WHEN: Saturday, October 25 7:30 AM Registration 8:00 AM Presentations 9:30 AM Walk Steps Off

WHERE: Frances Stevens Park Corner of Alejo & Palm Canyon Dr. Palm Springs, California

Registering Your Team | Organizing Your Team | Motivating Your Team

Motivating Your Team

Ideas for Maximum Donation Pledges

• Enclose a Desert AIDS Walk flyer with your team registration information with employees' paychecks many weeks in advance. Put a sign-up sheet in the break room with pictures from last year's Walk.
• Ask previous donors to take an active role and become a Team Member.
• Leave a group voicemail for all Team Walkers weekly about the Desert AIDS Walk. Start a friendly competition to see which department can get the most people registered. Also encourage participation at every group or managers meeting and every get together.
• Advertise with signs and set up tables in the cafeteria with laptops so people can register online during lunch. Keep people motivated by sending emails and encouraging them to be walkers.
• Put sign-up sheets at a company-sponsored coffee and bagel Desert AIDS Walk kickoff breakfast.
• Try to get a story about your team on your company's intranet site.
• Start a team made of people who you went to high school with, and use it as a reunion. Send a group email to everyone from high school using a social media tool like Facebook.

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If you have any additional questions or would like to request information, please contact the Walk Coordinator at:
760 323-2118, ext. 257

Recruiting Tips and Tricks

• Make sure to share your reasons for participating in the Walk with others. Telling people your story is more powerful than just asking for a donation.
• Start early and get a few people on your team who have a passion for worthwhile causes.
• Send out weekly e-mail updates and list everyone's donation pledge total, from highest to lowest, to get the competition going!
• Hold drawings using simple items like giftcards and movie tickets, for people who hit milestones such as $250, $500, and $1,000. Let them know when the next drawing will be, what the prize is and what milestone they had to hit to be included.
• Send out celebration e-mails highlighting anyone who hits the milestone.
• E-mail all your customers, suppliers, and manufacturers all over the world and ask for a donation.
• Wear-your-jeans-to-work day! Choose a Friday prior to the Walk and send out an announcement that if you donate $5 to the Desert AIDS Walk, you can wear jeans that Friday instead of normal business casual attire. (Be sure to clear this with management first.)
• Be persistent. People have busy lives and DO get side tracked. It may take more than one contact with a potential donor to receive money.
• Use our online registration to design your own webpage and have friends and family members sponsor you online, simply by using their credit card. Sponsors can also send their pledges directly to the Desert AIDS Walk office with one of the donation forms and we will credit their donation toward your goal. Both options make sponsoring easy, fast, and effective!