Nashville Top Teams

Here we are, less than 48 hours to our Nashville March for Babies, and our family teams are kicking some "tushie," as my little Becca calls it!  We are already $15,000 over where we were at this time last year.  I'm posting a list of our (many!) $1,000+ teams below, but I've got a contest designed to help us ALL close strong, whether your team is big or small. 

The March of Dimes has a campaign against elective c-sections or elective inductions before 39 weeks.  When doctors schedule such procedures out of convenience and not out of medical necessity, it can add to the problems that even full-term babies can have.  These babies are more likely to need special care in the NICU and/or have respiratory issues.  So we're working to get every baby at least their full 39 weeks.  In honor of this 39-weeks campaign, we're holding a 39-hour challenge!  For every online donation that you, as a family team captain, receives, you will get one entry into a giveaway for a bag of official March of Dimes merchandise (or stuff...is it actually merchandise if it's not really sold as retail?  Whatever it is, it's all kinds of fun).  The contribution can be $1 or $10,000 - or anywhere in between.  (Okay, it could also be more than $10,000 - y'all get on that now, right?)  The contest starts at 9:30 pm tonight (Friday) and runs through the beginning of our walk at 12:30 pm on Sunday.  So get on those phones, on facebook, in your e-mail and make every hour count! 

Now, without further ado, here are your Nashville $1,000 teams:

Top Ten Family Teams

1.       Team Ellie - $18,010

2.      Itty Bitty Becca’s Team - $4500

3.      Team Elise - $3145

4.      Friends of King Donovan - $3013

5.      Vivi Lee - $2730

6.      Parker Wilcox - $2100

7.      Lane Team - $2095

8.      MOMS Club of Spring Hill - $1876

9.      Amayah’s Angels - $1685

10.   Ava & Gage - $1641

11.  Rick Team - $1575

12.  Skip Dee Doo Dah - $1505

Butler Baby Boys - $1505

14.  Team KP - $1448

15.  Phi Beta Sigma/Team McMurry and Santiago - $1362

16.  Kaleigh and Braden - $1340

17.  The Grace Walkers - $1315

18.  Team Wilson - $1303

19.  Team Jacob Perryn - $1235

The Happi Hookers - $1235

21.  Jayden's Walkers - $1151

22.  Team JAC - $1120

23.  Cannon and Cailyn - $1095

24.   The Sweet P's - $1085

What a GREAT list!  See you Sunday!

                                                           

                                      

Family Teams Specialist

                       

Family Teams Standings

Check out what your fellow family teams are up to these days! With 6 WEEKS left until the 2011 March for Babies, here are your top 5 family teams, based on funds raised online and cash and check donations marked as received on their team pages.

Top Family Teams

1. Team Ellie - $1525
2. Itty Bitty Becca's Team - $1390
3. Team KP - $1025
4. Team Elise - Nashville - $765
5. Butler Baby Boys - $670

An honorable mention goes to Baby Blessings from TN, our top NEW team, who has raised $460!

Now that we are 6 weeks away, we are moving into to prime fundraising time! The first step is to update your http://www.marchforbabies.org/ page and to send the link out to all your friends, family and associates. Teams who fundraise online raise, on average, 3 TIMES as much money as teams who don't! With our online fundraising tool it's SO easy for people to make a donation - it just takes about a minute, and they can donate via Visa, MasterCard, AMEX, Discover or -- new this year, I think -- PayPal! Be sure to share the link to your team page on Facebook, Twitter, etc. You can even add a fundraising badge in your e-mail signature.

Remember, TOMORROW is the last day to enter our blog contest! Become a follower, comment on posts, share posts online (Facebook or Twitter - and be sure to add another comment saying that you shared) - each one earns you an entry into our drawing for a $50 Wal Mart gift card!


Family Teams Specialist

Our First Blog Contest!

March for Babies is only 8 weeks away, so it's time to get down to business with our fundraising efforts - and what better way to get to work than to have a contest?  Thanks to the fine folks at the Cool Springs Wal Mart, I've got a $50 gift card to give away to one of you fabulous readers.  To enter, simply leave a comment on any post on this blog.  Each comment gets you one entry.  Share a post on Facebook or Twitter and comment saying that you did so, and you'll get another entry.  Publicly follow the blog (by clicking on the "follow" button on the right), and you'll get a bonus entry!  Any comment posted in the next two weeks will count toward your total number of entries.


I'll be back this week with fundraising tips and an introduction to one of our VIP's (that's Very Important Preemie, of course) - baby Logan!
          

                                                                                                             

Family Teams Specialist