For community foundations who want more

You run a giving day once a year.
What if you didn't have to stop?

MiniCause is a giving day platform and a year-round fundraising engine for your entire community. Modern technology, simple pricing, and (we cannot stress this enough) it works on all 365 days.1

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1 366 in a leap year. We don't charge extra.

The uncomfortable truth

Your giving day platform was built when people still used BlackBerrys.

Most giving day platforms haven't meaningfully changed since 2014. They'll still happily charge you $50,000 a year for the privilege of running one event on them, though. That part has kept up with inflation nicely.

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The one-day wonder

You pay year-round for a platform you use once. Your donors want to give in March. Your platform wakes up in November. There's a mismatch here, and it isn't subtle.

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The heavy lifting falls on you

Your platform gives you leaderboards. Wonderful. Meanwhile, 200 of your nonprofits are staring at a blank campaign page wondering what to write. Guess who they call?

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The math doesn't math

License fees. Processing fees. Platform fees. "Optional" donor tips that aren't really optional. By the time the money reaches your nonprofits, everyone's taken a bite.

We're not naming names. You already know who we're talking about. And honestly, they did important work getting giving days started. But "we were first" is not the same as "we're still best."
3%

of funds raised. That's it.
No license. No setup fee. No surprises.

10+

years powering giving days.
We've been doing this a while.

365

days your platform works.
Revolutionary concept, we know.

What you actually get

A giving day platform that also does everything else

Most platforms make you choose: giving day tool or fundraising platform. We thought that was a bit like choosing between your left leg and your right. Why not both?

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Giving Days

The big day. The one everyone trains for. We make sure it goes brilliantly.

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    Real-time totalizers, leaderboards & live donation maps

    The dopamine-generating bits that make giving days addictive.

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    Match challenges, prizes & gamification

    Because a little friendly competition never hurt anyone's fundraising totals.

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    AI-powered campaign pages for every nonprofit

    Even the ones without a marketing department. Especially those.

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    Social sharing & ambassador toolkits

    Turn your most passionate supporters into an army of fundraisers.

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Year-Round Fundraising

The other 364 days. Where the real relationship-building happens.

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    Always-on nonprofit fundraising pages

    Your nonprofits can raise money whenever donors are ready to give. Novel idea.

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    Themed campaigns & cause-based giving

    Environment month. Arts week. Back-to-school drive. You dream it, we run it.

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    Donor stewardship & recurring giving

    One-time donors become monthly donors. Monthly donors become champions.

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    Community storytelling & impact reporting

    Show your community where the money goes and why it matters.

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AI that actually helps (not just a buzzword on our website)

The biggest challenge in any giving day isn't the technology. It's getting hundreds of nonprofits ready to participate. Our AI tools help every organization create compelling campaign pages, write donor communications, and plan their outreach. The small animal shelter with two staff members gets the same quality campaign as the hospital with a twenty-person development office. That's the whole point.

A giving day should be the spark,
not the whole fire.

Your community's generosity doesn't have an on/off switch. Why should your platform?

The humans behind this

We've been doing this
for a surprisingly long time

MiniCause is built by Hubbub, a fundraising technology company that's spent over a decade building giving day platforms, crowdfunding tools, and digital fundraising infrastructure for universities, nonprofits, and foundations around the world. We're not figuring this out as we go. We figured it out years ago and now we're bringing it to US community foundations.

Jonathan May

Jonathan May

Co-founder

Jonathan is the founder and CEO of Hubbub, the fundraising technology company behind MiniCause, which he has spent fifteen years building from an idea into a platform serving more than 200 institutions worldwide, including the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. He read Computer Science at Cambridge and has led Hubbub through a company-wide shift to AI-powered fundraising. He also advises universities and nonprofits as an Associate at More Partnership.

Chris Strub

Chris Strub

Co-founder

Chris is "the Giving Day Guy", an award-winning social storyteller who has worked with nonprofits across all 50 US states. The first person to live-stream in every state and author of "50 States, 100 Days", he has spent years partnering with community-wide Giving Days that together have raised over $85 million for thousands of nonprofits, turning single days of generosity into lasting momentum.

Kathleen Murphy

Kathleen Murphy

Co-founder

Kathleen was Global Director of Digital Strategy at GivingTuesday from 2018 to 2024, helping drive record-breaking generosity across more than 100 countries. She founded Growing Good Strategies, teaches fundraising and digital strategy as adjunct faculty at NYU, and previously led Illinois' statewide giving day, #ILGive. She brings deep expertise in mobilising communities to give.

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