To quote FARA President, Ron Bartek: "Acting alone there is little we can accomplish. Acting together there is very little we will NOT accomplish." If we all put our shoulders to the wheel, we can combine our efforts to make a huge impact on research for this disease. With that in mind we have created some instructions below to assist you in the registration and fundraising process for Ride Ataxia NorCal (It's pretty straight forward but this post may answer some specific questions). I urge everyone to register and create your fundraising page and send out your link now so your donors will have time to dig deep by the time the ride rolls around.
1. Register for the ride
- Go to rideataxia.org/norcal
- Click the button at the upper left that says "Register to Ride". This will take you to the Ride Ataxia NorCal Active.com registration page
- At the Active.com registration page, click on the green button to the upper right that says "Register Now"
- Pick your preferred ride length (If you are registering as a team of 10 to receive the discounted rate, you must choose a team Captain to create the team. After the team has been created each individual team member can register and find the team under the name created by the captain, max is 10 per team for registration), read and agree to the waivers, fill in your date of birth and click "Agree and Continue"
- Fill out all your information and answer the questions. One of the questions is about purchasing a jersey. You will receive a free jersey if you fundraise $500 or more (fundraising signup in step #2); in this case there is no need to order a jersey. If you do not think you will reach $500 in fundraising and you still want a jersey you will need to order one for $75. Scroll down and click "continue"
- Fill in your payment information and click "Pay Now". Note: Your registration fee and jersey fee goes to FARA; the "Processing Fee" goes to active.com
2. Now that you have registered to ride, you need to create your personal fundraising page...There are two ways to do this.
a. After you register to ride (step 1 above) you will receive two confirmation emails, one is a receipt for your payment and one has instructions on how to set up your fundraising page. Follow the instructions in the email.
b. Follow the instructions below:
- Go to rideataxia.org/norcal
- Click the button at the upper left that says "Donate Now". This will take you to the event fundraising site.
- Click on the link in the uper left that says "register"
- If you were a participant last year, choose "I already have an account", enter your email and password and then click next (please skip the next bullet). If this is your first Ride Ataxia event choose "I need to create an account" (this is completely separate from the active.com registration) then click "next"
- Fill in your information and click "next"
- Set your fundraising goal, AIM HIGH! Enter your display name and click "next"
- If you would like to create a team choose "Create a team". If your friends have already created a team that you want to join. click "search for an existing team". Note: Everyone on a team will all have an individual fundraising page with an individual total and those individual totals will be combined for the team total on the team page. All team and individual totals will be combined on the event page. Note: there is no limit to the number of people you can have on a fundraising team. If you registered 2 teams of 10 in step 1 above they can all be on the same team for fundraising. If you do not want to join a team choose "Do not join a team". Click "next".
- confirm your info and click "next".
- you will receive a confirmation email which will take you to your page where you can upload a picture and write a personal message to your potential donors. Here is an example: https://sna.etapestry.com/fundraiser/FriedreichsAtaxiaResearchA/ranorcal2011/individual.do?participationRef=968.0.347730459
- copy the link for your page, paste it in an email or on facebook, twitter...tell everyone about your efforts to help cure FA!
