Ideas

some ideas were kicked around last night after dinner on some donations. please see below:

1. Straight forward donation page; runners name, contributors name, amount...(i was also thinking that we should get an e-mail of the contributor and send them a picture or two of the runner during, and or finishing the race, along with a link to the website, and a bio about what they helped contribute to.)

2. "The Flat Fee" This would be a fee of $100-$150 for runners to enter, they can do the donations page if they want, or not. we would schedule two 5k's, two 10k's, and a half marathon. all run in a series type event. the entry fees would be paid for them, (with the hopes of getting an entry fee waiver/half price from the sponsors), they would also recive training partners if needed, water bottles/bracelets/shirts...etc. obviously we will want to make a significant margin on the runners. Revenue outweighs the cost of entry fees, shirts, bottles, bracelets, etc.

3. Corporation sponsors. This is an idea that we all agree upon, but will need to be refined and tweaked when the ROC is readily accesible to the public.

4. A Frequent Runners Card, or a Menu of races that will be run for the cause. This needs some work, and I do not have enough knowledge on how it could be done. Conrad is the man on this one, but I think that we agreed this one might be long term?

5. I thought about this the other day, but forgot to bring it up earlier tonight. What about doing old school fundraisers? the vendors at a cardinal game one night? I know that specifically there is one concession stand dedicated to fundraising functions....

Any others? What are your thoughts? I will work on T-shirts by the end of the week, find out how long it will take, get an idea of who wants one, how much they will cost, and how many to order.
Love you guys
Uncle