RAISE365

My school recommended this to my team to raise money so that we can buy stuff like merch and other things during the seasons, so we thought it would be a nifty thing to try out so that players and their families could raise money. We raised about $2,300 in our coach obviously wanted to deposit the money into our teams account now I understand that apps that raise money you have to take a kind order for them to make money, but the cut was humongous and we ended up losing about $600, WHICH IS INSANE. Thank you to the creators of this app for helping us last season but we will not be using it ever again. also the app in my opinion looks a bit choppy, and I think they should try to modernize it…. Go fund me has a better style to it, and it looks more aesthetically in my opinion.

Just like other online fundraisers (ie Snapraise, MoneyDolly) there is no need for these kind of apps. What has fundraising become? Why are companies like this encouraging teams to just call and text people asking for money? A more successful impactful approach would be to sell a product, or service, rather than having no face to face contact and just texting somebody a link. It's lazy and shows that their donation doesn't matter. It's rude to spam and send sketchy appearanced links to people, with a probably AI'ed sales pitch. There's no personal connection or contact. There's no appreciation or gratefulness for the donations because all it is is automated messages send to people. In addition to being disrespectful and rude to send and use these kinds of fundraisers they are incredibly difficult to use. Most of the time fundraisers are sent to family members that have a job and an income; older individuals struggle with online donations rather than cash or checks. To call AND text a link is a lot for most older generations to work and understand, and also just plain inconvenient. It's not just pushy and bothersome, but clicking a link putting in info while consecutively answer the phone talking to someone is difficult. And not everyone has virtual cash like Venmo or Cashapp. I'm tired of fundraisers like this, its truly unprofessional and rude and we need to stop supporting these.