific person. Empty days are visible. Gaps are obvious. That visibility drives action in ways that abstract goal meters do not.

A single fully filled 31-day calendar — where every day from $1 through $31 is claimed and each donor funds all 31 days — raises $496 per donor per calendar. That is the sum of 1 through 31. In a campaign with 25 participants running at 80% fill rate, the expected outcome is approximately $9,920. Use the outcome calculator on the How It Works page to model your specific scenario.

Yes. The sum of 1 through 28 is $406 per fully filled calendar. For February, that is the baseline. The model works for any month length — MonthFund automatically adjusts based on the active month. Most organizations find that longer months (31 days) produce the best outcomes, but the structure itself works identically regardless of month length.

Yes, with an Organization or Enterprise plan. A single account can manage multiple simultaneous campaigns — for different programs, teams, or initiatives — each with its own calendar, participant list, and reporting. The Free plan supports one active campaign at a time. See Pricing for full plan details.

Participants are the people an organizer recruits to carry the month — typically members of the organization, volunteers, or engaged community members. Each participant: (1) accepts an invitation to join the campaign, (2) claims a day of the month, (3) reaches out to their own network asking for a donation equal to their day number, and (4) tracks their progress in their personal participant dashboard. The organizer sees everyone's status in real time.

No. Participants are fundraisers, not donors. Their role is to recruit donors from their own network — friends, family, colleagues, neighbors. The participant claims a day and then asks others to donate that day's amount. Whether a participant personally donates is entirely optional and up to the organizer's culture. Many do, many don't — and the model works either way.

Nothing catastrophic. The organizer can see in real time which participants are behind. MonthFund sends automated reminders on the Organization plan, and the organizer can follow up directly. Unfilled days remain visible on the calendar — which is itself a motivation mechanism. Campaigns rarely fill at 100%, which is why the outcome calculator uses a fill rate (typically 70–85%) rather than a perfect-fill assumption.

The minimum is 1. The effective range for a first campaign is 15 to 30 participants. Below 15, the calendar looks sparse and the collective momentum is harder to build. Above 30 in a first campaign, coordination overhead increases before the organizer has developed rhythm with the model. For experienced organizations running their 3rd or 4th campaign, 30–50 participants is common.

No. Donors visit a public campaign or participant page and give without creating an account. The experience for donors is simple by design: arrive, see the calendar, see the ask, donate. No registration friction between intent and action. Only organizers and participants need accounts.

Our free Community plan has a 3% platform fee on donations. Paid plans have lower fees: Professional has 1%; Network has 0%. Your payment processor (Stripe and others) applies standard transaction fees — typically 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction — on top of any platform fee. The fee supports the infrastructure that makes campaigns, calendars, and reporting possible. Donors can optionally cover fees so your org receives 100% of their donation — one click, no extra work for you.

MonthFund connects to your payment processor account. Donations are processed and deposited directly to your organization's account — MonthFund does not hold funds. Standard payout schedules apply per your processor (typically 2 business days for Stripe). You retain full control over donor relationships and financial records.

The Free plan is not a trial. You can run one active campaign with up to 15 participants, generate a public campaign page, and track live progress — with no time limit and no credit card required. The Free plan is designed for first campaigns and grassroots groups that need to prove the model before committing to a subscription. When you're ready to scale, upgrading takes under 60 seconds.

We are actively building a nonprofit pricing program. In the meantime, contact us directly. If you are a qualifying organization in our early cohort — particularly schools, faith communities, mutual aid networks, or grassroots campaigns — we will work with you on pricing. Early adopters help shape the platform, and we take that seriously.

Your data remains yours. Before canceling, you can export all campaign history, donor records, and financial summaries via CSV and PDF. After cancellation, your account enters a 30-day read-only period before deletion, giving you time to export anything you may have missed. We do not delete data without notice, and we do not sell data to third parties.

Under 15 minutes for a first campaign. You choose the month, name the campaign, set an optional goal, and a public campaign page is generated immediately. Sending invitations to participants takes a few additional minutes. By the end of your first session, you should have a live campaign page and invitations in participants' inboxes.

No app download required. MonthFund is fully browser-based. Organizers, participants, and donors all access it through a web browser on any device. Participants receive an email invitation with a direct link to their personal dashboard — no app store, no installation.

MonthFund is launching its first pilot cohort in 2026. The calendar-based fundraising model itself has been tested in community settings and the math is proven — $1 through $31 sums to $496, and the collective ownership structure works. The platform makes that model repeatable, trackable, and scalable. Early organizations in the pilot program work directly with the MonthFund team and help shape how the product develops. Contact us if you're interested in being part of the early cohort.

MonthFund currently supports Stripe as its primary payment processor. Additional integrations are planned. If your organization requires a specific processor not currently supported, contact us — we are actively expanding payment options for the organizations we serve.

On the Organization plan, you can add your organization's name, logo, and a custom campaign description to your public campaign page. Full white-labeling and custom domain support are on the product roadmap. For Enterprise organizations with specific branding requirements, contact us to discuss what's available now and what's coming.

No. MonthFund is designed for any community with a shared goal and people willing to organize toward it. Nonprofit status is not required. Schools and PTAs, faith communities, grassroots campaigns, mutual aid networks, cultural institutions, and advocacy groups all run the same model. What matters is that your organization has people who will claim days and hold their commitments.

MonthFund works for small organizations running one campaign with 15 participants and for institutions running multiple campaigns with 50+ participants each. The effective floor is an organization with enough engaged members to fill at least 15–20 days. The effective ceiling is as large as your network allows. The model scales because each participant operates their own day — the organizer coordinates structure, not individual donations.

Yes, with an Enterprise plan. Multiple campaigns can run simultaneously under a single organizational account — each with its own calendar, participants, and reporting. A central administrator sees cross-campaign results in a unified dashboard. This is the primary use case for school districts, multi-chapter advocacy groups, and large faith institutions.

Two paths. If you want to move immediately, sign up free and run your first campaign — no commitment required. If you want to be part of the structured pilot cohort with direct team access, dedicated onboarding, and input into the product roadmap, contact us directly. We are actively recruiting 3–5 pilot organizations and can move quickly for the right groups.