DigiDonate costs your charity nothing
Businesses use DigiDonate to choose a charity and give to it directly. Being listed lets them find you.
You don’t need to be big to be taken seriously
Some giving programs only list charities with a long track record and a six-figure project. DigiDonate is built for credible charities of every size — especially smaller organisations doing excellent local work that local businesses would love to back.
- Every charity’s DGR and ACNC status is checked before it’s listed.
From sign-up to your first update in six steps
Follow Riverbend Family Grief Support from registering to its first monthly update. Press the button in each step to move the story on, or let the demo play.
Register your charity
Tell businesses who you are, where you work and the causes you serve. It’s free, and it stays free.
- Your story, logo and causes
- DGR and ACNC status checked before you’re listed
- No fees, no commission
Get found
Businesses on Find Your Cause pick a cause and an area. When yours fit, you’re one of the 3–5 checked charities they see.
- Shown on cause and area
- Your status checked every time you’re shown
- No pitching: businesses choose
A business chooses you
A business sees the charities that fit its cause and area, and chooses you. When it starts Monthly Giving, you see its name and its giving plan.
- Matched on cause and area
- Checked on every match
- One agreement covers every business
Families and grief, near Melbourne…
- Riverbend Family Grief SupportMelbourne · families and griefChosen
- Merri Respite CareCoburg · respite for familiesChecked
- Little Steps RehabMelbourne · children’s rehabChecked
Why Riverbend: same cause, same part of town. Northside Bakery Co. chose it and set up Monthly Giving.
Confirm the payment
The business pays you directly, into your own account. Confirm the amount and date on DigiDonate within 15 days, and issue your usual receipt.
- Paid straight to you: we never touch the gift
- Confirmed within 15 days
- Your receipt, or our template
Post your monthly update
By the 15th of the next month, post one short update: what came in and what it’s funding, in your own words. No thank-you copy.
- One line for each supporter
- Your words, in a standard format
- Due by the 15th of the next month
It’s helping fund our weekly art therapy groups.
Your update is seen
Your update shows on your public page, and the business can reshare it exactly as posted. Thanking anyone is your choice.
- On your public page
- Reshared exactly as posted
- Same steps next month
DigiDonate costs you nothing. No fees, no commission.
Businesses pay you directly, into your own account.
Issue your normal gift receipt, the way you always do.
If the business opts in, your update names it in plain text. Nothing more.
You never give a business anything in return for its gift.
Any thank-you on your own channels is entirely your choice.
What we ask
- Confirm each payment in the app within 15 days.
- Post one short accounting update each time our client donates to you, by the 15th of the next month: what came in and what it’s funding.
What we never ask
- Anything in return for a business (no logo, ads, tickets or thank-you posts you didn’t choose).
The charity’s monthly update
The update is accounting, not thanks. It’s one update per charity per month, with a standard line for each supporter: the amount received, and what it’s funding or has funded, in the charity’s own words. Every supporter and every amount gets the same format. No thank-you copy, praise, links, business logos or offers.
Received $5,000 from Example business. It’s helping fund two therapy pods.
Received $1,000 from a business supporter. It’s helping fund our weekly art therapy groups.
The second line is how a business appears when it hasn’t chosen “Show our name”.
What charities ask us
Does it cost anything?
DigiDonate costs you nothing. No fees, no commission.
How are businesses matched to us?
Businesses use DigiDonate to choose a charity and give to it directly. Being listed lets them find you.
What will we need to report?
We ask two things: confirm each payment within 15 days, and post a short monthly update on your DigiDonate page saying what came in and what it’s funding. We give you the template.
Any thank-you on your own channels is entirely your choice.
