Built by Someone Who’s Raised Money at Every Level of Sports

Patrick Elliott has spent two decades raising money at the NCAA DI intercollegiate level — working with athletic departments, major donors, and institutional campaigns where the systems were professional and the stakes were high. Then he became a youth sports parent.

What he found surprised him. The volunteer coordinators and booster club chairs running rec league fundraising were doing it without the tools, frameworks, or support that even the smallest college program takes for granted. They were working hard — often incredibly hard — and still coming up short. Not from a lack of effort or community generosity, but because nobody had ever handed them a real system.

RaiseUp Sports exists to close that gap. The same fundamentals that drive successful fundraising at the professional level — a clear goal, a structured committee, a phased timeline, and a donor appreciation plan — work just as well for a 64-kid soccer league as they do for a Division I athletic department. We just make them accessible.

Youth league directors, booster club coordinators, and team parents running fundraising for recreational sports programs — the people juggling this alongside jobs, families, and everything else that keeps a youth sports program running.

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