Nobody raises more alone
Participants form or join teams, team totals roll up, and individual effort still shows, across walks, bottle campaigns, and any campaign where your supporters come in groups.
Your supporters already come in groups. Your software does not know it
Most platforms treat a team as a tag on a participant record: a filter, not a thing anyone can look at.
The groups doing the most work are the ones you can least describe, and they never find out they won.
What is team fundraising, and how does it work?
Team fundraising is peer-to-peer fundraising where participants raise money in groups rather than individually.
In FundEasy, every participant gets a personal fundraising page with their own goal, title, banner image, and story, and can then form a new team or join an existing one. Team totals roll up as gifts arrive while each member’s individual total stays visible, so a group can compete without hiding the person who did the work. Optional goal meters and leaderboards add momentum, and both can be left off.
Cash, check, and wire gifts are recorded as offline transactions against the participant who collected them, so they count in that person’s total and on the team leaderboard alongside online gifts. Pledges track what has been promised but not yet paid.
Teams work on peer-to-peer campaigns, including walks and baby bottle campaigns. Churches, school classes, small groups, families, and company departments all work as teams.
Which groups work as teams
Partner churches, school classes and grades, small groups, families, businesses, and departments inside a company. The common factor is not size. It is that the people already know each other, so an ask from inside the group carries weight an email from you cannot.
Where the method lives
Teams are a structure inside peer-to-peer fundraising. Participant pages, pledges, and offline gifts are all documented on the peer-to-peer fundraising platform page.
This is not one event
Teams show up inside the spring walk, the bottle campaign in June, and the banquet in the fall. Each of those has its own page. This one explains the structure they share.
Campaign, then teams, then participants
The campaign
One parent page, your goal, your dates. This is the thing you build.
Teams
Each church, class, department, or family, with a rolled-up total the group can see without calling you.
Participants
Each person, with their own page, their own goal, and their own story.
A participant always has their own page. A team is a layer on top of that, not a replacement for it.
From an invitation to a standings board
Invite the organizers
Send a magic-link email that drops the missions coordinator or the class parent straight into creating their fundraising page. No account, no password, nothing to remember later.
The morning after, every group has a number
- Fundraiser list with CSV export
- Raised, promised, and collected
- Goals and progress percentages
- Offline gifts by participant
What changes when a group can see its own number
Every group gets a number
- Participants form or join a team, and team totals roll up as gifts land.
- The group can see how it is doing without calling your office.
- The All Participants page shows every group and every person in the campaign.
- Next year’s ask is a conversation about a number, not a guess.
Individual effort still counts
- A team total does not bury the person who raised most of it.
- Each member keeps their own page, their own goal, and their own visible total.
- Both numbers visible is what keeps a team honest and its best fundraiser motivated.
- The participant who raised $40 in week one is on a board with people beside them.
Cash counts too
- Cash, check, and wire gifts are recorded against the participant who collected them.
- They land in that person’s total and on the leaderboard next to online gifts.
- The family that collected $300 in an envelope is not sitting outside the standings.
- A team ranking nobody believes is worse than no ranking.
Momentum you can turn on or off
- Goal meters and leaderboards are both optional.
- Competition helps a walk and can hurt a memorial campaign.
- Both are choices, not defaults, and you set them per campaign.
- Pledges track what has been promised, so a slow week is not a dead week.
Proof, held rather than borrowed
Life Network’s walk revenue growth, 310% from $184K to $755K between 2009 and 2024, belongs more naturally on the walks and runs page. It is not this page’s proof band.
How a team campaign runs on FundEasy
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Step one
Pick a campaign that supports teams
Peer-to-Peer for Event for a walk, run, or banquet. Baby Bottle Campaign, which is team-based by design. A walk or banquet where registration and fundraising happen together. Crowdfunding does not support teams: it is one page with one goal.
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Step two
Invite the people who will lead the groups
Send a magic-link email that drops them straight into creating their fundraising page. No account, no password.
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Step three
Let the teams form
Participants form a new team or join an existing one, set their own page title, banner image, personal message, goal, and an embedded YouTube or Vimeo video, then start asking.
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Step four
Watch it, and keep it honest
Team totals and leaderboards update as gifts land. Log pledges for what has been promised. Record cash and checks against the participant who collected them. Export the fundraiser list when the campaign closes.
Where teams work, and where they do not
| Feature | Peer-to-Peer for Event | Baby Bottle Campaign | Event with P2P Fundraising | Crowdfunding |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Built for | A walk, run, or banquet | A bottle drive across churches | An event where registration and fundraising happen together | One goal-based campaign page |
| Teams | Yes | Yes, by design | Yes | No |
| Individual fundraiser pages | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| All Participants page | Yes | Yes | Via the giving page | No |
| Goal meter | Optional | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| Leaderboard | Optional | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| Pledges and offline gifts | Optional | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| Tied to an event with registration | Yes | No | Yes | No |
If you want teams, you want one of the first three. Crowdfunding is one page with one goal and no participants, so there is nothing for a team to sit inside. If that is actually the shape you are after, crowdfunding has its own page.
The same groups, three times a year
- The spring walk, where a class or a small group signs up together.
- The bottle campaign in June, which is team-based by design, one team per church.
- The banquet in the fall, where a table and a team can be the same eight people.
See how a campaign runs with groups as teams
Tell us about the churches, classes, or departments you already work with. In thirty minutes we’ll walk you through how a campaign runs with them as teams.
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Team fundraising questions
Still deciding whether your groups fit? Bring them to a demo and we will answer these against your own campaign.
What is team fundraising?
Peer-to-peer fundraising where participants raise money in groups rather than individually. Every participant still gets their own fundraising page with their own goal and story, and then forms a new team or joins an existing one. Team totals roll up as gifts arrive while each member’s individual total stays visible.
How do supporters join or create a team?
Every participant gets their own fundraising page first, then either forms a new team or joins one that already exists. They are invited by magic-link email, so there is no account to create and no password to remember. When registration and fundraising happen together, registering prompts them into the same flow.
Do individual results still show inside a team?
Yes. Each member keeps their own fundraising page and their own total, and the team total rolls up from all of them. That way a team never hides the person who raised most of it, and quieter members can still see their own progress. Offline gifts a member collects count in their total too.
What kinds of groups work well as fundraising teams?
Groups whose members already know each other: partner churches, school classes, small groups, families, businesses, and departments. An ask from inside a group lands better than one from your office, because it comes from a friend. Give each team a clear captain and a goal, and the team page gives them a total to rally around. Baby bottle campaigns are a good example, with each partner church set up as its own team.
Do cash and check donations count toward a team’s total?
Yes. An admin records cash and checks as offline transactions against the participant who collected them. They count in that person's total, in the team total, and on the leaderboard alongside online gifts. If a count changes later, the transaction can be edited so your totals stay accurate.
Which campaigns support teams?
Peer-to-peer campaigns and baby bottle campaigns. On baby bottle campaigns teams are on from the start, since each church is a team, and on other peer-to-peer campaigns you can turn them on. Crowdfunding does not support teams, because it is one page with one goal and no participants. If you want a single campaign total without participants, crowdfunding is the better fit.
Do we have to use a leaderboard?
No. Goal meters and leaderboards are both optional. There are campaigns where competition is the wrong tone, and a memorial campaign is one of them.
What does it cost?
Teams are included, not an add-on. FundEasy is $1,500 a year, or $150 a month, on a one-year term. Pregnancy centers are $999 a year, or $100 a month. FundEasy charges a 0.7% platform fee on each online transaction, and Stripe's processing fee is separate under your own Stripe agreement. Donors giving to a team member's page can choose to cover processing fees. See pricing or book a demo.