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Colorado, USA · Digital & App Innovation · PHP, MySQL, WordPress, Stripe, PayPal, Brevo
platform fee on each gift, down from 3%
website traffic
Gifts ran through third-party giving platforms that took a fee on top of payment processing.
A new website with its own donation forms, direct Stripe and PayPal payments, and supporter records in Brevo.
More of every gift reaches the children and families Morning Star serves, and the team runs its own campaigns.
Somewhere in the world, someone decides to pay for a child's schooling or send medical supplies. Giving should take a minute, and the gift should reach the program.
Morning Star Center is a nonprofit that works with vulnerable children, families and communities across Africa.
Its programs cover education, healthcare and maternity, child rescue and orphan care, and community outreach.
Morning Star needed a website that told its story clearly and made giving simple and secure for donors around the world.
Donations ran through Give Lively and BetterUnite, which charged a platform fee on top of payment processing.
Campaigns had no central place online, so each appeal started from scratch.
There was no simple way to accept gifts of medical and school supplies alongside money.
We built the site around Morning Star’s programs and connected giving directly to the payment providers donors already trust.
Reliance on Give Lively and BetterUnite with 3% platform fees, while lacking a centralized digital experience to provide unified visibility into donations, fundraising performance, and overall organizational impact.
A responsive website centered on Morning Star’s mission and programs.
Native donation forms connect directly to Stripe and PayPal, and every supporter touchpoint lands in Brevo CRM.
Morning Star staff create campaigns and publish them on the site themselves.
A donation page on the new site, with giving built in.
Donors give without leaving Morning Star for another platform.
Donors in any country pay the way they prefer.
The team creates and publishes appeals on its own.
An in-kind form takes pledges of medical and school supplies.
With the giving platforms gone, Morning Star no longer pays a fee on top of every donation. Campaigns get their own pages, created by the team, and more people are finding the site.
With giving in its own hands, Morning Star wanted to see what all of it was achieving. Next, the same team brought donations, finances and programs into one view on Microsoft Fabric.
Leaders see donations, finances and programs in one place.
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