FUNDRAISING
Aside from being an amazingly cool, iconic, global race, that people from around the world can participate in during the real on-the-water event, the goal is to bring sports and the environment together. Athletes are (and should be), the world’s best ambassadors for the protection of the environment, because they tend to use the outdoors for training, competing and recreating more than the average person. Your interest in our waters (fresh or salt) is an important component in broadening ocean appreciation and good water/environmental stewardship.
We hope, and encourage you to, raise funds for our work for improving the health of the ocean and our waters upstream, by seeking pledges from your network and community, either in terms of a certain amount of donation per KM raced, by a certain time challenge, or straight donation. Each team can create their own Global Erg Challenge fundraising page on our Simply Giving site, making it easy to share your participation and pride in racing around Hong Kong Island, for the Ocean. (https://www.simplygiving.com/
DOWNLOAD OUR FUNDRAISING TOOLKIT
Learn more about our mission and how to fundraise with our handy PDF:
WIN PRIZES
The top three teams (or solos) with the highest level of donations as of 24:00 Hong Kong Time on November 16th (one week after the race), will win special event windbreakers:
Proceeds of funds raised will be used to help expand the outreach, education and engagement of our Global Alert App, which allows people to report trash hotspots anywhere in the world’s waters or coastlines. This allows stakeholders in watersheds around the world to better manage and prevent trash from impacting their communities and environment. The app is currently in English and Spanish. We hope that some teams will be able to become ambassadors for the Global Alert App in their communities, and to help engage government, NGO, university or business stakeholders in the focus on plastic pollution reduction and impact in our waters. “See – Share – Solve” with Global Alert.
Short introduction video –http://bit.ly/StreamsOfPlastic
How-to-video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsQslpo_DwY&t=4s
HOW WE USE THE FUNDS
Proceeds of funds raised will be used to help expand the outreach, education and engagement of our Global Alert App, which allows people to report trash hotspots anywhere in the world’s waters or coastlines. This allows stakeholders in watersheds around the world to better manage and prevent trash from impacting their communities and environment. The app is currently in English and Spanish. We hope that some teams will be able to become ambassadors for the Global Alert App in their communities, and to help engage government, NGO, university or business stakeholders in the focus on plastic pollution reduction and impact in our waters. “See – Share – Solve” with Global Alert.
Short introduction video –http://bit.ly/StreamsOfPlastic
How-to-video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsQslpo_DwY&t=4s