Speed Reads!!

Hi Girls
I just got back from Officer's Workshop yesterday and I got some great information that you can use when planning your Speed Reads! Has anyone checked out the link below? It has lots of great tools for planning your Speed Read. There is even a button on this page where you can Register a Chapter that is hosting a Speed Read and all of the money can be collected online (you know your VPF would love that!)

http://www.firstbook.org/piphispeedread

Let me explain how to use the Register a Team portion of the website-because I was confused about this at first. If you would like to look at a good example-click the link above, look to the right side of the page where it says "Top Teams". I liked the Pi Beta Phi Grand Council b/c it has many team members. Now think of your chapter as the team and your Speed Read participants as the team members. Each team member can customize their page with information about themselves. Your participants (team members) could be members of sororities/fraternities on campus, campus celebrities, or whoever is going to participate in your Speed Read. Then your participants can simply email their page out to people to get donations...or the chapter can email the team page out and get groups to donate based on who they want to win or who they think will do best. And if you collect the actual money at the event there is a place where you can enter that so it can count toward your total. Remember when sending in checks for First Book Speed Reads please send to the address on the website not to Headquarters.

Chapters do not have to use the website, but it is a great tool and makes the money collection super easy!

So far we don't have any Region 6 chapters registered on the website, so I would love to get all of our chapters up there. In fact, I think it would be a good idea to use the First Book website even if you don't plan to take online donations. Make a chapter (team) page and send in the proceeds of your event and watch your chapter reach their Speed Read goal! I know Region 6 can dominate the Top Teams area and raise lots of money for literacy!

I know this might be confusing at first-it sure was to me. So feel free to contact me with questions. If you are creating a chapter page on the First Book website-let me know. If anyone has any good ideas they have used for Speed Reads, please share them with the group-I know everyone is always looking for good ideas!