Build a Corporate or Union Team

Recommended Goals

• Team walker target: 20% – 50% of DC-area employee/member base
• $100 walker fundraising average
• Includes co-workers, family, friends, and neighbors of employees

Corporate or Union Team

What is a Corporate or Union Team Captain?
Corporate and Union Team Captains are a big part of what makes the Walk to Cure Diabetes successful! Team Captains serve as the liaison with your company and the JDRF office. Large companies may wish to designate more than one Team Captain and appoint one Company Lead to be the main point of contact with JDRF.

How can you become a Team Captain?
That’s easy. Just follow register for one of the 2010 Walk To Cure Diabetes locations.

What is my role as a Team Captain?

1. Recruit Walkers for your team using your newly created Walk fundraising page.

2. Attend the Team Captain’s Kick-Off Event. At the Kick-Off Event, you will receive information and materials needed to start building your team co-workers, family and friends. If you can’t make it, please contact the chapter to send materials to you directly!

3. Schedule an Internal Kick-off (details below) with Megan Trzcinski in the JDRF office.

4. Company Leads may want to consider holding “All Team Captains Meetings” to discuss goals/actions/progress of the team and any internal incentives for Walkers. (details below.)

5. Recruit additional walkers through an internal memo from CEO/President to all employees encouraging them to join the team and promoting fundraising and incentive prizes (Samples available from the JDRF office.)

6. Raise Money! JDRF will supply you with tips and tools to help you raise the much-needed funds to find a cure for diabetes. You will also be provided with information on how to keep track of and turn in donations.

7. Walk! Come to the Walk with your entire team and celebrate your efforts that made the 2010 Walk to Cure Diabetes so successful. With your support, we are now one step closer to finding a cure!

Internal Kick-Offs

• 20-30 minute presentations at management and/or staff meetings
• JDRF staff and/or volunteer discuss diabetes and WALK TO CURE DIABETES participation • Team Captains discuss internal goals and incentives
• Screening of the JDRF WALK video

Internal Incentives

• Company Team T-shirts
• Incentive prizes that recognize: top individual fundraiser, top fundraising Team Captains, top fundraising department/team, raffle prize for walkers raising over $100 (or over $500)
• Ideas for incentive prizes include:
• Parking space for a week/month
• Group pizza party
• Sporting event/Concert tickets
• Half or full day off
• Special casual day
• Executive job swap/car wash/other fun activity

Approach Vendors to Participate

Send a letter to vendors to solicit them to either:
1. Walk on your company’s team;
2. Support your team through donations; or
3. Support your team by donating incentive prizes for your team’s top fundraisers Sample vendor letters are available from the JDRF office.

Contact Megan Trzcinski at mtrzcinski@jdrf.org or 202-465-4123 to learn more about building a corporate or union team.