CrunchTime’s belief is that fundraisers can and should do much more than just serve as a means for a group to raise money. Limiting it merely to raising money squanders a valuable opportunity to augment a sales pitch with an opportunity to educate people about problems that truly affect them while providing tangible solutions to solve those problems.

Fundraising has been a part of society for many generations. In it’s simplest form it’s a way to spread the wealth and help those who needed money for a worthy cause. When merchandise is bartered for money, more often than not, that merchandise is an inexpensive consumable product such as a chocolate bar. More expensive commodities might include a travel mug, candles, and t-shirts, for example; stuff that you might possibly use or wear, but stuff you probably wouldn’t buy otherwise. You buy them because you want to support the efforts of the group doing the fundraiser, but typically the products don’t do anything for you.

CrunchTime revolutionized the chocolate bar fundraising industry when we integrated environmental education and conservation into the act of selling chocolate. We chose our product only after due diligence. Newman’s Own Organics is the epitome of an earth-friendly chocolate bar. The organic cacao is grown in a sustainable fashion in the tropical rainforest in of Costa Rica and Panama, thus preserving the land while providing income for the indigenous peoples who have lived on that land for hundreds of years. We taught students to become better stewards for the planet they would inherit while donating a huge percent of our profits to “adopt” tropical rainforest acreage in their name!

Concerned that traditional methods for fundraising not only required an enormous amount of time to organize and execute, they put kids at risk because traditional ways of selling the product typically meant selling door-to-door.
To that end, CrunchTime embarked on a mission to revolutionize the fundraising industry by creating a method where the fundraising organizer need only enter some information in a computer to launch a fundraiser. After that, the people participating in the fundraiser need only direct people to our website where there are simple instructions and compelling reasons to buy merchandise. As significant as the technology is, the products and services that we offer go back to some of the basic tenants of life; they help protect the health and vitality of planet earth and preserve its finite natural resources.

Customers who buy products to support a fundraiser will learn that their investment in the products will quickly be recouped in the form of lower utility bills, even as part of the purchase price goes to benefit the group conducting the fundraiser. Best of all, everything is done automatically.

- From the perspective of the fundraising organizer, there are no catalogs to review, copious order forms to complete, product to order, merchandise to receive and distribute, money to collect and returns to deal with.

- From the perspective of the fundraising supporter, they can choose to help a group’s fundraising efforts on their terms, in the comfort of their own home. At which they can choose from a vast assortment of products—things that will actually prove useful—each of which will pay dividends for many years to come.

With that, we hope that you will embrace our programs and see that they truly offer a copious winning situation:

- A Fundraising Organizer wins because their time is minimized and involvement kept to a minimum.

- Sellers, quite often young students, win because they are kept out of harms way by not having to sell door-to-door, while they also learn a lesson in environmental stewardship.

- Supporters of a fundraiser win because they can shop for worthwhile products on their terms, in the comfort of their own home. And in many cases save money on their utility bills, indefinitely.

- The environment wins because the products and services help improve conditions on the planet.