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Fundraising Centre

How to best utilize your Fundraising Centre

What is my Fundraising Centre?

It's your online platform where all the fundraising magic happens! Once you
register for Relay For Life, you'll automatically be given access to your fundraising
centre. From there, you can:
update your registration information and customize your personal fundraising and team
pages
import email contacts and send fundraising, recruitment and thank-you emails
easily share your personal page and link to donate to you on social media
add offline donations to your online total

Adding your story Updating your fundraising centre

1. Log in to your fundraising Displaying your fundraising goal is a great


centre. tool to show your contacts that you want
2. From the edit personal page to make a difference at Relay For Life!
tab, edit your page title and Keep it up to date, and be sure to send a
story as you'd like. thank you to everyone who helps you
3. Click save. reach your goals!
Log in to your fundraising centre.
Click update goal, which is displayed under
Sending emails from Fundraising your Personal Fundraising thermometer.
Centre Enter your new goal and click submit.

It's quick and easy!


If you want to use a sample email, Forgot username/password?
you're welcome to use the sample
email as is or personalize it as 1. Log in to your login page.
much as you'd like. 2. Click email me my login information.
1. Log in to your fundraising centre 3. Enter the new email address that you
and go to the send emails tab. registered with.
2. Select your email template (thank
Your username and password will be emailed to
your donors, recruit team members,
you. Sometimes these emails end up in spam or
request a donation)
junk folders, so you might want to check there.
3. Choose to send from your email or
your fundraising centre.
4. Compose your email. If you want to compose your own email, you
5. Set your recipients. can save your custom message as a
6. Preview and send! template so you can use it again later.
Fundraising Centre
How to best utilize your Fundraising Centre

How to change the photo on my The '4 plus 1' Fundraising Ask
personal fundraising page
1. Log in to your fundraising centre. 1. Identify the need you are trying to address.
2. From the personal page tab, click "On average, 1 in 4 Canadians diagnosed with
edit personal page. cancer will lose their life to the disease."
3. Choose Photos/Video. 2. Explain why it is important to you:
4. Choose File from your computer, "As someone whose father is currently fighting
then select open. pancreatic cancer, I find this unacceptable."
5. Write a caption (optional) 3. Share what you are doing about it:
6. Click save/upload. "So I'm participating at Relay For Life to change
the statistics."

Raise $400 in 7 days! 4. Ask - will you help me?


"Will you help me by giving me a gift of $50?"

Day 1 - Pledge yourself =$20 The Plus 1 is... shhhhhh (listen to their answer.)
Day 2 - Use your
Let them take in what you just said.
fundraising centre to
Pause, silence, let them think, and answer.
email 10 out of town =$100
friends or family, asking
them to donate $10 *Don't take a 'no' personally. There may be many
reasons why they cannot support Relay For Life
Day 3 - Ask 4 family at this time. Know that you will get 'no' answers,
members to pledge you =$80 but you will also get YES answers and that makes
$20 it worth asking!

Day 4 - Ask your boss for Remember,


a company contribution =$50 Life is bigger than cancer.
of $50
Day 5 - Ask 5 co-workers Where your money goes
to donate $10
=$50
Every dollar counts in our efforts
Day 6 -Ask 5 people from
your church, gym, or to reduce the burden of cancer.
=$50
social group for a pledge The money raised from Relay For Life goes to...
of $10 each
Day 7 -Ask 5 local friends
to contribute $10
=$50
Fund Canada's most Prevention - Ensure that no
Grand total raised... =$400 promising cancer
research
Stop cancer
before it sharts.
one has to face
cancer alone.

To learn more about your impact, visit cancer.ca


Fundraising Centre
How to best utilize your Fundraising Centre

Your Sphere of Influence!


Family and Friends Schools

Parents, grandparents, PTA Teachers


siblings, cousins, etc. Daycare Alumni
Friends Children's parents Fraternities/
Neighbours sororities
Social media followers
(Instagram, Facebook,
Services
Twitter, LinkedIn)

Restaurants Mechanic
Coffee shops Insurance agent
Community Nail salon/hair Real estate
salon agent
Local businesses
Neighbourhood
Associations Activities
Libraries
Civic/volunteer clubs Sports teams Gym
Places of worship Book club Hobby groups

Work

Donation Matching
Co-workers
Supervisor Many companies have the ability to
Vendors match their employees donations raised.
Clients See if your company has any donation
Other locations matching programs to double your
impact.
Sponsorship
Ask your employer if they are interested in becoming a sponsor of your
local Relay event. There are three levels of sponsorship: local, regional,
and even national!

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