This article showcases our top picks for the best Massachusetts based Crowdfunding companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Crowdfunding industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
Top Massachusetts Crowdfunding Companies
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Advantage Data
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Advantage Data is a company that specializes in credit services across the globe.
Seaborn Networks
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Seaborn Networks is comprised of telecom executives who bring a successful track record in developing, financing, constructing, operating
Fundraise.com
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Fundraise.com is a social fundraising platform that helps individuals and organizations raise money online. The platform provides a complete set of tools in the industry: an iPhone app, mobile-optimized website, Facebook and Twitter sharing, widgets, and a traditional website.
The company provides 92.5 cents per dollar donated to a cause, which can be institutional, organizational, educational, political, personal or faith-based.. .
Align Credit Union
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Align Credit Union is a bank specializing in banking, mortgages, and financial planning services.
Baystate Financial
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Baystate Financial is a financial services company in Boston, MA.
Raise Green
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Raise Green is a financial technology company designed to create a healthy, just, and sustainable future. By offering everyday people a platform to invest in clean energy and climate solution projects, Raise Green will democratize renewable energy ownership, increase community resilience, and help facilitate the transition to a decarbonized future while creating new investment pathways accessible to everyone.
We are relentlessly passionate about using financial technology to democratize the ownership of renewable energy, create new income streams, and empower communities to drive solutions to climate change. Together we can build and own the decarbonized future we want and need.
Raise Green is the first inclusive funding portal focused on climate solution projects with a social mission. We combine the proven investment models of project finance and crowdfunding to provide innovative pathways for non-accredited investors to access sustainable investment opportunities in a low-risk, low-cost, and impactful way.
We aggregate small investments to provide investors with equity into project finance companies. Initially, this will take the form of community solar projects with a predictable rate of return assured through power purchase agreements.
As we scale, we plan to support the financing of an suite of climate solution projects and even ventures themselves.. .
Comgest
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Comgest is an independent, international asset management group with global headquarters in Paris.
Givinga
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Givinga provides a complete solution for companies, employees, and charities to engage, collaborate and amplify their charitable activities. It also provides financial technology and a full suite of philanthropic vehicles enabling corporations of any size to engage employees, maximize CSR investment and reduce administrative costs.
Givinga combines the power of crowdfunding with unique philanthropic tools enabling corporations of any size to leverage CSR, empower employees, and amplify impact. They created financial tools and modern technologies that activate the purpose-driven marketplace.
They also empower employees without ceding corporate control, provide tools to amplify impact and organize all aspects of the giving process on a centralized platform. Givinga was founded in 2015 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts, United States..
Management Recruiters Inc ‰ÛÒ The Boston Group
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Management Recruiters is a staffing and recruiting company that provides construction, healthcare, and financial services.
Wolfram Ventures
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Wolfram Ventures provides venture capital funding and technical resources to select companies. We are investors and technology partners.
Philanthropist
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Philanthropist is a microfinance technology platform that enables its users to function as philanthropists such as small-scale donors and socially-minded investors to directly interact with entrepreneurs and volunteers for the purpose of small-dollar transactions with maximum efficiency and minimal transactional overheads. The platform is a market-based microphilanthropy exchange which allows donors to directly fund volunteers who are willing to perform project-specific tasks that are directly aligned with the values and social interests of donors.
Philanthropist is based in Boston, Massachusetts.. .
NEPC, LLC
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NEPC is a financial services company in Boston and Massachusetts.
Hartford Funds
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That’s why our approach is something we call human-centric investing. Human-centric investing works to understand the relationships between investors, their money and their financial advisors…and then create the solutions and advisor tools designed to serve those investors and their mindsets.
We believe that human-centric investing can create solutions and advisor tools that not only strengthen bottom lines, but strengthen advisor-client relationships by helping investors better realize their true life goals. Hartford Funds has $73.6 billion total assets under management as of March 31, 2016 (excluding assets used in certain annuity products) and more than 45 Funds in a variety of styles and asset classes.
We are sub-advised by Wellington Management, one of the finest institutional fund management groups in the world. Of course, Hartford Funds will always strive to meet or exceed traditional industry benchmarks, but through human-centric investing, we intend to also raise the bar on performance, and make it mean more than numbers alone..
Mellon Capital
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Mellon Capital is an investment management company specializing in investment and asset management services.
Seraf
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Seraf addresses key needs of investors with an intuitive dashboard to organize all of your holdings in one workspace. The founders of Seraf are very active angel investors with over 15 years of experience, and investments in 100+ companies.
They also serve as Directors of Launchpad Venture Group, a leading United States angel investment group. They designed Seraf to deal with the daily challenge of managing their own portfolios, and now they are making it available to their fellow angel investors..
Ballentine Partners, LLC
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Ballentine Partners is a financial services company that provides investment & financial advisory and wealth management services.
GiveSendGo
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GiveSendGo is a free Christian fundraising platform. GiveSendGo is a unique social crowdfunding platform for those living out the heartbeat of God.
We believe that everyone from Christian business owners, Missions organizations, Churches, Artists, Missionaries, or individual christians were created by God with a Mission in mind.. .
Monument Group
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Monument Group is a financial services company that provides fund raising and institutional investment services.
Fund Wisdom
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FundWisdom is an alternative finance analytics solution. It enables investors of all sizes to connect with and invest in entrepreneurs and private small businesses that are seeking capital.
Based on a core belief that a larger group of individual investors from all wealth classes will make smarter investments, FundWisdom is democratizing the private investment and capital markets.. .
Acquire Real Estate
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Acquire Real Estate is a leading real estate crowdfunding platform and one of the only platforms to pre-fund its deals. Acquire focuses on cash-flowing, institutional-quality real estate deals and co-invests in every property right alongside its Members.
It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.. .
Power2Peer
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A virtual marketplace expanding the frontiers of renewable energy. Power2Peer’s blockchain-secured app-based energy marketplace—P2PConnect—is about opening up entirely new market segments to the reach of renewable generation.
For community members unable to pursue the long-term investment of a rooftop solar panel or wind farm installation, buying locally sourced clean energy is an easy and affordable way to buy into the sustainability movement. Corporate clients and small businesses alike will see immediate value and branding upside in offsetting their carbon footprints with energy that’s there even when the main grid goes down.
Our equity crowdfunding campaign attracted over 150 investors, and we are now hard at work on the next phases of development for the P2PConnect marketplace.. .
Sixpence Crowdfunding
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Sixpence is a fundraising web platform and app meant to facilitate simple fundraising, through which donors can support community campaigns or organizations through roundups to the nearest dollar on their daily purchases. With Sixpence, crowdfunding is easier than ever before.
Donating to campaigns can be a small part of each and every purchase that supporters make. All that campaign creators ask for is a commitment to give pennies at a time.
Supporters can contribute to the things that matter to them, throughout each and every day, while just continuing their lives as usual. We are on a mission to revolutionize fundraising, build community, and ease generosity..
Local Lift
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Local Lift brings crowdfunding to your local area.
Rockpoint Group
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Rockpoint is led by Founding Managing Members Bill Walton and Keith Gelb, who have been working and investing together for almost 20 years. Mr.
Walton and Mr. Gelb were also Managing Members of Westbrook Real Estate Partners, L.L.C., a similar real estate investment company co-founded by Mr.
Walton in 1994. Rockpoint’s additional Managing Members, who have been working together for more than 15 years, include Pat Fox, Tom Gilbane and Aric Shalev.
Since its inception in 2003, Rockpoint has sponsored six commingled funds and three co-investment vehicles, raising more than $9 billion in capital commitments and investing or committing to invest approximately $7 billion of equity in over 190 transactions with total peak capitalization of approximately $26 billion. Including their time at Westbrook, the Rockpoint Managing Members have been involved in ten commingled funds and seven co-investment vehicles, raising approximately $13 billion in capital commitments and investing or committing to invest approximately $11 billion of equity in over 340 transactions with a total peak capitalization of approximately $43 billion..
Movie Pigs
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MoviePigs is an online platform that allows you to stream international indie films, and talents to crowdfund for their new films.
LIBER8
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We develop technologies that circumvent batteries, innovative energy harvesting solutions for small electronics and wearables. These technologies can be integrated into various platforms enabling devices to operate without recharge.
Our first product is a jewellery from the future, the tago arc. This next generation luxury bracelet fuses innovative technologies, fashion and design seamlessly.
Due to its E Ink surface you can continuously change the design on the bracelet to reflect your every mood, fit all your outfits, suit every occasion. With the #tago app you have access to thousands of artworks, designs and drawings to download and tag onto your bracelet.
You can also take pictures with your phone, upload it into the app and wear it on your wrist. The bracelet has no buttons, no cords or ports, it doesn’t need to be charged, ever..
TapTape
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TapTape is a funding and marketing platform that lets fans invest in the record deals of their favorite artists, allowing them to share in the success of projects they support. We were founded by musicians and business hackers with a passion for solving music industry problems, and our aim is to provide meaningful connections and financial stability by giving fans the opportunity to be invested in what they love.
If you’re interested in helping out, please get in touch. Originally developed at MIT, TapTape has won the Creative Arts Prize in the MIT 100K, as well as the SXSW 2015 MBA Business Plan Competition, and has secured an initial investment from Lyor Cohen, the former head of Def Jam and Warner Music labels, and co-founder of 300 Entertainment..
FRC
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FRC is a financial services company offering investment and asset management services.
TravelStarter
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TravelStarter is a next generation crowdfunding website for business and travel related projects. It enables project owners to gain more traction and receive more funding by offering attractive travel rewards.
It connects travelers from all over the globe, it support local and sustainable businesses and builds community.. .
Acorn Street Capital
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Acorn Street Capital (“ASC”) is an alternative lending company focused on small to medium balance opportunities. A majority of investments are sourced and executed locally in New England.
We seek to create and maintain long standing relationships with our partners. ASC was formed to exclusively manage the capital of a select group and allocate to: Real estate and real estate development Small business lending Receivable financing While a majority of investments fall into these categories, ASC maintains full investment flexibility as part of the mandate.
ASC’s differentiators include our dedicated capital base, experience investing across asset classes, structuring flexibility and network. The objective of the strategy is to build a diversified portfolio with long-term capital appreciation..
Stock Market Sensei
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Machine learning powered financial analysis giving meaningful insights to investors
Vasuda Capital Management
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Vasuda Capital Management is a Boston based investment management firm. Vasuda’ is a Sanskrit word meaning ‘granting wealth.’ The firm has following activities.
Registered Investment Adviser: The firm is licensed as Registered Investment Adviser in Massachusetts. The firm offers separate managed investment accounts for individual and institutional investors..
New Boston Fund, Inc.
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New Boston Fund is a private equity real estate investment, development and management firm.
Startup Rounds
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The Startup Rounds software provides administrators with intuitive tools to create and manage events, specifically competitions and challenges. It’s designed to enhance the reach and quality of engagement for entrepreneurial organizations, providing: 1: Easy judging and voting – Connect entrepreneurs and their startups to university alumni, investors, and community.
2: Intuitive team building and collaboration – Users can join teams and easily customize iterative profiles. 3: Simple event management – With customizable criteria, scoring metrics, and awards, save time by organizing applications, submissions, scores, feedback, and everything centrally..
Mortgage Network, Inc.
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Mortgage Network Inc. operates as a mortgage banking company
Windhaven Investment Management
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Windhaven Investment Management, Inc. (“Windhaven”) is an SEC-registered investment advisory firm* serving individuals, trusts, retirement plans, foundations and endowments.
They broadly diversify investment portfolios across the global capital markets and regularly include exposure to U.S., international, and emerging market stocks and bonds, as well as commodities, gold, real estate and currencies. To guide investment decisions and help manage portfolio risk, they use Their proprietary Global Strategies Model..
DareDvl
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DareDvl helps create the content you want to see and pushes users to their limits.
Baylon Capital Management
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Baylon Capital Management is a private investment partnership which seeks to deliver long term and tax-efficient capital appreciation.
BlazeFund
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BlazeFund equity crowd funding brings together three groups (1) startup entrepreneurs with projects and deals, (2) individual crowd investors, and (3) institutions such as corporate development departments and nonprofits, via a patent-pending equity crowd funding portal. The portal utilizes a proprietary two-step process that attempts to reduce investor risk and increase issuer accountability.
BlazeFund focuses on technology and business services ventures worldwide for a minimum raise of $100K and where the offer is for at least 5% of the equity of the company and where the offering valuation ranges from $0.5M to $10M. Global connections are facilitated via an international presence, a first in the industry.
The BlazeFund business model differentiators include: -Connecting the crowd and institutions simultaneously with entrepreneurs. -On the path to facilitating private-equity/venture-capital style due diligence by the crowd/analysts enabling potential investors to access independent reviews.
-Reducing investor risk via a two-step investment mechanism that splits the investment exposure of the crowd. -Connectivity to a product listing portal for purchase of products & services produced by funded companies at discounted pricing.
-Built-in dividends in the form of rewards. -Many of these unique patent-pending features and functionality are incorporated in the portal design..
Olmstead Associates
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Olmstead Associates is a financial services firm that offers strategic planning, implementation, and support services.
Sponsr.Us
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Social Fundraising and Mentorship for Students
FwdForce
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Connecting Ideas + Makers + Consumers. Open platform where anyone (individuals or companies) can propose, fund, sponsor, or compete to provide the best solutions for proven market demands.
Backed and vetted by the crowd – the most promising concepts get funding for prototyping, and then tested by professionals to qualify the eligible winner(s) per challenge criteria and crowd preferences.. .
Cauzoom
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The burgeoning potential of social media is – daily – creating unprecedented ways for individuals to connect with others on the basis of their passions, and Cauzoom represents a way to channel that trend towards both business value and social good. We offer online tools to assist communities in packaging and promoting projects to their networks.
Each project then becomes a promotional vehicle for businesses and a channel for the direct purchase of gift cards or service vouchers.. .
The Bulfinch Group
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The Bulfinch Group is an independent financial services and wealth management firm in Massachusetts.
Charter Oak Insurance and Financial Services
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Charter Oak Insurance and Financial Services has offices throughout Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York.
HEALfundr
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HEALfundr is more than your average crowdfunding platform. Their vision of crowdfunding medical needs is unique and, as they see it, the next logical step in the process.
HEALfundr is owned and operated by NeedyMeds, a 501(c)(3) non-profit information resource devoted to helping people in need of assistance of affording their medications and costs to health care. With over 16 years of connecting people with patient assistance programs, Medical Bill Mediation, and discounts on prescriptions, they have started HEALfundr with the mission of giving you the power to heal.
HEALfundr’s vision is one of secure, 100% verified campaigns where funds are paid directly to legitimate medical expenses. This implementation grants the campaigner relief from managing their medical bills and gives the donor the confidence that their donation is going to where it should.
Beyond securing the payment process for campaigners, HEALfundr is able to negotiate the total cost of care with Medical Bill Mediation. .
Otrib
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Otrib.com is a free, national funeral planning, notification and tribute service
Artemis Sports
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Artemis Sports is providing innovative fundraising solutions company located in Boston.
Greenvolved
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Greenvolved is Innovative environmental crowd-funding.
TeeSmile
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TeeSmile is the easiest way to raise money for a cause or for anything you’re passionate about. We enable individuals and organizations to fundraise with t-shirts, without worrying about production, shipping, inventory, fulfillment, logistics or customer support.
Our mission is to make fundraising simple and fun. We remove all the barriers to fundraising and make easy for people to be creative, share their ideas, make money and raise awareness for their causes.
1. Zero risk.
You don’t need to buy anything because your supporters pay online for their shirts. 2.
No headaches. We only print and ship the shirts you sold.
You never have to worry about excess merchandise. 3.
Harty Financial
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Harty Financial is a holistic client-centered financial planning.
Longwood Investment Advisors
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Longwood Investment Advisors is a company that seeks to put a relationship back into the world of financial services.
Crowditz, LLC
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Crowditz is the source for crowdfunding news and deals. Crowditz was founded to provide investors with one location to identify and learn about deals on the Reg CF Platforms.
Believing that crowdfunding will be the next significant capital market, Crowditz will lead the way in providing content and tools to select and manage cross platform investments.. .
Snowball Buzz
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Snowball Buzz is a platform to raise ideas for change to empower people to challenge the status quo everywhere.
MYFUNDINGPLACE
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My Funding Place is a crowdfunding web portal for charities to use to fund anything from anywhere. “Fuel for Charity – Powered by Good” Location: Boston, MA Overview: Myfundingplace.com helps small non-profits & charities promote their cause by crowd funding.
We have a dedicated team of developers and professionals ready to create and promote your fundraiser with social media and web marketing tools. Sign up is always free..
Crowdfunding Coaching
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Unlike may crowdfunding sites, they cover all kinds of crowdsourcing investments. You will find information here about peer-to-peer business loans and educational lending, equity crowdfunding, and crowdsourcing funding for all types of purpose including personal reasons like adoption.
They will give you the advantages, disadvantages, and other information to help you first decide whether this type of funding is for you, and then how to narrow your choices. Of course they are enthusiastic and hope to promote this type of funding to those who it can benefit, but they don’t want to overdo it, and since they have no stake in whether you do pursue peer-to-peer lending, equity crowdfunding, or other type of crowdsourcing they can remain completely unbiased..
Northern Cross
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Northern Cross is a Boston based, independent investment management firm focused exclusively on International Equity investing.
MAYDAY US
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In 2014, They rallied more than 50,000 Americans to support a fight for fundamental reform in the way campaigns are funded — to reduce the influence of money in politics, by increasing the influence of people in politics. But in the campaigns, They didn’t move the ball far enough.
So in 2015, we’re doing something different. To show America that reform is possible, They need to close the gap on a majority in Congress — both Republicans and Democrats — committed to reforming the system of corruption in Washington, D.C., by changing the way campaigns are funded..
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SharePA aims to revolutionize investment advisory services for individual investors.
GroTrip
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GroTrip is a destination management company that allows its users to have crowdsourced travel creations.
Casher Associates
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Casher Associates provide consulting services and seminars for the financial operations of businesses.
Atlantic Data Services
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Atlantic Data Services, Inc. (“ADS” or the “Company”) provides information technology (“IT”) strategy consulting and systems integration services to customers exclusively in the financial services industry, primarily banks.
ADS offers rapid, cost-effective IT solutions to the business challenges faced by financial services companies through its in-depth financial services experience, technological expertise and project management skills.. .
Golf Live
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Golf Live is a mobile application that enables its users to raise funds for the golf tournament industry.
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