Political campaigns and nonprofit organizations meet potential supporters every day.

At events.

Going door-to-door.

On the street.

During conversations with people who genuinely want to support the cause.

These moments matter. They are where relationships start, where trust builds, and often where someone decides they want to donate to your mission.

But when the moment comes to donate, many organizations run into a simple problem - there’s no easy way to collect the donation.

• Volunteers rarely carry payment hardware.
• People no longer carry much cash.
• And asking someone to donate later through a link or donation form rarely works.

So the opportunity disappears. And with it, the chance for a new donor, a new member, or new funding for your cause.

For many nonprofits and political organizations today, the challenge is not finding people who are willing to give. The challenge is having a way to collect the donation in the moment.

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Why So Many Field Donations Never Happen

Most modern fundraising strategies focus on driving supporters to donation pages through digital campaigns.

• Email outreach.
• Online ads.
• SMS campaigns.
• Social media posts.

These tools are important and effective. But they only capture donations that happen online.

Many fundraising opportunities happen offline during real conversations with supporters. A volunteer speaking with someone at a rally. A conversation during door to door canvassing. A supporter inspired at an event.

In those moments, people often want to contribute. The problem: organizations aren’t always able collect the donation immediately.

Without a simple way to process the payment, supporters are asked to donate later. And later rarely happens. For organizations investing heavily in field organizing, this creates a gap between supporter engagement and actual fundraising.

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Introducing Tap to Give for Field Donations

At Qomon, this challenge led us to develop Tap to Give©, a tool designed to help organizations collect donations anywhere their supporters are.

With Tap to Give, volunteers can collect donations directly from their cell phones - whether it’s at an event, a rally on on the street.

• No renting or buying external hardware: volunteers’ phones are transformed into a payment system
• Secure, compliant payments on the spot: simply collect the payment, our system takes care of the compliance

This approach makes it possible to capture donations during the moment when a supporter decides they want to contribute.

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Turning Field Organizing into a Fundraising Opportunity

This shift reflects a broader change in how people make payments today. Mobile wallets like Apple Pay and Google Pay have made it normal to pay instantly from a phone.

Fundraising is starting to follow the same pattern.

When donations can happen instantly, any interactions can also become fundraising opportunities.

A conversation at an event can lead to a new donor.

A supporter met during canvassing can become a member immediately.

A rally can generate real financial support for a campaign.

This approach does not replace digital fundraising. Instead, it complements it by capturing the donations that happen during real world supporter interactions.

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The Future of Field Fundraising

As organizing and fundraising continue to move closer to the field, the tools used by volunteers are evolving as well.

The ability to collect donations anywhere, without extra hardware or complicated setup, is becoming an essential part of modern nonprofit and political fundraising.

Organizations that equip their teams with these capabilities can better capture the support they are already generating through conversations, events, and community engagement.

Because when someone decides they want to support your cause, the most important thing is simple.

They should be able to give.

Right there. Right then.

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