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Friday, February 25, 2011

Congratulations!

Stephanie Musgrove, a member of the Dallas Team Ryane, Carson and Carter, won two round trip United Airlines tickets by raising $50 through the Online Fundraising Tool!

Here's a little more information about the March of Dimes incentives program...

In raising as little as $200, you can reach the first incentive level and receive a March for Babies t-shirt. Keep fundraising, and you’ll find yourself with a Macy’s gift card!

Raise $200, get a T-shirt
Raise $350, get a T-shirt and $15 gift card*
Raise $500, get a T-shirt and $25 gift card*
Raise $1,000, get a T-shirt and $50 gift card*
Raise $2,500, get a T-shirt and $125 gift card*
Raise $5,000, get a T-shirt and $250 gift card*
Raise $10,000, get a T-shirt and $500 gift card*
Raise $20,000, get a T-shirt and $600 gift card*

*Macy's gift card

While your real reward is knowing that you’re helping babies, these incentives are our way to say thank you for your efforts.  There’s another opportunity to win airline tickets through United Airlines as well.  

Register to walk for March for Babies 2011 at www.marchforbabies.org , and you could win a set of two round trip tickets to fly to any destination served by United Airlines in the 48 contiguous United States, Alaska, Canada, Caribbean, Mexico and Central America. 

As a registered walker, you are eligible to be entered in the drawing if any of the following benchmarks are met:

Raise $50 online or more by February 15, 2011
Raise $100 online or more by February 28, 2011
Raise $200 online or more by March 31, 2011
Raise $300 online or more by April 30, 2011,
Raise $1,000 in online, offline and matching donations by May 31, 2011

Congratulations, Stephanie, and good luck to all of our walkers in Dallas!






Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Corporate Team Spotlight

This week the spotlight is on Citi!
They have already had multiple employees sign up on the Online Fundraising Tool (OFT) website and have raised over $700!!

Citi had their internal kickoff on February 17th at Lincoln Park and it was a huge success. They also have a great fundraising event coming up for St. Patrick's Day including a putt putt contest, benefiting their March for Babies campaign.
Since St. Patrick's Day is less than a month away, this would be a great time to think of a fundraising event like Citi did. Maybe you can sell green flowers to your employees or customers, put on a March Madness event, have an office lunch for $5-10... The Fundraising Ideas packet contains a lot more ideas that you can use in your workplace.

 
Please post other fundraising ideas that teams can use for St. Patrick's Day. We'd love to hear what your company is going to do!
Great job, Citi! Thanks for all of your hard work!

Friday, February 18, 2011

It's the little things...

Some easy things you can do to help you reach your March for Babies goal:

Visit this March of Dimes website to spread the word by making a badge for your email or even a blog or other website. You can also add a Facebook application where all of your world-wide friends can see your goal and help you reach it.




Be creative & have fun with your campaign!

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Online Fundraising

Online fundraising is an AMAZING tool that all teams can utilize. We have two links posted on the right-hand side of the blog that give more detail about how to start a team on OFT and how to manage it.

Using OFT, you can send e-mails to all of your friends, family and co-workers in a few short minutes. You can also track your donations online, see how close you are to your goal, and you can even send a thank you email to those who have donated.
Every team has an Online Administrator who has access to the team's page--- that person can change the photo, add a personal story, make the team's goal, and monitor the team's progress. Be sure to utilize that page and tell your team's story!

If you have any questions, please refer to the links titled "OFT Guide" and "Registration and OFT Instructions " or contact your March of Dimes representative.

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Path of Hope


Order your 2011 March for Babies Path of Hope sign today!!

To help increase mission awareness on March for Babies day, a series of storyboards will be created and displayed along the 5K route. Each storyboard will tell the journey of a premature baby and their family.

Please go online to: www.marchforbabies.org/pathofhopedallas and make a minimum donation of $20 to have your own Path of Hope sign created and displayed at March for Babies. You will then be directed to send a picture and details of your child/children to: lbailey@marchofdimes.com. The deadline to sign up is March 1st.

This is a very specal part of March for Babies and truly allows participants to see the reason they walk and raise funds. So that one day EVERY baby can be born healthy!


Wednesday, February 2, 2011

2011 Forms and Documents

Hello to all of our wonderful team captains! We are very excited about the 2011 March for Babies and can't wait to see all of you on April 16th! There are links on the right-hand side of this blog that contain important forms & documents that you might need to start your team's campaign. We will add more documents once the walk gets closer so check back for updates or become a "Follower" of the blog. When you click on a link of the document you want, you will be taken to another website where you will click "Click here to start download."


Thank you for your hard work and dedication to the March of Dimes. We appreciate all of you!