Community Fundraiser Scavenger Hunt

Turn Your Community Fundraiser Into an Interactive Scavenger Hunt

A fundraiser scavenger hunt gives participants something to do together while including local businesses along the way. Instead of asking attendees to simply visit an event, organizers can create clues that lead teams through familiar locations, challenge their knowledge of the community, and encourage them to work together.

Hosts build hunts using text clues, number clues, multiple-choice questions, photo challenges, and video challenges, with an optional hunt map. Hunts run on a timer, or with no timer on Unlimited plans, and an optional live leaderboard lets participants follow team standings throughout the event.

Fundraising, donations, ticket sales, and payments are handled separately by the organizer. ClueRally is the scavenger hunt tool.

What Community Fundraiser Organizers Are Building

The Local Business Route

Create a scavenger hunt route that leads teams to local businesses using clues written by the organizer. For example: "Your next destination is a coffee shop where the morning starts with something roasted," or "Find the local business that helps keep your car on the road."

At each destination, teams can answer a text clue, solve a number challenge, or submit a photo showing they found the correct location. An optional hunt map can help organize the hunt around those locations.

Team Photo and Video Challenges

Turn each stop into an opportunity for creative team challenges. Ask participants to take a group photo outside a local business, find a particular detail on a storefront, or record a short video completing a team challenge at a designated location.

ClueRally's Custom Media Scoring allows hosts to award any point value to a photo or video submission, rather than simply approving or rejecting it. A straightforward storefront photo might receive a standard score, while a creative team photo or video could earn bonus points based on the organizer's criteria.

Local History and Landmark Trivia

Build a community event scavenger hunt around recognizable landmarks, public spaces, and local history. Use clues such as "Find the place where our community gathers for outdoor celebrations," or ask a multiple-choice question about a familiar historical landmark.

Number clues can challenge teams to identify the year a building opened or estimate the age of a local landmark. Combine these questions with photo challenges at selected locations to create a hunt that mixes community knowledge with exploration.

The Community Discovery Challenge

Create a series of text clues that encourage teams to notice details they might normally overlook. For example: "Find a public sign that includes the name of your town," or "Locate a place in the community where people gather to learn something new."

Add a multiple-choice question about the location or ask teams to solve a number clue based on something they discover there. These challenges can be adapted for school groups, church gatherings, neighborhood events, and community fundraisers without requiring specialized equipment or additional software.

Why No App Download Matters for Community Fundraisers

Community events bring together participants of different ages and levels of comfort with technology. Families, older adults, and people who rarely use mobile apps may all be taking part in the same hunt.

Requiring everyone to install an application or register for an account adds unnecessary steps before the scavenger hunt can begin.

ClueRally works directly in any phone browser. Participants join with a QR code or 5-digit code, with no app download, login, email requirement, or personal data collection.

There are no integrations to configure. Organizers create their hunts, share the joining instructions, and run the hunt through the browser-based platform.

ClueRally also supports different event schedules. A timed hunt works for a fundraiser with a defined window, while Unlimited plan hosts can run a no-timer hunt that stays open for days.

Unlimited plan hosts can also edit a no-timer hunt while it is live, providing flexibility for community events that extend beyond a single afternoon.

When the live leaderboard is turned on, teams can follow the competition, and the full-screen scoreboard can be displayed on a TV or projector at the event.

Built by an Event Organizer With More Than 600 Events of Experience

ClueRally was created by an event organizer who has managed more than 600 events and over 6,300 members. The platform was built after experiencing the delays caused by scavenger hunt apps that required downloads and account creation during live events. ClueRally has been used for events in more than 22 countries, and its largest single hunt brought together 367 players at a university campus event.

A defining capability is Custom Media Scoring, which lets hosts assign any point value to photo and video submissions instead of limiting scoring to approval or rejection. For community fundraiser scavenger hunts, organizers can use this flexibility to award bonus points for creative team photos or videos.

Community Fundraiser Scavenger Hunt Pricing

Start with a free trial for up to 3 teams, with no credit card required, then choose a single hunt for $50 with a 12-hour maximum, Unlimited Monthly for $45/month with cancellation anytime, or Annual for $300/year. Limited time pricing is available for new hosts.