Being a Team Captain
Team Captains play a huge, important role in our Welcome Walk! Team Captains are leaders who are responsible for getting their friends, co-workers, family members, etc organized and energized to fundraise. To all our Team Captains, thank you for your dedication and support!
How to Become a Team Captain
1. Register yourself as the Team Captain and create a fun team name
2. Get your team members registered
3. Start fundraising!
Tips for Team Captains
Communicate with the Team Regularly
- Touch base regularly via email, phone, or text message to make sure they understand how to set up their fundraising page and/or how to ask their networks to support their fundraising page
- Keep the team informed on their progress - highlight a certain members' fundraising efforts or when team members hit fundraising goals in a weekly team update email or group text
Build an Awesome Team
- So many people in your networks may want to join your Walk Team! Ask co-workers, friends, family members, groups and clubs you are associated with, etc.
- Emphasize that if they join your team, they have an opportunity to make a tangible difference in the lives of refugee girls in Atlanta
- Seek people with different connections to widen the circle of possible donors and recruit others to join your team
Motivate & Encourage Team Members
- Challenge the team and foster a fun, competitive spirit
- Always thank members multiple times throughout the process, and ask them to thank their donors
Make Sure Team Members Feel Appreciated
- Consider ways to recognize each team member, either publicly or in private
- Overly celebrate and congratulate them on Walk day and through emails/texts (nothing is too much!)
- Most importantly, remember to recognize YOU and how your own contributions and efforts impact educational equity and the refugee girls who attend GVP. THANK YOU, Team Captains!