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Renee Zau

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
154 total appearances

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 473: Raising $500k To Help Charity Event Organizers, $16M Donated with DonationMatch CEO Renee Zau

So, okay, so a little bit of background.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 473: Raising $500k To Help Charity Event Organizers, $16M Donated with DonationMatch CEO Renee Zau

If you've ever been involved with planning a gala or even a large-scale school or charity event, fundraising event, you may realize it takes about 300 hours to secure all those in-kind donations you need for those auctions, raffles, and event giveaways.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 473: Raising $500k To Help Charity Event Organizers, $16M Donated with DonationMatch CEO Renee Zau

So that's really where we fit in is we streamline the product placement for companies and reduce that work for the schools and charities who are asking for the products.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 473: Raising $500k To Help Charity Event Organizers, $16M Donated with DonationMatch CEO Renee Zau

Oh, sure.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 473: Raising $500k To Help Charity Event Organizers, $16M Donated with DonationMatch CEO Renee Zau

Yes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 473: Raising $500k To Help Charity Event Organizers, $16M Donated with DonationMatch CEO Renee Zau

So amusement parks like Sahara Sam's get hundreds, maybe even thousands of requests a year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 473: Raising $500k To Help Charity Event Organizers, $16M Donated with DonationMatch CEO Renee Zau

And, you know, there's some for.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 473: Raising $500k To Help Charity Event Organizers, $16M Donated with DonationMatch CEO Renee Zau

Oh, I'm sorry for for tickets for, you know, products from their parks.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 473: Raising $500k To Help Charity Event Organizers, $16M Donated with DonationMatch CEO Renee Zau

Usually amusement parks like to offer admission tickets.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 473: Raising $500k To Help Charity Event Organizers, $16M Donated with DonationMatch CEO Renee Zau

Exactly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 473: Raising $500k To Help Charity Event Organizers, $16M Donated with DonationMatch CEO Renee Zau

Exactly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 473: Raising $500k To Help Charity Event Organizers, $16M Donated with DonationMatch CEO Renee Zau

So it's a win win when they get the visibility and the events can actually make money from it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 473: Raising $500k To Help Charity Event Organizers, $16M Donated with DonationMatch CEO Renee Zau

The problem is when somebody, some employee is getting flooded with these requests, they have to make sure they're legitimate.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 473: Raising $500k To Help Charity Event Organizers, $16M Donated with DonationMatch CEO Renee Zau

They're not really sure who's coming to the events.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 473: Raising $500k To Help Charity Event Organizers, $16M Donated with DonationMatch CEO Renee Zau

They have to do a lot of research.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 473: Raising $500k To Help Charity Event Organizers, $16M Donated with DonationMatch CEO Renee Zau

And that's where even the hundreds of hours of work comes in for them to figure out where they should be giving them because they really don't have an unlimited supply.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 473: Raising $500k To Help Charity Event Organizers, $16M Donated with DonationMatch CEO Renee Zau

And they need to be really careful about where they're giving and that it really is supporting the causes they care about.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 473: Raising $500k To Help Charity Event Organizers, $16M Donated with DonationMatch CEO Renee Zau

Yes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 473: Raising $500k To Help Charity Event Organizers, $16M Donated with DonationMatch CEO Renee Zau

So we basically matched $16 million worth of goods, which is products, gift certificates, admission tickets, things like that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 473: Raising $500k To Help Charity Event Organizers, $16M Donated with DonationMatch CEO Renee Zau

Exactly.

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