Pre-Team Leader Kit Schools

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1 1 Pre-Team Leader Kit Schools

2 Table of Contents Welcome to Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Letter 3 Recruit your winning team! 4-5 Offline Donation Mailing Form 6 T-Shirt Order Form 7 Sample Outreach Messaging, Fundraising Ideas & Where the Money Goes! 8-13 How to Sign Up Your Team online! Fundraising Incentive Program 16 2

3 Dear School Team Leader/Participant: Thank you so much for your dedication and commitment to the American Cancer Society s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer. We are so excited that you and your team members are helping to finish the fight against breast cancer! Enclosed is your Pre-Team Leader Kit that will help you learn more about the American Cancer Society, ways in which to engage your team, tips on becoming a great Team Leader, fundraising ideas and more! If you have any questions or need more information, please reach out to me at Aimee Trabona]or by phone at On behalf of the patients and their families that we serve, thank you for your hard work and commitment to creating a world with less breast cancer and more birthdays! Sincerely, Aimee Trabona Making Strides Against Breast Cancer 3

4 Step By Step Recruiting a Winning Team! Week One: September 7 th -11 th USE YOUR NETWORK! Register your team online!! Use the website, Facebook, apps and to do the work for you. With summer vacation over and a little more than a month unitl the walk, you have the full attention of your co-workers or classmates. Put up posters and make announcements to build the excitement! Find some friends who can help. Get clubs, sports teams and your whole school involved. Involve people from different homerooms or sections who can talk up the walk. Schedule your school recruiter to come in and give your entire school or faculty a presentation Plan fun ways to get all of the school involved. Create competative ways to raise funds. Ask your School Recruiter for ideas! Week Two: September 14 th -18 th BUILD TEAM SPIRIT! Plan a late September rally to celebrate with your team and coordinate last minute details. Remember, word of mouth is an effective tool. Put up a poster announcing the rally and the Making Strides walk. Offer people the opportunity to volunteer instead of walk. Contact your School Recruiter to sign up for volunteer hours. Encourage them to ask one new person --classmate, family, or friend to join them on October 4 or October 18 4

5 Week Three: September 21 st 25 th ROUNDING THE BEND! Set aside a few minutes each day to call or meet with one or two people who have promised to walk. If it s too difficult to coordinate your school attending the walk, host your own walk. Get your principal and teachers to help organize an on campus walk and have everyone donate to participate. Call your School Recruitor to help with ideas. Put walk papers in central locations like the office, in busy hallways, the library, and in your homeroom. Week Four, Five and Six: September 28 th October 16 th (edit based on walk date) THE HOME STRETCH! Send last minute reminders. Review meeting details, especially the location of your meeting place, and remind all walkers to bring their pledge money with them on October 20. Pick a good meeting spot for your team. Call your American Cancer Society School Recruiter for help choosing a meeting area. Did your team raise enough for a FREE BANNER with your schools name on it? Make sure you check with your School Recruiter! The biggest fundraisers should be held in October since it is Breast Cancer Awareness month and your team has EVERYONE s attention. OCTOBER 4 th and October 18th ATTEND MAKING STRIDES AGAINST BREAST CANCER! CONGRATULATIONS! YOU MADE A DIFFERENCE! OCTOBER [date] Send a press release with your photo to your school newspaper. Send out thank you s to your team members. Collect any contributions that were not handed in on October [date] and mail to: American Cancer Society, [address and attention to]. Be sure to use the data capture form! 5

6 2015 Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Name of team/participant (whom should receive donation credit): Donation Amount: Name: Mailing Address: Address: Phone Number: Donation Information Thank you for your support of Making Strides. Please note that American Cancer Society staff does not post donations online; please ensure that you have posted this to your online team fundraising page before mailing. Please mail this form with your donation to: Aimee Trabona Attn: Making Strides of Against Breast Cancer American Cancer Society 75 Davids Dr. Hauppauge, NY Phone: Fax: **This form is important to use so that all donations get credited to your team, please utilize this form when mailing in any donations. 6

7 Did you know you can purchase event t-shirts for $15 each! (Ordering deadline and further information will be available August.) Order a minimum of 12 long sleeve t-shirts and they can be customized with your team name! (T-shirt design to be announced Summer 2015!) This is a great way to show your school spirit on the day of the walk! 7

8 School Newspaper Article Sample Join us for a FUN FILLED DAY and help us finish the fight! A team from (name of your school) will join the fight against breast cancer on October [insert date], 2015 by walking in the American Cancer Society Making Strides Against Breast Cancer of [Insert city], at [location]. Making Strides team captain (Your namehas set a goal of recruiting (number) people for a day of FUNdraising for an important cause, to mark October National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The Making Strides Against Breast Cancer route begins in the [starting point]. Registration starts at 7:30 a.m. and the rolling start begins at 8 a.m. This year an estimated 232,000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in the United States and over 40,000 will die from this disease. Every dollar raised through Making Strides Against Breast Cancer helps fund scientific research on the causes of breast cancer, supports patient services, provides community outreach and education efforts, and funds the American Cancer Society s programs - including Reach to Recovery and Look Good Feel Better. For more information, contact (your name) at (your number). 8

9 Sample Messages E- Mail Broadcast Messages Start each week with a universal broadcast message to your co-workers and classmates! FROM: (your name), SUBJECT: Join Us! The American Cancer Society s 2015 fun and important Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk will be happening on October [date], 2015 in [location]. This year, more than 240,000 women in the United States will learn that they have breast cancer. The (school) Making Strides team will have fun while helping to fight this deadly disease! Call me at (your internal phone #). Join us and make a difference! FROM: (your name), SUBJECT: Join Us Today! Funds raised through the American Cancer Society s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk support breast cancer research and early detection programs that save lives. Join the (school) team today! October [date] will be a great day of fun in [location], and we ll really be making a difference in the fight against breast cancer. Call me at (your internal phone #). FROM: (your name), SUBJECT: Meeting Time and Place The (school name) s team for the American Cancer Society s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk will meet at (place/time) on October [date]. It s still not too late to join us! Call me at (your internal phone #). See you there 9

10 Sample Language for Social Media Be a part of something amazing. Supporters like you have helped the US see a 34% decline in breast cancer deaths since You can help us finish the fight by joining our Making Strides walk of [CITY NAME] today: [LINK] Take it from Lisa Klenoshek. I never thought I would get cancer. I m young, healthy, eat right, exercise, and don t smoke. But in the spring of 2009, I heard the words you have breast cancer, that s when my fight began." Stories like Lisa's inspire us to finish the fight against breast cancer. Sign up for Making Strides today! [LINK] Registration is now open for Against Breast Cancer walk in [CITY NAME] - Sign up today! Last year, nearly 1.2 million passionate volunteers joined together to help finish the fight against breast cancer - but there's still more to be done. Sign up for our 2014 Making Strides Against Breast Cancer of [CITY NAME] today! [LINK] Help raise awareness & funds can do the most for people with breast cancer. Join Making Strides at Why walk? The funds raised through Making Strides help support breast cancer research, programs & services. Join us! 10

11 Fundraising Ideas Start your fundraising today! Here are some easy ways to kick things off: - Sell Pink Breast Cancer Awareness bracelets in the school cafeteria or at sports games. - Sell Pink Ribbon Donation cards at either the $1, $3 or $5 level and you can display the cards throughout your school. - Put out Coin Cans around the school in classrooms, the cafeteria and in study hall! - Start a dress down day! Have faculty and staff donate $5 to dress down on a specific day have a couple of these days if you can! Reach out to Aimee Trabona at your local American Cancer Society office for bracelets, donations cards, coin cans and/or dress down stickers! 11

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16 Fundraising Incentive Program All school teams that raise over $1000 online* will receive the banner above to display at their school. In order to receive the banner the day of the walk fundraising dollars must be raised online by October _, The banner measures 5x3 ft so it can be carried along the route by students, faculty, staff and team members. Design To Be Announced Soon! All school teams that raise over $500 online* will receive this plaque presented at your school after the walk for display. Eligibility Rules: School teams that would like to be eligible for the fundraising incentives MUST have all donations online by XXXXX to be eligible for a banner or plaque **Online donations include cash and check donations that are entered on your dashboard. 16

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