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APPENDIX 1

Appendix 1

Creating a Share.Habitat

personal fundraising web page

You can create a fundraising Web page for your Global Village trip in just minutes!

Our website, Share.Habitat, will create a customized page for you containing information about

Habitat, Global Village, your trip and your destination country. It also includes a donation button for

online donations, and instructions on how to mail or phone in a donation.

rough this site, you will be

emailing tools to reach out to potential donors.

Build a better world: Join the GV Challenge!

e GV Challenge is our response to the growing global need for decent, safe and a ordable shelter.

More than 1.6 billion of the world’s citizens do not have an adequate place to live. Habitat is challenging

Global Village volunteers to make an even greater impact on the global issue of poverty housing by rais-

ing additional funds above individual program costs to support Habitat’s building projects worldwide.

Take up the challenge! Join us in sharing our story, building hope and making an impact on the world!

How to create a Share.Habitat fundraising Web page:

Go to

Enter your Global Village event code and your participant ID (given to you in your accep-

tance letter). Double check the information given on the con rmation page.

Enter your name, email address and password, or connect via your Facebook account. For the

richest experience, we suggest you use your Facebook login; however, it is not required.

Enter a personal message about your trip, or use the default we’ve provided.

en, set your fund-

raising goal (be sure to set your goal at your trip cost plus whatever you think you can raise for the GV

Challenge). Click “done”.

You have created your Share.Habitat fundraising page! From here, you can edit any informa-

tion previously entered, as well as add photos, videos and updates to your page.

Share your page with potential donors: At the upper right of your page, you will see buttons

that allow you and visitors to the site to post a message and a link to your page on hundreds of di er-

ent social media sites.

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