For Team Building
Team building that actually does something
The best team-building days do two things: bring the team together AND leave the world a little better. ScanRaise is the platform that turns step challenges, scavenger hunts, walk-a-thons, push-up challenges, and stair climbs into real money for charity. Activity is recorded through the available activity or check-in flow; ScanRaise calculates pledge totals, and organizers invoice and collect them through the pledge flow.
Start a Team-Building FundraiserThe team-building activities ScanRaise powers
Step challenges. Multi-week step counting in the participant's phone browser is the primary path. Participants can optionally connect Fitbit, select a day, review that day's daily summary of steps, distance, and active minutes, and choose whether to import it. Per-step pledges turn the reviewed results into support for the cause. Learn more
Neighborhood scavenger hunts. Set checkpoints around the city, then require phone location, a secret code posted at the stop, or either option for check-in. Built for in-person team-building days. Learn more
Push-up challenges. Per-rep pledges, manual rep logging, Veterans Day natural fit. Participants can share progress in the team channels they already use. Learn more
Stair climbs. Vertical metric, dramatic photos, charity alignment with heart and lung causes. Pairs naturally with a venue partner. Learn more
Walk-a-thons. The classic, finally without paper pledge sheets. GPS-verified activity calculates what each sponsor owes; organizers invoice and collect through the pledge flow. Learn more
Department vs department leagues. Engineering vs Sales vs Marketing. Same-org subgroups racing each other. Crown / flame badges, live leaderboard.
Why "fundraiser" beats "team-building day"
Real outcome. The day produces something measurable: dollars to a cause, not a stack of laminated team-building photos.
Cross-team participation. Remote employees, employees with mobility challenges, the executive team. Everyone has a way to contribute.
Recurring tradition. Walk-a-thons, step challenges, and push-up campaigns become annual traditions. Each year's numbers compound vs the year prior.
Better recruiting story. "We raised $50K for the food bank last year" beats "we did a ropes course." The story travels through Glassdoor reviews and informal referrals.
DEI-friendly by design. The team picks the charity. Multiple charity options can be run side-by-side and employees pick where their contribution goes.
Illustrative configurations
Quarterly Tradition
Quarterly team-building fundraiser
An agency can rotate among a stair climb, scavenger hunt, step challenge, and push-up challenge. Define each activity, employer pledge, review rule, and recipient before the quarter begins. Participation and annual giving vary.
Annual Off-Site
Annual company-wide off-site
A company off-site can include a scavenger hunt with phone-location or secret-code check-ins. The company defines the team format, selected charity, and donation amount before the event and confirms the final gift after reviewing results.
Department vs Department
Cross-department spring league
A consulting firm can run a department league with approved step and distance totals, a lobby leaderboard, and a captain for each group. Define the employer match, pledge cap, review process, and charity before launch.
Common team-building scenarios
New-hire onboarding
New hires in their first month complete a city scavenger hunt during onboarding week. Clues at office-area landmarks introduce them to the neighborhood, and phone-location or secret-code check-ins record each completed stop. Each accepted stop counts toward a charity donation in the new hire cohort's name.
Quarterly off-site
Quarterly off-site days now include a step challenge or scavenger hunt component instead of the standard escape-room/ropes-course. Same vendor cost, more memorable outcome.
RTO programming
Companies bringing employees back to office use team-building fundraisers to soften the return. Lobby leaderboards, walking-meeting incentives, charity outcomes that employees can feel good about.
Annual giving anchor event
The company's annual giving program needs an anchor event. A team-building fundraiser is the anchor: one signature event, then year-round giving programs build off of it.
Distributed team annual
Distributed companies that can't gather in person use ScanRaise to run a virtual team-building fundraiser. Step challenges and push-up challenges work especially well across time zones.
Department off-site days
Departments that get their own off-site day (sales kickoff, engineering hackathon, marketing planning week) now include a fundraising activity. Adds a feel-good outcome to a high-cost day.
Make your next team-building day count
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