Team Recruitment week - August 10th - 14th

Next week is Team recruitment week - help Team CS recruit more members and we'll raffle off any of the team prizes we win amongst the current team!

The team that raises the most money from August 10 to August 14 will win a $700 Bianchi gift certificate.
The team that recruits the most members from August 10 to August 14 will win a one-year Crunch Fitness gift certificate.

Monday:
The team captain who sends the most e-mails encouraging people to join their team will win a $50 gift certificate to Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. Times Square
Tuesday:
The team that has the most members update their personal fundraising Web page will win Yikes ID Helmet tags for up to 15 members of their team.
Wednesday:
Every team captain who recruits four or more people to join their team will receive a two-week Crunch Fitness gift certificate.
Thursday:
Every team that raises at least $500 will be entered into a raffle to win a $50 gift certificate to any official bike shop.
Friday:
The team captain who recruits the most people will win a Bike MS Gift Pack including a Camelbak and Cat-1 cargo bag.

Today is a Fundraising Blitz day - Win Prizes!

Fundraise online today, July 30 for a chance to win a $1,000 Bianchi gift card or a one-year membership to Crunch Fitness.
Every $25 you raise online increases your opportunity to win*:
Raise $25 = one chance to Win
Raise $100 = four chances to Win
Raise $1,000 = 40 chances to Win
Also everyone who raises a minimum of $125 by July 31, 2009 will earn a pair of Bike MS 25th Anniversary socks.

There are plenty of fundraising tips on the MS site (linkes to the right) and as ever, Dennis, Jeanette, Darryl or myself are happy to provide advice...

Raise money by 9/24 - win JetBlue flights!

Fundraising is underway (see the thermometer on the right of the blog), and according to our Math - if everyone in the team raises about $750, we'd easily make our fundraising target (fundraising is open through to November 17). Most of us find that a dozen or so emails to colleagues and friends nets most of that in one fell swoop.

In order to get everyone to flex those emailing muscles we're initiating a contest with a cool prize. Everyone on Team CS who raises over $750 by 5pm Monday 24 September, will be entered into a draw to win a $250 JetBlue travel voucher. Open to everyone on the team (not just our CS colleagues).

You don't have to use the Kintera site to send the emails. When you signed up you will have received an email with a direct link to your donation page. You can easily craft an email and copy that link in to make it easier to use Outlook/Gmail/whatever your favourite mail application is...

Team CS in Prize winning form

Monday's team recruitment challenge was won by Team CS at a stroll. We're now well on our way to getting to the magic 175 riders and its not even September yet...

As soon as we find out what the prizes are specifically (cycling apparel of some kind) then we'll pick names form the hat and distribute.

Keep recruiting so we have a chance to win the really big prizes (pizza parties are good, Bikes are even better!)

****UPDATE (8/29)**** We cleaned up in the prize winning - Darryl will email everyone but basically we won pretty much everything with the exception of the Bike (shame!)...

It's Recruitment Week

The team that registers the most people over this week will win a team pizza party. The team that collectively raises the most money over the week will win a Bianchi Brava bicycle!

Daily prizes all week are as follows:

Monday 20th: The team that recruits the most members will win riding gear, such as cooling scarves and head sweats, for up to 25 team members.

Tuesday 21st: The team member that sends the most e-mails* encouraging friends and family to join their team will win a 1-year membership to Crunch Fitness. *The winner must send out a minimum of 200 e-mails.

Wednesday 22nd: The team that recruits the most members will win National MS Society Messenger Bags for up to 10 team members.

Thursday 23rd: The 3 teams* that register the most team members will each win a 6-month membership to Crunch Fitness. *All winning teams must be at their 4 person minimum to be eligible.

Friday 24th: Every team that registers 5 or more members will win a $25 gift certificate to any one of our official bike shops for up to 15 team members.

Saturday 25th: Every team member who raises $50 will be entered into a raffle to win an Ipod shuffle. Every additional $50 offers another raffle chance. Already have an Ipod? You can win the equivalent value in Itunes gift certificates.