How a pick a date fundraiser works for teachers, coaches, and parents.

A fundraiser is someone your organization recruits to carry a personal calendar. They share their calendar link with their personal network and encourage people to claim days. A donor visits a fundraiser's calendar, picks an open day (or multiple days), and gives the matching amount or more. Fundraisers may also donate if they choose, and donors can claim as many days as they like.

Yes. Donors can claim multiple open days on a fundraiser's calendar. If someone claims Day 10, Day 15, and Day 20, their total gift is $45. The day amount is a suggested minimum, not a cap. Over-gifts push the total higher.

Yes. Whether a fundraiser donates to their own calendar or someone else's is optional and depends on your community's culture. The model works either way.

Partial calendars are normal. Whatever is raised still disburses according to your payout setup. Use the calculator to model scenarios by fill rate. Organizers can see which calendars need attention in real time and nudge fundraisers with open days.

Many peer-to-peer setups give each participant a generic donation page with a personal goal and flexible messaging. MonthFund layers a calendar on that idea: every day has a defined value, progress is visible on a shared grid, and the math is transparent before anyone gives. Teams that want clearer asks and obvious mid-month gaps often run it alongside other tools.

Yes. Community includes two active campaigns, so you can overlap a wrap-up month with the next launch. Professional and Network support unlimited concurrent campaigns. Each campaign has its own calendar, participants, and goal.

No. MonthFund is built for any community with a shared goal: schools, faith communities, mutual aid groups, grassroots campaigns, cultural institutions, and more. The model works wherever you have a defined group of people who want to collectively raise money through structured participation.

Catalog and product sales put inventory, logistics, and vendor splits on your volunteers. A calendar fundraiser distributes the work across participants who each fill a visible month of days instead.

Not necessarily instead: a calendar fundraiser can run alongside events. Galas concentrate effort on one night; a month calendar builds distributed participation over weeks. Many groups use both, and a month can warm up a 5K or walk team before event day.

Match the tool to how you run the campaign: do you need many personal calendars rolling into one org total, or a single shared grid? Do you want published fees you can explain to a board? MonthFund is built for multi-fundraiser calendar software with transparent fees. See the pillar comparison for side-by-side details.