COVID-19 and the latest restrictions have caused many challenges to our organisation and to the women and children for whom home is not safe. We are seeing the impact through the increased demand for our services. We are particularly concerned with the level of need once restrictions ease and women can access services. We need your help to be able to support more families.

If you want to make something more accessible, Yeah! Yoga created an incredibly fun and accessible challenge: each day participants would take a photo of one yoga pose. It got a ton of community engagement, brought attention to their work, and brought on individual fundraisers.

three walking challenges

• INDIVIDUAL – 76,000 steps per week (in honour of the 76 women and children that lost their lives to domestic violence in 2020).

• TEAM/FAMILY – 1.6 million steps in the month of October (to represent the 1.6 million women who have experienced physical or sexual violence by a current or previous partner since the age of 15).

• COMPANY – 2.2 million steps in October (to represent the 2.2 million women who have experienced emotional abuse by a current or previous partner since the age of 15).

Auctions yield high returns on investment for midsize organizations and are easier to plan. For small organizations, the return on investment is relatively good but requires more planning. For larger organizations planning auctions are difficult to plan with little return on investment.

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Running isn’t the only kind of challenge you can host. In fact, the more creative you are in picking, the more interested participants will be. You can encourage your participants to do a climb, a swim, even a bowling tournament! One of the best elements of this creativity is that you can tie the activity to your cause to make it even more pertinent.

Picking A Fundraising Platform

SheJumps is an organization whose mission is to get women and girls involved in outdoor activities, and they chose to do a climb. It both raised money and fulfilled their mission.

If you want to make something more accessible, Yeah! Yoga created an incredibly fun and accessible challenge: each day participants would take a photo of one yoga pose. It got a ton of community engagement, brought attention to their work, and brought on individual fundraisers.

Pre Recording vs. Live Content

• Register walkers and assign bibs and T-shirts
• Print event schedules
• Print race day registrations for day-of participants  

If you want to have a successful live stream, you’ll want to choose whether to record some of your content in advance or whether to do it all live. It can be very helpful to pre-record some elements of your program because that reduces technical issues. If you’re planning to have a message from your Executive Director, or a story about a client, pre-recording can be a life saver.

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