Who We Are

RingAid is dedicated to helping individuals donate their wedding and engagement rings to the cause of their choice.

RingAid is dedicated to helping individuals donate their wedding and engagement rings to the cause of their choice. Our team works with non-profit organizations to achieve their fundraising goals by unlocking the value of an asset that so many often have locked in their drawer.

We understand how difficult it can be to let go of a ring, while it could be a difference to the charitable cause that you support. That is why we are striving to create a simpler process that gives your old wedding or engagement ring, a new purpose: help support the charities who are making the world a better place.

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Our Story

An old wedding or engagement ring can be a painful reminder for some or a source of fond memories for others; one constant, however, is the difficult decision of what to do with the ring once it no longer has a place on your finger.

Our founder, René Koechli, has been through this same dilemma, and his personal experience is what led him to start RingAid. A few years ago, after his second divorce, René asked himself what should happen to his wedding ring. He could not bring himself to try and sell it or just give it away, and so it disappeared deep into the back of a drawer, like the rings of so many others separated. 

It wasn’t until the beginning of 2020, on a hike through the Swiss mountains, that René realized his ring had the potential to do so much more than sitting idly in its drawer. Instead, he saw it as an opportunity to help others, and thus the idea for RingAid was born. 

Since then, RingAid has partnered with a growing list of non-profits and charities in order to help facilitate a simpler process for moving on from old wedding and engagement rings, while helping these charities raise money for their causes.  

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