Supporting Causes & Causing a Scene
What is G-Team?
Long, long ago (2008), Groupon was born out of a group action and fundraising platform called The Point. As the Groupon community grew, our collective consumer power helped people get great deals and discover fun ways to experience their cities.
After a desert vision quest where we invoked our ancestral spirits, we are repossessed with The Point’s powers. Newly inspired, we’ve devised a way to connect Groupon users with their communities in a different way—with G-Team. Groupon followers who want to do good, have fun, and make a real impact can now join forces through G-Team campaigns.
G-Team campaigns range from ridiculous flashmobs to fundraisers that benefit local community organizations. Every G-Team campaign connects you with enough people to achieve something awesome that you couldn’t have done alone.
Your campaign widget will be shown on all deal pages on the day it runs. People can donate or join the campaign to support your cause. They can also share the campaign on their social networks and share by email.
Below are successful campaigns we’ve run in the past.
Examples of G-Team Campaigns
Philanthropic Fundraising
If the G-Team collectively raise $1,000, a local bike cooperative will fix up 100 broken, used bikes, and donate them to disadvantaged youth in your city.
Civic Engagement
If 25 people who purchase today’s Groupon join, we’ll all come for 4 Saturdays in July to help clean up the river.
Social Events
If 12 single people who bought today's Groupon agree to sign up for the Wednesday night class, we'll all have a Singles Salsa class together!
We launched G-Team in select cities, and hope to come to your city soon. As a Groupon subscriber you’ll be notified of the daily deals and the G-Team campaigns in your community. Subscribe to daily e-mails
Keep in mind, G-Team campaigns typically…
- benefit the local communities of our subscribers
- run for a limited period of time, usually one day
- support causes that resonate with our subscribers
- aid specific projects, as opposed to broad fundraising efforts
- only succeed if they reach a "tipping point"
- are creatively organized around a compelling story
