Build a team in your parish!

Managing a team

• Stay engaged with your team members by supporting and encouraging them via personal phone calls or emails. This is especially important for your team leader.
• Put gentle pressure on each team member to fundraise.
• Encourage training groups and training partners.
• Plan team social events in order to enlist others.

Recruiting

• Advertise via personal invitations, church bulletins, informational meetings, phone calls, and subtle arm-twisting.
• Encourage others by suggesting they begin with the 50-mile or 21-mile ride, especially if they say that they are too busy to train.
• Ask someone who cannot ride to sponsor someone on your team.
• Send a letter or an email to family, friends, colleagues, faithful Catholics, school contacts, and parishioners to enlist their support.
• Advertise in your parish bulletin to solicit donations from the advertisers in your church bulletin.
• Invite family, friends, neighbors, and colleagues to a Ride for Vocations fundraising party!
• Organize a Catholic School Tag Day by seeking approval from the school principal to devote one of the Tag Day (out of uniform day) charities to benefit the seminarians.
• Sell donuts after Mass or before school.
• Talk up the Ride! This is the most important suggestion.