Invitations to Districts
Team leaders,
We encourage you to link to your FIRST District's ClassWish page (and to invite them to create one if they have not already). Doing so:
- is a nice way to thank them for their hard work and support
- might also make them more aware of your team details and engaged in your team fundraising
- gives your team more exposure, as anyone (perhaps a potential donor) looking at their page will see your team there.
You can see how a District appears right below the team name near the top of this sample FIRST team fundraising page, and that will link to District pages akin to this sample FIRST Region ClassWish page as soon as they are created.
Here is an email you can send to your FIRST District to invite their participation:
Hello
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 are creating a fundraising page for our team and would like to link from it to your ClassWish page in order to recognize your hard work and generous support. You can see how a district appears right below the team name near the top of this sample FIRST team fundraising page, and anyone will be able to follow that link to your page on ClassWish, akin to this sample FIRST Region ClassWish page.
If you have already created a District profile page on ClassWish, just let us know the URL, and we will ask ClassWish to link us to you. If you have not, you will see that it is quick and easy:
- Whoever is going to manage your District page should visit and join http://ClassWish.org
- 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.
- Send me the URL of the region's ClassWish group page so I can enter it into our team admin panel. That will cause you to appear on our team page and for our team to appear on your Region page.
- Please let other teams know about ClassWish fundraising tools and provide them the URL to that same Group page you create so you will get recognition from all of us.
- Once our team page is finished and the sponsors appear, I will let you know so you can see yourself there.
Here is a draft email you can use to invite other teams.
Thank you very much for your support. We could not be more appreciative.
Best wishes,