Donation Platforms

Platforms

The following list of platforms were considered for our work on a particular project (NatureBridge) based on the needs and criteria the client set forth. As such, this is not a comprehensive or all encompassing review:

Other options to consider based on needs:

Criteria

We have reviewed each platform based on the following criteria:

Criteria	Summary
Salesforce	Does the platform integrate well with Salesforce?
Event Handling	Does the platform provide event management and scheduling?
FundRaising	Does the platform have focus on fundraising campaigns?
EventBrite	Does the platform integrate well with EventBrite?
Partnership	Do we already have an existing partnership with the platform?
Drupal 8	How well does the platform integrate with Drupal 8?
Support	What does the platform’s support model look like?
Design	How does the design behind the platform look, and does it allow a branded experience?
Pass-Through	Does the platform support passing through form data to the platform?
PCI Compliance	Does the platform conform to Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards?

Analysis

The following is the spreadsheet was used to do the detailed analysis…

Top Candidates

1. Classy

Classy's online fundraising platform gives nonprofits easy, effective, and customizable solutions to manage your fundraising efforts. It integrates well with Salesforce, and provides a slick API to allow a branded pass-through donation process.

2. BSD Tools

The Blue State Digital Tools Fundraising platform allows creating a donation experience for users. Their donation pages can be branded to match the source website’s design.

3. Campaign Kit

Campaign Kit is a suite of Drupal 8 modules to provide an entire donation campaign platform directly on a Drupal 8 site. This allows the donation process to be entirely branded and engaged on the site, avoiding the need of any site redirects or pass-throughs, requiring the client to ensure the PCI Compliance. While it does provide an integrated experience, it is a relatively young module, and would need development work to build and maintain.

4. Greater Giving

Greater Giving could work for donations as well as larger gala events would reduce the number of platforms the team is using, and allow an easy migration of existing campaigns. However, there is a system limit of 10 active pages.