Your audience is your community. Fund it like one.
Organizers recruit supporters as fundraisers. Each gets their own month calendar to share with their network. Donors claim a day and give the matching amount or more, and can cover fees. The institution reaches its goal. Together.
Fall Season Fund, October
16 of 31 days claimed · $136 raised · 15 days open
Cultural institutions have audiences. Audiences attend. They don't always give.
When they do give, a small pool of major donors carries the institutional weight. The broader audience (the people who fill your seats, attend your events, follow your work) remain financially passive.
MonthFund creates a second tier: community funders. People who love your institution, contribute a modest amount, and actively recruit their own networks on your behalf.
31 days. Your entire community. One shared goal.
Build the campaign and recruit fundraisers
Your development team sets a campaign month tied to a specific program, exhibition, season, or fund. Recruit supporters as fundraisers; each gets their own calendar page.
Fundraisers share; donors claim days
Each fundraiser shares their calendar with their network. Donors claim a day and give the matching amount or more, and can cover fees. Every claimed day brings the goal closer.
The community fills the month
Progress is visible. Momentum builds. When the month fills, your institution has funded its goal with your audience as active participants, not passive donors.
A floor, not a ceiling.
The structural base of a fully claimed month. Peer fundraising typically produces more than the date floor.
Run a campaign for your fall season, a capital initiative, a residency fund, or an emergency need. Each campaign is specific, not general.
Every day-owner who fulfills their campaign is a proven community fundraiser: new names in your donor file sourced from your audience's networks.
MonthFund provides structure. Outcomes depend on participation. The model makes them calculable, not guaranteed.
Tools your team can run without a new workflow.
Campaign customization
Set the campaign name, goal context, and framing to reflect your institution's current program. The calendar is the structure. The meaning is yours.
Audience activation tools
Share through your existing email list and membership channels. One link. A clear, low-friction participation path for your audience.
Progress visibility
Public-facing progress board shows your community how full the month is, creating natural urgency without manufactured scarcity.
Multi-campaign management
Enterprise and Organization plans support simultaneous campaigns across departments, programs, or giving circles, all under one account.
Audiences want to participate. Give them a way.
Turns supporters into fundraisers
Claiming a day converts a passive audience member into an active advocate, and extends your reach into networks your development team can't access directly.
Complements major gift programs
MonthFund addresses the community giving tier: people who care but don't give at the major donor level. It adds capacity without competing with your existing relationships.
Adapts to your institutional calendar
Run a campaign for fall programming, a capital initiative, or an emergency fund. The model fits any moment when your community has a clear reason to rally.
Questions from development teams
MonthFund is additive. It targets community-level giving and peer activation, distinct from major gift, grant, and membership programs. It fills a giving tier most institutions leave unstructured.
Fill rate, participant count, and new-donor acquisition are all visible through your campaign dashboard. MonthFund gives you data on what was raised and on who showed up and activated their network.
Campaign pages reflect your campaign name and context. For advanced institutional branding customization, contact us about Enterprise options.
MonthFund targets a different giving tier from membership and annual fund. It mobilizes community funders—people who attend your events and follow your work—who are not yet giving at a formal membership level. It adds capacity without competing with existing major donor or membership relationships.
Yes. The campaign name and context are set by your development team. Tie a calendar campaign to your fall season, a capital initiative, a residency fund, a specific exhibition, or an emergency need. Targeted campaigns with a clear reason to give consistently outperform general operating fund appeals.
Campaign dashboards show fill rate, total raised, per-participant performance, and donor breakdown in real time. At campaign close, CSV and PDF exports are available for board reporting, audit trails, and CRM import. New donor acquisition is tracked separately from returning donor activity.
MonthFund is launching in 2026. Built on a clear, structured model and designed to support institutions from their first campaign forward. We're focused on making the early experience reliable and well-supported.
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