You asked... We listened!

Based on your valuable feedback, we've made some exciting updates at Pledgestar. These include key features designed to enhance the experience for teachers, administrators, and the entire school community. At Pledgestar, our mission is to simplify fundraising and engagement. These updates reflect our commitment to innovation and user satisfaction.

Teacher Portal: Empowering Educators

Our new Teacher Portal provides teachers with access to:

• Monitor Student Progress
• Generate Detailed Reports
• Allow access to Student Reading Logs
• Track classroom participation
• See classroom totals

Participation Tracking: A Vital Insight for Administrators

To ensure you have the tools needed to boost class participation, we've introduced a Teacher Participation Report. This new report tracks student engagement, detailing, involvement and participation percentages. By highlighting participation levels, educators can identify areas for improvement and celebrate successes, fostering a more interactive and dynamic learning environment.

Maximize Your Fundraising: Allow Donors to cover more of your costs!

When setting up your event, you can give donors the choice to cover associated fees using a percentage that you set. Many schools choose 10% to cover all PledgeStar and credit card fees yielding all of the intended donation. It's a simple change that can significantly increase the overall funds raised, maximizing the impact of every dollar contributed.

How does the fee coverage option work with the fee cap? As you may know, unlike other services, Pledgestar only charges 7% of online donations with a cap of $995. The fee cap means that, as you raise more, the percentage of fundraising earnings that you keep increases. When you allow donors to opt in and cover the fees, you get to use that fee coverage money for other event expenses once you hit the cap making PledgeStar FREE and your event expenses minimized! This enables groups to keep the intended donations for the causes that really matter.

Additional Leaderboards: Inspiring Friendly Competition

While we have always offered a leaderboard, we're excited to now provide the option to add two leaderboards with more choices, adding an extra element of fun and motivation. These dynamic displays track and showcase metrics like:

• Money Raised
• Minutes Read
• Pledge Count
• Average Pledge Amount
• Average Pledge Count
• Average Minutes Read

Leaderboards create a sense of community and healthy competition, encouraging students to push themselves and their peers to achieve and exceed their targets.

These are just a few of our newest features that work with PledgeStar's already robust range of customizable features. This is what continues to make PledgeStar the best event fundraising platform in the business. Thank you for being a part of the Pledgestar community. Together, we're making a difference in education, one pledge at a time.