Red Door Champions - FAQ
Below you will find answers to frequently asked questions regarding the Red Door Champions Online Fundraising
Getting Started
Red Door Champions are a community of passionate supporters who are fundraising to help make a difference for homeless families in need. Being a Red Door Champion lets you create your own fundraising page and raise funds to support the programs and services at the Red Door that make bright futures possible for homeless families.
- To celebrate your birthday, anniversary, wedding, bar/bat mitzvah
- To honor someone dear to you with a contribution to a meaningful cause
- To raise funds with your upcoming marathon, walk or other athletic event
- For golf, hockey or other sporting tournaments
- For fundraising events in your workplace, or school
- Or for any event where you want to collect funds in support of Red Door
Your fundraising page allows you to collect donations that will go directly to Red Door. You can send emails to your supporters directly from you page, or copy and paste your fundraising page link in an email. You set a fundraising goal and see your progress live with a fundraising thermometer and a list of your sponsors. Send follow up emails to thank you sponsors, and even ask others to join your team. You can personalize your page with a message and photograph.
A personal page is your individual page or event page that you create to fundraise for Red Door.
Creating a team page allows other individual pages to be grouped under your team page heading. You would create a team page if you are organizing something like a walk-a-thon or a workplace contest, where you want to have a number of individual fundraisers listed on your team page’s roster, and share the team’s fundraising goal.
If you are creating a page on behalf of a workplace, or fundraising event, you can create a personal page, and use your workplace or event name as the Page Display Name.
- A valid e-mail address
- A photo or video you would like to include
- An event idea to fundraise for! We have some more ideas here.
Go to reddoorshelter.ca/champions and click “Start Fundraising”. Follow the easy, step-by-step registration process to create your page or team.
Personalize your page with your message and appeal to your supporters, and be sure to add a photo of you, or something that represents your event.
Login to your fundraising centre at reddoorshelter.ca/champions to access tools to change/edit your page in the Personal Page section (or Team Page if you have one). You can click on the links under My User on the left hand side. Be sure to save any changes before moving on.
Fundraising with Your Page
The funds you raise through your Red Door Champions page goes towards the important programs and services that Red Door provides including, our Children’s Programs, Food Bank, and Moving Program.
Some examples of how your fundraising makes a difference:
$250 – funds a day trip for children at our shelter to attend a local attraction.
$500 – moves a family into their new home with start-up furniture and household items
$1000 – provides 5 families with groceries and supplies from weekly food bank for 1 year
$5000 – funds supplies and costs for the Preschool Program at our family shelter
Go to your Red Door Champions fundraising center and click on the ‘Emails’ button on the left hand menu. You can enter up to 50 email addresses, or important your email address book. Select one of our email templates, and personalize your message to tell your friends why you are fundraising. A link to your fundraising page will automatically be displayed in the email.
NOTE: We do not store or have access to any email address that you enter here.
Alternatively, you can send your email request from your own email account by copying the URL to your fundraising page – click on the ‘View my Page’ on the left hand menu.
Go to your Red Door Champions fundraising center, and click on ‘Edit My Profile’. Near the bottom of the page you will see ‘Fundraising Goal’ which you can edit. Make sure to click Save before exiting the page.
- Once you’ve registered and set up your page, send an email to all your friends and family telling them about it.
- Include a link to your fundraising page in the signature line or bottom of all your e-mails.
- If you are hosting a team based event, start a challenge among your teammates to see who can raise the most funds on your team – make things fun by awarding a prize to the winner!
- Tell people about the work you are doing as a Red Door Champion to help homeless families in your community.
- In lieu of birthday, wedding, graduation or holiday gifts, tell your friends and loved ones to make a meaningful gift through your page to make a difference for families in need.
- Set a realistic fundraising goal and keep yourself in check by visiting your page weekly.
- Thank everyone who has made gifts to your page using the email templates in your Red Door Champions fundraising center.
- Find out if your company or workplace will match your fundraising efforts
You can simply go to your page URL, or login and click ‘View My Page’ to see a list of all of your sponsors.
Some donors may choose to give anonymously. If you need to see a complete list of your sponsors please contact fundraising@reddoorshelter.ca
Yes! Add #wearereddoor or #reddoorchampions to your posts to share with us and your community of other fundraisers and supporters. This way we can also cross-promote your event!
Your Account
No problem! If you’ve forgotten your username or password you can just email fundraising@reddoorshelter.ca and we can send you new login information.
Pages are automatically deactivated after the end date that you specify.
If you wish to deactivate your Red Door Champions page before the end date, you can email us fundraising@reddoorshelter.ca. Be sure to include the name of your page as well as the page creator’s name and email address.
For any questions, please feel free to contact us at fundraising@reddoorshelter.ca, 416-915-5671 x232 or 225
