Team Captain Tools

Thank you for your leadership and participation in the Susan G. Komen Maine Race for the Cure® and for making an impact by fundraising. We look forward to celebrating with you and your team on Race day!

Here are some tools developed just for you, our inspirational Team Captains

2012 TEAM TOOLKIT

Tips for Building Your Team

• Ask friends, family, colleagues and neighbors personally.
• Publicize your team and the Race in company or club newsletters.
• Recruit team ambassadors to help spread the word.
• Customize your Participant Center to share your stories, recruit team members and fundraise.
• Utilize your e-mail signature line to provide readers with a link to your Participant Center.
• Include a link to your Participant Center on all your social networking sites.
• Host a breast health awareness meeting, include Race video/Komen speaker.
• Host a registration table at your business, hospital, school, etc.
• Post flyers everywhere you go.
• Insert flyers in payroll checks.
• Challenge friends and colleagues to a "most registered" competition.
• Ask each team member to sign up at least one other person.

Team Fundraising

As the leader of your team, and therefore a leader in the fight to end breast cancer, it’s important for you to know and share with your team members the importance of fundraising. Simply registering and showing up on Race Day will raise awareness, but it’s the fundraising dollars that will help find the cures.

One of the best ways to inspire your team members to fundraise is to lead by example and start fundraising yourself. To begin, view the Fundraising Tips. Once you’ve started your own personal fundraising effort, and you’ve got some team members on-board, read on for information on setting up your team’s fundraising page as well as some great team fundraising ideas.

The ultimate reward is knowing you've brought our community miles closer to the reality of a world without breast cancer.