Keep These TIPS in Mind When Raising Funds

• Use the sample letters and emails on the fundraising page. Use these letters, or add a personal note to a general letter, to add familiarity and friendliness to your sponsorship request. Send them to everyone on your holiday card list.
  
  
• Go where you spend money and ask for sponsorship. Bring your pledge sheet wherever you go. Remember, you are asking for the Alzheimer’s Association, not for yourself.
  
  
• Find out if your company has a matching gifts program. Many companies have programs for matching their employees’ charitable contributions.
  
  
• Set a specific fundraising goal. You will be surprised that you will usually exceed your goal.
  
  
• Host a fundraising party and ask people to pledge their support that night.
  
  
• Put information on your desk at work.
  
  
• Ask people to contribute to Run for the Memory instead of buying you a gift for your birthday, your anniversary or for any occasion.
  
  
• Change you answering machine to say, “I’m running in the Boston Marathon and raising funds for the Alzheimer’s Association. Will you sponsor me?”
  
  
• Include information about Run for the Memory in your email signature. Have people contact you for further information on how to donate.

Other Ideas

• Hold a bake sale.
• Sponsor a car wash or dog wash.
• Ask local retail merchants if you can set up a donation jar at the checkout counter.
• Throw a pizza party and charge for the pizza.
• Have a garage sale.
• Have a spare change jar at your home or office.