Technology for Charity Bibs
GiveSignup makes charity bib fundraising easy with flexible options for peer to peer fundraising and tools to communicate with and reward your key fundraisers.
Fundraising Pages
Provide your fundraisers with automatically created fundraising pages they can customize to tell their story and encourage giving from friends and family.
Free Entries
Provide free or reduced race entries based on reaching pre-determined fundraising thresholds. Waive the fee up-front or refund fundraisers once their goal is reached.
Communication Tools
Built-in free tools for email and website make it easy for you to keep up with your fundraisers and share fundraising tips and toolkits.
Easy Reporting
Track the success of your fundraisers and easily verify who has (and hasn’t) met their goal so you can follow-up effectively.
Charity Bibs are…
…a fundraising tool that facilitates registration for popular, prestigious, or sold out endurance events for organization’s supporters. In exchange, these athletes commit to raise a minimum dollar amount for the nonprofit organization, almost always an official “charity partner” of the event. Each charity partner is given a set number of bibs, or entries, which they can distribute to a select and highly motivated group of fundraisers. Typically, fundraisers must raise their full goal amount by race day.
Setting Up Charity Bibs
In some cases, charity bibs are managed by the race, while in other instances, charities manage the registration and fundraising for their teams independently. Typically, the race sets up and manages the charity bibs when the event organized by the charity, or there is only one charity partner and a close relationship between the event and the charity.
In many situations, the charity bibs are set up separately from the race registration, with the charity managing registration and fundraising for their team and working with the race to manage the guaranteed entries and any fees for their team. For example, Semper Fi Fund uses RunSignup to create a website for each of their charity partner programs with major marathons (including Boston Marathon, Marine Corps Marathon, and New York City Marathon), as well as their Community Athletes Fund, despite race registration for those events existing on a variety of platforms.
Key Features for Charity Bib Set Up
Waiving the Registration Fee
GiveSignup makes it easy to waive (or not waive) the registration fee for charity bib runners. You can set up the option that’s right for your fundraising event.
- Waive the Fee Upfront: Waive the fee for charity bib runners during the registration process with a required fundraising minimum. Charge the participant (automatically or manually) if they don’t meet the goal.
- Refund the Fee: Have participants pay the registration fee during registration to ensure a commitment, then send a full refund the moment the fundraising minimum goal is reached.
Option to Auto-Charge When the Fundraising Goal is Not Met
Require the participant pay the rest of the fundraising goal in your GiveSignup dashboard.
- Additionally, you can require participants be a fundraiser and set unique fundraising minimums for each event.
- Participants will agree to pay the difference between their goal and what they actually raise during registration. They will agree to have their credit card securely stored so you can charge them later if needed.
- Communicate well, and often. Customize special notifications for fundraisers who do not reach their fundraising goals.
Support and Reward Fundraisers
Charity bib runners take on a big commitment – make sure they feel like VIPs from Day 1 until their race day.
- Use your free website to create a toolkit for your fundraisers, with graphics they can use, suggestions for fundraising, and examples of successful fundraisers
- Add a fundraisers leaderboard to foster a sense of (friendly) competition
- Set up milestones and badges to reward fundraisers as they reach new goals – and encourage them to raise more even after they reach the minimum
Fundraising Teams
Fundraising teams can boost morale, foster a sense of community, and boost donations. Within a fundraising team you can:
- Set a team captain to take on a leadership role and motivate their team members.
- Teams can create a unifying profile to feature team photos and total amount raised
- Show top fundraising teams with leaderboards to encourage friendly competition
Fundraising Events Talk Charity Bibs
Bryan Jenkins, of RunSignup, talks with and Kathy Wise, of the Semper Fi & America’s Fund. The Semper Fi Fund is a non-profit organization and has given away $246 million in grants to injured members of the U.S. Armed Forces and their families.They discuss how the Semper Fi Fund uses GiveSignup to power their charity bibs fundraising program. Kathy shares best practices and advice for creating a sense of community among fundraisers while also encouraging them to raise more.
Let’s Take a look at the numbers
A case study done on Semper Fi & America’s fundraising programs, a program that actively uses GiveSignup charity bibs to drive home fundraising. See the stats for yourself.
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