Join Team Azalea Charities
Run for Wounded Soldiers,
ING Marathon/Half Marathon
Atlanta, Georgia -- March 21, 2010

How do I join the team?

Registration is now open for the ING Marathon and Half Marathon taking place on March 21, 2010.  Click here to register.  Don’t forget to use the code “AZALEAMAR10” for the marathon and “AZALEAHALF10” for the half marathon when you register to get your $10 or $5 discount, respectively, for joining this charity team.  Once you have signed up for the ING marathon or half-marathon, you will need to become a Team Azalea Charities fundraiser by visiting our ING Team Fundraising page, and click on “Become a Fundraiser” in the drop down menu at the top of the page.  Using your active.com user name and password, you’ll be able to customize an online fundraising page automatically be set up for you through Active.com to make fundraising easy and not very time consuming.

The codes for the discounts are as follows:

AZALEAMAR10 ($10 off marathon)
AZALEAHALF10 ($5 off half marathon)

Fundraising goals 

The fundraising goal for this event is for everyone to raise over $50!  Many races require much larger fundraising goals; however, for this event we are just looking for everyone’s personal best in receiving donations.  If you reach the $50 goal, you will be guaranteed a Team Azalea Charities, Run for Wounded Soldiers t-shirt. 
 
Benefits of running with Team Azalea Charities

As a member of Team Azalea Charities, you will receive the following:

• First and foremost, the personal satisfaction of supporting the needs of our sick and wounded soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines in rehabilitation upon returning from Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as a guaranteed slot in the 2009 marathon
  
  Funds raised from the ING Marathon/Half Marathon in Atlanta will benefit wounded service personnel using the Atlanta VA Medical Center.

• A discount for running with the charity. There will be a $10 discount for marathoners and $5 for half marathoners that sign up with a charity.

• Your own personal website automatically set up by Active.com when you join Team Azalea Charities.  It is painless to customize and use to manage your fundraising campaign (personal message, photo, goal, and ability to track fundraisers)

• Ability to fundraise for a worthy cause and solicit checks by mail or credit card donations online without handling any cash transactions

• Sample fundraising memo and email that you can personalize

• Charity-generated receipts & thank you memos (for checks received by mail) & automated Active Network-generated email receipts and thank you notes (for online donations) to your contributors

• Charity-generated donation confirmation email (for checks received by mail) & Active Network-generated confirmation emails (for online contributions) sent to you so you know who has contributed to your fundraising campaign 

• Directions, signs & noise makers to charity volunteers and each runner’s supporters & family to form our Team Azalea Charities cheering squad along the course

Still interested??

Please register for the marathon/half-marathon by clicking here.  Once registered for the race, you want to visit our ING Team Fundraising page and click on Become a Fundraiser to automatically set up your Team Azalea Charities fundraising page you can customize to begin your 2010 campaign early.

For further information, Amanda Crinks at run4woundedsoldiers@gmail.com or visit the ING Marathon/Half Marathon webpage.