Stride Solution
- 1: Stride Website: The online fundraising system was built and customized based on our experience with Down Syndrome walk events. Our sole focus is supporting your event’s success.
- 2: Customized Banner: The customized banner allows you to select your own image for the homepage of your website.
- 3: Leaderboard: The leaderboard can be formatted to display top teams, top fundraisers or largest teams as well as a combination of those listed. The leaderboard will update in real-time.
- 4: The entire list from leaderboard can be displayed by selecting “Click to see all” at the bottom of the leaderboard.
- 5: Goal Tracker: This is where the overall event’s goal is shown and how much money is raised to-date. It is exciting to watch it go up!
- 6: Rotating Photo: You can display an unlimited number of event photos and graphic images in the rotating photo area (below the banner). They will automatically rotate through when someone is on the page. Highlight your beautiful Buddies and their families!
- 7: Local Customization: Add your Twitter account or Facebook feed directly to your event registration website. Allow your visitors to see how much the community is talking up your event.
- 8: Sponsorship Logos: Add an unlimited number of rotating logos to honor your local sponsors and in-kind contributors. Logos can be clicked to visit the sponsor’s website.
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- 1: Customized story: Teams can share why your event is important to them, their families and friends. Many teams like to highlight their very special Buddy and get people excited about supporting their team through their story.
- 2: Team Photo or Graphic: Here, teams can upload their own photos of their family, Buddy, or another photo to celebrate your walk.
- 3: Display of team members: The more members on your team, the more people they can reach out to for more participants and donations. See the list of all of your team members here.
- 4: Display of donations: Recognize the generous donations right on your team’s page, and see the donor’s notes of support for your team. Donors can remain anonymous and/or their donation can be private.
- 5: Goal-setting and amount raised: Set your own team goal and rally your team members around reaching the goal. As your team members reach out to their families and friends, you can see the goal get higher!
- 6: Share Icons – Share icons allow team captains to share their team page via Facebook, Twitter, email, text message and more.
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- 1: Checkout System: All registrations fees, t-shirt fees and initial donations are understood and verified by the participant. Many events charge different registration fees by adult, child , veteran or Buddies.
- 2: Registration Types: Participants can easily confirm the correct number of family, adult, child, solo walker, veteran, and Buddy registration types and fees.
- 3: T-Shirt Sizes: Participants can easily confirm the total number of t-shirts ordered for their families and if the event charges a surcharge for any larger sizes.
- 4: Donations and Cart Items: Participants can easily confirm their initial donation and all the items they selected from the “Additional Items” Cart.
- 5: Checkout Total: Total fees reflect both the grand total as well as the charitable tax deductible amount as defined by the event coordinator within Stride’s Administrative system.
- 6: Donations: Stride allows a donation to be entered as part of the registration process. Event organizers can determine donation button amounts in the admin area.
- 7: Selling Merchandise: Every event promotes and sells event logo wear or local organization merchandise such as hats, mugs and calendars. Utilizing the cart system to pre-sell merchandise will increase revenue and provide a more accurate quantity when ordering inventory.
- 8: Processing Fee: The processing fee can be added to each transaction to collect an additional amount to offset online processing cost. The fee can be excluded, optional by participant or mandatory in the admin area.
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- 1: Current Year Dashboard: When you log into the admin area, the Stride dashboard is displayed. Important walk stats including totals for the amount raised, donations, fees, team and registrants as well as total processing fees collected and cart item totals.
- 2: Graphical Views: View statistics about the event in graph form for easy monitoring. Graphs include total donations by type, total registrations by type, and total registrants by fee type. The graphs showing new donations, new registration dollars, and new registrants include totals from the current week as well as weekly totals from the previous 3 weeks.
- 3: Download Graphs: Each graph shown on the dashboard can be downloaded in a variety of formats including PNG, JPEG, PDF and CSV.
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- 1: Custom Settings: Stride is the most configurable and flexible fundraising solution created for Down syndrome events. Charge a registration fee or make it free, collect T-shirt information and sell logo wear when registering. Upload your own pictures and graphics to customize your event website.
- 2: Dates: Customized and personalized registration, promotion, and donation dates. Promote next year’s event or continue to engage participants and donors in your cause by simply turning off the registration process.
- 3: Fees: Stride allows for customization of registration and processing fees, sponsorship and/or exhibitor levels, promo codes and cart items. Registration fees can be scheduled by date and turned off at any time.
- 4: File Library: In the image library, upload event banner, pictures, and logos. In the document library, upload team captain packet, sponsorship information and any other event-specific documents needed.
- 5: Text Defaults: Stride’s content management system lets you customize the text for receipts, confirmation letters, thank you emails, waiver forms and more.
- 6: Themes: Upload your own event banner or the ds-connex team can create a banner design for your event.
- 7: Social Media: Connect your Twitter, Facebook and Instagram accounts directly to your event website. Facebook or Twitter can be selected as a feed to display on the home page of the website.
- 8: Updates and enhancements to Stride every year at no additional cost: Each year, we make improvements and enhancements to Stride. These enhancements are based on feedback from event organizers and team captains.
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- 1: Impact Reports: Stride offers a variety of different reports to monitor results for participants, teams and donations. Your databases will be accessible year after year, so you can compare your event to how you did in previous years.
- 2: Export to CSV: Download reports in CSV form for use in Excel or sharing via email.
- 3: Customized Reports: Using the Logi Reports feature, event coordinators can create custom ad hoc reports by selecting only the fields they need.
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- 1: Year over Year Dashboard: By clicking on the year over year comparisons tab you can compare total raised, donations, registration fees, team counts and registrant counts with last year’s event. All totals are calculated based on the number of days out from the event.
- 2: Download Graphs: Each graph shown on the dashboard can be downloaded in a variety of formats including PNG, JPEG, PDF and CSV.
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- 1: Download Rosters: Keeping track of team member’s email address, home address, phone number, and t-shirt size is easy with downloadable rosters. You can also download donor’s information including address, donation amount, and phone number.
- 2: Keep everyone excited: Team Captains can email team members to keep them informed of fundraising progress, keep them excited about the upcoming event, or send specific details. Stride comes pre-configured with emails to thank participants for joining the team and soliciting donations. Team Captains can also email donors with a personal acknowledgment for their contribution.
- 3: Enter Checks and Cash Donations: Team Captains can now enter checks and cash provided for their team. This ensures that fundraising totals are accurate and reduces the burden of event organizing staff. Event organizers can disable this feature in the admin area.
- 4: Purchase Cart Items: Team captains and any event registrants can buy cart items during or after registration.
- 5: Progress Monitoring: Monitor your team’s fundraising progress and social media activities in one centralized location.
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We love Stride - thank you so much!! SO much nicer working with people who understood what Buddy Walk was and having technology customized to the event. You were VERY responsive, helpful and exceeded our expectations.
— Vanessa C.
Down Syndrome Association of Atlanta
Down Syndrome Association of Atlanta
Great partnership on our end. Very easy to work with Dana, Lara and Jen and they all answered questions in a timely manner. Provided very helpful ideas that helped us increase followers in all areas of social media.
— Steve F.
Southern Arizona Network for Down Syndrome
Southern Arizona Network for Down Syndrome
Social media is absolutely crucial to announcing, organizing and communicating about events. Your assistance has been very beneficial and your suggestions will be beneficial for future events. All I can say is how very much all your help was appreciated.
— Mary Jo L.
Chattanooga Down Syndrome Society
Chattanooga Down Syndrome Society
Our previous provider only could provide advice on their website and they were not Down syndrome focused. The social media overview and input was extremely helpful.
— Carol Ann D.
York Area Down Syndrome Association
York Area Down Syndrome Association
Pictures are terrific. I love including the sponsor logos. The goal tracker and countdown also help us and those following our goals to be mindful. The team was terrific and always responsive and helpful!
— Patricia C.
Buddy Walk of the High Country
Buddy Walk of the High Country
