How to use CiviCRM for child Sponsorship?

Question

I want to use CiviCRM for child sponsorship like the following: The Idead: Create a charity website for orphans sponsorship that enables the contributor to select a child from a list of orphans then orphan profile will open with a Donate button.

What i have done inside Civicrm is:

• I created a group for orphans.
• I added the orphan children to the group.
• I created a public profile to list all orphans to the portal.
• I created a public profile to create a contributor record.
• I created a contribution page that use the contributor profile to collect contributor info like Name, address and email.
• I created a Sponsor Of relationship.

What i want to know is:

• How to add donate button to a child profile?
• How to create a dynamic relationship between the contributor and the orphan child throw the webform when the contributor clicks the donate button?

Answer 1

I like Graham's solution of using Personal Campaign Pages with one page per child. However, that may not scale well; I don't know how many orphans you're working with.

I like Graham's idea of using Webform-CiviCRM on Drupal (or Caldera Forms integration on WordPress) to handle this. I think creating a Relationship would be the easiest approach if you go this route rather than a soft credit. I'm unsure whether you want to create the connection between the donor and orphan, or the donation and the orphan.

If neither of these options appeal to you, you can use a Contact Reference custom field to help create the relationship. However, if you want this to happen automatically, you would need to write an extension. I recommend using the hook_civicrm_post hook.