Renee Zau
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So, okay, so a little bit of background.
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.
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.
Oh, sure.
Yes.
So amusement parks like Sahara Sam's get hundreds, maybe even thousands of requests a year.
And, you know, there's some for.
Oh, I'm sorry for for tickets for, you know, products from their parks.
Usually amusement parks like to offer admission tickets.
Exactly.
Exactly.
So it's a win win when they get the visibility and the events can actually make money from it.
The problem is when somebody, some employee is getting flooded with these requests, they have to make sure they're legitimate.
They're not really sure who's coming to the events.
They have to do a lot of research.
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.
And they need to be really careful about where they're giving and that it really is supporting the causes they care about.
Yes.
So we basically matched $16 million worth of goods, which is products, gift certificates, admission tickets, things like that.
Exactly.