Using your Participant Center
If you've already registered for the event, a Participant Center has already been created. All you need to do is click here to log in to personalize and share your story.
From your online Participant Center, you can:
- Customize your personal fundraising page with a story and photo
- Send fundraising and recruitment emails (there are pre-written templates that you can use)
- Track your progress
- Share your page on social media using the share tools
- Edit your username, password, and fundraising goal
How to Set Up Fundraise with Facebook
- You must be registered for the Walk & Run
- Once registered, log in to your Participant Center
- Click on the blue Facebook box on the right-hand side
- Follow the easy steps to activate your fundraiser
- Once activation is confirmed you can begin your fundraising from Facebook
The fundraising goal thermometers are kept in sync, making it easy for you to track your goal progress across both systems.
Family and friends can now support your efforts without having to leave Facebook!
How to change your personal goal
- Log in to your Participant Center
- Click on the Progress tab
- Click "change" under the My Goal total
- Enter the new amount and click Submit
How to change your team goal (only team captain can change team goal)
- Log in to your Participant Center
- Select the Progress tab
- Select the Team tab on the right (by default, the Personal tab is selected)
- Click "change" under the Team Goal total
- Enter the new amount and click Submit
To upload a photo to the personal page
- Log in to your Participant Center
- Click on the “Personal Page” tab
- Click on “Photos/Video” (it’s on the right side of the page)
- Click the “Browse” button
- Add a picture from your computer then click “Open”
- Click the “Save/Upload” button
To add your story to the personal page
- Log in to your Participant Center
- Click on the “Personal Page” tab
- Edit your page title and body copy
- Click the “Save” button
To upload contacts to your Participant Center
- Log in to your Participant Center
- Go to your Participant Center
- Click on the “Email” tab
- Select “Contacts” then “import Contacts” both on the right side
- Follow the prompts by uploading a contact list or .csv file.
- Upload contacts from a CSV file Click here
- Upload contacts from Gmail, Yahoo, AOL. Click here
To send a fundraising email
If you want to use a pre-written template:
- Log in to your Participant Center
- Click on the “Email” tab
- Enter your future supporters’ names and email addresses in the “To:” field or Click on “choose from your contacts list” if you’ve imported your contacts already
- Click on “Use a template” and choose “Solicitation”
- Then hit “Send” at the top of the page
If you want to write your own email:
- Log in to your Participant Center
- Click on the “Email” tab
- Enter your future supporters’ names and email addresses in the “To:” field or Click on “choose from your contacts list” if you’ve imported your contacts already
- Enter your subject line in the “Subject” field
- Write your email
- Then hit “Send” at the top of the page
To connect with my social media platforms
- Login to your Participant Center
- In the left hand column, you will see a Facebook, Twitter, and Google + Icon. Click on the one you’d like to utilize.
- Type in the message that you would like to share.
- Click “Post to Facebook.”
- You’ve not shared your personal page!
To create a ‘friendly URL’ for your page
- Go to the personal page tab.
- At the top of the page, you will see “Personal Page URL”
- Click on “URL Settings.”
- You can customize/shorten the URL link of your Personal Page.
- A best practice is to customize your URL link with your Name.
- Once done, click the grey “Save” button.
- The URL link to your Personal page has now been customized.
How do I run reports to get my team stats?
- On the home page of your Participant Center, click on the “Progress” tab.
- Click on the “Team” button to view your Team’s progress.
- Click on the “Team” button to view your Team’s progress.
- To download your team’s statistics, click on the “Download team statistics” link at the bottom of the page. An excel document will be exported to your computer.
- Click on the “Team” button to view your Team’s progress.
- To download your team’s statistics, click on the “Download team statistics” link at the bottom of the page. An excel document will be exported to your computer.
We've also created this handy PDF with screenshots that you can download for each of these things.