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Get help running your best spring fun run ever
The Fun Run is the most profitable fundraiser that a school can run, and we want to help plan, build, and promote yours completely free.
Since 2014, we’ve helped more than 1,500 school groups raise more than $160 million. We’d love to help you!
Let’s connect about your fundraiser
Enter your contact information below and one of our fundraising specialists will reach out to connect.
We will help you:
Identify your goals
From how much to raise to how many participants you need
Create the plan
Pick the dates, recruit volunteers, and get organized!
Set up your online donation page
Each participant gets their own page to make it easier to share.
Build promotional materials
From social media posts to emails for parents and friends.
Get your community excited
When you build buzz and excitement, you raise more!
Receive donations from corporate sponsors
Our built-in corporate matching tools can add hundreds or thousands to how much you raise!
Time and time again, the fun run comes out on top
A Fun Run is a type of pledge campaign, where donors pledge to support fun run participants completing milestone goals (such as $2/lap, or $10/mile, etc.). It helps build community engagement while raising funds for worthwhile causes!
No selling
Accept all forms of payment (including Apple Pay)
Easy to manage
Each participant gets a unique donation page
A single-day event with a HUGE impact
In a single day, your fun run could raise thousands!
Raise $250+ per particpant
Participation-based fundraisers like the fun run raise more than any other type.
You can trust our experts to help!
All we do is help school groups across America fundraise – and we’re good at it!
Easy to set up and manage
Volunteers, admins, and participants all appreciate how simple and effective a fun run is!
Our K-12 fundraising experts would love to help!
We exist to empower schools and communities to invest in their students.
By providing the technology and expertise school groups need to run successful fundraisers, sell online, and simplify volunteer activities, we work to improve student outcomes everywhere.
$160M
Funds raised for schools
1,500+
Groups use FutureFund
$0
Fees collected from school groups
Image: Our co-founder (left), Erin Shimy, volunteering at a fun run in spring 2024
Frequently asked questions
What kind of help will you provide me?
We know how much you have on your plate. To help, we will:
- Create your free FutureFund account
- Set up and configure your fun run fundraiser campaign
- Help you set up your admins and volunteers
- Help you connect your bank account so you can get paid when your fundraiser concludes
- Create social media posts, emails, and a flyer that you can use to promote your fundraiser
Basically, everything you need to set up and manage the fundraiser!
This means that you only need to pick your dates, recruit a few volunteers, sign up participants, and oversee the event.
Who will help me with my fundraiser?
You’ll be happy to know that our team is based here in America, and you’ll be working with one of us directly!
How much does FutureFund cost?
FutureFund is 100% free for schools to use.
Instead of charging monthly service fees for organizations to use our software, donors pay a small percentage on top of each purchase or contribution made through our platform. The total fee is approximately 4.9% (2.9% + $0.30 + credit card fees).
For example: when someone wants to donate $100, they are charged $105. Your school receives $100, and the $5 covers all fees – including payment processing!
Is FutureFund safe to use?
FutureFund is built to comply with all major financial regulations and data privacy laws governing PTAs and school groups in the United States. This includes Federal and state-specific legislation, such as:
- The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)
- The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA)
- The California Consumer Privacy Act
- Assembly Bill 1584
- The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS)
Our platform also makes use of current technologies designed to provide extra layers of security when handling sensitive information. These include:
- TLS/SSL (Transport Layer Security/Secure Sockets Layer): These are cryptographic protocols designed to provide secure communication over a network by encrypting data in transit between client and server.
- WAF and DDOS Protection (Web Application Firewall and Distributed Denial of Service Protection): These are security measures to protect websites from harmful traffic, with WAF filtering, monitoring, and blocking HTTP traffic to and from a web application, and DDOS protection preventing overload of a network or server by a flood of internet traffic.
- Penetration Testing: This is a method of evaluating the security of a computer system or network by simulating attacks from malicious sources to identify vulnerabilities.
- Load Balancer Based Compute Isolations: This is a strategy of distributing network or application traffic across many servers to improve responsiveness and availability, while isolating workloads for security and fault tolerance.
- Role-based Access Control: This is a method of regulating access to computer network resources based on the roles of individual users within an organization, ensuring that only authorized individuals can access specific resources.
- Secure Logging: This is the process of recording events in a system in a manner that prevents tampering or deletion, providing a reliable record for security auditing and incident response.
- Static and Dynamic Code Analysis: These are methods of examining source code or running applications to find potential security vulnerabilities, with static analysis checking code without executing it, and dynamic analysis testing code while it’s running in a real or simulated environment.
- OWASP Secure Coding Principles (Open Web Application Security Project): These are a set of principles and best practices for secure coding aimed at preventing security vulnerabilities in web applications, as defined by the non-profit OWASP organization.
- Credit Card Tokenization: This is an advanced security process that protects sensitive payment information during transactions.
Trusted by schools everywhere
FutureFund is used by over 1,500+ organizations, including:
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Raised For Our Schools Since 2014
S, Kasad
Bollinger Elementary & Iron Horse Middle School
“FutureFund is always responsive to questions and suggestions, and added new corporate matching features based on my feedback. We rarely had to wait more than 24 hours for support and always felt taken care of.”
Made by PTA volunteers and former school admin
J, Morgenthaler
Tassajara Elementary
“FutureFund provides excellent onboarding and support for our organization. The FutureFund Team is based in America and easy to get on a call with to help us troubleshoot problems. Most issues are resolved within 24 hours!”