Tips and Templates for Getting Supporters

Sample Email Text and Form Letters to Use, and More!

What you're doing in taking the Car-Free Challenge is awesome. Your friends and family will be inspired by your goal - so share it!

By getting your friends and family to give even just $5 each, they get a chance to support you in reaching your mileage and fundraising goals - plus they support TransForm's work!

Here are 5 tips to help you get supporters:

1. Consider the best way to ask for support from friends and family, and then use our templates we have below.
   We've got sample text and templates to help you easily reach everyone in your life, whether it's through email or the post office.
2. Your email footer is valuable real estate--use it!
   Customize your email footer to say you're taking the Car-Free Challenge and include a link to your Challenge page - sample text is below.
3. Get your supporters excited about your adventures.
   Keep your Challenge page fresh by adding posts on your blog as often as you can. Send out occasional emails to your supporters with a link to your Challenge page inviting them to check-in on what you've been up to. Update your page enough, and you could win yourself a Champion Blogger prize at the end of the Challenge!
4. Let them know about the great things their support will make possible.  You can tell them 5 ways TransForm will work to improve walking, biking, and transit options.  Or you can tell them about why you're motivated to do this, whether it's to fight climate change or to lose weight.  Get ideas to share.
5. Don't forget to thank them.
   Make them glow knowing how much their support of means to you.  Download sample thank you text. 

   Templates for getting friends and family to support you:

   Want to know what will make your fundraising a guaranteed success? Make it personal! This Challenge is all about you: your mileage goal and car-free adventures, plus your desire make it possible for more people to drive less and live more.

   Share your stories and make a personal ask of your friends and family, and you can't go wrong!

   Sample fundraising email text: Fill in a few blanks, personalize your request for support, and click send!
   

   Sample fundraising letter: Fill in a few blanks to share, personalize your request for support, print, and get a stamp!

   Note card insert: If you'd like to send a personal note card, you can slip in this little note asking for support and telling folks how to do it.

   Sample thank you text: Thanking your supporters is key; here is a short note to share if you are stumped trying to find the perfect way to say thank you.

   Sample paper donation collection form: Want to collect donations using an old-fashioned piece of paper? We've got a form for that!

   Sample email footer: Capitalize on the valuable real estate found at the bottom of the emails you send by adding an email footer like:

   This June, I'm taking the Car-Free Challenge and trying to drive just __ miles between June __ and __! Learn more and support me in my quest to drive less and live more: (insert your profile page address here)