Information for Non-Profits

RaceRaiser is the ideal place for your nonprofit to raise money online. Free and effortless, your supporters create an easy-to-use fundraising page. Donations are collected securely online, and once complete, proceeds are sent to your organization.

If you're part of a non-profit organization, you can request to be the manager of your own organization's RaceRaiser page. You can promote this page on your own website, or anywhere you like! The page includes information about your organization, as well as a few stats on the fundraising that has taken place through RaceRaiser for your organization. For a sample, check out Comfort Zone Camp's page.

WHAT ARE OTHER KEY BENEFITS?

  • Free mass marketing—your company's name and information are emailed to friends, family, and colleagues of any supporter who creates a page
  • Promoting a healthy lifestyle for those involved in your nonprofit
  • An easy and free way to advance charitable funds—all you have to do is tell people about RaceRaiser. The more supporters, the more pages, and the more money you will raise!

HOW CAN YOUR NONPROFIT MAKE THE MOST OF RACERAISER?

There is so much your organization can do to enhance your fundraising efforts with RaceRaiser.

  • Select and participate in local races
  • Put updates on your website and include the races in your calendars and/or newsletters
  • Link from your website to your supporters' RaceRaiser pages
  • Pass out flyers in community, and utilize friends to distribute at work/gym/coffee shops/etc.
  • Promote your cause at local events or chapter meetings
  • Make charity race teams—you can even start running, riding, and triathlon training groups within your nonprofit
  • Request management of your own non-profit's page on RaceRaiser, and promote this page anywhere you can

SCHOOLS

Schools are poised to take special advantage of Raceraiser because students are often eager and willing to participate in local races for a good cause. The simplest way to raise money for your schools is to encourage student participation at a local event (5K, 10K, or otherwise), and ask students to setup a fundraising page on RaceRaiser requesting for sponsorship on behalf of your school's charitable cause (PTA, athletic cause, etc). Using the RaceRaiser service in lieu of traditional fundraising methods (Jog-a-Thon, door-to-door, paper and promise) can enhance your proceeds dramatically. Further, promoting healthy living at an early age is becoming a top priority, and schools should be striving to help America's kids be healthy and fit.

Some thoughts on what your school can do:

  • Pick a local race and have students and faculty race and raise for the school's nonprofit
  • Launch your own race (will benefit the school, get the community involved, and everyone will be thrilled to use a personal webpage to promote)
  • Be inventive and have some fun with RaceRaiser; some ideas: have a contest to see who can raise the most money (or who out of each grade, each class)
  • Make announcements every week at school so everyone is involved
  • Offer extra credit for race participation to encourage involvement

MEDICAL NONPROFITS

Medical nonprofits can also take great advantage of the RaceRaiser service. Here are some suggestions on how you might be able to improve donations by using RaceRaiser.

  • Rally behind an individual or a cause using a case example or an individual to illustrate their needs
  • Contact local media and ask them to direct subscribers to run a race with your nonprofit as the beneficiary
  • Promote the use of RaceRaiser alongside your traditional fundraising efforts
  • The RaceRaiser Team encourages you to use and abuse our site; that is why we created it! To inquire about special programs such as featured charity on our homepage and teaming up to promote events, please contact us.