For nonprofits with nobody spare
An animation in three steps. First, a nonprofit’s mission statement: To end childhood hunger in our community. Second, it is broken into the individual needs behind it — A warm winter coat, $45; A monthly bus pass, $30; A week of groceries, $80. Third, those needs are sent out to Your donate page, A social post, Your newsletter and Every.org.
Most organisations this size hit the same wall: enough happens every week to fill a newsletter, and nobody has the hour it takes to write one. So the week goes untold, the same forty people give again, and growing means hiring somebody you cannot pay yet.
A working copy of the real thing, framed the way it would sit on your own site. Fulfill a need or give an amount — the behavior is real, the payment is not.
Maria walks her kids to school each morning. A coat keeps her warm all season.
Between paychecks, a full pantry takes the pressure off a family of five.
Reliable transit gets James to job interviews and his new shift on time.
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Sample needs written for this demo. The people are not real; the widget's behavior is.
Not the same sentence pasted five times. Each network gets what it rewards, with the ask placed where that network allows it to be clicked.
Aurora writes the caption and makes the picture. You press post.
A warm winter coat — you can make this happen! Sized for a child walking to school. Give $45 (or any amount) ❤️ #Aurora #YourNonprofit
Your Nonprofit
A warm winter coat
$45
www.auroradonate.com
A warm winter coat — Your Nonprofit
Sized for a child walking to school
Somebody take this one.
Built from the needs your widget is already showing. Send it from Aurora, or paste it into the tool you already use.
No integration to connect, and no list to import.
What we need this month
yournonprofit.org
A warm winter coat
A monthly bus pass
Funded since the last issue: a week of groceries.
| Detail | A Donate button | A need in Aurora |
|---|---|---|
| What the supporter sees | An empty field, and three suggested amounts somebody picked once and never revisited. | A photo, a person, a price and one button — a $45 winter coat for Maria. |
| What they have to work out first | What you actually need, what a normal gift is here, and whether it will change anything. | Whether to buy this particular thing. That is the whole decision. |
| What the receipt says | An amount and a date. | What the gift bought, with a receipt number, and your EIN and tax-exempt status if you have published them. |
| What you can write in the thank-you | “Thank you for your generous donation.” | “Thank you for Maria's coat.” Aurora sends that one for you. |
| What you know afterwards | That someone gave. | Which need it filled, who filled it, and whether it was a one-off or a standing monthly gift — on screen, and in a CSV you export yourself. |
Your website stays where it is. There is no migration, no second donor database to keep in step, and nothing for a grant writer to fill in.
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<script src="https://www.auroradonate.com/embed.js" async></script>Sized for a child walking to school
A warm winter coat
Not a platform to learn. Four things your organization can do on Monday that it could not do on Friday.
Aurora is not a payment processor and never holds a donation. Gifts are processed by Stripe or PayPal and paid out to an account in your organization's name.
Aurora takes nothing out of a donation, on every plan you can sign up for. The ledger beside this has no line for us because there is no line to draw — the one deduction is the processor's, and the arithmetic comes out the same whichever plan you are on.
What Aurora costs sits outside the gift entirely. On Free you are billed nothing at all and your donors are asked to add an optional contribution at checkout, which they can decline. Pay per update charges for the writing instead: an update — one thing you have to say, turned into a post for every network you are on — costs $0.99 once you are past the 2 a month that are free, and a month's worth is billed together at the end of it. And Starter at $29/month, or Growth at $99/month, is one bill and no counting.
Aurora takes 0% of PayPal donations — PayPal's own rates apply. On a PayPal gift that zero is structural rather than a price we picked: there is no mechanism in Aurora for taking a share of one, and no setting that turns one on. PayPal giving is included on every plan, including the free one. Aurora takes no share of a PayPal donation at all — it settles straight into the nonprofit's own PayPal account.
A $100 card donation — the same on every plan you can choose
That line comes out as the donation settles — there is no second charge to find on a statement later, and none from us at any point. Worked at Stripe's standard US card rate; your own varies with card type and country. A gift taken through PayPal nets a different figure, and PayPal's own rates apply.
Aurora is new. No quote goes on this page that a nonprofit has not agreed to put here under its own name, no logo goes up without permission, and no number about how many organizations use us gets invented in the meantime. That rules out most of what a page like this normally does.
What is left is the thing itself. The demo above behaves the way the live widget behaves. The pricing page does the arithmetic in front of you instead of behind you. And three of the claims on this page can be checked before you give us anything at all.
Create an account, add one need, paste the snippet. Aurora takes nothing out of a donation on any plan, and on Free there is no bill either.