This document provides instructions for using the fundraising tools available on a Team in Training fundraising website. It explains how to personalize a fundraising page with photos and a story, increase a personal fundraising goal, send fundraising and thank you emails, and update emergency contact information. It also describes the various tabs on the website for fundraising, emails, emergency contacts, personalizing pages, and fundraising tools. The fundraising toolbox contains banners, graphics, and documents that can help with fundraising efforts.

1. Unlocking Your
Fundraising Potential!
How to use the tools on your Team in Training
fundraising website.

2. What you’ll learn:
• What’s on your fundraising website
• How to...
★ personalize your fundraising page
★ increase your personal goal
★ send fundraising and thank-you emails
★ update your emergency contact info
• What’s in your fundraising toolbox

3. Your Fundraising Website:
This is where you customize the fundraising page people will see on the Web as
well as do other cool things. If you didn’t receive an email from Team in Training
that has your login information and a link to this page, ask your mentor about it.

4. The Fundraising Tab:
This must be selected to edit your fundraising page and do the other cool things in
this tutorial.

5. The Email Tab:
This is where you can send emails through Team in Training’s email system. I prefer
to send out emails from my personal account, but you might find it helpful.

6. The Emergency Contact Info Tab:
Your local chapter should have this info, but it doesn’t hurt to fill it out twice.

7. The Personalize Pages Tab:
This is where you will customize your fundraising page (the one people will see)
with your photos and your Team in Training story.

8. The Fundraising Toolbox Tab:
Here you’ll find a lot of stuff you can use to make fundraising
easier and more effective.

9. How to Personalize
Your Fundraising Page

10. The Generic Fundraising Page:
If the people I send to this page aren’t already going to donate, this isn’t going to do
much to convince them to support me because it says nothing about ME.

11. A Customized Fundraising Page:
People who read this page will know more about me and why I’m raising funds for
Team in Training. Hopefully, my story will inspire them to donate a little more.

12. So Let’s Get Started:
1. Click on the “Personalize Pages” tab.

13. 2. If this doesn’t say “Manage Posts,” click on it and select that from the menu.

14. 3. Then click on “Edit.”

15. 4. Click on the Camera Icon to add photos.

16. 5. Tell your story here.You don’t have to sell people on why they should donate.
Just tell them why you’re doing Team in Training, then ask them to support you with
a donation. And you can use the generic text as a starting point.

17. 6. Then, click “Save” and “View Page” to check your work.You can also click “Save as
Draft” so if you’re not ready to publish your site for the world to see, you can
come back and finish it later.

18. How to Increase Your
Personal Fundraising Goal

19. Your Personal Fundraising Goal
can be set higher than your fundraising minimum. If you don’t reach it, that’s okay.
You are only committed to reaching your fundraising minimum. But aiming for the
stars is what we do at Team in Training!

20. 1. From the Fundraising Tab, click “Edit.”

21. 2. Enter your new personal fundraising goal.
3. Then, click “Save.”
4.You can adjust your fundraising goal upward (or downward) at any time.

22. Sending Fundraising and
Thank-You Emails

23. The Email Tab
allows you to easily send fundraising emails without writing a word, then follow up
with thank-you emails when people donate.

24. To Send Fundraising Emails:
1. Click on the Email Tab.
2. Click on “Compose Email.”

25. 3. Select “Donation Request” to send out fundraising emails. When you receive
donations, you can come back to this section and select “Thank-You Note” from
this menu to thank your supporters.

26. 4. Type or paste a few email addresses here. (You can also add them to your address
book by clicking on “Manage Address Book” and when you’re done, add them to
your email by clicking on the little address book icon next to the “To:” field.)

27. 5. If you want, customize the subject line. Maybe something like “Help [your name]
fight blood cancers” or something like that so it gets more attention?

28. 6. Click “Send” and you’re done with that batch! Due to spam filters, it’s probably
not a good idea to send out emails to everyone you know at once. But if you break
them into smaller groups of ten or so, you should be fine.

29. Updating Your
Emergency Contact Info

30. Your safety is very important to Team in Training. If something should happen during
training or at the actual event you’re training for, having as much contact info as
possible can be critical.

31. You can add more than one type of contact, and have separate contacts for training
and events. And if your emergency contact uses a home number while you train, but
will have a cell phone during the event, you can set up separate training and event
contacts for the same person.

32. When you’re done, click “Save Changes.”

33. What’s in Your
Fundraising Toolbox

34. Your Fundraising Toolbox
has banner ads and graphics that can encourage people to visit your fundraising
page.

35. If you have a blog, and know a little HTML, you can add this Flash banner ad to it.
It shows your fundraising goal and current total, so people who read your blog can
see your progress and easily visit your fundraising page. Click “Copy HTML code”
to get the code, then add it to your blog however you want.

36. These banner ads are simple JPEGs that can spruce up your emails or blog, too.

37. Scrolling down, you’ll find a lot of other documents that can help you with your
fundraising and training. Check them out!

38. Thanks and
Go Team!