Recent Blogs


Welcome, Michael!

A big welcome to Michael Lindeboom who joined the RunSignup development team this week.  Michael is a stellar addition with over 30 years of solid development experience.  Michael has seen it all contributing to everything from mainframes to mobile; on-premise to cloud…

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How to be a Race Director: 2021 Education Round-Up

With our 2021 Spring Forward Seminar we capped off a year of extensive virtual education focused on helping event professionals and nonprofits manage the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic and pivot events from in-person to virtual to hybrid. Between multi-session virtual seminars and webinars…

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Spring Forward Seminar: Recordings and Resources

Thanks to all the nonprofits, event directors, and timers, who registered to join us for our Spring Forward Session! You can refer to all the videos and resources below as you start preparing your Hybrid event strategy in 2021. Key Resources These…

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Payment Account Transition Update

As announced several weeks ago, we are now in the middle of the payment account transition to a new payment processor. We transitioned about 600 accounts last week, and all new accounts that are created are on the new platform. Most other acocunts…

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Fundraiser and Charity Partner APIs

We have released 3 additional APIs for fundraisers, charity partner fundraisers, and charity partner donations. This expands the RunSignup OpenAPI capabilities for nonprofits. The API documentation, including sandbox is located at https://www.givesignup.org/API. OpenAPIs are important for several reasons: The RunSignup API is very…

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Navigating Facebook’s New Ads Changes

We reported back in February that the squabble between Apple and Facebook over user privacy was probably going to result in changes to the Facebook Ads platform.  Here is the latest update on how Facebook is changing their ad system and what you…

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Welcome, Joseph Kotzker!

Spring is here and RunSignup | GiveSignup is climbing out of the COVID fog strong with growth across our entire organization.  With that investment, we were able to comb our networks for additional high-caliber tech talent which has resulted in another great addition…

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Manage Your Event from a Single Platform

Event management is complicated, and even the smallest of 5K’s requires a team of people to handle the pre-race logistics, marketing, and race day operations. The requirement for teamwork was a significant motivation for our process as we built out features on…

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Q1 2021 Report

Q1 2021 marks the turning point for our business. Looking back on the quarter, the year started slowly with many customers and supporters consumed with very high COVID cases, hospitalizations and deaths, concerns about vaccine distribution, and the tumultuous passing of power…

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Product News! New and Improved RaceDay CheckIn App

Efficient Race Day Processing of Participants  We are very excited to launch our new and improved RaceDay Check-In mobile application! Available for Android and iOS devices, the new release of the free RaceDay Check-In app offers core functionality improvements, simplified user experience,…

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