Info for FIRST Regions and Districts
Hello FIRST Regions and Districts,
A nonprofit website, ClassWish.org, has built custom fundraising tools specifically for FIRST teams. It is quite feature-rich, as you can see on this sample team page.
We encourage all the teams to link to ClassWish pages for their region and/or district in order to recognize your hard work and generous support. You can see how a region and district appears right below the team name near the top of this sample FIRST team fundraising page, and you can follow that link to a sample FIRST Region ClassWish page. (We do not yet have a sample district page, but it and the link will be similar to the ones you see for a sample region).
Here is a draft email you can use to invite teams.
If you have already created a Region or District profile page on ClassWish, just let your teams know the URL so they can link to you. If you have not, you will see that it is quick and easy. Here is what you do:
- Whoever is going to manage your region or district page on ClassWish should visit and join ClassWish.org/FIRST.
- They will then go to the Groups tab and click the green button to 'Create a Group.'
- When they complete the form, they should be sure to click the box indicating, "Yes, we are a FIRST Robotics Region or District."
- It should just take a few minutes to complete the form, and you can always revise it later.
- Please send the URL of the Region's or District's ClassWish group page to your teams and to: FIRST [AT] ClassWish [DOT] org When teams enter it into their team admin panel, that will cause you to appear on their team page and for their team to appear on your Region or District page.
- Please let your other teams know about ClassWish fundraising tools and provide them the URL to that same page you create so you will get recognition from all of them.
Thank you very much for all you do!
Do you have questions, ideas, or suggestions? We would love to hear from you. Just send an email to FIRST [AT] ClassWish [DOT] org.