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Now you can create your own web page and customize it with text, pictures, and video to help people walk again. Email friends and colleagues and point them to your page for donations. Fundraising pages are easy to set up and use, and there are no costs to you or your donors.
Creating Your Page
To create your page, visit http://www.firstgiving.com/25129. Click on the "Get Started" button, and follow the simple steps.
How to Add Video and Photos from POF
After you create your page:
Click “My Account” (top of page)
Click “Your Fundraising Pages” (tab)
Click “Manage this page” -> Go
Click Add video from YouTube -> Web Address of YouTube Video -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc6kAFNqSh0
Click Add images from Flickr -> Your Flickr ID -> 42242518@N08
Sample Page
You can visit this page to see how one POF supporter, Elaina Herber, has set up her page: http://www.firstgiving.com/elainaherber
Fundraising Tips
• Want to help POF provide prosthetic limbs to children and adults in developing countries? Create your own unique page!
• Organizing a walk-a-thon, marathon, bowl-a-thon or other event? Use your page like an online pledge sheet to ask for and collect secure donations without the hassle of writing letters and making phone calls.
• Want to ask your friends and family to donate to POF for your birthday, wedding or anniversary? Point them to your page.
• Passionate about POF and looking for a way to help? You can use any reason to raise money: watch a movie marathon, shave your head, drive cross country. Here are two volunteer stories:
o http://www.pofsea.org/walk_doc.htm
o http://www.pofsea.org/news_detail.php?nwid=84
• Click here for more great tips on creating a successful personal fundraising page.
Questions
If you have any questions about personal fundraising pages supporting POF, please contact us at (206) 726-1636 or info@pofsea.org
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