FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, March 7th, 2019
SPORTSENGINE FORMS PARTNERSHIP WITH TEAM FUNDRAISING PLATFORM, SNAP! RAISE
Partnership will help serve the youth athletics space through dynamic team fundraising solutions.
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN, March 7, 2019 – SportsEngine, Inc., an NBC Sports Group company, and the leading provider of Sport Relationship Management software is partnering with Snap! Raise, the leading fundraising platform for teams and groups. The partnership aligns two industry leaders around the shared goal of supporting the youth athletics industry, particularly club programs, by cutting down on the time-consuming administrative task of team fundraising.
Snap! Raise provides an online social donation platform that enables teams and programs to fundraise without having to sacrifice student, coach, or community time. Groups get their own personal onboarding specialist who will set up fundraisers for users, allowing them to track progress and encourage participation.
“This is an exciting partnership for Snap! Raise,” said Trevor Downs, VP of Strategy, Snap! Raise. “Collaborating with an industry leader and innovator in SportsEngine gives us the opportunity to support even more programs and youth athletes across the country.”
More than one million teams, leagues and clubs use SportsEngine to run their website, tournaments, leagues, online registration and mobile apps. Through these applications, sports teams, clubs and leagues are able to drastically reduce the time they spend on administration and communication, allowing them to focus more time on developing their athletes.
“At SportsEngine, our main focus is always to make lives easier for sports parents, coaches, admins, and athletes,” said Rick Ehrman, VP of Business Development, SportsEngine. “We are excited to find a partner who shares those values and to see the potential that this partnership brings in allowing everyone involved in sports to spend less time on administrative tasks and more time on the sport.”
About SportsEngine
Helping the world play smarter and live more, SportsEngine, Inc., an NBC Sports Group company, is the leading provider of https://www.sportsengine.com/ solutions/ [Sport Relationship Management __title__ Sport Relationship Management] software for more than 1MM clubs, leagues, governing bodies and associations. SportsEngine helps sports organizations around the globe reduce the time they spend on administrative tasks, and enables them to focus more on developing their athletes, providing safe experiences and furthering the love of sport. Learn more at: http://www.sportsengine.com, Facebook.com/sportsengine; or twitter.com/@sportsengine.
About Snap! Raise
Snap! Raise is the nation’s premier fundraising solution for youth athletics and extracurricular programs. Since its first fundraising campaign in 2014, Snap! Raise has facilitated over $200 million in donations for programs in all 50 states, elementary school through college. In 2018, Snap! Mobile was named to Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 as the 46th fastest-growing tech company in North America and the second fastest-growing tech company in the Pacific Northwest, while CEO and co-founder Cole Morgan was a national finalist for Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year award.
