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About Us
Our Organization
Our mission
To create FUN affordable ways to bring the public and FUNdraisers together to support a variety of causes! (Grass roots FUNdraising)
Our Motto
Little things make BIG things happen
Our Philosophy
If we can create a fun, affordable solution that will involve many individuals (grass roots) it will give all of us ownership in the solution and will make us all feel better about ourselves. A theory similar to it takes a village to raise a child. In a sense we will all be doing Good Deeds.
Claiming your spot is like buying a brick. It is a fun novelty that shows that you support a particular cause, except your brick shows visitors one physical spot you must visit while your Phil and Tropic spot shows your kindness to the world!
Good Deeds!
Phil and Tropic offers you the opportunity support favorite cause by doing Good Deeds. You can do a Good Deed by volunteering your time, making a donation or by claiming your spot. When you do a Good Deed as much as 100% of your contribution goes directly to your favorite cause. Each contribution amount will be clearly marked on its listing page.
Charitable Contributions
Many of our listings are associated with not for profit organizations making your Good Deeds a charitable contribution. In this case you will receive a document directly from the organization, after doing your Good Deed, reflecting your contribution. Again this will be clearly marked.
Phil and Tropic's story
Who are Phil and Tropic?
Phil and Tropic are a couple of lovable creatures called Kleebees Geebees that are mischievous explorers, fundraisers and Do-Gooders. When Geebees are young they are green, as they get older they turn yellow and in their latter years they turn brown. (much like a banana)
Phil and Tropic are adolescents so they are a bit mischievous and occasionally get themselves into a predicament but they always land on their feet. They may not always go about doing it the right way (like a lot of humans) but they always have good intentions and do the right thing.
Phil's' philosophy is much like the American Indians. We are all on this planet working together to have fun, cause no harm and to support each other whenever we can. Hopefully we make the world a better place by doing good deeds but we leave the earth no worse than when we arrived. We should use only what we need but every now and then we cross the line like most humans. This is OK as long as we balance it out somewhere along the path.
Phil and Tropic share their lessons and knowledge hoping each of us will choose to pass it on and pay it forward!
Our Team
Robin Roller - Founder
During the past 30+ years Robin Roller, the founder of Phil and Tropic, has established himself as a successful businessman on local, national, and international levels.
Robin started and developed an apartment locating business and the apartment ski vacation rental business in the Salt Lake Valley. After that he was the district manager for Oakwood International, the largest corporate housing company in the United States. Then, he was the Partner / Vice President of Buyer Acquire; the integrated voice response /call capture company that changed the face of call capture in the real estate industry. Most recently, he was the Western Regional Sales manager for Blackboard Connect; the #1 mass notification service in the nation. He has also owned, sold, and managed real estate and developed technology relating to the industry.
Robin's responsibilities have also been international. Prior to his most recent successful entrepreneurial venture, Buyer Acquire, he was an international consultant to the Olympic rental housing market, where he arranged housing for three Olympic Games.
Robin's newest venture Phil and Tropic, places him back in his entrepreneurial world where he continually enjoys much success. Phil and Tropic combines his entrepreneurial spirit with a social benefit. Robin's vision helped develop this system that allows individuals to claim or adopt their spot to support a variety of causes.
The theory behind Phil and Tropic is that "little things make BIG things happen!" As individuals we feel good about ourselves when we can contribute to make something better. If each of us contribute just a little bit then we will make our world a better place. "Make something BIG happen today!"
Technology partner
The knowledge our technology team brings to the table allows us to do what we do. Without them we would be just another software company. Our resources offer access to over 300 affordable programmers with a variety of skills. They have knowledge, drive and cutting edge technology we need to make Phil and Tropic the #1 fundraising and causal marketing platform in the world! We believe so much in our technology partner that if you have programming needs please contact us. We will happily recommend them to you.
Marketing partner
When Phil and Tropic began we knew if we wanted to accomplish great things, we must offer a great product and we must offer a marketing package that would bring customers and donors to you. So we did our research and found the best partner we could find.
Our marketing partner, RightNow Communications, started doing organic search engine optimization in 1995 when the internet was in its infancy and now they are one of the leading internet marketing experts in the industry. The synergy we have created with our technology, marketing and entrepreneurial spirit will create much success for everyone involved.
RightNow Communications brings their expertise to the table to ensure the Phil and Tropic web site has a strong social and causal marketing and internet presence.
Our History
In 2008 we embarked on a mission to support a small project south of Salt Lake City, Utah. As our team discussed the idea of how we could help we found that we could be of assistance on a much grander scale so we set our sights on supporting and preserving our national parks. As we moved further along the journey we met up with our old pal from the 70's Phil, who had a young lovable pup named Tropic. They joined our group in early 2011 and showed us how we could be of help to many more causes. So we expanded our horizons and branched out into helping city and state parks and open spaces of all types, schools, our military families, helping support our youth becoming more active and the rest is history.
