31 Miles in May Challenge

Are you ready for a fun challenge?

This May, we are encouraging everyone to challenge themselves with our 31 Miles in May Facebook challenge. We are asking fundraisers to commit to moving 31 miles throughout the month – whether that be running, walking, biking, swimming, or anything else!

This virtual fundraiser is an opportunity to get motivated to stay active, honor the brain injury community, and support BIAA programs. In addition, your participation in this challenge will help BIAA advance awareness, research, treatment, and education, and improve the quality of life for all people affected by brain injury.

5 Steps to join the Facebook Challenge

1. Join the Facebook group
2. Create your fundraiser
3. Share with your family and friends
4. Track your miles and post your progress on your personal page and in the group
5. Take pride in yourself for spreading awareness and raising funds for the brain injury community

If you prefer to host your fundraiser outside of Facebook, you can do so here.

Create your fundraiser

It is quick and easy to join and create your fundraising page to benefit the Brain Injury Association of America.

1. Complete the sign-up form
2. Submit & activate fundraiser
3. Edit the section about why you are raising money. Share your connection to brain injury and BIAA. The more personal you make your page, the more likely people will donate.
4. Click on “create” to finalize your page
5. Make a gift to your own page to get the fundraiser started, and then share your page. You can share to your feed, send in Messenger, or share on a friend’s profile.

How to find and edit your fundraiser

1. Find the post on your Facebook page and click on “fundraiser.” Or go to Facebook.com/fundraisers. Your fundraiser will be on the left-hand side. Click on Edit Fundraiser
2. Bookmark this page so you can easily find it next time. Then click on the 3 dots on the right-hand side, under the cover photo, and then select “Edit Fundraiser” from the menu options.
3. Now you can increase your goal or extend the end date for your fundraiser. If you didn’t get a chance to update your reasons for participating, you can also do that now. Save when you are finished with your edits.

You can see a visual guide of how to create your fundraiser by downloading the guide here.

Fundraising Tips

• Personalize your page by editing the “why are you raising money” section and posting photos and challenge updates.
• Share your page and your progress often. Don’t be afraid to ask people to donate. They care about you and want to support you. Click on “invite friends” and then “invite all.” This one action will increase your impact by 5x on average.
• Thank each of your donors. This can easily be done on your page because there will be a post after each donation made.
• Join the challenge group and learn from other participants how they are meeting their goals.
• Visit BIAA’s website and Facebook page to learn more about the work BIAA is doing and how these donations will help.
• Additional questions? Check out the FAQ document.

You can always contact the development team if you have any questions or need any assistance. Thank you for participating in our Facebook challenge. We are so grateful for your support.