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Sponsor-funded campaigns for local communities

Turn visits to local businesses into money for local causes

GivePass turns sponsor funding into a reason to visit local businesses. Participants scan a sign, unlock money for local causes, and choose where it goes at no cost to local businesses.

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Runs 8 to 16 weeks. Your commitment is capped. Free for the businesses that take part, free for participants.

Fairhaven Fall Passport

Scan here before you leave

No camera? Open givepass.app/fairhaven

Your visit sends money to a Fairhaven cause you choose. No app, no sign-up, costs you nothing.

Funded by Valley Community Bank

One sign per address. We print them and post them out.

Sponsors fund the incentive. Residents direct the impact. Merchants keep their margins. Communities get measurable foot traffic.

The problem with traditional promotions

Supporting local businesses shouldn’t come at their expense.

Traditional local promotion

The merchant carries it

The local businessFunds the incentive
The visitorGets a discount
The local causeNot involved
The sponsorWeak attribution

Cost to the business

Every discount

GivePass

The sponsor carries it

Everyone gains
The local businessReceives the visit
The visitorDirects the money
The local causeGets paid directly
The sponsorFunds it, and is credited

Cost to the business

$0

No participation fee, no merchant-funded discount, no POS integration, no cashier action.

How GivePass Works

Sponsors fund it. People activate it. Everyone benefits.

01

A sponsor funds a campaign

A bank, health system, university or large local employer commits a capped pool for one community.

02

Visits release the money

People scan a sign at participating businesses. No purchase required.

03

Participants choose the cause

The sponsor pays local causes directly. GivePass never holds the funds.

Watch — 41 seconds

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The same three steps, in forty-one seconds — who funds the pool, what a visit releases, and how a participant chooses where it goes.

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The actual product

One scan for the participant. One console for the organizer.

Participants see what their visits have generated and choose where it goes. The community organization sees the campaign it is running, and the report it can hand to a sponsor or a board.

Fairhaven Business Association
Your Fairhaven
Passport
You have generated
$11
for Riverside Food Pantry
5 more stops to the Fairhaven Passport big give
3
visits
3
shops visited
12
weeks left
Your visits support
Riverside Food Pantry

What a participant sees after a few visits.

Fairhaven: Today
givepass.app/c/fairhaven/organizer
Fairhaven Passport · Fall 2026
Day 68 of 91. Three things need you.
Raised for local causes
$4,860
Residents taking part
512
Stores live
22 / 26
3 stores have no counter signneeds youPrint
41 residents have not picked a causeneeds youOpen
Winter Market opens in 34 daysdraftFinish

What the community organization sees while the campaign runs — switch the tabs for the report and the settlement views. Fairhaven is an example community, not a customer.

Who it is for

Something for everyone.

The community turns out and takes part. Shops get people through the door. Sponsors get visibility and real goodwill in the towns they serve. Local causes get both attention and money.

Party

Contributes

Receives

Funds the pool
The sponsor

A bank, health system, university or large local employer

Read the sponsor page →

Contributes

The charitable pool and the campaign fee.

Receives

Participation, visibility, business relationships, and data-driven insight.

The organizer

A chamber, Main Street or BID. Runs the campaign locally.

Read the community page →

Contributes

Local coordination and relationships.

Receives

A funded, measurable program to give members, and the data to prove it worked.

The local business

No fee, no discount, no POS, no cashier action.

Read the business page →

Contributes

Counter space for a sign.

Receives

Visits, visibility as a participating local business, and a count of who is new to them on GivePass.

The local cause

Not asked to fundraise or bring its own donors.

Read the cause page →

Contributes

A description and a payment address.

Receives

Sponsor-funded contributions, directed by residents, paid directly by the funders.

The community

No purchase, no app, no signup wall.

Contributes

Visits.

Receives

Supports local causes and local businesses, and picks where the money goes.

GivePass

Never takes custody of the pool.

Contributes

Platform, verification, reporting, support.

Receives

The campaign fee, which never touches the pool.

Measurement & privacy

Measure impact. Not people.

We publish exactly what a verified visit means, what we measure, and what we never claim: no purchase tracking, no cross-campaign advertising profiles, no sale of participant data.

Read our measurement page

See a live campaign on a phone, in twenty minutes

We'll walk a running program on a phone so you see exactly what your businesses and participants would see. Campaigns start at $10,500 in total sponsor commitment, of which at least two thirds goes to local causes.

The pool is a cap, not a bill. Anything participants do not unlock is not owed, and GivePass never holds the money.