Hi Spring Valley neighbors, and friends,
I spend most of my time volunteering for environmental non-profits. One of them is Louisville Earth Walk. This annual event (on April 20 this year) is a celebration of Earth Day, but also a fundraiser for 13 local environmental non-profits
Walking at the 5K walk itself is free, and we’d love to see you there! Just go to the event’s website, click “Register for the Walk,” and fill in three blanks.
Because this is a free event but also a fundraiser (a contradiction in terms?), we hope that, after registering to walk, everyone will either donate of become part of a donation team. Here’s a description of the three options on this “team” page:
1. Click on “Join team.” This is of course what we hope everyone will do. If you choose this, you will be prompted to become your own “fundraising” entity as part of the “Spring Valley Sprinter” fundraising team. You are guided to create your own fundraising page (it’s easy!) and then publish it. Once it’s published, you will then be a “participating fundraiser” for the “Spring Valley Sprinters” fundraising team and can share the URL link for your own personal campaign page with friends, family, co-workers, etc. When your friends “donate” to your fundraiser, you will get credit and the GSLC team will also get credit. The individuals and teams that raise the most money will win prizes.
2. Click on “Donate.” Then “Select a participating fundraiser to support.” Again, a “participating fundraiser” is someone who has already joined the “team” by creating her/his own individual fundraising page. Then donate to one of these members of the fundraising “team.”
3. Click on “Share” and you can share the “team” fundraising page URL via email or social media. Of course, another way to share fundraising pages is to copy and paste into an email either the team URL or your own personal URL.
A couple of clarifications:
1. There are three different kinds of fundraising pages in Mighty Cause. “Fundraisers” are single individuals. “Teams” consist of one or more “fundraisers. “Events” is a third kind of pages that subsumes both “fundraisers” and “teams,” but for purposes of Louisville Earth Walk, ignore “Events” pages.
2. When you encounter the word “team” on Mighty Cause it means a fundraising team, not an actual walking team. Of course, we hope and encourage everyone on a particular fundraising team to register for and walk in the event with everyone else on your fundraising team.
Thanks for whatever you can do to help support those who work to keep our city clean and livable.
I hope to see you at the Iroquois Park Amphitheater, on Saturday, April 20, 9 a.m.!
In gratitude,
Drew Foley