Built by parents, for schools
LocalCircuits helps your school add a new way to raise money by connecting families with the local businesses that want to show up for their community.
It works alongside the programs your PTA already runs. No new event to produce, no new committee to staff.
Now building with our founding school communities, one neighborhood at a time.
It shouldn't take another committee, another Saturday event, another spreadsheet, or another round of parents chasing parents.
Every year the same small group carries it, and every year the ask gets a little harder to make.
Families already spend money throughout their community every week. Local businesses already want to support the schools their customers care about.
Almost nothing connects the two. That is the gap LocalCircuits was built to close.
LocalCircuits is designed to work alongside the programs your community already loves.
LocalCircuits adds another way for your community to participate, without adding another event for volunteers to operate.
Think of it as a layer on top of your fundraising calendar rather than a replacement for any part of it.
No new fundraising event to produce, staff, or clean up after.
LocalCircuits handles the technology and the payments.
Another way for families to support the school in the course of a normal week.
See the impact on your school without building another spreadsheet.
The heart of it
A Circuit brings together the local businesses, family favorites and experiences around your school.
Every school is different, so LocalCircuits works with your community to configure a Circuit that fits your goals, your calendar and your neighborhood.
Families participate. Local businesses show up. Your school benefits.
Families find their school's Circuit in the LocalCircuits app, and the businesses supporting the school are right there in it.
See what a Circuit could look likeParents make choices every week about where to eat, play, shop and spend time. When a local business supports their child's school, that relationship changes.
LocalCircuits makes those community relationships visible.
We show up for the businesses that show up for us.
Speed-to-Local™
New families arrive because of schools. Busy parents often spend years discovering the local places their neighbors already love.
Speed-to-Local™ is what we call closing that gap. Local businesses become relevant to nearby families faster, through the community relationships those families already trust.
Schools help families discover the businesses supporting their community.
Local businesses gain a trusted introduction to nearby families.
Schools become stronger connectors within the neighborhood.
Community Commerce is what happens when supporting your school and supporting your local community reinforce each other.
Families discover local.
Businesses support schools.
Schools strengthen neighborhoods.
LocalCircuits connects the loop.
Local businesses spend every day trying to reach the people around them. LocalCircuits creates a different kind of local visibility, connecting businesses with nearby families instead of sending every local marketing dollar somewhere else.
No two school communities are exactly alike, so LocalCircuits shapes the program around each one.
Built around the businesses and families surrounding your school.
Designed to fit alongside the fundraising you already have planned.
Configured around what your school is actually trying to accomplish this year.
The work that usually falls on a volunteer is the work we take on.
Our story
Could supporting our schools also make our local community stronger?
We have kids in these schools. We have lived the fundraising grind, the dine-out nights and the envelopes of cash, and we wanted an easier way to raise money that also shined a light on the local businesses showing up for our community.
We're starting close to home and building with schools, families and local businesses before expanding community by community.
You don't need to have the whole plan figured out.
Tell us your school and we'll show you what LocalCircuits could look like in your community.
Prefer email? connect@localcircuits.com
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Team LocalCircuits will follow up to learn a little about your school and show you what a Circuit could look like in your community. Check your inbox for a short overview in the meantime.
You don't have to run the PTA to bring LocalCircuits to . We'll help you make the introduction.