Yesterday I wrapped up some work I've been putting into a Drupal module recently, for a site that's probably launching before the end of the year (not putting any pressure on anyone here!). It's called "Donation Goals" and can be grabbed from the Donation Goals Project page.

With Donation Goals you can make a new type of content in your Drupal site. You guessed it, a "Donation Goal". Enter some details, especially how much money you need, open it up and make sure you get some visitors. They can donate money to you, through PayPal, helping you reach your goal.

The module keeps track of all donations (as long as they're made through the site) and even allows you to build some fancy overviews of all donations (Views FTW!). If you saved some money yourself, you could of course pay it yourself through PayPal. The easier way is to just add the money to the current savings and let the module do the work for you (saving you the PayPal fees that you might have to pay otherwise).

There are some similar modules (Bounty, Donation and ChipIn) available, but they all take a somewhat different approach, or they are completely abandoned.

While a first development version is out, the module probably still has some features to add, things to change and bugs to fix. Try it out from drupal.org/project/donation_goals and let me know what you think!