We are close now. Here is the email from the coordinators.
Thank you for your email and for thinking of us during your triathlon training!
Your email was passed onto me as I am the coordinator for our Running The Race Against Cancer program. This program allows runners to participate in any race, of any distance, anywhere while raising money for the Jimmy Fund. We just require that the participant obtain their own race entry/fee and in return we provide the runner with an online fundraising website and if they raise $500 we will give them a running singlet to wear during training and the day of the race. This sounds like the web program that you are thinking of.
If you choose to restrict this money towards Dr. Guinan's fund, it must be a
minimum of $10,000. In order for us to move the money to a specific fund, it
must meet those guidelines.
I then sent a few questions. Here is the reply.
1. Your total will include any company matching gifts. Once you are registered, I will send you an email with all that information. Matching gift forms can take up to several months, so we can wait until you reach your goal of $10K. You should have all gifts sent to you first, so that you can track your progress. It is an internal process to move the gifts over to Dr. Guinan's fund once you have reached $10K. Do you know the exact name of the fund you want to work with?
2. We can set up your website however you would like. You can have each person register and have their own website, etc. or you can have one website and have everyone direct all their donors to that one website. I can work with you so that for every $500 you raise, you can get a singlet for a team member, that's not a problem.
What are your thoughts about individual pages or one page that tracks everything as a Team?
I know some people are looking at getting sponsors. So I wasn't sure if they would rather see an individual page instead of a team.
I'm hopeful that this will all be ready to go by the end of this week.
I may be being optimistic but I feel as a group $10,000 is well within reach. Guess we will soon find out.
We will also find out if wearing that singlet makes you look as huge as the guy in that picture. We are counting on you Shawn!
2 comments:
I think $10K is doable for a group. One point of clarfication: Every $500 gets a singlet.
A question I have beyond what you listed is, what happens if we don't raise the 10K. Where does the money go?
By the way thanks for researching this.
If an individual goes over $500. That individual will get 1 singlet.
She said if I go with a team page as well that for every $500 she could get a singlet for another member of the team.
If we don't break $10,000. It still stays at the hospital. It just goes into the Jimmy Fund.
http://www.jimmyfund.org/
Which is really a good fund as well.
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