GroupRaise

GroupRaise operates an online marketplace and booking engine that connects nonprofit groups, schools, churches and other community organizations with restaurants willing to host in-restaurant fundraisers. A group requests a date at a participating location, promotes the event and collects RSVPs through GroupRaise's tools, and the restaurant donates an agreed percentage of sales generated by the event to the group's cause. Listed donation rates on the site range from about 15% to 25% for local restaurant meals, and the platform describes bookings for groups of roughly 20-200 diners.

Alongside single-location meal events, the platform offers national fundraising campaigns with consumer brands, including Krispy Kreme, AMC Theatres, Regal Cinemas, Schlotzsky's/Cinnabon, Instacart gift cards, ThriftBooks, Mixbook calendars and a "Coffee for a Cause" program, with stated give-back rates from 15% to 50%+ and some shipped or available nationwide. On the restaurant side, GroupRaise is positioned as a customer-acquisition and community-marketing system that lets operators set a fundraising policy, receive and approve group requests by email and dashboard, and track event sales performance; a post-event satisfaction survey provides feedback on restaurant performance. The company cites McAlister's Deli as a national partner using the platform to reach supporters of community organizations.