Third-Party Fundraising Tools and Benefits
Due to the administrative work involved in using/integrating these third-party tools, OCF will charge it's normal fees on the incoming funds that are raised on the external sites.
There will be a delay in the processing time it takes to get funds raised on third-party sites into your Open Collective account's budget. (This is due to variations of disbursements schedules, manual administration, check processing & mail delivery, etc.).
If your initiative needs access to funds more urgently, we recommend raising funds directly on Open Collective.
💡 Use our EIN (81-4004928) when registering in order for your initiative's collected donations to be grouped in OCF’s umbrella.
Let us know if you would like to register with Benevity, and we will get your initiative signed up under our host's umbrella
Benefits include:
Fund-matching opportunities
many companies use it as their giving portal
Access to donors
Initiative becomes searchable on Benevity's website
Reporting to OCF for streamlined disbursement of funds back into account
Credits are made into your initiative's budget 1x/month
Onboarding Info:
Please note: The following are not set up to work specifically with fiscal hosting situations and do not report where donated funds are meant to be allocated to. If you wish to have the raised funds from the following means allocated to your fund, you must inform us about your fundraiser. Unclaimed funds will be directed to the Foundation's operating costs.
Use the link to setup a Facebook Fundraiser with Open Collective as the recipient
Contact us when you start a new fundraiser so that we can get the raised funds correctly allocated to your account
❗ Due to Facebook's disbursement schedule, there could be a ~1 month delay in disbursement of raised funds to your initiative after the Facebook fundraiser has ended
If you want to raise money on Instagram:
Use the Donate sticker in your story,
When you share a photo or video to your story, you can add stickers.
From your story, tap
to add stickers. From there, you can:
Scroll to Live at the bottom of the screen.
Tap
Fundraiser on the left.
Select opencollectives as the nonprofit you want to start a fundraiser for.
Be sure to inform us about your fundraiser!
Start a fundraiser on Instagram Live
Tap
in the top left of Feed or swipe right from anywhere in Feed.
Scroll to Live at the bottom of the screen.
Tap
Select opencollectives as the nonprofit you want to start a fundraiser for.
Tap
to start your Live video fundraiser.
Be sure to inform us about your fundraiser!
❗ Due to Facebook's disbursement schedule, there could be a ~1 month delay in disbursement of raised funds to your initiative after the Facebook fundraiser has ended
OCF's Amazon Smile link
Shop at smile.amazon.com and they'll donate 0.5% of the price of eligible purchases to our charitable organization, at no extra cost to you.
GoFundMe Charity Fundraising
Select OpenCollective as the beneficiary in order for your donors to receive tax-deductible status [recommended],
or you collect them on your own behalf, and transfer them to your initiative as one lump sum. [non-tax-deductible status for your donors]
If you'd like assistance setting any of these up, please feel free to email us
