Donations and fundraising
Turn on the Donor module to accept online gifts, then track fundraising with the donor dashboard, donation pages, donor list, newsletters, and receipts.
What the Donor module does
The Donor module adds a complete fundraising workspace to Campium. Once it is on, your camp can publish public donation pages, collect one-time and recurring gifts online, email receipts automatically, and follow your results from a dedicated dashboard.
Everything lives under a Donor section in the left navigation, next to Financials. That section includes:
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Donor dashboard – headline totals and charts for your giving.
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Donations – a list of every gift received, with the option to resend receipts.
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Donor list – your contacts (both donors and prospects) and their giving history.
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Newsletter – a simple email tool to reach your donor list.
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Donation pages – the public pages people use to give.
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Email log – a record of newsletters sent, with open rates.
Online donations require a supported payment processor. The donor experience works with Payabli, USIO, or Finix. If your camp uses a different processor, the public donate page shows a notice instead of a payment form.
Turn the module on
The Donor module is off by default. An administrator enables it from your settings.
Open your module settings
Go to your settings and find the module toggles. Look for Donor Module in the list.
Enable Donor Module
Switch Donor Module on and save. This adds the Donor section to your navigation with the dashboard, donations, donor list, newsletter, donation pages, and receipts.
Confirm your payment processor
Make sure your camp is set up with Payabli, USIO, or Finix so the public donate page can accept payments. If donations show as unavailable, this is usually why.
How donations are collected
People give through a public donation page hosted on your camp's portal, at a web address like /donate/?slug=annual-fund. You can run one page or many — see the Donation pages guide.
On a donation page, a giver:
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Picks a suggested amount ($25, $50, $100, $250, $500) or types a custom amount.
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Enters their name, email, optional phone, and billing address.
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Enters card or bank (ACH) details in a secure payment form and completes the gift.
With Finix, givers can also check Make this a recurring gift and choose Monthly or Annually. The first gift is charged right away, then automatically on that schedule until it is stopped.
Each completed gift is recorded in your Donations list, and the giver is added to your Donor list so you can follow up later. A receipt is emailed automatically, and you can resend it at any time.
The donor dashboard
The donor dashboard is the quickest way to see how fundraising is going. At the top you can filter by a specific donation page (or all pages) and by a date range using the date picker.
Headline numbers
Total value of gifts received so far this calendar year.
Total value of every gift ever recorded for the selected donation page filter.
Count of gifts that are not part of a recurring schedule.
Count of gifts tied to a recurring schedule.
Charts
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Donations by month – a bar chart of gift revenue for each month in the date range you selected.
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Projected recurring (next 12 months) – an estimate of upcoming income from active recurring gifts, projected month by month for the year ahead.
The projected recurring chart appears when you are viewing all donation pages. It is an estimate based on each active recurring gift's amount and next charge date, so actual income can differ if gifts are changed or stopped.
Where to go next
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Donation pages — create and manage the public pages people give through.
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Manage donors — work with your donor list, gift records, newsletters, and email log.