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TALKING TECH WITH: SNAP! RAISE
Describe how your product helps coaches,
athletic directors, and other sports industry
professionals.
We are the nation's largest digital fundraising and
program management platform for high school teams,
clubs, and activity groups. Unlike typical crowdfunding
solutions, our program is designed specifically for K-12
education. It's our mission to champion coaches and
leaders, so they can spend more time improving the
lives of the kids they work with. We help coaches and
ADs save time and raise money quickly and safely online,
freeing them up to do what they do best: teach, coach,
and mentor.
What specific problems/challenges does your
product solve?
We built Snap! Raise to minimize effort and maximize
fundraising. We reduce the time coaches and athletic
directors need to spend administering fundraising
programs. With Snap! Raise, a campaign can be set up in
45 minutes The Snap! Raise campaigns are safe, secure,
100% digital, and proven effective.
What sets you apart from similar products or
competitors?
Complete financial reporting and transparency. Our new
financial management tool Snap! Raise Insights (https://
bit.ly/38cvZXR) was built with financial leaders (ADs,
ASB leaders, School Admins) in mind, and is a one-of-akind
product offering complete and transparent visibility
into fundraising in a single dashboard. Coaches will never
have to chase down financial reporting, donor receipts
or payment information or struggle to provide financial
information to school leadership or bookkeepers ever
again. Athletic directors and coaches can view past and
present campaigns and estimate how much money will
come in through fundraising and plan for the future. Snap!
Raise Insights also offers extensive reporting features,
with 25 different customizable and comprehensive data
reports on all things fundraising. Coaches get an automated
solution that tracks every donation made to their team,
while Athletic and ASB leaders can budget and implement
financial strategies to efficiently communicate and execute
needs across departments.
Financial stewardship. We pride ourselves on being the
safest fundraiser on the market. We deliver unmatched
control and visibility throughout the fundraising process
so that school districts can minimize risk and ensure
proper financial governance and auditing exists for every
fundraiser run. As donations are received, they're securely
processed by the nation's largest payment processor -
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WePay- and immediately deposited into a bank account
that's been set up in the school's name. Coaches and
students never handle any funds, nor do they have access
to the accounts where those funds are deposited. By
comparison, many other crowdfunding sites both large and
small have no such financial protections in place and thus
are susceptible to both donor fraud and mismanagement
of funds.
In light of the COVID-19 pandemic and the effect
on budgets and funding, how can Snap! Raise
help coaches and athletic administrators get the
most bang out of their buck?
Every Snap! Raise fundraiser is designed to let groups
complete a successful fundraiser and raise as much money
as possible. Our experienced Campaign Directors help
drive potential donors to a program's fundraiser web page
by teaching the coaches and students how to use the tools
we provide to reach out to their biggest fans. While we
typically work with teams in and groups in-person, Snap!
Raise is completely virtual, and teams and groups raise just
as much completely online.
Additionally, our data-driven process expands each
program's network of potential donors - 80% of donors
are outside of a school's zip code, where the average
donation comes from 276 miles away. And the exciting
news is that communities want to rally behind their youth
now more than ever. We're seeing more donations per
participant and more per campaign on average than last
year. So far, 63% of Snap! Raise fundraisers run since
March have raised more money in 2020 than in 2019,
averaging $1,400 more per campaign.
How does Snap! Raise simplify the fundraising
process for coaches and athletic administrators,
whose time is already spread so thin already?
With Snap! Raise, coaches and athletic directors don't
have to figure things out on their own. Each campaign has a
dedicated Campaign Director who is an online fundraising
expert. They typically come from an athletic or educational
program background, are vetted and background-checked,
often live and work in the very communities they serve, and
are passionate about helping their local community. They
walk coaches through every step, supported by a customer
service team, all taking the burden away from the coaches
and freeing them up to concentrate on their kids and
programs. The Campaign Director manages the logistics of
getting everything set up - including payment processing
and building a group's customized fundraiser web page -
and assists coaches and athletic directors throughout the
entirety of the campaign.
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