Technology for School Events
GiveSignup 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.
Common School Fundraising Events
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 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
Seaside School Foundation
The 20th annual Seaside School Half Marathon + 5K is back in person this year with a hybrid event to raise money for the Seaside School, Inc., one of the oldest public charter schools in the state of Florida. The race weekend kicks off with an unofficial pre-party: Taste of the Race, a dinner that features the top chefs and restaurants from the Gulf Coast.
10% Increased donations
500 Dinner Gala Attendees
3,000 Participants
Ride 4A Reason
Over the last 15 years, Ride For a Reason has raised close to $1.62 million for public schools in Oakland and Alameda, providing resources and experiences that would not have been possible for more than 6,300 students per year. Last year over 300 riders cycled to Sacramento, raising over $125,000. As a result, twelve schools received close to $11,000 each to foster student learning, growth, leadership and success.
300+ Riders in 2025
Donation Count in 2025: $125,000+
Steps for Students
Steps for Students is an annual event benefiting the 55 Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston. In 2024, nearly 9,000 people participated, raising close to $800,000 to support the unique needs of each school.
Total Raised: $800,000+
Participating Schools: 55
Total Participants in 2024: 9,000
