Handbook/Donations

= Types =

General donations
There are two main types of general donation someone an give to the OKFN: Donors can subscribe or make a one-off donation by PayPal through the OKFN support page.
 * 1) A regular subscription payment. Regular subscription payments can either be at €5, €20 or €50 a month via PayPal.
 * 2) A one-off donation. These can be made through either PayPal or Standing Order. One-off donations via PayPal can be any amount the donor chooses.

General approach

 * Project leads decide on whether or not a given project justifies a call for donations and a dedicated button on their website for donations.
 * Each project should have a separate 'channel' for the donations that are given. These channels are set up through the use of project specific PayPal buttons (see beloew for how to set up)
 * Occasionally projects will want to run more target specific donation campaigns these should be run through specific tools (TO DO: decide which tools to use for fundraising)

HOWTO
If you want to set up a donation system for your project you have two options:
 * 1) Email payments@ and request HTML code for a Donate button on your  website or blog post. The button you are given will be associated with a  specific project ID that the  Fundraising Administrative Coordinator can track.
 * 2) Fundraise through a dedicated fundraising platform such as Kick Start.  This should be done in consultation with the Foundation Coordinator.

= Tracking and management =

Currently all donations done via PayPal come into payments@okfn.org. Each donation (including monthly subscription payments) are logged by the Fundraising Administrative Coordinator at Donations Google Spreadsheet.

All donations that come in via Standing Order are added to the spreadsheet by the finance team.