TeamMS Timeline

Your Mission: Post this tool at home or work to help keep you and your team on track!

Team Name:

Team Captain:   

# of Members:

Fundraising goal:

15-12 Weeks & Counting (March)

• Register yourself.
• Set team goals (number of team members and fundraising goal).
• Make a list of possible team members and invite them to join.

12-10 Weeks & Counting (March/April)

• Recruit team members (March 20th kicks off TeamMS Recruitment Week).
• Have a meeting to form a TeamMS committee and choose a co-captain.
• Have a fundraiser to boost your team’s fundraising total.
• Ask your company to sponsor your team, make a donation or provide team
• uniforms with the company logo!

8-6 weeks (April/May)

• Recruit more team members.
• Find out if your company has a matching gifts program.
• Use the company email or newsletter for updates and post them in the
• break room and restrooms.
• Use the MS Society on-line registration system to check your team’s progress.

6-4 Weeks (May)

• Set up a “thermometer” showing your fundraising goal and the pledges raised to
• date.
• Have another fundraising event.
• Send a team email!

2 Weeks (May/June)

• Have a Team Pep Rally—update team members, congratulations to top
• fundraisers, decide where to meet on event day.
• Collect pledges before the event and turn them in to the MS Society office. Or
• even better, ask the MS Society TeamMS Coordinator to be there to collect the
• pledges!

Event Day

• Wear your team uniform.

• Stop by the TeamMS tent for a team photo.

  Show team spirit!

   

After the Event

• Congratulate and thank team members for their hard work.
• Collect any additional pledges.
• Send thank-you letters to major donors.
• Remember the deadline for prize eligibility is June 30, 2006.