Are you about to plan a walkathon (walk-a-thon) or jogathon?   And now are you a little nervous about what you’ve just promised you’d do?  The Walkathon Guide will demystify the whole planning process, so you know exactly what to expect, in great detail.

• Simplify recruiting walkathon volunteers
• Get ahead of all the details
• Keep everyone in sync
• Be supremely confident, start to finish
• Have more fun and make more money

At $14.95, it can help you save hours of trial and error work during walkathon planning and avoid last minute glitches on Walkathon day.  The Walkathon Guide is ideal for schools, churches, and charitable organizations.  It  only takes two or three minutes to purchase and download this very useful e-book.

” I wish ‘The Walkathon Guide’ existed when I started leading walkathons.  Lee Garverick has done a great job of creating a step-by-step guide to planning a successful walkathon.  The timelines and sample documents sprinkled throughout the guide are worht the purchase alone.  I am confident future walkathons will be more successful a the experience captured in ‘The Walkathon Guide’ is applied.”

– Roger Carr, walkathon organizer, speaker, author, CharityWalksBlog, e-book “Wake Up and Make a Difference”

The Walkathon Guide helps you make your walkathon more fun and profitable, and at the same time helps you keep calm and organized.  You can focus on the big picture because The Walkathon Guide lets you predict and delegate the details.  The Walkathon Guide offers the wisdom and experience of generations of walkathon planners.  It includes:

• Over 90 pages of detailed walkathon plans
• Timeline “to do” lists, coordinated between committees
• Example flyers, forms and email messages
• Words of wisdom
• Reusable fliers file in MS Word format (just copy, edit, and go)
• One copy of each of eight pullout sections to hand to your walkathon committees, so they can feel in control as well
  
• List of all volunteers needed, with numbers, start time, for every committee
• Dependencies between committees
• Committee job descriptions with timelines and number of volunteers needed

• Only $14.95; valued at over $40

Over 90 pages about how to plan a walkathon

The Walkathon Guide covers everything from your initial decisions through to the celebration after.  You’ll have the info you need, just when you need it.

Save work by avoiding trial and error, and reusing flyers and forms

Valued at over $40, The Walkathon Guide is available for only $14.95.

The Walkathon Guide steers you around common pitfalls and easily forgotten details, and gives you material ready to copy, edit, and go.

You can also download Reusable Flyers in MS Word format, and one extra copy of sections for Committee Chairs at no additional cost.

Use these pull out sections to quickly explain what’s needed so volunteers will be more willing to sign up. Then your committee chairs can use them to be on the ball for all their responsibilities. It also comes with reusable flyers, in MS Word format, so you can simply copy and edit rather than creating from scratch.

With twelve chapters and three appendices, The Walkathon Guide gives the details for every committee.

Make your walkathon the best ever.

Be on top of all the key details to make your event more fun and profitable than ever before.  Keep energy high, stress levels down, and have your volunteers working in sync, knowing what’s needed when from each other.

If you are a detail person, here are the contents to help you with your decision.

Contents

How to Use this Guide	13
Planning a Walkathon in Twelve Steps	13
1. Early Decisions / Up Front To Do List Should you do this?  Six pros and two cons. Early Decision Checklist To Do Now	15
2.Get Volunteers Volunteer Recruitment Timeline Master List of Volunteer Committees Chart of Major Dependencies between Committees	23
3.Leverage Technology	27
4.Get Sponsors and Donors Team Goals Team Members Team Dependencies Timeline for Getting Sponsors Notes on Getting Sponsors	29
5.Publicity Team Goals Team Members Team Dependencies Timeline for Publicizing Within Your Group Notes on Publicity and Logo Slogan and Logo Example Logos How to Hold a Contest or Get Input from Older Students for the Slogan and Logo Early T Shirts for Publicity PR Opportunities	31
6.T Shirts, Lap Cards, and Other Printed Materials Team Goals Team Members Team Dependencies T Shirt and Lap Card Timeline T Shirt Notes Vendor T Shirt Quantity How to Track Number of Laps Walked My Research on Lap Cards Don’t Forget the String Other Printed Material	39
7.Registration and Treasurer Team Goals Team Members Team Dependencies Registration Timeline Registration Welcome Packets and Check In/Out Process for the Day of the Event Registration Volunteers	45
8.Concessions Team Goals Team Members Team Dependencies Concessions Timeline Complimentary to All Walkers Volunteers Sample Shopping List Cash Box and Cash Runs on the Day of the Walkathon	51
9.Entertainment Team Goals Team Members Team Dependencies Crazy Hair	59
10.Course and Event Layout, Setup and Cleanup Team Goals Team Members Team Dependencies Setup Timeline Notes Event Setup Cleanup	61
11.Organize Course Volunteers Team Goals Team Members Example walkathon shifts, not counting photography and first aide Team Dependencies Course Volunteers Timeline Supplies First Aide	67
12.Celebrate Team Goals Team Members Dependencies Timeline Notes	75
Appendix 1:  Start with These!  Reusable Documents Newsletter insert for sponsors Sponsor solicitation letter Publicity Materials Other Materials to Copy Lap Cards Check-In, Check-Out Procedures	77
Appendix 2:  Technology Options	100
Appendix 3: Sample Waiver Form courtesy of Dojiggy	101

How to buy

1. Click on this “BUY NOW” button.

2. Pay via PayPal and you will get The Walkathon Guide immediately.  (If you don’t have a PayPal account, you can still pay by credit card.   PayPal offers you that option on the left side of the next screen.)

3. If you want  a paper copy, print your Walkathon Guide  “double sided”.

Thank you!

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