WHY BUILD A COMPANY OR COMMUNITY TEAM

A Company Team is a group of employees representing their organization. A Community Team is a group of members from faith-based organizations, recreational clubs, volunteer or school groups, etc.

When your company or community organization creates a team for PanCAN PurpleStride, you create hope. When your team fundraises for PurpleStride, you make a genuine impact on the lives of people with pancreatic cancer and their families.

Your company or community team makes sure no one has to face a pancreatic cancer diagnosis alone.

You're joining a national movement and creating fun, meaningful opportunities:

• Engagement — authentically connecting with each other and the rest of your community with:
  
  
  • Leadership opportunities
  • Team building
  • Friendly competition between chapters, departments, branches**
  • Family-friendly event!
• Local visibility — enhancing your company’s or community’s leadership and brand
• Matching gift opportunity — Learn more about matching gifts

We’ll be there with you every step of the way to make sure your team gets the most from your participation:

• Customizable team and personal fundraising pages — track your progress and encourage friendly competition!**
• Team and individual incentives recognition when fundraising milestones are met
• Support materials and messaging for display and other communications

** We can customize a company or community page that brings together multiple teams, even across multiple events. This means you can organize teams from different roles, chapters, departments, and even different cities and still see your collective impact! Contact events@pancan.org to get started.

GET STARTED

Registering for PurpleStride will give you access to the PurpleStride Dashboard. It will also create your Personal Fundraising Page and, if you registered as a Team Captain, your Team Fundraising Page. Your PurpleStride Dashboard allows you to track progress towards your personal and team fundraising goals; send pre-written fundraising, team-building, team-coaching, and thank-you messages; and connect to Facebook Fundraiser.

Use this timeline as a guide!

BUILD YOUR TEAM

Ready to build and coach your team? Use your PurpleStride Dashboard to take a few easy steps:

• Set your team fundraising goal. We recommend a minimum goal of $2,500 per team but encourage you to reach for the stars! Visit the Event Incentives & Deadlines page to learn how we recognize top teams!
• Customize your team page with a photo and your story. Telling people why you started your team and why you’re taking steps to end pancreatic cancer at PanCAN PurpleStride will make them more motivated to support you.
• Ask your family, friends, coworkers and others to join your team. Make fundraising for PanCAN PurpleStride easy by recruiting your family and friends to join you. The more teammates you have, the faster you’ll hit your team’s fundraising goal and the more fun you’ll have on event day!
• Use and share our fundraising tools. As the Team Captain, you have the power to encourage the whole team to fundraise — and lead by example!
• Encourage your teammates to become Grand Club members. Striders who raise $1,000+ become part of the PanCAN PurpleStride Grand Club and receive an exclusive gift! On average, teams with Grand Club members raise 10x more than teams without a Grand Club member.

Looking for more information and ideas for Team Captains? Download our Learn more in our Team Captain Guide!

COACH AND INSPIRE YOUR TEAM

As your team grows, make sure you coach and inspire them! Send messages through your PurpleStride Dashboard to encourage your teammates to:

• Set their goal
• Update their Personal Fundraising Page
• Connect to Facebook Fundraiser*
• Make a self-donation
• Send fundraising messages
• Aim for Grand Club
• ...and more!

We suggest each teammate starts with a fundraising goal of $200. Registered Striders who raise or self-donate $100+ will receive an official PanCAN PurpleStride 2026 T-shirt. Registered Striders who raise $1,000+ will earn exclusive PanCAN PurpleStride Grand Club 2026 gear. And we recognize top fundraisers and teams on event day! Learn more about individual and team incentives.

LEARN ABOUT MATCHING GIFTS

• Do your donors know that thousands of companies match donations made by their employees to organizations like PanCAN? They may be able to double or even triple! the impact of their gift just by completing a matching gift form. Learn more about Matching Gifts.
• Don’t forget to ask if your company will match employee contributions!

THANK YOUR TEAM AND DONORS

Make sure to thank your team members and your donors for their support. You can give shout-outs anytime using your PurpleStride Dashboard.

Before event day, remind team members to mail in or make any online donations to hit their personal goal or achieve Grand Club status, and check to see if your team has qualified for special fundraising benefits. Check our Event Incentives & Deadlines page for full details.

One of the best things about event day is seeing the sea of purple! Encourage your team to show their purple spirit with wigs, glasses, shoes, etc. Make sure everyone is snapping pictures of themselves and sharing on social media using #PanCANPurpleStride.