Add a cutting-edge virtual event to your 2017 fundraising plan!

Nonprofit success depends on keeping donors engaged and excited. Yet every year it gets harder to overcome donor fatigue and keep experience saturated millennials engaged. The New York Times summarizes this issue perfectly: “Millennials expect transparency, sophisticated storytelling and technical savvy from their charitable organizations.” Replenish the passion your donors …

Soup up your store’s running program with an online run… in Colorado!

Using a virtual route and lots of digital souvenirs, Racery can expand your store’s running program into a thriving seven-day-a-week online community. With zero extra staff hours, your store can use Racery to help runners: easily track running miles get extra motivation explore cool virtual routes — Yellowstone, Paris, you name it! …

With a virtual trek across Ireland, ShowingTime networked remote employees into its company fitness challenge

How do you organize an affordable company-wide fitness event when you’ve got offices in Illinois, Minnesota, Massachusetts and Kansas? This year ShowingTime, a Chicago-based company that provides analytics and scheduling solutions to multiple listing services and brokers in the residential real estate industry, invited all of its employees to a …

Two-month virtual group run around New York State brings extra motivation and smack-talk to running club members

Members of The Most Informal Running Club Ever (TMIRCE) in New York City, have been training together since 2012. Four times a week, 20 to 70 of  the group’s 400-odd runners get together to run, with each session having a specific focus: speed training, endurance building, beginner’s run and a social run. …

Solo runner Latria Graham battles self-doubt in an alternate reality with help of community-based virtual running races

Having thousands of people simultaneously participating in photorealistic 3D simulations is no longer a far-fetched theory dreamt up by the producers of the 1999 Sci-Fi classic The Matrix. The world of virtual running leaps ahead of VR technology by offering themed online races that tap into an individual’s creativity and …