How it works
How a pick a date fundraiser works for teachers, coaches, and parents.
Each person carries a calendar. Friends pick a day and give that amount. A full calendar is $496 at face value. Organizers launch a month, fundraisers each share a calendar, donors claim days, and progress stays visible until the month fills.
Get StartedOne chapter month
Richfield-Bloomington Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi
March Calendar Raffle Campaign, March 2026. 272 donors. 566 gifts. 30 calendars with gifts.
Our March campaign delivered both broad participation and meaningful giving across the chapter.
88% of a $15,000 goal. 18% of gifts included extra. Their recap. Snapshot 2026-09-16.
Every role has a defined responsibility.
MonthFund works because the structure is specific. No one is asked to "just spread the word." Everyone has a job.
Set the stage
Create the campaign. Set the goal month. Recruit your fundraiser cohort: the people in your network who will each carry a calendar. Track fill rate across all fundraisers from your dashboard.
Activate your network
You get a personal calendar page with 31 open days. Share it with friends, family, colleagues. Each person who claims a day commits a dollar amount. A full calendar = $496.
Pick a day and give
Browse a fundraiser's calendar. Claim any open day. Donate the matching amount or more. Optionally cover infrastructure fees. No account needed.
Six steps. One repeatable structure.
Clear accountability at every stage. Each step has an owner, an action, and a visible outcome.
Launch a campaign
Pick a month, set your goal, and create a public campaign page your community can understand instantly. No technical setup required.
Recruit your fundraisers
Invite 10, 20, or 50 people from your organization to become fundraisers. Each one receives their own calendar page to manage independently. More fundraisers = more calendars = more raised.
Claim a day and donate
Donors visit a fundraiser's calendar, pick any open day, and give the matching amount. Day 7 = $7. Day 22 = $22. They can give more than the day's value and choose to cover infrastructure fees.
Track progress live
Organizers see fill rates across all fundraiser calendars in real time. Fundraisers see exactly which of their days are claimed. The month becomes a visible shared scoreboard.
Close and repeat
At month end, funds are disbursed via Stripe. Thank your fundraisers and donors. The structure is already set for next month: recruit and launch again.
This month
Step 1 / 6
Days filled
2 / 31
Full month total
$496
Launch a campaign
Pick a month, set your goal, and create a public campaign page your community can understand instantly. No technical setup required.
Recruit your fundraisers
Invite 10, 20, or 50 people from your organization to become fundraisers. Each one receives their own calendar page to manage independently. More fundraisers = more calendars = more raised.
Share your calendar
Each fundraiser gets a personal calendar link they can share via text, email, or social. Their network sees exactly which days are open and what each one costs to claim.
Claim a day and donate
Donors visit a fundraiser's calendar, pick any open day, and give the matching amount. Day 7 = $7. Day 22 = $22. They can give more than the day's value and choose to cover infrastructure fees.
Track progress live
Organizers see fill rates across all fundraiser calendars in real time. Fundraisers see exactly which of their days are claimed. The month becomes a visible shared scoreboard.
Close and repeat
At month end, funds are disbursed via Stripe. Thank your fundraisers and donors. The structure is already set for next month: recruit and launch again.
Campaign calculator
See what one month can do.
Adjust your fundraiser count and expected fill rate to see your campaign potential before you launch.
Fundraisers
25
How many people will carry a calendar?
Avg. fill rate
80%
What % of each calendar do you expect to fill?
Per fundraiser (face value)
$496
Full calendar if all 31 days claimed
At your fill rate
$9,920
80% of $496 × 25
Campaign total
$9,920
Before donor generosity
Face-value scenarios before anyone gives extra.
A full 31-day calendar is $496 at face value. Extra gifts and fee cover can raise it. That is scenario math, not a promise.
Each day is a unique donation slot. Day 1 = $1 through Day 31 = $31.
Face value if all 31 days are claimed. Scenario math, not a guaranteed result.
Scenario if 25 calendars fill at face value. Extra gifts raise it further.
Each additional filled calendar adds another $496 at face value. Community includes 50 active participants. Professional and Network have no roster cap.
$496 is the face-value calendar, not a ceiling.
Extra gifts, more calendars, and a sponsor match can push a month past face value. Those are options, not a forecast.
Multi-Calendar Stacking
Every participant you recruit adds another $496 at face value if that calendar fills. Twenty-five calendars at face value is $12,400. Extra gifts raise it.
Sponsor Matches
Add a corporate sponsor match with a ratio and cap you control. Donor gifts and sponsor dollars stay separate. A live match can increase the campaign total without adding participant work.
Donor Generosity
Donors are not capped at the day amount. A donor claiming the 15th can choose to give $30, $45, or any custom amount. The day value is simply the suggested minimum.
Straight answers.
If something about the model is still unclear, it's probably answered here.
A fundraiser is someone your organization recruits to carry a calendar. They share their calendar link with their personal network and get people to claim days. A donor is someone who visits a fundraiser's calendar, picks a day, and makes the corresponding donation. Fundraisers don't donate: they recruit. Donors don't recruit: they claim.
No. Each donor claims one day on one fundraiser's calendar. They give the amount matching that day (Day 7 is $7, Day 22 is $22), but they can always choose to give more. Most campaigns don't expect donors to fund all 31 days; the model distributes that responsibility across the fundraiser's full network.
Whatever is raised is still disbursed. A partially filled calendar still generates real money—use the calculator to model scenarios by fill rate. The goal is to fill the calendar, but partial results are always valid. Organizers can see fill rates in real time and follow up with fundraisers whose calendars need attention.
Model your campaignMany 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.
Compare calendar fundraisers to other formatsNot 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.
See how fundraiser formats compareNew to the pick a date fundraiser format?
Read our complete guide to running a digital pick a date to donate campaign.
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