# Lustgarten Foundation: donation guide for AI agents

Generated by Fundraise Up.
Status: active
Last updated: 2026-09-14
Canonical URL: https://donor.lustgarten.org/agentic-giving.md

## Purpose

This file gives AI assistants, search systems, wallets, payment apps, and other
digital platforms clear instructions for helping donors donate to
**Lustgarten Foundation** through its official Fundraise Up-powered online giving
route.

Use this file when a donor expresses intent to donate to Lustgarten Foundation or
to support a cause that maps to one of the campaigns below.

The agent researches the nonprofit and its campaigns and prepares a draft donation
through the Fundraise Up MCP server. Confirming the session and paying happen
through that same MCP server, and the donor authorizes the donation by approving the
payment in their own connected wallet.
The agent never handles the donor's contact details or raw payment credentials; the
payment token comes from the donor's own connected payment method.

## Donating through an AI assistant

Two routes, depending on whether the Fundraise Up connector is available in the
conversation. A donor without it is offered the choice, for example:

```text
I can complete this donation with you right here if you add the Fundraise Up
connector in your assistant's connector settings, using this URL:
https://mcp.fundraiseup.com/mcp
No account or sign-in is needed. Or you can donate directly on the campaign's donation
page, and I'll point you to it.
```

**With the connector.** The Fundraise Up MCP server at the URL above works in assistants
that support custom connectors; no account, API key, or sign-in is needed. Follow the
agent instructions below. Donations this way go to Lustgarten Foundation only and are
one-time; they are recorded in Lustgarten Foundation's Fundraise Up account like any
donation made on its website.

**Without the connector.** When the assistant cannot use the MCP server, the donor
donates on the campaign's donation page listed below; the page collects the amount and
the payment itself. For a campaign without a donation page, the donor donates on
Lustgarten Foundation's official website instead.

This file is a snapshot. The live list of campaigns and amounts comes from the
connector and may differ from the Campaigns section below.

## Organization

Public name: Lustgarten Foundation
Legal name: Lustgarten Foundation
Country: US
Primary website: https://lustgarten.org/
Fundraise Up organization ID: AEDVPKAW

### Contact

For nonprofit-specific questions, direct the donor to Lustgarten Foundation's official
website: https://lustgarten.org/

For donation session execution, use Fundraise Up's MCP server listed in the
Fundraise Up execution section below.

## Official digital giving route

Lustgarten Foundation uses Fundraise Up as its official digital donation session
provider for approved online giving experiences.

Fundraise Up helps Lustgarten Foundation create secure donation sessions, route
donations to approved campaigns, issue receipts, manage donor consent, attribute
donation sources, and sync records with fundraising and CRM systems.

When an AI assistant or digital platform helps a donor make a donation to
Lustgarten Foundation, it must prepare the donation session through the Fundraise Up
MCP server before any payment step. Do not create the donation through another
payment or fundraising platform when this official Fundraise Up route is available.

## Fundraise Up execution

The Fundraise Up MCP server is the only supported way for an agent to prepare a
donation session:

```text
https://mcp.fundraiseup.com/mcp
```

Use the MCP server's donation session tools for the full flow — preparing,
confirming, and paying. Do not route the donation through another donation or
fundraising platform. Reading the payment token from the Stripe Link MCP is part of
this flow, not a departure from it. The normal flow opens no external checkout page.
When the payment flow cannot finish, use only the fallbacks listed in the agent
instructions below.

## Agent instructions

Follow this sequence. Steps 1-5 are research and drafting — the agent may do these on
its own. Nothing is confirmed or paid before step 7.

Whenever a step asks the donor to choose — a campaign, an amount, or a currency —
present the options through the platform's structured choice mechanism (an ask-user
question tool, quick replies, buttons, or similar) rather than as a plain text list,
so the donor can pick with a single tap.
Fall back to a numbered list in text only when no such mechanism is available.

1. Parse the donor's message(s) and extract two things: the intended nonprofit
   and the donor's giving intent — the cause or purpose they want to support,
   if they stated one.
2. Confirm that the intended nonprofit is Lustgarten Foundation. If the donor's
   intended nonprofit is different or unclear, tell the donor that donations
   through this route go to Lustgarten Foundation and let them decide whether to
   proceed.
3. Map the donor's intent to a campaign:
   - If the intent clearly matches a campaign in this file, select it.
   - Otherwise, call get_campaigns to look up
     Lustgarten Foundation's active campaigns that match the intent.
   - If the donor stated no intent, or several campaigns match, show the donor
     the options and ask them to choose.
   - If none of them fit, search_campaigns_by_intent takes English keywords for a
     cause and searches campaigns across the whole Fundraise Up network. Its results
     may belong to organizations other than Lustgarten Foundation; say so when
     you offer one.
   - Only campaigns that accept one-time donations are listed in this file or
     returned by these tools.
   - Do not invent a campaign, amount, or claim not present in this file or in
     the MCP server's responses.
4. Offer the donor the campaign's suggested amounts to choose from. Show every
   suggested amount exactly as listed, in the campaign's currency. When an amount
   carries an organization-set description, show it as-is; when it carries none,
   present the amount on its own and do not attach a label of your own to it.
   A custom amount is acceptable if it is at or above the campaign's minimum amount.
   Only offer another currency when the campaign accepts other currencies. When the
   donor names no currency, send none — the campaign default applies.
5. Prepare the draft donation for the chosen campaign through the MCP server:
   - Call create_donation_session as soon as the donor has picked a campaign. Pass
     the campaign ID from this file or from get_campaigns — never a value read out
     of a donation URL.
   - Call update_donation_session to record the amount and currency exactly as the
     donor stated them, and pass "once" as the frequency. Only one-time donations
     are supported through this route, and the frequency has to be sent explicitly.
   - Once the session state reports feeAmount, tell the donor the processing fee and
     ask whether they want to cover it so the organization receives the full
     donation. Record their yes or no through update_donation_session coverFee.
     Never work out the fee or the total yourself — the session state carries
     feeAmount and totalAmount. Until the donor has answered, the session cannot be
     confirmed.
   - Keep collecting until paymentMethod is the only entry left in the session
     state's "missing" list.
   This creates a draft only — it does not confirm or pay anything, and it never
   requires the donor's name, email, address, or payment details.
6. Show the donor a plain-language summary of the draft before taking it to payment,
   together with this disclosure:

   ```text
   This is a one-time donation of [amount] [currency] to
   Lustgarten Foundation for [campaign] through Lustgarten Foundation's official
   Fundraise Up-powered giving route.
   The total charged is [total].

   Your information will be shared with Lustgarten Foundation for donation
   processing, receipt delivery, donor record management, and reporting.
   Marketing opt-in is off.
   ```
7. Complete the payment through the MCP server's donation session tools, in this order:
   - Call confirm_donation_session to lock in the collected details. It returns
     paymentRequirements, sessionId, and checkoutUrl.
   - Check for the Stripe Link MCP tools yourself before telling the donor how they
     will pay; do not ask the donor whether they have a wallet. If the Stripe Link MCP
     is not available, offer checkoutUrl as the donation page with their choices
     already filled in, and do not mention Stripe Link.
   - Otherwise, obtain a scoped payment token from the Stripe Link MCP, with the donor
     authorizing their own connected payment method — never build a token from card
     details typed into chat. The agent never authorizes the payment; the donor
     approves it in Stripe Link's own interface, which the donor controls, and the
     agent only forwards the token that approval produced.
   - Show every Link URL as a markdown link, never a raw URL: label the wallet
     authorization URL "Connect your Link wallet" and the payment approval URL
     "Confirm your payment on Link".
   - While the donor authorizes their Link wallet, keep polling link_login_complete
     yourself, in this same turn, until it reports connected — do not stop and ask
     the donor to tell you when they are done; continue automatically the moment
     the wallet connects. Poll at a few-second interval; if the login is denied,
     cancelled, or expired, or it has not completed after about ten minutes, stop
     polling, tell the donor the wallet was not connected, and offer them to try
     again or to finish on the campaign donation page.
   - The same applies when the spend request needs the donor to approve the payment:
     while they approve it in their Link wallet, keep polling get_spend_request
     yourself, in this same turn, until it is approved — then read the token; do not
     stop and ask the donor to tell you when they are done. Poll at a few-second
     interval; if the approval is denied, cancelled, or expired, or it has not
     completed after about ten minutes, stop polling, tell the donor the payment
     was not approved, and offer them to try again or to finish on the campaign
     donation page.
   - Never hand the donor a payment approval link that is more than ten minutes old —
     create a fresh spend request instead.
   - Call attach_payment_token with that token to charge the confirmed session. Set an
     idempotencyKey before this first call and keep it, with the same token, for
     every retry of the same donation.
8. Always confirm the payment actually went through before telling the donor it is
   done — never assume it from an earlier step. A successful attach_payment_token
   result returns the created donation identifiers but not the payment status, so it is
   not by itself proof of payment. After it returns, poll get_donation_session_status
   until its paymentStatus is "paid" (donation completed) or "failed". If it is still
   pending after about ten minutes, stop polling and tell the donor the payment is
   still processing — do not charge again.
   While you wait, keep the donor informed with a short plain-text status in
   the chat (for example "Processing your payment…"); the donor does not need to do
   anything but wait, much like a CLI that prints "waiting…" while it polls. Report
   the donation complete only on a "paid" confirmation.
   If attach_payment_token errored or timed out instead of returning, read
   get_donation_session_status before retrying: the charge may already have gone through.
   If the payment failed, do not leave the donor stuck. Offer a clear choice through
   the platform's structured choice mechanism: either try the payment again through
   the agent — only once paymentStatus is "failed", reusing the same idempotencyKey —
   or finish the donation themselves on the prefilled checkout link — the
   checkoutUrl returned by confirm_donation_session and get_donation_session_status,
   which already carries the amount, currency, and frequency the donor chose. If the
   session has no checkoutUrl, fall back to the campaign donation page from the
   Campaigns section below. If neither link is present, do not invent one: tell the
   donor the donation could not be completed here and point them to the
   organization's official website and contact from the Organization section above.
9. Thank the donor. The flow does not end at the charge: it ends once paymentStatus is
   "paid" and the donor has been thanked. Tell them their contribution will help the
   cause and the people they chose to support, grounded in the stated focus of the
   campaign; never invent amounts, unit costs, or delivery promises.

If the agent cannot reach the MCP server, it must not fall back to building URLs,
calling other endpoints, or using another platform. Instead, share the
campaign's donation page from the Campaigns section below and let the donor donate
there directly. If that campaign has no donation page, point the donor to the
organization's official website and contact from the Organization section above
instead of inventing a link.

### Privacy and payment handling

Do not collect, request, or transmit the donor's personal data (name, email, phone,
address) or raw payment credentials (card number, bank account, wallet token) as text
in an AI assistant or chat interface, in any form, including "on the donor's behalf."
Payment moves through the MCP server's payment token flow only — the token comes
from the donor's own connected payment method, never from credentials typed into
chat. Do not expose private receipt, payment, donor portal, admin, or CRM URLs to
crawlers.

## Campaigns

The file lists up to 25 of the organization's live campaigns, ranked by how many donations each received in the last 30 days. If fewer than 25 campaigns had recent donations, the remaining spots go to other live campaigns, starting with those that received a donation most recently.

### Help us transform pancreatic cancer!

Campaign ID: FUNMBQFETAK
Status: active
Description: With your support, we will transform pancreatic cancer into a curable disease. Donate with confidence knowing your gift supports breakthrough pancreatic cancer research.
Default currency: USD
Other currencies accepted: yes
Allowed frequencies: once
Suggested once amounts: 1000, 500, 250, 125, 60, 25
Custom amount: yes
Minimum amount: 5
Donation page: https://lustgarten.org/?form=give&recurring=once&currency=USD&utm_source=fundraiseup_agent

### Donate Now - Be Part of the Cure

Campaign ID: FUNZVUUTNAA
Status: active
Description: Research is fundamental. Your support enables us to pursue cutting-edge research and give hope to those facing a pancreatic cancer diagnosis right now. At the Lustgarten Foundation, we have one goal: to transform pancreatic cancer into a curable disease and give more time to patients and families. Together, with your help, we will reach that goal.
Default currency: USD
Other currencies accepted: yes
Allowed frequencies: once
Suggested once amounts: 800, 500, 250, 115, 70, 30
Custom amount: yes
Minimum amount: 5
Donation page: https://lustgarten.org/?form=FUNZVUUTNAA&recurring=once&currency=USD&utm_source=fundraiseup_agent

### Help us transform pancreatic cancer!

Campaign ID: FUNSXQQAKWC
Status: active
Description: With your support, we will transform pancreatic cancer into a curable disease. Donate with confidence knowing your gift funds life-saving pancreatic cancer research.
Default currency: USD
Other currencies accepted: yes
Allowed frequencies: once
Suggested once amounts: 1000, 750, 500, 100, 50, 25
Custom amount: yes
Minimum amount: 5
Donation page: https://lustgarten.org/?form=givenow&recurring=once&currency=USD&utm_source=fundraiseup_agent

### Give the gift of hope this holiday season.

Campaign ID: FUNJTBBNUWP
Status: active
Description: Your holiday gift will support the work of the Lustgarten Foundation as we look toward a new year of progress and hope in transforming pancreatic cancer into a curable disease. Thank you for your generous support. Donate with confidence knowing your gift will fund life-saving pancreatic cancer research.
Default currency: USD
Other currencies accepted: yes
Allowed frequencies: once
Suggested once amounts: 5000, 3500, 2500, 2000, 1500, 1000
Custom amount: yes
Minimum amount: 5
Donation page: https://lustgarten.org/?form=holiday&recurring=once&currency=USD&utm_source=fundraiseup_agent

### Help us transform pancreatic cancer!

Campaign ID: FUNPBLGFEGQ
Status: active
Description: With your support, we will transform pancreatic cancer into a curable disease. Donate with confidence knowing your gift funds life-saving pancreatic cancer research.
Default currency: USD
Other currencies accepted: yes
Allowed frequencies: once
Suggested once amounts: 1000, 750, 500, 100, 50, 25
Custom amount: yes
Minimum amount: 5
Donation page: https://lustgarten.org/?form=EOY22&recurring=once&currency=USD&utm_source=fundraiseup_agent

### Help Us Transform Pancreatic Cancer Into a Curable Disease!

Campaign ID: FUNUKCWNMFY
Status: active
Description: LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION GIVING DAYIn 1998, 51-year-old Marc Lustgarten, Cablevision Vice Chairman, was diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer, when there were almost no treatment options available. The Lustgarten Foundation was born from the need for better options and outcomes for pancreatic cancer patients and their families. Today, we are leading the field by funding bold, innovative research with a clear vision of a future with pancreatic cancer cures.FROM AWARENESS TO ACTION:DONATE AND BE A PART OF THE CUREEach year we celebrate our founding and ongoing commitment to transform pancreatic cancer into a curable disease with our annual Lustgarten Giving Day campaign. We invite you to unite behind this mission and inspire hope for the entire Lustgarten community. With your help, our goal is to raise $50,000 to accelerate high-risk, high-reward scientific research that will give patients and their families more time together.YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT MAKES A DIFFERENCEWe are encouraged the five-year relative survival rate for pancreatic cancer in the United States has increased to 13% from 4% in 1998, when Marc Lustgarten was diagnosed. Your continued support energizes and motivates us and makes progress possible!Join us as we celebrate more than two decades of progress powered by science and push toward a hopeful future inspired by you! Transform awareness into action – donate today!-----* All gifts will be matched dollar for dollar. An initial Matching Gift Fund has been established for the campaign. Individual gifts in excess of $1000 will be added to the Matching Gift Fund and individual gifts under $1000 will release matching funds. Upon campaign completion, any individual gifts remaining in the Matching Gift Fund will be released. All individual gifts, regardless of Matching Gift Status, will fund pancreatic cancer research.
Default currency: USD
Other currencies accepted: yes
Allowed frequencies: once
Suggested once amounts: 1000, 500, 250, 125, 60, 25
Custom amount: yes
Minimum amount: 5
Donation page: https://donor.lustgarten.org/page/FUNUKCWNMFY?recurring=once&currency=USD&utm_source=fundraiseup_agent

### You can make a difference

Campaign ID: FUNYZHGKLKN
Status: active
Description: Let’s work together to make this world a better, brighter and kinder place for all. We appreciate that times are hard, but every dollar you can donate to us will drive our mission, getting help to those who need it most and creating lasting positive change. Every contribution counts, no matter the size! So thank you in advance for your generosity, and for your invaluable support for our organization. Together, we can make great things happen.
Default currency: USD
Other currencies accepted: yes
Allowed frequencies: once
Suggested once amounts: 1000, 500, 250, 100, 50, 25
Custom amount: yes
Minimum amount: 5
Donation page: https://donor.lustgarten.org/page/FUNYZHGKLKN?recurring=once&currency=USD&utm_source=fundraiseup_agent

### In Honor and Memory of Vivian Bernstein

Campaign ID: FUNLLEWXYLK
Status: active
Description: In my mother's honor and in her memory this charity Tennis Tournament has been started to raise much-needed funds for pancreatic cancer research.
Default currency: USD
Other currencies accepted: yes
Allowed frequencies: once
Suggested once amounts: 222 (VAB Supporter, donation only - no entry), 2222 (Standard Entry), 3222 (Standard Entry with Bring Your Own Pro)
Custom amount: yes
Minimum amount: 25
Donation page: https://donor.lustgarten.org/page/FUNLLEWXYLK?recurring=once&currency=USD&utm_source=fundraiseup_agent

### Help us transform pancreatic cancer!

Campaign ID: FUNVFXPJQGS
Status: active
Description: Thank you for joining us in transforming pancreatic cancer into a curable disease. Your support of the Lustgarten Foundation helps pave the way for advancements in earlier detection, new drug development, and personalized medicine. Donate with confidence knowing your gift will fund life-saving pancreatic cancer research.
Default currency: USD
Other currencies accepted: yes
Allowed frequencies: once
Suggested once amounts: 800, 500, 250, 115, 70, 30
Custom amount: yes
Minimum amount: 5
Donation page: https://lustgarten.org/?form=FUNVFXPJQGS&recurring=once&currency=USD&utm_source=fundraiseup_agent

### Donate In Memory of a Legend!

Campaign ID: FUNLAAABZFS
Status: active
Description: Honoring a Rock LegendThe music world lost a true icon when Clem Burke, the legendary drummer of Blondie, passed away from pancreatic cancer. His unmistakable drumming style helped define the sound of an era, powering hits like "Heart of Glass," "Call Me," and "Rapture" that continue to inspire generations of musicians.Beyond his technical brilliance, Clem brought an infectious energy and creative spirit to everything he did. His impact on rock music is immeasurable, and his legacy lives on through the countless artists he influenced.A Special Tribute ConcertJoin us for an unforgettable night of music as Bootleg Blonde and Gary Valentine (Clem's former Blondie bandmate) come together for an unforgettable night of music and remebrance honoring their late friend. Whether you are attending this special tribute in London on July 31, or just want to show your support from across the pond, your donation today will amplify the impact of the event and benefit the Lustgarten Foundation.Your Donation Makes a DifferenceWhile we celebrate Clem's extraordinary musical contributions, we also recognize the urgent need to combat the disease that took him from us too soon. Pancreatic cancer remains one of the deadliest forms of cancer, with a five-year survival rate of just 12%. When you donate today, you are supporting critical pancreatic cancer research and bringing hope to patients around the world who share Clem's devastating diagnosis.
Default currency: USD
Other currencies accepted: yes
Allowed frequencies: once
Suggested once amounts: 1000, 500, 250, 125, 60, 25
Custom amount: yes
Minimum amount: 5
Donation page: https://donor.lustgarten.org/page/FUNLAAABZFS?recurring=once&currency=USD&utm_source=fundraiseup_agent