Tips for collecting pledges
Top 10 fundraising tips from successful MS Read-A-Thon participants:
| Talk to friends and family soon after the MS Read-A-Thon assembly and explain what you are doing for people with MS. Ask politely if they would like to sponsor you. | |
| Make a list of all the adults you know. | |
| Sponsor yourself $1.00 to show your sponsors that you believe in yourself. | |
| Write down one thing you learned about MS and tell it to your friends and family. | |
| Decide how many minutes you think you can read for the MS Read-A-Thon, and tell your sponsors. | |
| Write a short note to friends and family to explain the MS Read-A-Thon and why you need to get sponsors. | |
| Ask mom or dad to take your sponsor list to their work. | |
| Call grandma, grandpa, aunts and uncles (near and far). | |
| Take your kit with you wherever you go: to soccer practice, the dentist, church, but don't lose it! | |
| Smile and feel good about what you are doing for people who have MS. |


