Silent Auction, Lemonade Stand, Other activities

Please share this information with everyone you know.

  1. We have a dedicated group of children led by the IMDP’s Komal Das that are working diligently to fundraise for us! They are so excited to be both hosting a lemonade stand and donating to our auction. The Lemonade Stand is being rescheduled for the end of the month  at the edge of the Royal Plume Playground at this address: 6694 Royal Plume Dr, Dublin, OH 43016 Please plan to stop by and support these wonderful children!
  2. The children will also be donating a variety of arts and crafts (including homemade potholders, paintings, baked goods, and more) to our Silent Auction July 11th-20th at 32auctions.com/ohiopeda1ers2 There a many wonderful and unique items in the auction. 
  3. Jamie Hamon is hosting a Pelotonia fundraiser at Gallo’s Tap Room (at Olentangy/Bethel, right by MicroCenter) on July 20, 2021 (yep, Tuesday night). A portion of whatever you purchase from the Pelotonia menu goes to my Pelotonia fundraising efforts. You can eat in or carry out, just ask for the Pelotonia menu. 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM  Bethel tap room – Gallo’s Tap Room (gallostaproom.com)

Thank you all and please Share – share – share!

Things TO DO & Know

Greetings Peloton. I hope this finds you well. Please take a moment to read this and provide the information requested. We can only do this if we work together.

  1. We need items for the Silent Auction. Please send a picture and brief description to osupiio@osumc.edu  as soon as possible. The Auction Site is accessible Here.

    • Please use one of the banners below to advertise the auction. Please put it on your email signature lines, as your facebook/twitter/instagram/social media banner.

  2. If you are a volunteer, please sign up for a date, time, and place via pelotonia.org  or volunteer jobs can be found here.

  3. If you want to be a rider (and are not yet) the registration fee increases to $150 on July 1st.
  4. June 7-13 Matching Gift Incentive: Jumpstart your fundraising starting next week – any donation you receive of $25 or more (limited to $500), will be eligible to receive a matching donation from Team Buckeye. Details can be found by clicking this link. If the total amount of eligible donations exceeds our $30,000 allotment, we will randomly select gifts for matched donations.
  5. Team Buckeye Raffle Program: Free to use! Request packets of 25 tickets via email at teambuckeye@osumc.edu and include your mailing address. Tickets are sold for $10/each, and due back to us via mail by August 20, 2021. Details, and a list of prize offerings, can be found by clicking this link.
  6. Pelotonia Fundraising Toolkit: This includes great Pelotonia impact messaging, sample ask letters, social media guides, and a monthly fundraising framework you can customize to your plans! Click here.
  7. Fundraising Events Advice: From Team Buckeye-Alumni & Friends, captain Selena Browning shares great ideas for how to host in-person and virtual fundraising events for Pelotonia. Click here.
  8. Cycling Training & Advice: For Riders, learn from the best on how to train for your ride, prevent injuries, follow road safety protocols, and treat your body right with nutrition to fuel your rides! Click here.
  9. Team Buckeye Bike Lease: Submit a form on our website to request a bike. For $200, you rent a road bike, helmet, and lock from us to train all spring and summer, ride in Ride Weekend, and return to us. Great for first time riders, or for those needing a road bike for longer distances. Click here.
  10. Team Buckeye Asset Kit: Here you will find logo files, Zoom/Microsoft Teams backgrounds, social media graphics, email templates, and other items to help you spread the Team Buckeye brand. Click here.

Fundraising and Matching Donations June 7-13

        

Team Buckeye Matching Donations

Team Buckeye is excited to bring you an exclusive fundraising incentive in June.

Between June 7-13, any donation between $25 and $500 made toward your fundraising goal will be eligible for a dollar-for-dollar match.

Get those emails ready and queue up your social media posts to ask your community to support you from June 7-13 so you can double the amount of impact.

Team Buckeye Raffle Tickets

Teresa has a large number of Team Buckeye Raffle Tickets.

If you would like to sell any, please let her know.        If you would like to purchase any, they are $10 each.

 

 

Volunteer Opportunities

Dear Colleagues,

The OSUCCC – James is hosting the Granville Rest Stop for Pelotonia 2021 on Saturday, Aug. 7, and Sunday, Aug. 8, and we are in need of 187 volunteers to hand out water and snacks to Riders, provide first aid and be a part of the sanitation crew.

The days will be broken into multiple shifts, as shown below. The rest stop will be at the Granville Intermediate School, 2025 Burg St., Granville, Ohio 43023.

 Volunteer Activity  Day Time  # of Spots 
 General  Saturday, Aug. 7  5 – 10:30 a.m.  35
 General  Saturday, Aug. 7  10 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.  35
 Sanitation Crew  Saturday, Aug. 7  5:30 -10:30 a.m.  10
 Sanitation Crew  Saturday, Aug. 7  10 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.  10
 First Aid  Saturday, Aug. 7  5 – 11:30 a.m.  2
 First Aid  Saturday, Aug. 7  7 – 11:30 a.m.  5
 First Aid  Saturday, Aug. 7  11 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.  5
 General  Sunday, Aug. 8  6:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.  30
 General  Sunday, Aug. 8  1 – 8 p.m.  30
 Sanitation Crew  Sunday, Aug. 8  7 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.  5
 Sanitation Crew  Sunday, Aug. 8  1 – 8 p.m.  5
 First Aid  Sunday, Aug. 8  6:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.  5
 First Aid  Sunday, Aug. 8  8 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.  5
 First Aid  Sunday, Aug. 8  2-8 p.m.   5

Volunteers will receive a Pelotonia T-shirt, water bottle and face mask. Additionally, Volunteers at this location will receive an OSUCCC – James T-shirt to wear during their shift.

To register for the rest stop, click here and follow the step-by-step registration instructions provided here, using access code “THEJAMES” to access our reserved shifts. If you are already registered as a Rider or Challenger, you can add a Volunteer registration to your account as outlined in the instructions provided. During registration, it’s important that you join a Team Buckeye peloton if you are not part of one already.

This is a great opportunity to show support to the Pelotonia Riders who are riding through Granville on their way to the finish line. These Riders have committed to ride 35 to 200 miles to raise money for cancer research at Ohio State.

As Ride Weekend gets closer, you will be contacted with all the details you need to know. Thank you in advance for your support of this event that ultimately will help bring us closer to a cancer-free world.

Sincerely,

Raphael E. Pollock, MD, PhD, FACS
Director
The Ohio State University
Comprehensive Cancer Center		   William B. Farrar, MD
Chief Executive Officer
James Cancer Hospital and
Solove Research Institute

Team Buckeye Town Hall

You’re invited to join Team Buckeye for an informative virtual town hall where we’ll give:

  • an overview of what to expect for Pelotonia 2021,
  • share resources for fundraising and training, and
  • answer any questions you may have about all things Team Buckeye.

We hope you’ll join us on either June 2 from 2-3 p.m. or June 3 from 3:30-4:30 p.m.

All attendees will get $20 deposited into their fundraising account for participating, and five people will get an additional $25 for correctly answering trivia questions during the sessions.

Click the button below to register. A Zoom link will be sent to you prior to your chosen town hall date.
Register here

 

2nd Annual Silent Auction – July 11-20

We need to start advertising for our Silent Auction now and build a frenzy for bidders this year.

To do that, we need your help and your willingness to post on social media, use in your emails, and whatever other way you have available to market this event. Below find some banners you can use. Please also add one to your OSU signature line. If you have a problem downloading, please let Teresa know and she will email your favorite to you.

We also need your items/services for sale. The items/services can be new, used, created, donated, baked, made, and of any genre.

Take a look at our silent auction site; you only need to send a picture, brief description, and estimated value to osupiio@osumc.edu and Teresa will post it to the site. The more items we have and the sooner we have them, the more excitement we can generate.  This will help you reach your fundraising goal as you will receive 70% of the sale price of each item of yours that sells. The remaining 30% will be pulled with everyone else’s and split evenly between everyone who participates.

Be creative!        Ask your family and friends to donate items!       Tell everyone about the auction!       Post about the auction!

Thank you.

Welcome Everyone!

Hello Oh!IO PeDa1ers!

Zihai and I are so happy to have you on our peloton. We are looking forward to the upcoming weeks and events with you. It dawned on me today that you may not know who all is currently on our peloton. I want us to be a team, support each other, encourage each other and have fun together.

So, Zihai and I want to welcome each and every one of you:

RIDERS (14):                   VOLUNTEERS (9):                      CHALLENGERS (11):

Dongjun Chung                Teresa Kutcher                               James Fant

Kevin Weller                     Johanna Schafer                             Kelsi Reynolds

Payton Weltge                  Zheng Hong Lee                              Mohamed Yusuf

Jamie Hamon                   Yuzhou Chang                                  Maria Velegraki

Feng Hong                         Gang Xin                                           Tamra Brooks

Bei Liu                                Soo Ngoi                                            Komal Das

Zihai Li                               Vidhya Karivedu                              Qin Ma

Anna Vilgelm                     Megan Hill                                         Brian Searle

Mark Rubinstein              Tong Xiao                                          Xiaopei Huang

Hakan Cam                                                                                     Jonathan Butchar

Bill Wu                                                                                             Donna Bucci

Chelsea Bolyard

Jenny Wang

Karthik Chakravarthy

Getting Ready to Fundraise as a Peloton!

Hello all.

It’s time to start thinking about our 2nd Annual Silent Auction that will happen in July.

July 11th @ 8 am – July 20th @ 3 pm

32auctions.com/OHIOPeDa1ers2

What we need from you are items or services to sell in the silent auction. Last year we had items such as handcrafted pens, Korean bookmarks/lettercard, Christmas gift wrapping, Cardiff S1 skates, artwork, and baked goods or homemade bone broth. We need your help to make this event successful.

Send a picture and brief description with the estimated value of your items to OSUPIIO@osumc.edu no later than Friday, June 25th

I will be sending out Marketing items for you to talk up, post on social media and post physically soon.

___________

We also would like to have a Science Art Event. However, I need to know if we have enough Science art for the event. Can you please let Teresa know if you are willing to contribute to this event in the next week?

I am also going to be contacting some local restaurants to “host us”. So that we get as many people to eat there that night as possible and anyone who presents our flyer – a percentage of their spending is donated to our peloton!

Would any of you participate in a “BRT Window decorating contest” if I received permission to do so?

Please comment on this post with any other ideas or thoughts.

 

 

 

Check up…..

 

Time to do a quick check up.

How are you doing? How are you REALLY doing? I hope you will take a moment and either email me (teresa.kutcher@osumc.edu) or comment on this post and let me know how you are doing. I want to help in any way possible!

The Pushbike Song

I know you may already be tired of these updates as we often look at the Pelotonia event as just another thing to do on our plate.

But what if we were to look at it as an integral part of our job and our person? I mean, we eat so that we can work, play, and live. What if we treated our peloton activities the same way? It is necessary to work and live and reach our goals. Would we talk about it like we do our food or our exercise? Would we plan it like we do our dinner? Or set aside time for it like we do exercise?  I hope that this is what we all work toward.

For me (Teresa), Pelotonia has become one of the motivators to exercise and eat right – I am a cancer survivor and I am so thankful for the work you do, for the support of our many donors, and I want to be a part of that for others. I am trying to be as intentional in talking about Pelotonia (and the Oh! IO PeDa1ers) as I am in talking about and planning my healthy eating and exercising. If I don’t, it falls by the wayside.

Training for Pelotonia 2021 is not just about riding your bike, or working toward your challenges. It’s about training yourself to make this an integral part of who you are and what you do. This can happen in many ways. For me, it has become part of my daily prayer life as well as part of my exercise routine (I plan to either walk 15 miles or bike 25 miles per week this year (after my doctor clears me from surgery). I talk about this often with family and friends (phone, social media, texts) so that I have accountability to continue to overcome a diagnosis I never wanted to have – cancer. That I never want anyone else to have.

Will you share your WHY with us by commenting on this post?