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Please join Team Walk With Wheels for a dinner at Texas Roadhouse in Worcester, MA. On Wednesday, July 27, 20% of all orders will be donated to our MS Challenge Walk fundraising! You will need to download and print the flyer and bring it with you and present it at the time of your order.
This is the events calendar, featuring official NMSS rallies and meetings as well as volunteer-sponsored fundraisers. Want to see your event listed here? Please submit the details, and we'll add it!
Team Walk With Wheels invites you to JOIN US at the Greendale Family Branch YMCA (75 Shore Drive, Worcester) on Sunday, August 14 , 4:30–6:30 PM for an affordable and fun Family Spaghetti Dinner to help raise funds for the National MS Society.
The meal will include spaghetti, sauce, salad and bread. We also have various entertainment options planned, including Caricatures by Hamiltoons, music, face-painting, raffles and auctions, coloring books & crayons, etc.
Purchase tickets online by visiting the Walk With Wheels team page, and RSVP on Facebook!
This is the events calendar, featuring official NMSS rallies and meetings as well as volunteer-sponsored fundraisers. Want to see your event listed here? Please submit the details, and we'll add it!
Fifty kilometers can seem like a vast undertaking — but it's easier to conceive and accomplish by breaking it into smaller chunks. Nobody who doesn't want the mother of all blisters walks 50K without having first walked many smaller distances.
A great way to begin this training and to experience what it means to be part of the larger NMSS walking community is to participate in a one-day walk. The Greater New England Chapter coordinates these three- to five-mile fundraising events events throughout Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine. In case you missed it in Kara's last update, there is no registration fee or fundraising minimum for Challenge Walkers — and even if you or your friends aren't registered yet, the fundraising is a modest $25.
The first one-day walks are being held this weekend, with plenty more occurring throughout April and May, and a final round in September. I'll be riding bicycle support in Worcester tomorrow and will be walking in Laconia next month. At these walks and all others, you'll find yourself surrounded and assisted by dedicated, grateful, and cheerful volunteers. See the full schedule and sign up today to begin the journey that is the MS Challenge Walk!
Ken, a Worcester resident, joined the MS Challenge Walk in 2005, more than a decade after his mother was diagnosed. After walking for three years and 150 miles, he switched to the support crew and now rides his bicycle along the trail, providing whatever encouragement (and snacks!) he can to the 600 walkers. He is also on the event's steering committee and is this site's webmaster.
Jillian's
315 Grove Street
Worcester MA, 01605
You are invited to join us for a night of fun and hanging out with other team captains and team members. The Central New England Chapter is hosting a series of Team Rallies designed totally with you in mind. What a great way to shake off the winter doldrums, have a little fun, and pick up some new fundraising ideas that are successful for other teams!
If you would like to RSVP you and your team, please email Todd Krohne or call 781-693-5119.
This is the events calendar, featuring official NMSS rallies and meetings as well as volunteer-sponsored fundraisers. Want to see your event listed here? Please submit the details, and we'll add it!
Please RSVP for the location.
Could you walk 50 kilometers in 2 days on Cape Cod to help find a cure for multiple sclerosis? Explore the Challenge and find out if you have what it takes. Talk face to face with Chapter staff and other walkers. Start building the unique camaraderie that grows with each training walk, leading ultimately to conquering the Challenge itself.
The Challenge Walk takes place September 11-12, 2010, on Cape Cod, Mass. Information about registration fees and deadlines, and minimum fundraising requirements are available at these Explore the Challenge meetings.
Contact Chapter staff at challenge@mam.nmss.org or 1-800-344-4867 option 2 ext 119. We are also happy to schedule a one-on-one session to discuss this unique event with you.
This is the events calendar, featuring official NMSS rallies and meetings as well as volunteer-sponsored fundraisers. Want to see your event listed here? Please submit the details, and we'll add it!
Earlier this spring, the the NMSS hosted a team rally in Worcester. About 18 people showed up from all parts of New England to meet each other and brainstorm fundraising and team-building exercises for all NMSS events, including the 50-mile Challenge Walk, the Worcester one-day walk, and the Cape Cod Getaway. In a variation on "speed dating", each participant moved from table to table, where they quickly exchanged ideas before moving to the next table of attendees. The evening culminated in everyone regrouping to share what they'd learned.
Beth Sansoucy of the Master Striders talked about the success her team has had approaching cars at red lights to ask for donations, similar to what firefighters do for Jerry's Kids. Not only is this a lucrative fundraiser, with over $7,000 raised in just four hours, but the number of people it takes to effectively cover several intersections makes it a great team builder as well and contributes to all its participants' fundraising goals.
Ken Gagne of the MSchief Makers suggested selling raffle tickets to one's co-workers, where the winner gets an extra vacation day. Though his particular workplace did not approve this fundraiser, his supervisor did contribute to his walk instead, so all was not for naught.
These were just two of the many ideas that were considered last night. Diane Fitzmaurice of the NMSS's Worcester chapter circulated an exhaustive list of 101 fundraising ideas, including bake sales, bowling nights, and "pajama days". What other ways can you think of to meet your goal?
Ken, a Worcester resident, joined the MS Challenge Walk in 2005, more than a decade after his mother was diagnosed. After walking for three years and 150 miles, he switched to the support crew and now rides his bicycle along the trail, providing whatever encouragement (and snacks!) he can to the 600 walkers. He is also on the event's steering committee and is this site's webmaster.
