Charity Donation Platform

Context

A CRA-registered Canadian humanitarian charity ran its donations on off-the-shelf third-party forms, with campaign setup, receipting, and reconciliation handled manually. They wanted a donation experience they fully own.

Problem

Rented donation forms limited the donor experience and left staff doing manual receipting and back-office work for every campaign and appeal.

My role

Built the custom donation platform end to end, and rebuilt the charity's public website.

Approach

• Built a custom donation platform (Next.js, TypeScript, Prisma, MySQL, Stripe) with guided multi-step seasonal giving flows (Ramadan, Dhul-Hijjah), one-time and recurring donations, and campaign goals with social sharing.
• Automated the back office: PDF tax receipts, transactional donor emails, and queued jobs (BullMQ, Redis), plus an admin suite with campaign categories, creation wizards, dashboards, and exports.
• Supported faith-based giving (Zakat with a calculator, Sadaqah) alongside standard campaigns, with self-serve setup so staff launch appeals without a developer.
• Developed the platform spec-first with the BMAD method and an agentic workflow, covered by Playwright and Vitest.
• Also rebuilt the charity's WordPress site on a fully custom, self-serve architecture (donation-first UX, EN/FR multilingual) that a non-technical team manages independently.

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