Fundraise

Fundraising is easy with online fundraising tools! Once you register for the Race you automatically receive your own online Participant Center. The Participant Center contains tools for tracking donations, sending emails, and most importantly editing your personal page. Your personal page is viewable by others so you can use to communicate why you are a Race participant and encourage family, friends, and others to make an online donation directly to you via your personal page.

Fundraising Steps

1. Register for the Race, set a fundraising goal (we suggest $300). Jump start your fundraising goal by making a donation when you register.
2. Log in to your Participant Center and edit your personal page. If you are a team captain, edit your team page as well! Explain why you are fundraising, for example in honor of a relative who is a Survivor, or in memory of someone who has passed away from breast cancer. Or simply because you want to see some of these breast cancer statistics change, especially in YOUR hometown.
3. Next encourage everyone you know to visit your personal and/or team page, read about what you are doing in the fight against breast cancer and make a donation on your behalf.
4. Remember these key talking points:

• One out of eight women will have to fight breast cancer in her lifetime. That’s why, since 1999, Susan G. Komen® Austin has been hard at work here in the Austin area raising money to provide breast cancer screening, education and medical services as well as financial and emotional support. In fact, 75 percent of the money we raise each year is put to work right here in Bastrop, Caldwell, Hays, Travis and Williamson counties to improve the lives of everyone affected by this deadly disease. The remaining funds are dedicated to global research. For more information about the organization, please call 512-473-0900 or visit www.komenaustin.org.
• Donations to Komen Austin are tax deductible to the full extent the law allows.
• Many employers will match charitable donations! Be sure to check with your company's HR department for details.

 Helpful Documents

The following documents (pdf's) contain ideas about different ways to raise money, and suggesstions on how to ask for donations.

Fundraising Toolkit

101 Fundraising Ideas

Fundraising Activites

Fundraising Tips

Sample Fundraising Letter

Cash/Check Donations

Cash/checks can be mailed to our office, dropped off on Race day, or turned in at the office. Regardless, a Race Donation Form must be included with any cash or check donations so we know whom to credit the donation.

Mailed in Race Donation Forms must be received by November 30, 2013 for donations to be credited toward your fundraising goal. Any forms received after that date will be counted as general Race donations.

Mailing Address:
Komen Austin Race for the Cure®
PO Box 2164
Austin, TX 78768