Steps to get started
Take the first steps toward meeting your fundraising goal by familiarizing yourself with helpful resources in the Participant Center. The Participant Center is your fundraising home base. You can customize your personal page, track your goals, send emails and access fundraising tools.
Upload a photo or video and share why you’re raising money for Children’s Hospital Colorado. Participants who update their personal page raise more than participants who do not update their page. Once you customize your fundraising page, connect it to Facebook to streamline your efforts.
Show your friends and family your own commitment to Children’s Colorado patients and families by donating to your own fundraising effort. Then ask as many people as you know to match your gift. That’s how $50 turns into $100, then $150… and pretty soon thousands of dollars for Children’s Colorado kids, families, and caregivers.
Share your story through social media, email or word of mouth. Include a link to your fundraising page that you set up in step one. You’re doing something amazing – share it with the world to inspire others to join you in supporting Children’s Colorado.
Connect with other supporters in the Courage Classic Community Facebook Group, share fundraising tips and ideas, and fuel the Courage Classic spirit!
Fundraising resources and downloads
Below are downloadable resources to help you take your fundraising to the next level.
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Email Fundraising Tool
When you log in to your Participant Center, click on the category at the top called “Messaging”:
This section houses an Email Center that you can use to boost your fundraising efforts by sending messages directly from your Participant Center!
Connect Your Courage Classic Fundraiser to Facebook
Streamline your fundraising efforts and receive donations directly through Facebook and Instagram. In just a few steps, you can create a connected Facebook fundraiser where friends can read your story, watch your progress and donate — all without ever leaving social media.
Donations from Facebook and Instagram will show up in real-time and your fundraising total is reflected on both the Facebook Fundraiser and your Personal Fundraising Page.
Please note that you MUST create your Facebook Fundraiser through your Courage Classic Participant Center if you would like it to be linked to your Personal Fundraising Page. A Fundraiser created on Facebook first cannot be linked.
How to set up your Facebook Fundraiser
- On the Participant Center Home tab, you can either click the Facebook Fundraiser Activity Badge, or scroll down past you progress thermometer to the Facebook Fundraiser section. Click the “Edit Fundraiser Content” button and simply follow the steps to link to Facebook. Remember that this tool takes your personal page content as-is and sends it to Facebook for your fundraiser setup, so be sure that you have put in your edits first.
- You will be prompted to log in to your Facebook account.
- You will see a screen that says “Children’s Colorado Foundation would like to manage your Fundraisers.” Click “OK”. This links your Facebook Fundraiser with Children’s Hospital Colorado Foundation to allow all donations made through Facebook to be automatically applied to your Personal Fundraising Page on the Courage Classic website.
Congratulations! The Facebook Fundraising box will read, “Your Fundraiser is Connected to Facebook”. Click “Go to Facebook Fundraiser.”
You can now manage your fundraiser by adding a cover photo, inviting your Facebook friends to donate, share updates, make a self-donation, track your progress or write a post to your donors.
FAQ
No. You must create the Facebook Fundraiser through your Participant Center. Fundraisers created directly on Facebook will not link to your Courage Classic account.
Donations will sync between the two sites. If you customize your Personal Page, fundraising goal, etc. in the Participant Center, these customizations will sync to your Facebook Fundraiser. This is a one-way sync, so updating information on the Facebook Fundraiser will not sync to your Participant Center. We suggest making all your customizations BEFORE creating your Facebook Fundraiser. Once your Facebook Fundraiser is created, it will not pick up any changes made afterwards in your Participant Center.
Gifts are listed on your donor honor roll as “Facebook Fundraiser” per Facebook’s privacy policy. You can see who gave to you via your Facebook Fundraiser in the Recent Activity section in your Participant Center, or on your Facebook Fundraiser. Some donations may be listed on your Facebook Fundraiser as private donations because the donor did not opt-in to information sharing.
When you donate, you will receive an email from Facebook with a receipt to the email address associated with your Facebook account. Visit the Facebook Payment History page (https://secure.facebook.com/facebook_pay/payment_history) if you need to reprint that receipt. This receipt is all you need for tax purposes.
Facebook Fundraising refunds are processed through Children’s Hospital Colorado Foundation. Please reach out to us at gshelp@childrenscoloradofundation.org with refund requests or questions.
We recommend self-donating through the Courage Classic website to activate the “I Donated” badge. The badge is not triggered to display on your fundraiser if you donate to your ride via Facebook Fundraising. Please reach out to us at courageclassic@childrenscoloradofoundation.org with questions.
The impact of every dollar you raise
The money you raise supports the greatest needs of our patients and caregivers.
$500
can provide technology that makes procedures less scary and stressful
Learn more about your impact$1,000
can pay for specialized equipment to care for premature babies in our NICU
Learn more about your impact$5,000
can help achieve new breakthroughs in research to treat more kids who are sick
Learn more about your impactFundraising ideas
Below are some fundraising ideas to help inspire you. Discover new ways to raise money to make a difference for Children’s Colorado patients and their families. Get creative!
Donate your day
Throw a party or host a sporting event
Memorial giving
Raffles: Legal disclaimer
Raffles, bingo, lottery and drawings are games of chance and are considered a raffle. Raffles MUST be approved and licensed by the state. If you hold a raffle without obtaining your own raffle license, you will be conducting an illegal raffle according to Colorado State Law and subject to review by the Colorado Gaming Commission. You must provide current raffle license information (organization name, games manager name and license number) to the Foundation prior to holding a raffle. If you hold a silent auction or sell any food or merchandise to support your team, please consult the business and sales tax licensing requirements for the city, county and state where any property is to be delivered. You may be required to collect and remit sales taxes. Please address any specific questions to your tax advisor. The Foundation does not provide tax advice.
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Not ready to fundraise?
There are many ways you can participate in the Courage Classic. If you’re not ready to fundraise, consider donating or volunteering.
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