One Day for Dawgs Toolkit

• Consider what you are raising funds for and make sure you have department, college, or supervisor approval and an existing fund to accept gifts.
• Define your target audience of supporters, who do you want to reach and ask to support your cause? The Advancement team can help you with this if you have questions! 

Now that you've identified what you're raising funds for and who you're going to ask - who will represent your team? Team Captains should sign up through the link above once we begin accepting team registrations. The following tips will help you. 

• Make it personal! Add images and a custom message to your supporters; really make sure your page reflects the personality of your cause and stands out.
• Explain and share what these additional funds will help you do in support of students when you reach your goal. 
• Get the word out! Plan ahead on how you will communicate leading up to, and during, One Day for Dawgs. 

• Supporters want to know what they are supporting, how you will use the funds they donate, and how they are helping contribute to students!
• Connect specific goals to direct impact with statements like, "Your gift of $100 helps provide a student in our program with a laptop rental for the semester," or "Five gifts of $50 allows us to sponsor one student's trip to a national conference for their field," will go a long way in securing support for your goal.