By walking with Rays of Hope, you show solidarity with your community where breast cancer has touched nearly everyone. Rays of Hope makes it easy to raise awareness of the disease and help fund:
- Research towards a cure
- Support to breast cancer patients and their families.
This takes commitment and effort. Here is what you can do:
Join Us! October 25, 2009 & Register Now
Commit
Easy Fundraising Plan
Form a team
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Team participation is fun and easy! A Rays of Hope team is a group of 10 or more walkers joining together to raise money to fight breast cancer. Team members can include co-workers, family members, friends, classmates, religious group members, clients, vendors, weight loss program members, health club members – anyone and everyone!
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- Corporate Teams – may include employees and friends or family members of employees. Learn more...
- Community / Family / Other Teams – may include social groups, church or synagogue members, health club members, weight loss program member and friends and family of these individuals.
First, decide who will be the Team Captain. The captain is responsible for recruiting members and leading the team towards their goals. Leading a team is easy, and involves setting fundraising goals, supplying members with all the forms and learning tools available and for motivating and inspiring team members. Once you register, Rays of Hope will provide you with a complete Team Captain Packet with everything you need to get started, including Walk Papers for your team members. You may also choose to have a Co-Captain to help with the Team Captain duties.
Why Form a Team?
"I had just had my surgery and hadn't even started treatments yet but knew we had to have a team. Right then and there we signed up and our team was born." Suzanne, team captain
"My kids are with me on our team, and I love that this is something I can involve them in," Robin, team captain
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Create a website
Creating your own Web page is a fun and exciting way to help you reach prospective donors and maximize your fundraising potential for Rays of Hope – A Walk Toward the Cure of Breast Cancer. Our program has customizable personal Web pages and easy-to-use Internet tools that allows you to send emails to friends, family members, co-workers – everyone you know - locally and across the country asking for their support! You'll be amazed by how quickly you will reach your fundraising goal.
It's Easy to Create Your Web Page!
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"I was intimidated at first about the thought of creating a Web page, but once I got up the nerve to try and clicked on the 'Register Here' button it was really easy and a lot of fun!"
Linda, team captain
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"I decided to create a Web page because I thought it would be easier to ask people for money through an email and I was amazed at the amount of donations I recieved and how far across the country some of them came from!"
Kate, 10,000 Steps
virtual walker
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- Follow the simple on-line instructions to register as a team, individual walker or 10,000 Stepper and in a short time you will have your own secure personal fundraising webpage to help the Rays of Hope Walk.
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Send emails from “My Dashboard” to all your friends, family, co-workers, business associates – everyone in your contact list - asking them to visit your webpage to make a donation towards your goal or to join your team for Rays of Hope!
Register Online Today
For more information about the program call the Rays of Hope office at
413-794-8001
