Walk-a-thons are very popular. You can support a great cause while getting a terrific workout. A great idea is to start a walk-a-thon team either with family and friends, or at your place of business. Organizing a walk-a-thon team just takes a little planning and preparation. You can do it!
Instructions
1. Contact the organization you would like to do the walk-a-thon for and ask them for materials. They will send you registration forms and information about the charity to give to all interested participants.
2. Register yourself and try to get several other people to register with you before you announce you have a team. The fact that you can say you already have some people signed up will probably get people excited and they'll want to join in on the fun.
3. Create a name for your team. Ask teammates for their input to get a great name for your team.
4. Set a team fund-raising goal. Have a chart where everyone can see it, or send out e-mail updates on everyone's progress.
5. Encourage friendly challenges between people to reach fund-raising goals. If you are doing this as a family, it could be adults vs. children; a corporate team could be department vs. department.
6. Arrange some prizes for targets reached. Have some of the prizes be not just for fund-raising goals, but for efforts being made. Examples of things to reward could be for sending out the most letters or emails to try to raise funds, or making the most telephone calls.
7. Create some weekly or bi-weekly walking dates where everyone can get together and take a walk. This is great exercise and will get everyone in shape to do the walk.
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