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TEAM IN TRAINING: 20 Years of Changing & Saving Lives!

 

Welcome!

I hope you will find this handcrafted lens a unique and useful resource for your Team in Training experience. Learn about what other walkers are doing and unique ways to energize your fundraising, motivate your team & inspire yourself!

If crossing the finish line after running or walking 26.2 miles or 13.1 miles, cycling 100 miles or completing a triathlon while helping cure deadly diseases are things you've always wanted to accomplish, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Team In Training(r) will make them happen.

So grab a cup of coffee & take a look around and while you're here check out Buttons of Hope and consider making a custom photo button to wear in support of a loved one during your Team in Training fundraising and at your event!

Official 2008 Team In Training wesbite 

Handy links to info about Team in Training

Find a TEAM and sign up here...
Are you ready to get started...
What it's all about...
Robert Roesler de Villiers, family members and friends declared war on the disease....and you can continue the fight
What you gonna do?
The best coaches in the world will help you run a marathon, do a triathlon or ride 100 miles....
Virtual Team in Training
Not your Father's second life....

About.com's Joanne Fritz on Nonprofit & Charitable Orgs. 

Awesome source for info, ideas and links to the non profit world.

From Joanne, "The nonprofit world is unique, complex, and fascinating. I'll help you keep up, stay informed, and develop your skills as you work in the field or develop your own organization."

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Team In Training Honored Heroes 

A Herro Story to motivate your fundraising and inspire your donors!

Honored Heroes are very special individuals who have battled, or are battling, leukemia, lymphoma, and myeloma. Team In Training(r) participants train and race in honor of these extraordinary people.

So often people are asked to raise funds for a charity with very little understanding of how valuable their efforts are. By honoring a member in their own community, and hearing their story firsthand, participants are able to understand the extreme value of their efforts.

Learn more about Honored Heroes here...

SAVE THE DATE & Get a Free Hope Button 

Treat yourself and a friend to a couple of free Hope buttons from Buttons of Hope

To me Hope is not a passive word. Hope is action -- talk to anyone who has been touched by the Team in Training family of athletes, coaches and honored heroes and you'll see what I mean!

Maybe this says it best...

"be the change you wish to see in the world"...ghandi



CLICK HERE for your free Hope buttons and if you plan to do a 2008 Team in Training event let me know I will SAVE THE DATE for you & send you a reminder in plenty of time for you to make your custom photo buttons!

Make your own custom photo button to wear in honor of a loved one @ BUTTONS of HOPE. 

To the world it may be just a button, but to one person that button may be the world!

Try something new this year! Show them WHO you're walking for. Support a loved one or Honor a Honored Hero by wearing a custom photo button with their picture during your fundraising and then at your 2008 Team in Training Event.

Make your custom button today at Buttons of Hope


  1. No Minimum - make one custom photo button if you like

  2. Upload a photo and add custom curved text

  3. $1 from each photo button donated to the leukemia & lymphoma Society

Energize your fundraising...Motivate your team... and Inspire yourself! Put a face on your cause today!

Absolutely everything you need to know about walking from Wendy Bumgardner! 

Whether it's your first charity walk or you are a fundraising champ - Wendy's posts at About.com are interesting and informative. This is really good stuff!

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So what do I know? Michael Gibbons' Behind the Button blog 

Inspired stories about the people behind the photo buttons we make & some thoughts on fundraising & charities from the founder of Buttons of Hope.

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"A year ago Mike Gibbons had never done any fund-raising. Now he hopes
to change the world" Regan White in "Message in a Button", Charlotte Weekly November 2006.

Upon reading that I was at first taken aback -- not exactly the kind of thing you want to lead with especially if your stated goal is to "change the face of fundraising". But as I thought about it IT IS PRECISELY what I want people to know and now I open all of my fundraising seminars with that line.

Fundraising is not easy nor is it as hard as you might think. I am proof of that and I am out to help ordinary people do extraordinary things -- the task is not easy but the answer is inside of each of us!

I kinda wish Regan had use this opening line instead.. 

"Here's to the crazy ones...because the people who are crazy enough to THINK they can change the world, are the ones who do."

Maybe the combination of the two sums it up -- I have been lucky enough to find a group of remarkable people, my cycling team MojoRiding and together we have become somewhat of a fund raising phenomenon (often in spite of ourselves I might add!) --we raised over $110,000 in 2007 for cancer and multiple sclerosis causes.

So how did we do it? We personalized our cause, we told a story, many stories! And then we took it a step further we made it tangible -- many of us made photo buttons of our loved ones to wear while fundraising -- can't fully explain it but there is just something powerful about these little buttons  --I have seen it make a difference and in some cases all the difference!

I hope you will take a look around (grab a cup of coffee) at what I am building here on Squidoo. I have tried to make unique, useful and updated lenses on active charity events. If you like the lenses then please visit my blog Behind the Button and of course my website Buttons of Hope -- where you too can go on make a custom photo button to wear in YOUR charity event 

The title of the full quote above is THINK DIFFERENT. Regan was right I am out to Change the World by helping people to not only think different but to be different -- it will change you and together we will be the change we wish to see...I hope one button at a time!

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