Clean Your Community.
Fund Your Mission.
Host community cleanups that raise funds, engage sponsors, and produce measurable outcomes you can report and share.
What is a Trashathon?
A Trashathon is a pledge-driven cleanup event.
Volunteers collect trash. Supporters – individuals, companies, or foundations – pledge funds tied to the amount collected (per-bag or per-pound). A verified tally converts pledges into funds for your programs.
How Nonprofits Can Benefit
Fund Your Programs
Every bag of trash collected translates into funding for your organization’s needs: workshops, services, etc.
Create More Leaders
By leveraging our resources and support, your team will become efficient at organizing large scale events.
Attract New Donors
Sponsors and individuals see their impact in action, not just in a report months later.
Raise Awareness
Each cleanup doubles as a community event, amplifying your cause while improving coastal environments.
What Sets Trashathon Apart
Traditional fundraiser
Often requires venue booking, vendor coordination, ticketing, and complex logistics.
Budgets can stretch across catering, rentals, and entertainment.
Volunteers may help behind the scenes or participate as attendees.
Sponsors often seek branding, hospitality, or program naming rights and PR opportunities.
Visibility depends on event type and media coverage.
Dollars raised are the core metric; some events track attendance, reach, or impressions.
Many events are one-offs and need heavy reinvestment to repeat.
Trashathon
Everything you need in one place - templates, guides, tools, and a model tested by years of cleanup events.
It can be run on modest budgets at a local level, or scaled up effectively with sponsor support.
Volunteers are active participants: hands-on work builds ownership and repeat engagement.
Sponsors fund measurable outcomes and receive ready-to-share impact stories.
Every cleanup creates visual proof - photos, data, and stories that are easy to share with your community and partners.
Multi-dimensional metrics: funds raised, waste removed, volunteer hours, and site improvements.
Easy to repeat - seasonal or quarterly cleanups keep your mission active and sponsors engaged year-round.
What a
Single Bag Can Do
Every minute, another truckload of plastic pours into our oceans. It suffocates marine life, poisons ecosystems, and finds its way back into our food and water.
Trashathon gives your volunteers a way to step in. Every cleanup clears what’s right in front of us and prevents it from becoming part of the larger crisis downstream.
How It Works
Plan Your Cleanup
Choose a location that needs it most, set a date, and rally volunteers.
Gather Pledges
Supporters sponsor your efforts per bag or per pound of trash collected.
Trashathon Day
Teams go out with gloves and bags, working together to create visible impact.
Celebrate & Fund Your Project
Collected trash is counted, verified, and pledges convert into funds.
Nonprofits Already Making an Impact
Trashathon gave us measurable metrics for our grant report and helped our volunteers see the difference they were making firsthand.
Riverdale Environmental NGO
Program Manager
Grab, Go, Get Started
We make it simple. From planning guides to safety tips - everything is ready for you to grab and go.
Join the Nationwide Movement
You don’t have to do this alone. Many nonprofits, schools, and community groups across the country are using Trashathon to raise funds and clean landscapes at the same time.