We believe that student travel is powerful and that every student should have access to the life-changing, memory-making, empowering experiences that happen on tour.
We also know that families need ways to make travel affordable.
That’s why we’ve supercharged our system with Trip Donations by BRT Payments, a free feature that allows your students to “crowd-fund” their upcoming travel expenses with friends and family. And we’ve seen the incredible impact this simple sharing option has had for students and their families:
- Since launching this feature in May 2024, students traveling with Bob Rogers Travel have received donations totaling over one million dollars!
- On average, students who use the Trip Donations feature receive just under $400/person in donations.
- It only takes a few minutes for students to send out their custom links – and for the donations to start rolling in.
Here’s how it works:
- Once your group’s trip deposit has been paid, students and parents will receive a link they can share via email, social media or however they’d like.
- Friends and family can then safely donate to a student’s trip by following a few easy steps in our BRT Payments system. Donors can choose the amount they’d like to contribute and, if they prefer, they can do so anonymously.
- Donations will immediately appear on that traveler’s payment timeline – done and done!
Here’s why you’ll love it:
Anyone can contribute.
Students can share their personal link with the people in their lives, and those supporters can contribute money that will be immediately applied to the trip balance of a student traveler. That means that friends, grandparents, cool aunts, quirky next-door neighbors, anyone can help send a student on a BRT travel experience.
More students can travel.
We believe travel helps students grow – as performers and as young adults. We want as many students as possible to experience the life-changing moments that happen during performance travel, which makes Trip Donations such a game-changer.
Donations make trips possible for more students and make it easier for more parents to say “yes!” to travel.
Your trip is more likely to “stick.”
We’ve found that trips are most often canceled due to low signups. Trip Donations give families another way to make travel happen for their students – which means registrations stay high and trips stay on the calendar.
You’ll have less fundraising to do.
Fundraising has so many benefits for your performance group – it brings students together, strengthens your culture and makes travel more affordable. But no one minds a smaller fundraising goal! Every dollar that students receive via Trip Donations reduces the fundraising burden for everyone.
To make the most of this feature, here’s what we recommend:
- Treat Trip Donations like any other fundraiser and encourage every student to participate.
- Make sure students know how fast and easy it is to generate those donations.
- Regularly share your group’s average and total crowdsourcing progress with your students.
- Consider a prize for your students if they meet their crowdsourcing goals – a pizza party for everyone, a gift card for the student with the most donations, etc.
Keeping trip payments simple and streamlined has always been a priority for us here at Bob Rogers Travel. If we can answer any questions about this game-changing Trip Donations feature, fundraising or other ways to make travel accessible to your students, we’d be thrilled to connect with you. Reach out today!