Draft — pending attorney review
1. Campaigns we welcome
- K-12 schools, PTOs, booster clubs, and student programs.
- Colleges, athletic teams, and student organizations.
- Churches, ministries, and faith-based nonprofits.
- Registered 501(c)(3) nonprofits.
- Booster clubs, PTOs, and youth sports or activity teams.
- A participant (player, student, or member) raising for their own part of one of the programs above, such as team travel or a school trip.
Before launch, every organizer confirms their fundraiser fits one of these types and that the information is accurate.
2. What's not allowed
You can't use Shareathon to raise for or promote:
- Anything illegal in the United States or in the donor's state.
- Hate, harassment, or content targeting a person or group based on identity.
- Adult content, escort services, or pornography.
- Weapons, ammunition, explosives, or related accessories.
- Tobacco, vaping, cannabis, recreational drugs, or drug paraphernalia.
- Gambling, sweepstakes, raffles where prohibited by state law, or anything labeled as "investment".
- Political campaigns, PACs, and partisan electioneering. (Civic-education and nonpartisan voter-engagement nonprofits are welcome.)
- Multi-level-marketing recruiting, pyramid schemes, or pay-to-play arrangements.
- Cryptocurrency speculation, tokens, NFTs, or anything sold primarily as a financial product.
- Personal fundraising on behalf of someone else without their written consent.
- Causes that mislead donors about where the money goes.
- Personal purchases or needs not tied to a supported program (for example bills, vehicles, or personal items).
3. How you share
- Only contact people you actually know — friends, family, your community.
- No purchased lists, no scraped emails, no spam, no unsolicited bulk SMS.
- No impersonating someone else.
- No fake donors, no self-dealing donations to manipulate the leaderboard.
- Respect "stop" and unsubscribe requests immediately.
4. Sharer rewards and the gift-card thank-you
The optional $20-per-$500 gift-card thank-you is designed to reward participants who genuinely drive verified donations through their own personal share link. You may not use it to farm gift cards. In particular, you may not:
- Self-donate or coordinate donations to your own share link to trigger a gift card.
- Coordinate rings with other participants for the purpose of generating gift-card eligibility that would not otherwise exist.
- Create sham campaigns or fake donations to inflate a share link's totals.
- Use bots, scripts, purchased traffic, or other automation to simulate donations or share activity.
- Misrepresent whose personal share link drove a donation.
We may withhold, delay, claw back, or forfeit gift-card eligibility; reverse credited donations; and suspend or close accounts on reasonable suspicion of any of the above. Full rules — including the 80/20 split, the 10% referral reward Shareathon pays from its own fee, and the gift-card program — live in the Sharer Rewards Terms.
5. Rewards and prizes
You can absolutely thank donors and reward sharers. You can't tie a donation to a regulated good or to a prize that turns the campaign into a raffle in states where that requires a license.
6. How we enforce
Shareathon is in beta, and our team reviews every fundraiser. We may pause or remove any fundraiser that doesn't meet these guidelines. If we remove yours, we'll email the organizer with the reason and the date it was taken down, and you can reply if you think we got it wrong. Removed fundraisers stop accepting new donations; gifts already received are handled under our Terms.
If we see a violation, we usually warn first and ask you to fix it. For serious or repeated issues we may suspend the campaign, hold funds for refund to donors, and close the account. For anything illegal we will cooperate with law enforcement.
7. Report a violation
See something off? Write safety@shareathon.com. We respond within one business day.
Questions?
Email legal@shareathon.com or head back to the Trust Center.