Miss Sagamore Valley and Miss South Central Scholarship Program, Inc.
Introduction to the National Platform of the
Miss America Organization
(Please read this entire page)
The Miss America Organization and Children's Miracle Network are proud to launch our fund raising website. Now, raising funds will be as easy as one, two, three.
Please see the steps below to begin to log onto the fund raising website.
One - Before participating in local, state and the national Miss America pageants, each contestant will log onto www.missamerica4kids.org to create her personal fund raising web page and to set a fund raising goal (minimum— $100 local, $250 state, $500 national).
Two - Once registered, contestants will e-mail friends and relatives to ask for donations to support Children’s Miracle Network and the Miss America Scholarship Fund using a simple pre-formatted e-mail system.
Three - Friends and relatives will then log on to their contestant’s personal fund raising web page to make secure online donations using a credit card or check. For more information regarding the fund raising process, please refer to the fund raising tutorial at the end of this guide.
Getting Started
Go to www.missamerica4kids.org and click on the "New Contestants" link. (This is also a great place to learn more about the partnership and Children’s Miracle Network.)
Step One: Set-Up Personal Web Page : Click on "New Contestant" link to register as a new user. Then follow the step-by-step instructions to create your personal contestant web page and send e-mails to relatives, friends and neighbors. • Complete personal profile. • Upload picture. • Hit Save button. • Click on link to personal page to preview the page.
Step Two: Create E-mail & Send to Relatives, Friends and Neighbors: Click on "Send E-mails" link on left side of page. • Enter 10 or more e-mail addresses of family and friends you would like to contact. • If you would like to preview your e-mail click on Preview button. • Click the Send button. You can view your fund raising progress by going to your personal page.
Step Three: Review Fund Raising Progress, Monitor Donations and Current Standings: After you have sent emails to your friends and family you can monitor your results by clicking the "View Donors" buttons on the left hand side of the screen. In addition to monitoring your donors you can also view your standing among other contestants by clicking on "View All Contestants."
If you have any questions or problems creating your personal web page, please contact:
David Harnicher, Children’s Miracle Network
801-273-3269
Children's Miracle Network/Miss America Organization Donation Roll-Over Information
To all Local Pageant contestants in the Miss America Organization:
Congratulations on becoming involved with the one of the nations leading achievement programs and the world's largest provider of scholarship assistance for young women. Last year the Miss America Organization and its state and local organizations made available more than $45 Million in scholarship assistance.
Beginning in 2007, Miss America has developed a National Platform and has partnered with Children's Miracle Network - an alliance of children's hospitals. Children's Miracle Network is a non-profit organization dedicated to saving and improving the lives of children by raising funds for children's hospitals across North America. Each year the 170 Children's Miracle Network hospitals provide the finest medical care, life-saving research and preventative education to help millions of kids overcome diseases and injuries of every kind.
This National Platform starts at the Local Pageants with the 2008 pageant year (those locals that start in calendar year 2007 and the winners go to the State 2008 Pageants). Each contestant is asked to register on-line at MissAmerica4Kids.org. At the bottom of the first screen is a button labeled “New Contestants - click here”. Press that button and you are on your way. It will take you only 5 minutes to register. Your expected minimum goal is $100 for each local pageant level but you may select a higher goal. This minimum local pageant goal of $100 is for the National Platform which is very similar to the personal platform that you may have. Then once you save the information and upload a picture if you want to, click on “Send emails” on the left hand side and enter email addresses to send to your friends and family. (Hint: send one email to yourself at your email address, then add a personal note to that email and forward this email to as many as you like within your own email system.)
The funds raised are under your name and roll-over to qualify you for future pageants. For example, if you raise $500 then you are pre-qualified for 5 local pageants. But, for each pageant you compete in you must update your profile on MissAmerica4Kids.org to reflect that pageant name. If you win local pageant #2, then the $300 excess ($100 was used for each of the two local pageants leaving $300 left over) is applied to the State Pageant minimum goal of $250 and you have already met that goal.
It is as simple as that. You may track your progress and see how you are doing. The more emails you send, the more funds you raise for both of these great organizations. Yes, these funds are for both entities - the donations help increase the future scholarship fund as well as go to the children's hospitals.
So, please take 5 minutes and go to MissAmerica4Kids.org and register for the pageant you will be competing in. If you elect to compete in additional local pageants simply return to MissAmerica4Kids.org and update (select the next pageant name) which pageant you are now involved with.
Thank you for your continued support and good luck with your efforts.