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MonthFund is a calendar-based community fundraising tool, built for calendar fundraisers. 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 complements a simple donate link or a big event night: named days, public ownership, and the same rhythm when you run it again.

Catalog and product sales can deliver great energy and rewards; they also put inventory, logistics, and vendor splits on your volunteers. A calendar fundraiser distributes asks across participants who each fill a visible month of days, often with no boxes to move. For how that fits with events and open-ended pages, read how calendar fundraisers fit with other formats.

Not necessarily instead. A month calendar can run alongside galas and ticketed events: events concentrate effort on one night; a calendar builds distributed participation over weeks. Many groups use both. The same pattern helps before a 5K or walkathon: participants claim days in the weeks leading up to race day while registration and team chat stay hot. More detail in this guide to fundraiser formats.

In many peer-to-peer setups, participants share a link with a soft goal and flexible wording. The format works for broad reach; mid-campaign, it can be harder to see who still owes a concrete piece of the ask. In MonthFund, every participant owns a specific day with a specific dollar amount. Their commitment is visible on the shared calendar, which often makes nudges and finish-line energy easier for volunteer-led teams.

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 calendar month. MonthFund 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, on Professional or Network. One account can run multiple live campaigns—different programs, teams, or months—each with its own calendar and roster. Community includes one active campaign at a time (switch or archive anytime). See Pricing for 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. Professional and Network include automated onboarding reminders; organizers can always 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.

Donors can optionally cover our infrastructure fee in one click so your org receives the full gift amount they intend. Community (free) has a 3% infrastructure fee on donations; Professional is 1%; Network is 0%. Paid plans substitute subscription revenue for part of that per-donation contribution. Your payment processor (Stripe) charges card processing separately, typically 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction (or 2.2% + $0.30 for many nonprofits), not part of MonthFund's fee. The infrastructure fee funds software, campaigns, calendars, and reporting.

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.

Community is not a trial. You can run one active campaign at a time, invite up to 25 active participants on your roster, publish a public campaign page, and track live progress—no time limit and no credit card. Upgrade to Professional or Network in Settings for full analytics, exports, batch email, multiple live campaigns, and lower infrastructure fees on donations.

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. On paid plans you can export campaign history and donations via CSV (including an accounting-oriented layout on Professional and Network). After cancellation, your account may enter a read-only period before deletion—export anything you need while your plan is active. 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 straightforward: $1 through $31 sums to $496. 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 Professional and Network, you add your organization's name, logo, and campaign story to your public hub. Network customers can also use a custom domain where enabled. For bespoke branding requirements, contact us.

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. Professional and Network support multiple live campaigns under one account. Network adds cross-campaign (“combined”) reporting and exports so a central admin can see unified results—typical for districts, multi-chapter groups, and large 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.