For Companies & Teams

Run an office step challenge that raises real money

Every employee's steps tracked across the whole campaign. Strava, Fitbit, GPS, and manual entry all roll up into one leaderboard. Pledges land per step or per mile. The charity gets a check at the end based on verified, anti-cheat-validated activity.

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Why step challenges work as fundraisers

Everyone can participate. Walking is the lowest barrier to entry of any team activity. New parents, knee injuries, remote workers, sales reps on the road, the executive team. Nobody gets left out.
Devices already track it. Apple Watch, Fitbit, Garmin, every iPhone has a pedometer. Employees don't need to do anything new. We sync from Strava and Fitbit automatically; if they have neither, the built-in tracker works in any browser.
The metric compounds. Single-day races feel arbitrary. Multi-week step totals reward consistency, build a habit, and let the numbers grow into something dramatic by the end. 50 employees, 30 days, 50,000 collective miles is real and feels real.
It scales to any company size. 5 people in a small studio, 5,000 people across regional offices. Same setup, same leaderboard, same charity check at the end.

How it works

Create a campaign in 2 minutes. Pick the unit (steps, miles, kilometers) and the recipient charity.
Employees join via a single link. Connect Strava or Fitbit once, or use the built-in browser tracker. No app to download.
Steps and miles flow in continuously. Each workout from Strava lands as a verified row. Daily Fitbit summaries roll up automatically.
Per-step pledges from the company, leadership, friends, and family come in alongside the activity log. The total compounds in real time.
Campaign closes. Pledgers get auto-billed via Stripe. The charity gets paid. Everyone sees a final leaderboard with personal totals.

Real scenarios

30-Day Wellness Push

March Madness, but for steps

A 200-person insurance company runs a March step challenge. The CEO pledges $0.50 per 1,000 steps. Department heads kick in their own pledges. By March 31st the team has logged 18.4 million steps, the company writes a $9,200 check to the local food bank, and the wellness vendor renews for another year on the strength of the numbers.

Open-ended Office Tradition

The annual "1,000-mile club"

A consulting firm runs a year-round step challenge. Anyone who walks 1,000 miles in a calendar year gets a custom jacket and the company donates $500 in their name to a charity they pick from a curated list. Forty-eight employees finish in year one. The firm donates $24,000 across nine charities and the program becomes a recruiting talking point.

Department vs Department

Engineering vs Sales vs Marketing

A 90-person SaaS company splits into three departments and runs a 6-week step challenge. The losing two departments buy lunch for the winners. Side bet, the company donates $5 per employee per million collective steps to a charity the winning department picks. Total raised: $4,400. Sales wins (they walk a lot anyway).

More step-challenge ideas

Open enrollment kickoff

Pair the challenge with the annual benefits enrollment. Employees who hit a step goal get a wellness credit. The company also matches with a charity donation per million steps.

Healthcare partner co-promo

Run the step challenge in partnership with the company's health insurance carrier. The carrier kicks in the matching dollars; ScanRaise handles the activity tracking and the verified payout.

Multi-office showdown

HQ vs the regional offices. Per-capita step totals so smaller offices have a chance. Live leaderboard projected in every break room.

Mental Health Awareness Month

May, every step counts toward a mental health charity. Employees opt in, no judgment, no opt-in form on the calendar invite. Total miles get matched 1:1 by the company.

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