Celebrate birthdays for students while raising money for causes that benefit them! A birthday board fundraiser is easy to create and can bring in lots of money for your school group. Here’s how FutureFund can help you run yours from start to finish.
The Ultimate Fundraising Platform for Booster Clubs
Booster clubs for athletics, academics, school bands, and more give students essential opportunities for growth—and FutureFund gives you the right tools to fund them.
Raise More Money for Ticketed Events, A-Thons, & Extracurriculars
FutureFund makes it easier for booster clubs to raise money independently when public funding is scarce—saving time for volunteers and taking financial pressure off of families in the process.
Customizable fundraising campaign templates
Step-by-step fundraiser guides
Easy corporate matching
FutureFund is FREE for Schools
Schools that sign up get full access to all of FutureFund’s features—it’s always free and it always will be.
Trusted By School Groups Everywhere
FutureFund is used by over 1,000+ organizations, including:
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Raised For Our Schools Since 2014
S. Bucceri
Board Clerk for Salisbury Central School
“FutureFund has been a game changer for our school. We love it because it keeps track of all the purchases for fundraisers and field trips and eliminates the need to handle cash and checks.”
Heather Wright
PTA Member
“The biggest thing we love about FutureFund is how easy it is to keep our group organized! I love the parents directory and volunteer tools because its so easy to get everyone organized and informed!”
The Only Platform Made Exclusively for K-12
Working with a platform that understands what a booster club needs will make your fundraising easier, faster, and more effective.
Set up and run nearly any type of fundraiser
Accept credit cards, debit, Apply Pay, Google Pay, and cash
Sell tickets to games, shows, and events with Turnstile, our free ticketing app
Create your own online store
Clarify Parent Priorities & Fund the Right Program
Use FutureFund’s built-in messaging tools to inform and update your whole school group on the programs parents and students care about most so that you can focus your fundraising efforts.
Adjustable email templates
Custom audience filters and sender personas
AI integrations for streamlined messaging
FutureFund is FREE for Schools
Schools that sign up get full access to all of FutureFund’s features—it’s always free and it always will be.
Frequently Asked Questions
How Does FutureFund Save Time for Volunteers?
FutureFund is designed to streamline key aspects of fundraising and selling—which means your volunteers can spend less time raising more money.
- Pre-Built Fundraising Campaigns: Every account comes with templates for different fundraiser types ready to customize and launch—no need to create a campaign from scratch ever again.
- Real-Time Analytics: See every donor and their contribution as soon as they make it, and track your campaign progress with helpful data visualization tools.
- Payment Processing: Accept payments via all major credit and debit cards and record purchases made through other methods like cash and checks as well.
How Does FutureFund Help Booster Clubs Choose the Right Projects?
FutureFund’s messaging system makes it easier to communicate with the parents at your school and find out what extracurricular activities they see the most value in funding. Here’s what to do:
- Set up sender personas that allow parents to reply to your school group and provide feedback.
- Send out surveys or invitations for parents to provide feedback on different extracurricular projects.
- Set up a meeting to discuss potential projects and invite parents to discuss their benefits.
- Create a shortlist of programs that your booster club will raise money for with FutureFund’s ready-made fundraising campaigns.
How Does Corporate Matching Work for Booster Clubs?
FutureFund’s built-in campaign templates fit a wide range of different fundraiser types, including:
- Corporate matching lets your booster club collect funds from employers equal to contributions from parents who have registered.
- Parents who register with your school group can provide their employer information on the Sign-Up page.
- FutureFund automatically cross-references this information with our database of corporate matching programs and sends automated welcome emails to encourage employer participation.
- One day after payments are received from parents, FutureFund sends an email asking the employer to match the amount.
- Most employers send payment directly to FutureFund. When payments are received and the corporate matching record is updated by an admin, the parent receives an automated thank-you email.
How Does FutureFund Stay ADA Compliant?
FutureFund is designed to be compliant with the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Our platform is built with user-friendliness and accessibility for all users, including those with disabilities, as core priorities. We also adhere to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1, which covers a wide range of recommendations for making web content more accessible, including:
- Visual elements such as color contrast for those with vision impairments
- Support for assistive technology like screen readers for the blind or visually impaired
- Navigability by keyboard for those who may be unable to use a mouse.
FutureFund’s commitment to ADA compliance helps us not only serve a wider community but also offer a seamless experience for all users—enabling PTAs, schools, and other groups to engage more effectively with all parents and volunteers.
How Is FutureFund Different from Other Fundraising Platforms?
We built FutureFund specifically to support K-12 PTAs and school groups. Our team are PTA members ourselves, and we understand the relationships between parents, teachers, and students—so we created tools that solve the unique challenges these groups face when it comes to effectively organizing and fundraising.
How Does FutureFund Keep Sensitive Data Secure?
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.