parent fundraiser for kids activities
Raise for your child's season when the team is not fundraising.
MonthFund is a personal 31-day calendar fundraiser for parents covering dance, cheer, travel sports, band, robotics, and other youth activities. Friends and family claim a day and give that amount. Day 15 is $15. Day 31 is $31. A fully claimed calendar raises $496. No team board required. No Venmo chase.
Your child needs the season funded. The team is not running a group campaign. So the admin falls on you.
Many parents end up fundraising alone for uniforms, travel, competition fees, instruments, or camp. The team or booster club may not be organizing anything this cycle. You still need the money. The usual toolkit is a text thread, a Venmo or Cash App handle, maybe PayPal, a paper list, and a calendar graphic you update by hand every time someone pays.
That stack breaks under real life. You screenshot a new calendar image after every gift. You reconcile Venmo, Cash App, PayPal, and cash in a notes app. Relatives ask what days are left. You answer the same question ten times. Progress is invisible unless you post another update.
MonthFund replaces that DIY stack with one live personal page. Supporters claim an open day, pay the matching amount (or more) online, and see the calendar fill in real time. You stop being the spreadsheet.
One parent. One calendar. Your whole network.
Create your personal campaign
Sign up as an individual in minutes. Name the campaign after your child's activity (cheer nationals, travel soccer, dance competition, band trip). No nonprofit. No coach approval required to start.
Share one link instead of five apps
Send your MonthFund link to grandparents, aunts, uncles, neighbors, and coworkers. Each person claims a day and gives that amount. They can give more and cover the infrastructure at checkout so you keep what they intend.
Let the calendar update itself
Every claimed day appears on the public calendar automatically. No redrawing a graphic. No chasing who Venmo'd what. Progress is visible to everyone who opens the link.
A fully claimed calendar raises $496 toward the season.
The structural output of a fully claimed 31-day calendar. Useful for uniforms, fees, or a travel deposit.
Run consecutive months when nationals, showcases, or tournaments need a larger total.
If other families want in later, each can run their own personal calendar. You do not need a formal team campaign to start.
MonthFund provides structure. Outcomes depend on participation. The model makes them calculable, not guaranteed.
Modern tools for a modern side job you never asked for.
A live calendar, not a screenshot
Stop exporting a new calendar image every time someone pays. Open days and claimed days update on the page as gifts land.
One ledger instead of Venmo chaos
Gifts settle through Stripe checkout on your page. You are not reconciling Venmo, Cash App, PayPal, Zelle, and cash envelopes in a notes app at 11pm.
Works when the team is not fundraising
This is a personal MonthFund campaign. You do not need the coach, PTA, or booster board to launch a group effort first.
Payouts to your bank
Connect Stripe Express and receive funds on Stripe's standard payout schedule. Free to start. Donors can cover infrastructure at checkout.
Clear asks beat open-ended Venmo texts.
A day is a clear ask
Grandma claims Day 20 and knows it is $20. Relatives stop guessing. Clear asks get more replies than "send what you can."
Progress is public
Supporters see which days remain. You spend less time answering "is Day 12 still open?" and more time parenting.
Built for youth seasons
Use the same structure for dance, cheer, soccer, baseball, band, choir, gymnastics, swim, robotics, or any activity with a fee due date.
Questions parents ask before they start
That is exactly when this page is for. MonthFund personal campaigns let a parent raise for one child's season without waiting on a coach, booster club, or studio-wide drive.
Peer payment apps move money, but they do not show open days, claimed days, or a shared total. You still update a calendar graphic and track who paid. MonthFund combines the ask, the live calendar, and checkout in one link.
No. Share your MonthFund link once. The calendar on that page updates when someone claims a day. You can still post the link; you do not redraw the graphic after every gift.
Yes. Parents use personal calendars for competition fees, travel, uniforms, instruments, camps, and season dues across youth activities. Name the campaign clearly so your network knows what they are funding.
No. Personal MonthFund accounts are for individuals. Funds go to your Stripe-connected bank account. If a team later runs a formal org campaign, that is a separate MonthFund organization setup.
Personal campaigns include a 5% infrastructure amount donors can cover at checkout so you keep what they intend to give. Stripe card processing applies separately (typically about 2.9% + $0.30).
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Ready to fund the season without the spreadsheet?
Free to start. No credit card. Your personal calendar is shareable in under 15 minutes.