Team Captain Tools

NOW is the time to start planning your team for the 2011 Komen Southeastern Colorado Affiliate Race for the Cure®. Team Captains must register first to create your team. Each team member can then register by clicking "Join a Team" and searching for the Team name.

Your team registration fee gets you to the start line, but it's team fundraising that will help find the cures!

 Downloadable Team Captain Toolkit is now available. It contains everything you need to know about starting a team, adding team members, and fundraising as a team!

Team Captain Checklist

Use this checklist as a reminder of your next steps and to help you keep track of your progress.

• Click here to Register as a team captain.
• Go to the second box labeled 'Enter Your Team Details'.
• Enter a team name.
• Set a goal for the number of people you will recruit.
• Click on Next Step and continue to register yourself.
• If your company team is open to non-employees, tell team members to recruit their families and friends to join the team.
• Display event materials — brochures and posters (contact teams@komensecolorado.org for these materials) — around the office, campus, cafeterias, break rooms, gyms, and other high traffic areas. Put your name, phone number, and/or email address on the posters so people can contact you to get involved.
• Download the customizable Team Poster for you and members of your team to display, to encourage your co-workers, friends and family to join your team in participating and fundraising for the Race.
• Post a progress chart with your fundraising and recruitment goals in a visible area and update totals regularly.
• Make a personal self donation first!
• Host a kick-off meeting or event and invite the Susan G. Komen for the Cure® staff to make a presentation (contact teams@komensecolorado.org).
• Send fundraising tips out to all your team members, and highlight the team's top fundraising member.
• Create fundraising incentives so that all your members meet or exceed their goals.
• Remind team members to log on to their fundraising pages to record all offline donations and send thank-you notes.

Need tips for building your Komen Race Team? Click here!

Team Fundraising

As the leader of your team, and therefore a leader in the fight to end breast cancer, it’s important for you to know and share with your team members the importance of fundraising. Simply registering and showing up on Race Day will raise awareness, but it's the fundraising dollars that will help find the cures.

Last year, more than 252 teams raised more than $137,000 for the fight to end breast cancer. That’s a huge impact! We believe this was directly attributed to the team captains’ leadership and the support of team members to help meet and exceed their fundraising goals. This year, our goal is for Komen Race teams to make an even greater impact. To get there, we are counting on your leadership.

One of the best ways to inspire your team members to fundraise is to lead by example and start fundraising yourself. To begin, view the Fundraising Tips. Once you have started your own personal fundraising effort, and you have some team members on-board, read on for information on setting up your team’s fundraising page as well as some great team fundraising ideas.

The ultimate reward is knowing you've brought our community miles closer to the reality of a world without breast cancer.

But be sure to check out the Fundraising Incentives page for more information on how we thank our top performing teams!