Relay 4 Life- Invitrogen Eugene

Join Up!

We're all signed up now. Thanks to Allegra and the Global Citizenship Team for providing us with the intial registration fee, we are now an official Relay for Life Team.

Our main page is here: http://www.acsevents.org/relay/or/eugene/relayivgneugene.

I set our group goal fairly low, considering the number of people actually on-site. I set the group goal at only $5000. Absolutely fluff since we have 'til July... or is it?

So here's how this works. If you want to WALK on the team, you need to sign up UNDER our team. You would go HERE - you'll click "JOIN A TEAM" and select "INVITROGEN EUGENE." From there, you will enter your information, including t-shirt size and personal goal.
I set my personal goal at $100. I know I can do more, and may raise my goal if I make that too quickly :)

Under "Personalized Web Page Link" you will need to choose a username. This is important and you HAVE to do this because you won't be able to edit this later. What this is, is your personal page INSIDE of the Invitrogen Eugene page. Your friends, family, or poker buddies will be able to make donations towards your goal via credit/debit card on this site. The money that each of us raises personally goes toward BOTH our goal, and towards our group goal.

Under "FEES" you will select "General Participant," which does not charge a fee. Hit continue and you're set. It will give you the address for our main site, as well as the site address for your personal Relay page that you can give to people for your blackmail errr... donation requests.

As far as the blog goes, I can have posts emailed to you if you'd rather go that route than checking back with the website- just send me an email and let me know if you want on the "email blog posts" list. I'm going to post pertinent email discussions and fundraising ideas that people send to me so we can keep track of everything in one convenient location.

One of our team members is confused as to what a blog is. I'll explain. "Blog" is short for web-based log (journal.) You can post a daily entry, or make a new page every day. You can see on the right-hand side the link to previous entries, sorted by their subject lines. The blog also contains whatever other information we consider pertinent. I have links up to the Invitrogen website, if anyone wanders across this blog and wonders "what the heck is Invitrogen?!" and a link to the Eugene Relay for Life site for easy access. I might add more links.
Basically, and at its heart, a blog is just another website. You don't have to be a master coder to blog, all I do is type in the editor. You don't have to make blog posts to participate, you can just read and email me with any comments, or you can sign up for a username and post a comment below the initial post. I hope that makes sense...

So far, parties that have expressed interest in participating are:
Brandy
Bethany
Ginger
Dawn
Jolene
Kyia

That's it. I'm a little disappointed more aren't turning out, but maybe with a little cheerleading on our part we can drum up more interest and support from the company at large. I was thinking of getting permission to send out a bi-weeklyish informational update to the company, maybe monthly would be more the way to go :)

We could show how Invitrogen, and Molecular Probes specifically supports and helps in Cancer Research- does anyone have specific information on that? I'm not a technical person so I don't have exacts... or if you have ideas of who I could email for information?

Maybe send updates on how much our team has raised thus far and encourage people to join in. I would say we could designate someone to be our "cheerleader" and to be the person who is in charge of recruiting new members, but honestly we should ALL be doing that. :)

The GREAT news is, any of our friends and family are more than welcome to participate and walk on our team. That means I can volunteer my husband (mwahahah.) I'm not sure about volunteering my 2 year old, but wouldn't it be SO CUTE to push her around the track for an hour in a stroller? Okay, losing focus...

Anyway, feel free to encourage friends and family to sign up under our flag and participate.
As far as fundraising goes, we can do the fundraisers, dep the money into our account, and just use the site's credit/debit card to transfer the funds... I think that's easiest.

When is a good meeting day/time for everyone? I'm best evenings and weekends, customer service sure is hoppin'!

posted by Brandy @ 11:36 AM