A bake sale at your school. A lemonade stand on your street. A walkathon or biking challenge around your city. Even a thrilling climb up Mount Kilimanjaro! Move Your Way is a fun and simple do-it-yourself fundraiser to help support the six million Canadians who live with arthritis.
The fundraising activities are limitless, but the end goal remains the same: extinguish arthritis.
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Get Inspired
Move Your Way lets you draw on your favourite hobbies, passions and interests. Whatever suits you and your schedule, works! Simply choose how you’d like to participate, create your fundraising page and start helping us fight the fire of arthritis.
Get active
Challenge yourself and others to walk, run, practise yoga or Tai Chi, bike or work out. Pick a goal and share with family and friends as you take on this physical challenge.
Party
Looking to celebrate a birthday or honour a loved one with a special event? Host a party and encourage friends and family to donate to Arthritis Society Canada in lieu of gifts.
Compete
Who doesn’t love a friendly competition with friends and family? Square off in a walkathon, yoga-a-thon or dance-a-thon. Battle it out in a video game or board game tournament. Show off your vocal pipes in a karaoke contest. Invite your network to participate in exchange for a donation to Arthritis Society Canada. Online fundraising pages are a great tool to support these events.
Share your talents
Share your special skills and put your talents to good use! Whether you enjoy cooking, jewelry making, playing the guitar or wine tasting, you can easily turn your favourite pastime into a fundraising event. Invite those closest to you to participate and contribute, and encourage them to start their own fundraisers.
Fundraise through Facebook
Start a Facebook fundraiser by selecting Arthritis Society Canada – it only takes five minutes to get going! Ask your Facebook friends to donate to your fundraiser and share why a world free from the devastating effects of arthritis is important to you.
Create a social media challenge
Remember the Ice Bucket Challenge or the Plank Challenge? Now’s the time to create a fun challenge of your own and use social media to tag others, spread the word and raise money for Arthritis Society Canada.
Launch a workplace campaign
Start a workplace campaign and collect donations from your colleagues to participate. Consider a trivia event, a bake sale or a promotional draw. Whatever your coworkers enjoy, you can make a fundraiser out of it! Remember to inquire if your workplace offers corporate matching programs.
Fundraising Tools
Move Your Way is customizable, effective and easy. Please take a look at the tools below to make your fundraiser as successful as possible!
FAQs
Yes. Arthritis Society Canada’s charitable number is 10807 1671 RR0003. When you donate to the Arthritis Society you will receive a tax receipt. Arthritis Society Canada is also accredited by Imagine Canada, which means we are one of only a small number of national health charities that has been accredited for our commitment to transparency and accountability.
Funds from our generous donors and sponsors have given Arthritis Society Canada the power to raise the profile of this devastating disease, advance knowledge of it and explore solutions by funding best-in-class researchers. Funds also allow Arthritis Society Canada to challenge the status quo by undertaking advocacy into public policy, and to ensure our information and support programs address patient needs that are current and evidence-based.
Arthritis Society Canada has many tools and resources available to assist in organizing fundraising events. Once you have decided to host an event or fundraiser in support of Arthritis Society Canada, we ask that you register your event or fundraising initiative online. If you do not want to register online, please contact us with the details of your fundraiser at [email protected]. We will review your event and get back to you within 10 business days.
Once your fundraising event is approved, we will provide you with all the tools and resources you may require to assist you in putting your event together. This includes tips on recruiting, fundraising and planning your event, as well as an online platform for your personal fundraising or events page that allows you to do the following:
- send emails to friends and family
- accept online credit card donations from friends and family
- recruit event attendees or team members
- set your fundraising goal
- track your progress
- share your story
Please reach out to us to use our logos. We must approve all public-facing materials that host our logos and brand.
As per the Privacy Act, Arthritis Society Canada cannot mail event information or contact our donors about a Move Your Way event or fundraiser.
Arthritis Society Canada is not able to provide insurance for any Move Your Way events. Event organizers are responsible for obtaining the correct insurance. Arthritis Society Canada cannot be held liable for any part of a Move Your Way event or fundraiser.
Further, we are not able to contribute funds, financially support your event or reimburse expenses from donated funds. Event organizers are responsible for paying any expenses before making their donation or their donors’ donation to Arthritis Society Canada.
Arthritis Society Canada cannot apply for any licenses on your behalf. Provincial gaming and lottery links are listed below for your convenience.
Provincial gaming links:
If you have an event set up online, you can make a lump sum payment from the event on your credit card. If you would like to hand deliver cash donations, they can be dropped off at your local Arthritis Society Canada office.
Please note: it is not safe to mail cash. Please send a cheque payable to Arthritis Society Canada instead. If you are looking for tax receipts for your donors, please make sure that you include a copy of the donation form filled out in full, with legible writing, for Arthritis Society Canada to process tax receipts.
For an event where the attendees are paying money to receive a benefit, such as a dinner party or concert, we cannot provide a tax receipt for any portion of the attendees’ payment.
For a fundraiser, such as a birthday or running a marathon, where you are collecting donations from your peers, any donation made online will automatically be issued a tax receipt. Offline donations (cheques or cash you receive) can also be receipted, once Arthritis Society Canada receives the donation(s) and completed offline donation form.
You no longer need a username and password on our new platform. Please log in using your email address to access your fundraising page.
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