online child sponsorship

Online self-service child sponsorship can be one of your most effective ways to grow your ministry. Increase revenue, streamline operations and provide a personalized giving experience for your sponsors.

Donors and website visitors can sign up as sponsors at your website. When a child is selected to be sponsored on the web, all the necessary work to add the sponsor and the sponsor/pledge relationship is automatically and immediately done to the donor.com DASCO database.

Through WebWare, donor.com online sponsorship provides a page that allows potential sponsors to select children based on country, age range and gender. A page will be displayed that shows one or more (configurable) candidate children. When multiple children are displayed the visitor can choose to see a page that shows more information about the child or the visitor can choose to see additional children that matched the criteria or the visitor can go back to the selection page to select other children with different criteria.

When a person chooses to sponsor a child, the child is put into the equivalent of a virtual shopping cart and made unavailable to other visitors to the website. A check is also done to verify that an earlier visitor has not already sponsored this child.

When a sponsorship is finalized the sponsor provides their name and address information as well as credit card information using BankWare, donor.com's financial gateway tool for payment processing.

Additional benefits include:

• renewing, retaining history of, or making changes to any pledge without losing the historical paid-through information.
• changing pledge designation or a child's id without creating a new pledge.
• pledges existing over a large span of time with several different children assigned.
• various pledge types providing true quarterly, annual and other frequency pledges
• calculatation of a Paid-Through for all pledges, based on Pledged Amount, Start Date, Stop Date and Paid Amount.
• facilitatation of orderly processing of pledge statements by adding a statement cycle code that can be used to control when statements or reminders will be sent.
• support for third party or "reference" pledges, where you can identify an individual (besides the donor) who should receive correspondence about the pledge. Let Grandma make a pledge on behalf of her grandson. Or a business make (and pay) a pledge on behalf of the owner.