I found this bulletin board today in Chinos Rock & Tacos, San Luis Obispo (great soup too). They have four walkathons coming up in the near term – very impressive. Go SLO!
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Check this out from today’s ABC News:
“A young British schoolboy has raised more than 100,000 pounds ($160,000) Monday for Haiti’s relief effort by cycling round his local park.”
Two thoughts for even the smallest walkathons (or bikeathons):
Read more… UK 7-Year-Old Raises Tens of Thousands for Haiti – ABC News.
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Do you have a walkathon volunteer who stands out in deserving recognition? Check out Run Walk Ride’s “Cash, Sweat and Tears” award opportunity. It’s free to apply, and applications are due tomorrow.
Just by applying you will honor your volunteer. Every nominee will be honored with a Cash, Sweat and Tears Certificate of Merit and recognition on http://www.runwalkride.com. One outstanding nominee will be recognized at the opening dinner of the Run Walk Ride Fundraising Conference. They’ll be honored with a trophy, a $500 donation to the charity of their choice from Blackbaud and a wardrobe of athletic footwear and apparel donated by New Balance.
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Consider creating a stir about your walkathon with a great unveiling of your walkathon logo and T shirt. Create a couple of T Shirts prior to the major shipment, to wear when you speak to the group. Alternatively, you could have your group’s mascot model the shirt. At our school, my co-chair Lynne created an XXXL walkathon shirt for our Bear mascot to model, and the kids were so excited when he made his appearance. It certainly put the walkathon at front and center in their minds.
Option A: Print your own
Here is how. You need a color inkjet printer.
1. Purchase cheap T Shirts and iron on transfer(s). You can find them at local drug stores, Target, Walmart. I’ve seen the transfers online as well.
2. Get the finalized T Shirt design (logo and slogan) from the T Shirt Team.
3. Print the T Shirt design onto the iron on transfer, then follow the directions that come with the transfer to iron it onto your shirt.
Option B: Order a single T Shirt from your supplier.
This has the side benefit of letting you see a single shirt prior to ordering mass quantities. Go to my Useful Stuff page for a few good T Shirt suppliers.
Learn more about The Walkathon Guide book.
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Here is a nice, inexpensive publicity idea. Booksin Elementary has set up a very professional looking blog (click here to see it). It uses WordPress, which I can attest to as being easy and fun. They’ve purchased their own web address, which costs just $15.
Notice how they use the right column to give their sponsors extra publicity.
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