Technology for School Events
RunSignup makes fundraising easy, sure. But we’re also here with free technology to help you manage your event from conception to execution.
Registration
Make it simple for participants to register in minutes with a dynamic, mobile-friendly, and customizable registration platform.
Marketing Tools
Take advantage of free marketing tools including email and websites as well as built-in referral programs, incentive-base pricing setups, and social sharing settings.
Customer Service
Deliver an exceptional experience for your supporters. Empower them to manage fundraising pages & registration, or seamlessly make updates for them.
Event Day
Streamline your Event Day operations with options for timed and untimed events, a speedy CheckIn App and simple on-site registration options.
Brand Your Website with GiveSignup
Did you know that you can use the alternate URL of GiveSignup.org for your event if you want to take the focus off the athletics (or if it’s not a run at all)? No extra steps are required: with our Single Sign On System for multiple brands, the race you create can be accessed from either RunSignup.com/MyRace or GiveSignup.org/MyRace. The functionality is the same, but the branding is perfect for your event.
Common School Fundraising Events
5K’s
Fundraising Walks
Stair Climbs
Virtual Challenges
Dance Marathons
Key Features for Fundraising
Individual Fundraising
Allow or require individuals to become fundraisers for your event.
- Automatically created fundraising pages for every fundraiser
- Set default messaging and images that fundraisers can customize for a more personal fundraising appeal
- Add offline donations to a fundraiser page for free
- Empower fundraisers with a built-in email tool customized with your branding and messaging
- Gamify your fundraising with automated fundraiser leaderboards, digital trophy cases, and refund rewards for meeting specific donation thresholds
- Opt to require a minimum fundraising amount for participants (or not)
Team Fundraising
Bring the power of teamwork to fundraising with the option to create fundraising teams
- Allow or require fundraisers to join or create a team
- Automatically created team fundraising pages that are easy for fundraising Team Captains to manage, with customizable images and messaging
- Support multiple team captains
- Roll up all individual donations to the team, with ability to prevent or allow donations to the team without selecting an individual
- Allow donation transfers between team members, enhancing flexibility to meet fundraising goals
Integrated Donations
Add a customized soft donation ask to your registration path and encourage giving.
- Increase giving with custom donation levels that tie each donation to the impact of the gifts
- Flat 4% processing fee for donations, with the option to absorb the fee, pass it on, or ask donors to cover it
- Add a simple checkbox donation option to your checkout page to capture every donation
- Allow donations during and outside of registration
- Record offline donations for easier record-keeping
Fundraising Rewards and Incentives
Boost fundraising and increase the motivation for your fundraisers to engage their community.
- Reward fundraisers who meet a pre-determined fundraising threshold with an automated discount or a refund
- Set a fundraiser minimum with the option to save and auto-charge a credit card if the minimum is not met
Fundraising Gamification
Make fundraising fun with unique rewards for effort.
- Show off your top performers with a live leaderboard on your website
- Make your progress visual with a live donation goal thermometer
- Create milestones and badges that fill a trophy case and provide a digital “thanks” for continued fundraising
- Make gamification social with milestones and badges for team fundraisers
Fundraising Reports
Track your progress and keep in touch with your supporters with comprehensive fundraising reports.
- View all your participants, donations, and fundraisers
- Share reports with your teammates
- Download transaction and payment reports with multiple revenue types (like donations and registrations) in the same report
Key Features for Event Day
RaceDay Tools
On-site logistics are key for any bike tour event. Make the experience seamless with the RunSignup RaceDay Suite, including:
- RaceDay CheckIn App eliminates lines and ensures speedy check-in of all your participants.
- Bib Management with flexible options to assign your bibs at registration, import your bib numbers, or allow for dynamic bib assignment on-site
- On-Site Registration makes it simple maximize participation with a streamlined process for race day registrations
More Technology for Schools
Looking for something else? Here are a few other features that make life easier.
Customize Wording
Customize the working on your event website (like changing “race” to “ride”, “event” to “wave”, and “participant” to “rider) to keep your message clear and keep the focus on cycling.
Merch Sales
Increase your revenue with giveaways items (like your standard t-shirt), add-ons (like an upgrade to a school jersey), and a standalone store. Inventory management tools included.
Flexible Pricing
Turn your pricing setup into a prompt for action with time-based or count-based increases, management of unlimited coupon codes, and discounts for key groups of participants.
RaceDay Photos
Build FOMO with shareable event photos directly on your race website. The RacDay Photo Platform allows for unlimited uploads, easy album management, and auto-tagging by bib number.
Customer Spotlight
Steps for Students
Steps for Students determined their backend technology needed to change to support their unique needs around team fundraising and seamless data integration. Ultimately, they chose to switch to RunSignup’s registration, fundraising, and race day technology platform. Julie Eberle and Suraiya Culp, event organizers for Steps for Students shared with us their innovative approach to offering a virtual experience that reinforced their fundraising efforts.
6,500 Virtual Registrants
$775,000 Donations Raised Virtually
100% Real Time Data
All the Latest Blogs on Fundraising
Why You Should Keep Donations on RunSignup (and Stop Linking Externally)
When it comes to raising money through your race or fundraising event, every donation matters. Many organizations use RunSignup for registration but send donors to an external site for donations. It seems simple enough — but it’s a missed opportunity. RunSignup’s built-in…
Read More
How Schools Can Use RunSignup | GiveSignup for Fundraising
Schools are always looking for creative, effective ways to raise money for programs, extracurriculars, and student initiatives. Whether you’re organizing a 5K race or running a student-led fundraiser, RunSignup and GiveSignup offer simple, powerful tools that make fundraising seamless for teachers, parents,…
Read More
Flutie 5K for Autism Series
About the Flutie 5K for Autism The Doug Flutie Jr. Foundation for Autism has been serving the autism community for 27 years. Their flagship Flutie 5K for Autism in Natick, Massachusetts, is now in its 26th year, selling out with nearly 3,500…
Read More
Slideshow Settings for Fundraisers
Peer to Peer Fundraising Events can now set default slideshows for individual and team fundraiser pages. This ensures every fundraising page has a slideshow to display your nonprofit’s brand and photos. To set default images for fundraisers, select Slideshow Settings on the…
Read More
Tunnel to Towers Foundation Scales Events and Fundraising with RunSignup’s All-in-One Platform
About Tunnel to Towers Foundation Tunnel to Towers Foundation (T2T) began its fundraising journey with a single 5K event honoring firefighter Stephen Siller, who sacrificed his life on 9/11. Today, events are at the heart of Tunnel to Towers’ mission to honor…
Read More
Harpoon 5-Miler: Pushing the Envelope with Marketing 365 Days a Year
Continuous Improvement for a Sellout Race The Harpoon 5-Miler has sold out many times in it’s 24 year history, but that doesn’t mean the race is simply riding on its coattails. After facing challenges reigniting enthusiasm post-COVID, the race has exploded in…
Read More
Fundraiser Management Self-Serve Page
It’s easier than ever for Peer-to-Peer Fundraising events to help supporters find, update, and manage their fundraising pages with GiveSignup’s new Fundraiser Management Self-Serve Page. From here, fundraisers can view their current and past individual and team fundraisers. Quick links to edit…
Read More
Fundraiser Milestone Notifications
GiveSignup‘s latest feature for peer-to-peer fundraising events introduces automated fundraiser milestone notifications. This powerful, completely free tool helps nonprofits celebrate fundraisers’ achievements without any additional work. By automating personalized messages for each milestone, you can build stronger connections with fundraisers without adding…
Read More
Fundraiser Milestone Report
There is a new Fundraiser Milestone Report for Peer to Peer Fundraising Events. The report keeps track of which individual fundraisers have achieved each available milestone. To view the Fundraiser Milestone Report, navigate to Fundraising >> Reports >> Fundraiser Report Generator. The…
Read More
Bring Back My Fundraising Team
Bring Back My Fundraising Team makes it fast and easy for team captains to recreate their team from the previous year. Earlier this month, we released Bring Back My Individual Fundraiser. This same functionality is now available for fundraising teams. GiveSignup makes…
Read More
Bring Back My Individual Fundraiser
Signing up to fundraise is even easier with GiveSignup’s newest release – Bring Back My Individual Fundraiser. When your Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Event renews, GiveSignup makes it easy for fundraisers to return by automatically carrying over their previous year’s settings to their new…
Read More
2024 GiveSignup Product Recap
One of our Year End Wrap-up Blogs. Others include 2024 Year in Review, 2024 RunSignup Product Recap, 2024 TicketSignup Product Recap, 2024 Infrastructure Report, 2025 Company Strategy, 2025 RunSignup Roadmap, 2025 GiveSignup Roadmap, 2025 TicketSignup Roadmap. These will come out incrementally between end of November and early 2025. Our GiveSignup 2024…
Read More