elev8. for education

The story

The spirit night ends. The giving keeps going.

A Tuesday night at a local restaurant becomes a school fundraiser, and that is just the opening act. Every family card in the program keeps giving long after the tables are cleared: the grocery run funds financial aid, the gas fill-up feeds the annual fund, and the local businesses that hosted spirit night keep giving back all year.

The rail works alongside your school’s system of record, not against it, and the K-12 cause area opens through the sector’s biggest CRM channel. Your advancement office keeps its tools and gains a giving engine the annual appeal could never build. Schools run on spirit wear, and the school store still looks like the school.

Who this is for

The organization

Heads of school and advancement directors at independent, private, parochial, and K-12 schools.

The supporters

Parents, grandparents, alumni, and the local family businesses that love the school.

The moments

Spirit nights. Back-to-school season. Grandparents day. The annual fund. Giving moments your families already love, minus the fatigue.

364

days of giving after the giving day ends

additional appeal letters sent to already-generous families

100%

additive to your advancement stack and your system of record

A year on the rail.

The calendar your world already keeps, funded the whole way around. No dead months, no starting from zero.

August

Back to school

Enrollment packets carry one new line: link a card, and the school benefits from the family grocery run all year. amp. launches the fall campaign the same week.

October

Spirit night

No flyers, no manager tally: linked cards attribute automatically at the pizzeria while the thermometer climbs mid-meal, and new families link at the table QR.

March

The auction gala

door. seats the gym, padl. turns the class art projects into a bidding war, draw. runs the tuition raffle lawfully, and every receipt splits gift from purchase honestly.

May

The annual fund close

txt. runs the final push with one-tap give links, sponsor matches double the last week, and trak. hands the head of school a report the board reads in a minute.

And underneath every season, the everyday layer never stops: linked cards round up on ordinary spending, sponsors give back on every swipe, and Smart Sweep carries the forgotten change to the mission, fifty-two weeks a year.

Solutions built for k-12 education.

Four ways the rail goes to work for your world. Open each one.

Turn everyday spend into k-12 education funding

Supporters link the cards they already carry, and every purchase rounds up to the next dollar for your organization. Smart Sweep moves the forgotten change for you, automatically. No new habit, no new app to remember, and the give back layer lets the businesses your people already shop at match the change. How donr. runs the rail.

Own the calendar, not just the event

Spirit nights. Back-to-school season. Grandparents day. The annual fund. Giving moments your families already love, minus the fatigue. Power-ups add urgency when the moment peaks, and recurring gifts carry the quiet months. amp. is the growth engine.

Run the live season in one place

Events, golf, auctions, and drawings run on the same login as the everyday rail: door. handles the room, golfr. the outing, padl. the bidding, and draw. the 50/50, with every dollar landing in the same reporting.

Know your people, prove your impact

Every swipe, sweep, ticket, and match writes to one record. trak. is the CRM underneath, the dashboards read from it live, and tax time is already done because the receipt truth was built in from the first dollar. Built for heads of school and advancement directors at independent, private, parochial, and K-12 schools.

How k-12 education gives on the rail.

The same engine underneath, tuned to your calendar, your language, and your people. Everything your supporters already trust stays exactly where they left it.

Spirit nights, amplified

The event brings families in. The round-ups keep them giving after everyone goes home.

Sponsor give back

The pizza place, the orthodontist, the team outfitter. Local family businesses giving back on every school card.

Recurring annual fund gifts

Steady support for financial aid and programs, set once, running quietly all year.

Merchant rewards

Families earn while they give. The local economy and the school win together.

The applications, in your language.

Every application ships with the platform. Here is what each one actually does for a k-12 education organization, in the moments your calendar already has.

Beyond tuition

Families, alumni, and grandparents link the cards they already carry, and everyday spending funds financial aid, programs, and the gap tuition never covers.

this is donr.

Every event, one login

The open house, the concert, the book fair, and the gala: tickets, RSVP, and check-in with the family record underneath, run by whoever volunteers this year.

this is door.

The gym auction, grown up

Class projects, teacher experiences, and the parking spot everyone wants: live bids from every phone, no easel sheets, no line at checkout.

this is padl.

The raffle, lawful

Tuition raffles and 50/50s on a rules engine that keeps the school compliant by state, with certified drawings and the paperwork generated.

this is draw.

Parents, actually reached

Reminders, countdowns, and giving journeys that get read, consent-governed, with recovery nudges that finish what the pickup line interrupted.

this is txt.

Always included with every account: donr., trak., txt., earnd., and amp., every other application is available within the platform, and every one works for every cause area. Every application, in depth.

donr.the payment core

door.events and ticketing

padl.the auction house

draw.raffles and 50/50s

earnd.the rewards program

amp.the growth engine

golfr.the golf outing

txt.two-way texting

trak.the record and the CRM

Three ways to run it.

The same rail at every size. Start where your program is today.

Standard

The platform, self-serve

The causefi. platform with donr., trak., txt., earnd., and amp. always included, every other application available within the platform, and every core feature in the box: Smart Sweep, give back, matching, the dashboards, the directory, and the tax truth. Signup collects everything upfront, so turn-on is fast. Start your signup.

The Room

The live season, packaged

Not ready for the whole rail? The Room packages door. events, padl. auctions, draw. raffles, and golfr. golf on their own order form, with the always-included platform set, donr., trak., txt., earnd., and amp., underneath, and a clean upgrade path to everything else when the season proves it. How the event stack works.

Enterprise

Your own flag

National scale runs fully white-labeled: your brand, your domain, national-to-chapter hierarchy, SSO, and SLAs, designed with you and priced per agreement. The enterprise design.

Talk pricing on your numbers.

One flat fee with processing inside it, standalone rooms priced on their own, and the exact schedule on your order form. We would rather run the math on your supporter base than hand you a table that fits nobody.

Book a walkthrough How pricing works

Current organizations in the loop.

The ones already on the rail. Every partnership starts with one conversation.

Partner logo

Your organization is next.Connect with us to get started.

Follow the storySpirit Week

Spirit night stories, school pride, and the local businesses behind them. Spirit Week runs monthly on the flagship channels, with a look built for parent communities.

Training and resources.

For your team

The training library ships with the platform: playbooks for every product, courses that earn points, and certifications with badges. What a subscription covers.

For your questions

Straight answers on the architecture, the money, and getting started, written like humans wrote them. Read the FAQ.

K-12 Education questions, answered straight.

What does causefi. for education cost?

One flat fee on what moves, with processing inside it, and the license fee waived for organizations on the platform agreement. Standalone rooms like events, golf, and auctions price on their own order forms. The exact schedule lives on your order form, and the pricing page explains how it works.

Will this disrupt what we already run?

No. The rail is additive: your CRM, your accounting, and your existing giving programs keep doing their jobs. causefi. adds the everyday layer they never had, and trak. keeps one record so nothing falls between systems.

What do our supporters actually have to do?

Create an account and pick your organization, or arrive through your QR code or txt. message with the cause already chosen. That is the whole ask: they can give any way they like from day one, and if they link a card, the round-ups, the give back, and the sweeps run on the spending they were already doing, with their dashboard showing every dollar.

How fast can we launch?

Signup collects everything upfront, so the platform is turned on fast. A dedicated Success Advocate carries you all the way through launch and go-live. Start your signup.

Start the loop for your k-12 education organization.

Connect with us to get started and find out more. Tell us who your supporters are and what your calendar looks like. We will bring the give back math, the sponsor story, and your numbers to the first conversation.

No new vendors to stitch together. Nothing new for your supporters to learn. One conversation is how every partnership on this page began.

The K-12 Education Fit Check, by causefi.Step 1 of 6

Every submission is tagged to the k-12 education cause area and routed to a dedicated Success Advocate inside causefi.

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Without another ask.