Does your soccer team need new uniforms? Does your church group need to raise money to pay for a trip? Do you want to raise money by running a marathon? Most people have been involved in sponsorship efforts in some way, and now there is a website to use for this purpose. After looking the website over and poking around a bit (I did not have a real thing to sponsor so I felt actually signing up for the service was a bit unethical), I decided that this would be a great site for anyone looking to raise a little bit of money over a short time. This site would not be good for massive capital campaigns however, but I don’t think that is the intention of EasySponsorship.com.

From what I gathered the site works as follows. First you sign up, then you spend some time designing a page (which Easysponsorhip.com generously provides tools for), once your page is created you set sponsorship goals. Once you have your goals established you are pretty much done. Then you promote the site by emailing everyone you know and hoping they are willing to sponsor your project. It is here that I think they could improve a bit. One of the main reasons a site like this would be appealing to someone is making it easier to get sponsors. Yet in the end you are left to promote the page and gather your own sponsors. This leads me to wonder why bother when really alls I have accomplished is putting my sponsorship online. Another problem I have is that you can’t request money from EasySponsorship.com until you have made at least twenty percent of your goal. Why? Isn’t it my money and if I only made five or ten percent through the site why can’t I have it?

Yet despite the faults, I do see some value to the site and if ever I have a need for sponsorship drives, I will certainly give them another look. If you or someone you know has had experience with this site please let me know, I would love to know how it turned out.