October 28, 2026 – Race Entry, a proven race growth and management software, adds silent auction to its fundraising tools. With this integrated tool, you can easily add another fundraising opportunity for your nonprofit partners.
Silent Auction for Fundraising
With Race Entry’s Silent Auction tool, you can create and manage a silent auction for your race:
- Add Items for Multiple Charities – Create unique auction items for your charity partners that are all listed on the same online auction page.
- Set Starting Bids – Set the starting bid amount for each auction item and the required increase increments for the next bid.
- Accept & Track Bids Online – Let people bid on items from your online auction page and track bidding.
- Auto-send Emails When Outbid – Keep your bidders engaged with automated emails when they are outbid.
- Automatically Bill/Charge Winning Bid – Determine if the winning bidder is automatically charged for their item when your auction ends or if they’ll be invoiced.
With this feature, you can further support your fundraising efforts and fundraise more money.
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Fundraising Tools for Race Directors
The new Silent Auction feature adds to Race Entry’s existing fundraising tools:
Grow Your Fundraiser
Race Entry offers several tools that help you grow your fundraiser:
- Mini-fundraisers & Fundraising Teams – Make it easy for supporters to set their own goals and create teams to fundraise for your cause. You can even require your participants to create a fundraising team during registration.
- Custom Run for Free Program – Let participants sign up to fundraise instead of paying for their entry. Set fundraising thresholds to qualify for a free entry.
- Public Goal & Donation Tracking – Track progress towards your fundraising goal, recent donations, and fundraising team progress from your donation landing page.
- Fundraiser Network Marketing – Leverage your supporter network to market your fundraiser with clickable social media buttons, text messages, and emails from your donation landing page.
With these tools, you can quickly expand your fundraiser’s reach beyond your participants.
Gather Donations
Race Entry makes it easy to gather donations from everyone interacting with your race:
- Registration Form Donations – Request donations as people are signing up for your race.
- Volunteer Form Donations – Request donations after people sign up to volunteer.
- Standalone Donation Page – Accept donations from a standalone donation landing page to make it easy for more people to support your cause.
- Preset & Custom Donation Sizes – Create preset suggested donation amounts and allow donors to donate a custom amount.
Keep your volunteers and participants thinking about supporting one of your causes with donation requests and manageable donation suggestions.
Learn more about effective fundraising strategies for races.
About Race Entry
Founded by a race director, Race Entry’s race management software delivers effective solutions for race directors and event organizers. Race Entry’s one-stop shop simplifies event management from registration and expo booth sales to sponsorship, fundraising, and even merchandise sales. Races sell more registrations with Race Entry’s suite of trackable, effective growth tools. And, Race Entry’s software is free with no contract required.
To simplify and sell more, visit raceentry.com.