Create Amazing Events

The DONNA Foundation honors those facing the challenges of breast cancer and to raise funds towards ending breast cancer. A significant portion of the DONNA Foundation’s fundraising comes from its signature events like the DONNA Marathon, and the organization raised an impressive $273,000 with this year’s DONNA Marathon Weekend.

Scout Mountain Ultras is an environmental event with a running problem. The race moved to RunSignup for better participant management tools, easing the time needed for customer service and ensuring happier runners. Along with that, they have taken advantage of safety features, integrated donations, merch options, and RaceDay tools to create an ultra race that is both loved by participants and true to the advocacy goals of the event.

With five age groups, HKRS brings a five-week running series to your community and encourages kids to kickstart their healthy lifestyle and fight against childhood obesity. Learn how Healthy Kids has used RunSignup technology to scale their events and increase revenue.

Race Day Events switched to RunSignup at the end of 2014, because it has an easy user interface for participants to register for races, and a more complete back-end with extensive reporting, promotion, and participant management features that seamlessly tie into timing software.

The Chesapeake Bay team used RunSignup’s free email marketing tools to streamline communications to participants. The main use of RunSignup’s free Email V2 was to share key race information with lottery entrants and eventual participants. In total, they sent 19 marketing & logistics emails in 2023, leading to nearly 10,000 views of their RunSignup website.

Today Steelman Racing hosts 5-6 events per year, including a trail race, 3 open water swims, and a triathlon. One of David’s priorities when he took over Steelman Racing was finding the right timing partner and registration platform because of two primary challenges, inability to make updates to registration and communication challenges with timer.

RunSignup’s RaceDay Technology Suite helps race directors and timers speed up their race day processes. Tony Sapp from Negative Split Productions uses his RaceDay certification to implement several products from the RaceDay suite, such as automatic bib assignment and RaceDay CheckIn. These applications streamline the check in process on race day to cut down lines.

It’s no secret that Thanksgiving day is the biggest running day of the year. And in the Philadelphia area, the Greater Philadelphia YMCA has traditionally hosted a local Gobble Wobble across several locations. In 2024, they’re continuing to refine their events, with a new location launching and big revenue and donation growth goals for returning locations. See how they are combining registration for all locations on a single site and utilizing Website V2 and the RaceDay CheckIn app for a better participant experience from registration to race day.

Founded in 1988 by John and Debbie Burke, Bay State Race Services started with just a rented clock and computer to time a Thanksgiving Day race. Over the years, they evolved from using basic timing equipment to implementing cutting-edge chip timing and, most recently, transitioning to RaceDay Scoring in 2024. Their expertise in timing over 140 events annually, including triathlons and trail races, has made them a trusted name in the industry.

Prior to the release of the upgraded Membership Product, the NOTC registered club members via RunSignup’s legacy Clubs. They migrated to the new platform in April 2024, gaining access to a suite of new tools while maintaining all current memberships, historical reporting, and access to legacy content. See how they built a robust website, integrated merchandise sales, provided members-only perks, and cross-promoted their club and races.