Making the Most of your Online Participant Center

Online WebEx Training

What is your Participant Center?

• Web-Based fundraising software

• User name and password automatically generated after registration

• Can be accessed through www.msconnection.org

Why Fundraise Online?Because now more than ever, people with MS need you

• 2007: National MS Society raised nearly $50 million online

• 2008: Nor Cal Chapter raised over $1.7 million online• Moving money online is faster and safer than handling

checks and cash• With online fundraising there is immediate

acknowledgement and receipt of transaction• Participants who fundraise online sooner, receive money

faster and raise bigger sums!• Friends and family can donate wherever they are• Studies show that online donors give larger gifts

Log In!

You’re In!

Setting Personal Page

Make It Personal

• Why do you walk/cycle/run for MS?

• Add pictures from previous years, or the loved one you are walking for, your training, etc.

• Add a personal blog onto your participant page to update others on your fundraising/training progress

Editing the Content of your Personal Page

Upload a Photo

Why Send Emails through your Participant Center?

• Link to personal page• Walk MS layout• Suggested language• You can keep track of the number of messages

you have sent each contact, visited your Personal Page, and made a donation.

• You can easily import existing contact information from another email application (i.e.: Yahoo, AOL, Outlook, etc.)

Import Contacts

Import Email Contacts

• Instead of manually typing each name and email address into email messages when sending emails through your participant center

Sending Emails from Your Participant Center

Choose Contacts, Update Email Text

Keeping Track of Emails/Donations

Follow-Ups

• Keep track of gifts received

• Update yourself on your fundraising progress

• Enter gifts you have received offline (cash or checks)

Keep Track of Your Progress

Enter Gifts Received Offline

How to Enter Offline Gifts

•  When the My Progress page appears, look to the "Gift Summary Box."

• Click on the link "Enter gifts received offline." • The page that will appear will be a form for the

information of the check holder/ cash giver. Fill out this form, indicating how the payment was made and for what amount and how they would like their name displayed on the "Fundraising Honor Roll." 

• You can then bring the checks to us the day of the walk, or you can send them to our San Francisco Address (with the participants name, team and walk site) and they will be credited to your account.

My Team

My Team Function (Team Captains Only)

• Update team fundraising goals

• Update team page text, photos

• Track team progress

• Send emails to your team

• Team Roster

• Team Performance Reports

We will find a cure for MS and it will be because of fundraisers like you!

For Walk MS questions, please contact: walk@msconnection.org