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Best Buddies Challenge
  • Event Details
    • Event Overview
    • Route
    • Schedule
    • Fundraising Commitment
    • FAQ
  • About Best Buddies
    • What We Do
      • Mission
      • Impact
      • Vision and Goals
    • Programs
      • Friendship
      • Jobs
      • Leadership Development
      • Living
    • Mission in Action
      • Featured Profiles
      • Videos
  • Photos
  • Participant Tools
    • Login to your HQ
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    • Training Tools
    • Logistical Tools
    • Mack Cycle Domestique
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FUNDRAISING

Best Buddies Challenge participants change the lives of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities by fundraising for Best Buddies International. In order to participate, each participant must commit to raise a $10,000 fundraising commitment rate by November 4, 2019. It’s a challenge, but our personalized fundraising webpages, resources, and Best Buddies Challenge Coaches provide all participants with the fundraising support they need to not only meet, but exceed their fundraising goals.

$10,000/ fundraising commitment
Starter Package
$250 registration fee with a $10,000 fundraising commitment.
  • The Best Buddies Challenge: Miami, a 100K, presidential-style rolling enclosure peloton through the most iconic and picturesque streets of Miami with a fleet of motorcycle police escorts, catered rest stops, and SAG support.
  • Three (3) presidential-style rolling enclosure rides – Kick-Off Classic, Spring Classic, and Fall Classic
  • Post-ride massages
  • Post-ride gourmet lunches
  • Full custom cycling kit including jersey, bib, vest, and t-shirt
  • Post ride massages
  • Option to use elite level BMC Switzerland bicycles for the Challenge
  • Sign up
    $15,000/ fundraising commitment
    Standard Rate with Concierge
    $250 registration fee with a $15,000 fundraising commitment.
    Standard rate plus the following at-home bicycle servicing for minor repairs including flat tires, gear adjustments, or break adjustments by Mack Cycle
    • At-home bicycle servicing for minor repairs including flat tires, gear adjustments, or break adjustments by Mack Cycle
    • At-home pick-up and drop-off of your bicycle to Mack Cycle & Fitness for advanced service, tune-ups, and cleanings:
    • One (1) night stay at Mr. C Coconut Grove
    • Post-ride massages
    • Post-ride gourmet lunches
    • Full custom cycling kit including jersey, bib, vest, and t-shirt
    • Post ride massages
    • Option to use elite level BMC Switzerland bicycles for the Challenge
    • Sign up

      Why we require a fundraising commitment:

      The primary goal of Best Buddies Challenge events is to raise operating and expansion funds for Best Buddies International. Best Buddies is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to establishing a global volunteer movement that creates opportunities for one-to-one friendships, integrated employment and leadership development for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). For more information on Best Buddies International, visit www.bestbuddies.org.

      With each Challenge event, we have one opportunity per year to maximize the potential funds raised for our organization. These funds are critical to help grow and sustain our eight formal programs – Best Buddies Middle Schools, High Schools, Colleges, Citizens, e-Buddies, Jobs, Ambassadors, and Promoters – that positively impact 900,000 individuals with and without disabilities worldwide.

      In order to raise these funds, and because we have a permit limit on the amount of riders/walkers/runners allowed on course, it is imperative that Best Buddies sets a reasonably high fundraising minimum for each event participant. Best Buddies does our best to aid participants in their fundraising efforts. We provide each participant with their very own coach and fundraising page, along with a variety of fundraising ideas and documents. Please feel free to call 1.800.718.3536 and speak to a Coach about registration options.

      YOUR FUNDRAISING COMMITMENT

      When you register as a participant in the Best Buddies Challenge, you are committing to raise the fundraising amount you selected. This is a commitment we are very grateful for, but also one we take very seriously. That being said, here is some important information about your financial obligation and important deadlines to adhere to.

      After registration, you have a 7-day period from the day you registered to withdraw from the event and you will not be held responsible for your fundraising commitment. If, within those 7 days you decide that you cannot make this commitment for any reason, just alert a Challenge Coach, and you will be released from the event. If we do not hear from you within that week, you will be responsible for your fundraising commitment made at the time of registration. Please note: Registration fees are non-refundable.

      Fundraising Commitment Deadline (FCD) 

      If you have not met your fundraising commitment two weeks before the event, Best Buddies International will charge your credit card (required upon registration) the difference of monies raised from your fundraising commitment. If you reach and submit your fundraising commitment level before the fundraising deadline (FCD), your card will not be charged.

      Participants are given one full month after the event date to submit to Best Buddies any additional monies they may have raised post event to reach the original fundraising commitment. After this month, participants will be credited back up to the amount you were charged on the Fundraising Deadline.

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