Transcript Making the Most of your Online Participant Center

Making the Most of your
Online Participant Center
Online WebEx Training
What is your Participant Center?
• Web-Based fundraising software
• User name and password automatically
generated after registration
• Can be accessed through
www.msconnection.org
Why Fundraise Online?
Because now more than ever, people with MS need you
• 2007: National MS Society raised nearly $50 million
online
• 2008: Nor Cal Chapter raised over $1.7 million online
• Moving money online is faster and safer than handling
checks and cash
• With online fundraising there is immediate
acknowledgement and receipt of transaction
• Participants who fundraise online sooner, receive money
faster and raise bigger sums!
• Friends and family can donate wherever they are
• Studies show that online donors give larger gifts
Log In!
You’re In!
Setting Personal Page
Make It Personal
• Why do you walk/cycle/run for MS?
• Add pictures from previous years, or
the loved one you are walking for,
your training, etc.
• Add a personal blog onto your
participant page to update others on
your fundraising/training progress
Editing the Content of your
Personal Page
Upload a Photo
Why Send Emails through your
Participant Center?
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Link to personal page
Walk MS layout
Suggested language
You can keep track of the number of messages
you have sent each contact, visited your
Personal Page, and made a donation.
• You can easily import existing contact
information from another email application (i.e.:
Yahoo, AOL, Outlook, etc.)
Import Contacts
Import Email Contacts
• Instead of manually typing each name and
email address into email messages when
sending emails through your participant
center
Sending Emails from Your
Participant Center
Choose Contacts, Update Email
Text
Keeping Track of Emails/Donations
Follow-Ups
• Keep track of gifts received
• Update yourself on your fundraising
progress
• Enter gifts you have received offline (cash
or checks)
Keep Track of Your Progress
Enter Gifts Received Offline
How to Enter Offline Gifts
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When the My Progress page appears, look to the "Gift
Summary Box."
• Click on the link "Enter gifts received offline."
• The page that will appear will be a form for the
information of the check holder/ cash giver. Fill out this
form, indicating how the payment was made and for
what amount and how they would like their name
displayed on the "Fundraising Honor Roll."
• You can then bring the checks to us the day of the walk,
or you can send them to our San Francisco Address
(with the participants name, team and walk site) and they
will be credited to your account.
My Team
My Team Function
(Team Captains Only)
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Update team fundraising goals
Update team page text, photos
Track team progress
Send emails to your team
Team Roster
Team Performance Reports
We will find a cure for MS and it will
be because of fundraisers like you!
For Walk MS questions, please
contact: [email protected]