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Rodman Ride for Kids

W E L C O M E T O

TEAM CATHOLIC CHARITIES


On behalf of all of us at Catholic Charities of Boston, thank you for joining the Catholic Charities Rodman Ride team.

As you work hard to train and fundraise, it is important to remember that your success will stretch far beyond the finish line. Your Ride efforts will continue to have a major impact over the course of the year, making a tangible difference in the lives of the neediest within our communities across Eastern Massachusetts. The money you raise will directly aid local youth of all faiths through our child and youth programs, such as T.E.A.M. (Together Engaging Adolescents through Mentoring) and Youth Tutoring Youth (YTY) in South Boston, Sunset Point Camp in Hull, the Teen Center at St. Peter's in Dorchester, Brigid's Crossing in Lowell, child care, and more.

We are grateful to have you on Team Catholic Charities, raising funds and awareness for our at-risk youth. We wish you the best and look forward to supporting you as you continue on your Ride journey.

Best,

Deborah Kincade Rambo, LICSW

President, Catholic Charities of Boston

WELCOME

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ABOUT THE RIDE

Ride Day

What to Bring

September 23, 2017 | 10 Lincoln Road, Foxboro, MAStart Times:

HelmetRoadworthy bikeChange of clothes for after the Ride

100 miles - 7:00 a.m.50 miles - 9:00 a.m.25 miles - rolling start begins at 10:15 a.m.

On Saturday, September 23, over 1,500 riders will participate in 25, 50 or 100 mile non-competitive cycling tours throughout southeastern Massachusetts.

A festival atmosphere infuses the day, and all riders are greeted with a cookout, music and fun when they return from their Ride.

Most importantly, every dollar raised on behalf of Catholic Charities Boston goes directly to the youth we serve. The Ride covers 100% of the expenses for the event, and on top of that, they provide a 3% match to Catholic Charities once we reach our organizational goal.

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OUR PARTNERSHIP

We’ve been a proud partner of the Rodman Ride for Kids for many years and have seen firsthand how this event brings together not only Riders, but volunteers, affiliated organizations, and supporters.

This year, our Ride teams will work collaboratively to raise over $200,000 in support of our Catholic Charities at-risk youth programs. In the City of Boston and across Eastern Massachusetts, youth are faced with gang violence, drugs and many complex issues. At Catholic Charities, we help young people address these issues through our many youth programs:

South Boston T.E.A.M. (Together Engaging Adolescents through Mentoring)Sunset Point Camp in HullThe Teen Center at St. Peter’s in DorchesterYouth Tutoring Youth (YTY)Child Care programs across Eastern MassachusettsBrigid's Crossing in Lowell

The funds you raise over the course of the following weeks and months, will directly aid local youth active in these programs; if you have joined a regional-specific team, funds you raise will be used to support the programs in that region. Your efforts will help us better support the health, wellness, productivity, leadership development, and education of our children and teens.

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Getting Started with Your Team• Set up a meeting with your team and gather the information, materials, and

motivation you need to organize your team of riders!• Highlight your team-building progress through regular articles in your site/

program newsletter, community newspaper, email alerts, or in memos to employees and managers. Add your Team Page link to your email signature.

• Stress the importance of fundraising for your team throughout the pre-ride period.

• Set a fundraising GOAL and team member GOAL for your team.• Make sure all team riders have registered ONLINE before Ride day! Registration

fills up quickly, so please register today! • Stay in touch with the Catholic Charities Advancement Team - Please call or email

with questions, we’re here to help you reach your goals!

Other Ways to Participate

• You can be a Virtual Rider—you still form a team and fundraise, but don’t actually ride.• Volunteer to help out at the event. There is a job for everyone!• Donate to support the Catholic Charities team, or hold a small fundraising event of your

own to benefit your friends, family or colleagues who are riding.• Share the love! The more people you tell about Catholic Charities and the Ride, the

bigger impact we can have!

TEAM-BUILDING TIPS

CONNECT WITH US

www.facebook.com/charitiesboston @CharitiesBoston

www.facebook.com/charitiesboston@CharitiesBoston

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Register and personalize your fundraising page. Tell your story. Why are you riding? What are you passionate about?

If you are going to make a major ask from a person or company, now is the time to do it as they often need time to make a decision and send the check. Identify your major donor prospect (a local company, your favorite uncle, etc.), and ask if they will meet with you. Tell them what you are doing, and why, and bring to the meeting materials to provide more information about Catholic Charities. Follow up with a heartfelt email or letter, thanking them for the meeting and asking them to support you.

Send 1st email/letter: send an email to your friends, colleagues, former roommate, new neighbor, favorite high school teacher, mom, dad, aunts, uncles, grandparents, siblings, etc! Tell your network why you are passionate about the work Catholic Charities does. As gifts come in, don’t forget to thank your donors.

Send a follow up: don’t be afraid to remind people why you are riding and that you need their support.

Start a social media campaign for your efforts. Get creative! Post a picture of yourself on a training ride, and ask your followers to support you. For every gift that is made, promise to ride an extra mile on your training ride this week. Take a video of yourself telling your followers what it is about Catholic Charities work with at-risk youth that is inspiriting to you. Commit to posting at least once a week from now until the Ride.

Send another email reminder! Keep posting on social media. THANK all your donors!

RIDE DAY! Post on social in the morning/send an email, thanking all your donors and reminding everyone else that it’s not too late to make a gift in support of your efforts.

Day after race. Send an email to all your donors thanking them for their support, sharing a few photos of yourself from the Ride, and any other exciting news from the Ride that you’d like to share.

SOCIAL MEDIA QUICK TIPS

Always include a link to your fundraising page in all of your social media posts

Always tag Catholic Charities in your posts (we’re on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter! Search @CharitiesBoston)

Be part of greater conversation through hashtags: #CharitiesBoston, #CatholicCharitiesBOS #Ride4Kids #RodmanRide #Rodman4Kids #Fundraising #NonProfit #GiveBack

Images perform better on social media - Content with relevant images get 94% more views than without images AND they are 40x more likely to get shared

TIMELINE FOR SUCCESS

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REGISTER FOR THE RIDE

Register for the Ride online. It’s easy! Please visit http://catholiccharities.kintera.org/2017 to get started.

You can set up your own personal page or team page with text, photos and more. You can also send emails, run donor reports, and access other important information.

Click “Register Here” on the left hand side of the screen.

Choose the “Start a Team”, “Join a Team”, or “Join as an Individual” option, according to the way you wish to set up your page. If you are the first person from your region to register, please “Start a Team” and name it, “Catholic Charities PROGRAM NAME”.

If you would like to raise money to support all Catholic Charities youth programs, “Join as an Individual”.

Type in your information. It is best for your name/team name to be easily identifiable by any contact that are visiting your website.

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Sample Fundraising Letter

How to Customize Your Letter

Dear XXXX,

This September, I will be riding in the 27th annual Rodman Ride for Kids. While I am personally excited to participate in this event, I am riding for a reason greater than my love of the sport. I have chosen to Ride on behalf of the thousands of at-risk youth, of all faiths, supported by Catholic Charities of Boston.

My goal is to raise $X,XXX to support the programs and services offered to at-risk youth throughout the 144 cities and towns across Eastern Massachusetts served by Catholic Charities. The funding provides the necessary resources to:

• Provide nearly 450 under resourced youth a week of summer camp• Enable Catholic Charities to offer mentoring to more than 200 teens at their Teen Center in

Dorchester• Subsidize the cost of childcare for 1,100 infants, toddlers, and preschoolers at our seven child care

centers throughout eastern Massachusetts

These are just some of the ways Catholic Charities will be able to use the $X,XXX I am planning to raise. Today, I ask for your support with a gift of $X,XXX. As an additional incentive, the Rodman Ride not only underwrites the entire event, but also provides a 3% match on every dollar I raise.

Thank you for your support.

Sincerely,

John Smith

Your personal letter/email should include:

• Your personal goal—aim high!• Why your are riding—your personal connection• Some facts about Catholic Charities and the specific program/region you are

connected to• Ask for a specific amount and ask everyone you know—the worst they can say is no• Say “thank you”—whether someone says “yes” or “no”; either acknowledge their

generosity and support, or you can leave the door open for next year

Remember to ask everyone you know. Friends, family, holiday card mailing lists, your doctor’s office - and ask them to pay it forward for you.

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GIVING LEVELS

$25

$50

$80

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$500

$1,500

Helps provide nutritious snacks or a hot dinner for students at the Teen Center at St. Peter’s; many who may not have anything else to eat before breakfast at school the next morning

Your support of Catholic Charities Youth Programming will have a direct impact on those we serve. Here are examples of how you will help*:

Enables us to run three 15-passenger vans to safely bring teens to and from the Teen Center and home everyday

Sponsors one camper for one day at Sunset Point Camp

Allows mentor/mentee matches from T.E.A.M. to participate in match activities such as cupcake decorating competitions or college nights

Helps child care classrooms replenish supplies to remain current with the most recent curriculum and needs of the children

Sponsors a Buddy Week camper at Sunset Point Camp, a week where children with disabilities have a whole week just to be a kid

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*Giving levels are examples of how funds can be used; funds raised by the Catholic Charities Team will be used to support at-risk youth throughout Eastern Massachusetts.


ABOUT CHILD CARE

Catholic Charities Chid Care programs serve a culturally diverse population of over 1,100 infants, toddlers, preschool, kindergarten, and school age children each year.

Children are learning all of the time, through their contacts with the people and things around them, and through their own natural curiosity. Catholic Charities Child Care programs are designed to meet the growing needs of the individual children while also meeting service needs of our families by providing child care that is flexible in hours, is reasonably priced, and meets the parents’ needs for their children.

Your fundraising efforts could help programs:

• Keep up with ever-changing curricula• Purchase new educationally-focused classroom toys• Continue to hire the most dedicated and

experienced staff

Catholic Charities Child Care curriculum is based on the development of the whole child. A child’s emotional, social, cognitive, and physical development is interrelated and activities are designed to stimulate growth in all areas. Catholic Charities also offers Home-based Family Child Care. Family child care with the same high quality curriculum and care in a home-like setting.

LOCATIONSDorchester | Jamaica Plain | South Boston

Lynn | Malden | Peabody

HOME-BASED FAMILY CHILD CARECambridge | Everett | Malden | Medford

Somerville | Beverly | Danvers | Lynn

Peabody | Salem


ABOUT THE TEEN CENTER AT ST. PETER'S

Your fundraising efforts could help The Teen Center:

• Provide nutritious snacks or a hot dinner for students• Employ a Counselor-in-Training for the summer• Enable us to run three 15-passenger vans to safely

bring teens to and from the Teen Center and home everyday

The positive impact of the St. Peter Teen Center is evident in its outcomes for these children and young adults socially, personally and academically. The teen members have low pregnancy rates, no gang involvement, less than one percent have been arrested, and none have been killed. These results are incredible when we see that Dorchester has Boston’s highest juvenile arrest rate and violent crime rate. The Teen Center’s first focus is academics with a strong after-school tutoring program provided for its members.

LOCATION278 Bowdoin StreetDorchester, MA

www.ccab.org/teencenter

Catholic Charities’ Teen Center at St. Peter serves as a safe haven for adolescents living in Dorchester’s most troubled areas—the Bowdoin Street / Geneva Avenue neighborhood—during after school hours and throughout the summer months.

The Teen Center’s staff, programs, and activities aim to increase teens’ self-esteem while providing the tools needed for academic and personal growth, as well as their success in the community. The Teen Center focuses on adolescents who have been disproportionately exposed to and involved in teen violence in Dorchester. Through critical outreach efforts and extensive, well-structured programming, the Teen Center has been successful in helping to interrupt the rapidly expanding cycle of violence. Each young person who comes through the door receives personal attention, and the tutoring and mentoring they need to succeed, as well as outreach to their families to help in resolving conflicts and in obtaining additional services that may be needed.


ABOUT SUNSET POINT CAMP

Your fundraising efforts could help Sunset Point Camp:

• Provide nutritious snacks or a hot dinner for campers• Employ a Counselor for the summer• Ensure all campers have bathing suits, socks, and

other necessities for their week of fun

Many Sunset Point campers live with the harsh realities of poverty, violence, homelessness, and a host of other challenges, so the opportunity to spend a week at summer camp allows them the chance to relax, learn new skills, build personal confidence and enjoy a vacation free from the worries of everyday life. Providing parents with options like Sunset Point Camp for their children during out of school times can literally be life-saving. We measure the impact of the camp based on the happiness it brings these campers every summer.

LOCATION2 Tenth StreetHull, MA

www.ccab.org/sunset

For nearly 100 years, Sunset Point Camp has provided a dream vacation at the seashore to over 40,000 low-income, at-risk children aged 6-13 from Greater Boston without regard for their race, nationality, or religious affiliation.

Nearly 450 city-based boys and girls travel to Hull, Massachusetts each summer for a one or two week overnight camp experience letting them enjoy the fresh air, learn new talents, receive academic summer support and simply have fun. Campers enjoy swimming, kayaking, paddle boats, arts and crafts, drama and other recreational activities. In addition, they are involved in a variety of programs designed around life-building skills promoting teamwork, sportsmanship, and good health, while cultivating a sense of leadership, self-discipline and self-esteem. For a registration fee of just $25 per camper, a child receives transportation to from camp, three meals a day and snacks, overnight accommodation in the boys or girls bunkhouse, a full spectrum of recreational activities, and bus transportation during the week to Nantasket Beach and other locations.


ABOUT YOUTH TUTORING YOUTH

Your fundraising efforts could help YTY:

• Purchase new supplies and academically enriching activities for after-school sessions

• Employ a Teen Leader• Expose youth to cultural experiences

LOCATION275 West BroadwaySouth Boston, MA

www.ccab.org/YTY

Youth Tutoring Youth (YTY) provides a free after-school program to South Boston students.

Teen Leaders ages 15 to 18 help younger students in grades 3 through 5 with tutoring, homework help, mentoring, exercise, reading, writing, math and confidence in decision making. The program provides a safe place for youth to spend after school hours while instilling a sense of belonging and fostering a heightened level of academic achievement. They participate in monthly field trips and activities like ice skating, museum visiting, and bowling.

100% of YTY parents surveyed felt that their children had improved their academic abilities in math, reading, and writing. YTY has a 1:3 student to teacher ratio and a maximum of 20 students in each class. Through individual attention, small class size, and a balance of structure and choice, parents see a positive change in social skills and ability to resist negative peer pressure.


ABOUT T.E.A.M.

Your fundraising efforts could help T.E.A.M.:

• Train and support mentors throughout the year• Fund a group activity for mentor/mentee

matches to socialize with one another• Expose youth to cultural experiences

LOCATION275 West BroadwaySouth Boston, MA

www.ccab.org/TEAM

T.E.A.M. has been matching youth with mentors since 1999, and since then, nearly 300 matches have been made. Once matched, the pair meets once a week for two hours or more. Group activities take place monthly, and the program staff checks in regularly to provide support. Mentors attend regular meetings for additional training and support throughout the year. 100% of youth involved reported that they felt more confident, had a more positive view of their future, and were better able to resist drugs and alcohol because of time spent with their mentors.

The T.E.A.M. program is a one-to-one community-based mentoring program that matches young people ages 8-16 with caring adult mentors.

This mentoring program gives young people the tools to form strong bonds with caring adults, and is proven to help them:

• Build their self-worth• Foster the ability to make positive life choices• Help strengthen their connections to school while improving

academic outcomes• Discover new perspectives in life


ABOUT BRIGID'S CROSSING

Your fundraising efforts could help Brigid's Crossing:

• Supply the home with new toys for the children• Provide necessary renovations inside and outside the home• Continue to support the staff who dedicate their lives to

the residents

LOCATION48 Lawrence StreetLowell, MA

Catholic Charities Brigid's Crossing in Lowell serves young mothers involved with the Department of Children and Families (DCF) and helps them learn the value of responsibility and independence while helping them to achieve their goals.

Resting along the banks of the Merrimack River in Lowell, Massachusetts, Brigid’s Crossing (Brigid’s) is a group home for teen mothers struggling amidst the unrelenting burdens of single parenthood and inadequate living conditions. Since its inception in 1997, Brigid’s has opened its doors to pregnant teens and teenage mothers, ages 14 to 20. The residence offers a safe, nurturing environment in which residents can assess their life situations, see to their basic needs, and work with compassionate, knowledgeable staff to tackle challenges on paths to self-sufficiency and greater senses of self-worth.

In the past 20 years, Brigid's Crossing has served over 250 families. They are only one of two programs across the Commonwealth contracted by DCF to offer enhanced services to pregnant and parenting youth.

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