Giving Sports

This week Giving Sports was featured in an article by the Las Vegas Business Press. It’s always nice to get some press coverage for the site. They did a decent job getting the concept and I appreciate their help in promoting Giving Sports as a great fundraiser for sports teams. Here’s a small section of the article:

His [Giving Sports] basic platform would let amateur sports teams register and post pages about themselves to draw donations, reducing or eliminating the need for traditional fundraisers such as candy bar sales. Although givingsports.com takes a cut, Lynn calculated it would still net the clubs more than other methods.
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After canvassing other potential clients, he detected a desire for a similar vehicle for nonsports groups. So he developed givingsquare.com.

Giving Sports actually takes one of the smallest percentages in the fundraising industry. This is one of my main goals on Giving Sports. I want to give as much of the contribution someone makes back to the organization it was meant to support. It makes me sick to hear about someone buying a $5 candy bar and then the fundraising organization only gets $2. That’s just wrong and Giving Sports is trying to change that fundraising model.