Christopher Tufford

And so his team fundraised through a lot of old school stuff, right, that a lot of the parents are organizing.

They were doing use electronics and use clothing drives and fundraising barbecues and raffle ticket sales and T-shirt sales, all the old school stuff, right, that people do.

And between that and the fundraising stuff that happens at a school, you realize that there was a better way if we could create a digital platform to help these organizations.

I know these types of platforms exist for the individual.

You know, there's spare change roundups by companies that help you invest in your retirement, like Acorns and Milo.

And there's companies that help you to earn cash back rewards from your spending.

like drop and amply and pay me but nobody's doing this kind of stuff on the organizational level where you know a whole group of dozens or hundreds or thousands of people can pool their spare change in cash back rewards and send it to an organization and i mean it sounds like you're having a lot of fun playing poker you've been involved with a lot of other things why dedicate your time to this like what are you doing now to pay the bills

Um, well, my wife's got a good job at a hospital, so that helps.

Um, cause I'm actually going, uh, I'm working, putting my time in for free right now to make sure, uh, other members of the team can get paid.

We've raised some, uh, we did a family of friends and family.

How much?

We've raised a total of about half a million, but the majority of that actually came from a number of different government programs.

I've made sure not to leave any free money on the table.

About half of it almost.

Yeah, well, some of it's debt.

Okay, well, how did you raise debt?

Well, one of the first institutions that put some money in was called Verge Capital, and they put money into organizations that have a social purpose.

So because of the fact that we're helping organizations with fundraising, there's a real social purpose there to what we do.

Well, because they can see where we're heading.

I mean, we didn't even have a product when we put the first money in.