Kickstart Your Own Fundraising From Within Your WordPress Site

Website & Design, Wordpress
(start a conversation)

Crowd-funding is becoming increasingly popular. If you haven’t heard of Kiva, Kickstarter or IndieGoGo then spend a few minutes to check them out. Now with the JOBS Act passed, we can also solicit for investors. I’ve always advocated for maintaining a dedicated web presence for your brand. So, until now, if you wanted to run a crowd-sourced fundraising campaign, you would be better suited to setup on one of the sites I mentioned above.

If you have a WordPress site, you don’t have to anymore. In the spirit of “there’s an app for that” I’d like to say there’s a plugin for that.

From the WPMU Dev premium site comes “Fundraising”, a  Wordpress-based plugin for creating and managing fundraising campaigns. Features include:

• Integrates with PayPal. Create suggested donation levels or let them choose their own, includes recurring donations, and accept payment in any major currency.
• Hassle-free interface. Creating your new fundraiser is as simple as adding a new post to your WordPress blog.
• Offer rewards for donations: downloads, tshirts or more. Motivating folk to donate has never been easier.
• Thank you message. Use the default confirmation email after donation or customize your own to easily send a thank you and tax receipt.
• Widgets included. Easily display simple donation button, recent fundraisers and featured fundraisers in any widgetized area of your site.
• Compatible with any WordPress theme. Customize the style and layout of your fundraising to fit with your existing site design.
• Monitor your donations and fundraising goals, including a progress bar, from your WordPress dashboard, with the option to display public fundraising goals and progress on your site.
• Works perfectly with Multisite and BuddyPress.

For more information visit the official plugin page here: http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/fundraising

Flickr photo source: seanmcmenemy