First ride Fundraising Nervousness

[Trek420]

what makbike says, "Every 10 days or so I would send out a brief email thanking all who had contributed, updating everyone on my training, etc."

Take your sponsors along for the ride, send thank you cards, real ones not just e-mail.

One thing I'm very happy about is several of my sponsors on ALC have...drum roll...taken up cycling. Guess they think If I can do it....

I've found is you never know who is impacted by any issue. Till I did ALC I did not know that a family members brother died of AIDS for example.

Also regarding donations showing on your site: if your event gives you a customizable page I'd choose the option that shows your goal and progress. Folks like seeing that bar raise for you, must be all that playing video games or something.

As for showing the donation I turn that option off for several reasons. One is to protect my sponsors, I have sponsors who do not want people to know that they donated or how much, also a $5.00 to my budget might be $500 to another person, I don't think it should make a difference.