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Crowdfunding websites in minutes

Activate support for your crowdfunding campaign with impactful storytelling, progress tracking, sponsor matching, and activity feeds.

Unleash the power of community on any campaign

Raise more with compelling websites that inspire generosity through connection.

Showcase impact

Illustrate the collective impact of supporters’ dollars with highly configurable pages that tell your story and show progress toward your goal.

Build connection

Cultivate engagement with tools that spark meaningful connections among supporters and bond them to your nonprofit’s unique mission.

Raise more

Inspire donors to give more and give now with revenue-boosting donation features and optimized online checkout experiences.

Cultivate collective impact with crowdfunding

  • Encourage goal completion with real-time, responsive metrics that can be added anywhere on your site or thank-you page
  • Control your branding and choose which metrics to display and when
  • Show the correlation between donation dollars and meaningful results with Impact Blocks
  • Inspire supporters to give more and give now by showcasing matching opportunities
  • Encourage higher donations with match multipliers and qualifying minimums
  • Boost fundraising by highlighting the amplified impact of each dollar in your progress bar and activity feed
  • Acquire predictive insights with AI and machine learning products built on a breadth of data intelligence other nonprofit technology can’t match
  • Customize the look and feel of your pages with unique campaign templates, images, videos, and text
  • Provide real-time, predictive, and personalized ask amounts for every donor via Classy’s Intelligent Ask Amounts
  • Coming soon: Foster connection and viral support with a real-time list of donation activity, comments, and reactions
  • Meet supporters on any device with mobile-optimized campaign pages, including one-click payments
  • Accept credit cards, digital wallets, Venmo, PayPal, ACH bank transfers, and cryptocurrency to empower donors to pay how they want
  • Build trust and increase conversion rates with white-labeled URLs and Intelligent Fraud Protection
  • Access campaign-, supporter-, and transaction-level reporting in Classy Manager with advanced search, sort, filter, and customization options

Join nonprofits using crowdfunding to raise more on Classy

Let supporters inspire others to amplify your largest giving days, capital campaigns, current event responses, and more.

“We were able to build a simple, visually appealing crowdfunding campaign in Classy that is mission-focused, communicates our need, and makes it easy for donors to give.”
– Drew McGuffin, Development Systems and Relations Director

FAQs

When should I use crowdfunding versus peer-to-peer fundraising?

Crowdfunding campaigns are versatile appeals for your community’s support. Use a crowdfunding campaign to accept general donations, raise money for a specific project, or drive support for a time-based initiative. No matter what’s driving the campaign, the main call to action on a crowdfunding campaign is to donate.

The main purpose of a peer-to-peer page is to recruit supporters to raise money for your organization. While there is also an option to make a one-time donation, the goal is to recruit individuals who will appeal to their personal networks. You can run time-based peer-to-peer campaigns, create a year-round fundraising option that allows supporters to dedicate their life events, or run both simultaneously.

What causes are best for using crowdfunding websites?

Storytelling is the backbone of crowdfunding. Whether it’s a large giving day, a capital campaign, or current event response, Classy’s crowdfunding campaigns allow nonprofits to share who they are, what they’re doing, and why it’s important. Explaining the tangible impact that a single donation can make sits at the core of crowdfunding success. Features like progress bars with time-bound goals help build momentum and urgency behind campaigns and are perfect for social sharing.

Are Classy’s crowdfunding tools limited to certain campaigns?

With Classy Studio, amplify any campaign with the community-powering social proof crowdfunding pages are known for. Add a progress bar, activity feed, or donation matching cue to any new or existing campaigns, such as donation drives, annual giving days, year-end appeals, or co-branded corporate matching campaigns. It can also boost activation for evergreen campaigns and dedicated recurring giving pages.

Is there a starting fee for using Classy to create my crowdfunding websites?

Crowdfunding campaigns are included in your Classy subscription. It’s just one of the many ways we enable customers to fundraise.

Can I send emails to the people who visit my crowdfunding website?

Yes!  With Classy’s email studio, nonprofits can take advantage of our easy-to-use, drag-and-drop design capabilities to create personalized emails that feel tailor-made for your crowdfunding websites.

What security and scalability measures does Classy have in place?

Classy builds security into the foundation of all our products and services.

Our comprehensive approach includes governance, continuous scanning and monitoring, and robust infrastructure. Our dedicated team receives regular training to stay updated with the latest security practices and threats.

We’re a PCI DDS Level 1 service provider that utilizes industry best practices like the OWASP Top 10. We use Cloudflare for protection and partner with Stripe, PayPal, and Coinbase for secure payments.

Learn more about our security here.

See crowdfunding in action

Envision how your organization can raise more with Classy’s crowdfunding websites and comprehensive tools.