Paying it Forward

In the spirit of gratitude for their TNT experience, our participants agree to make a pledge to "pay it forward" to the next participant through their own grassroots fundraising efforts. On average our treks cost $1600 for a mini-trek and $2500 for a week-long trek per person. Each participant on a week-long trek agrees to try to raise a minimum of $1200 before and/or within 3 months after their trek, and each participant on a long-weekend mini-trek agrees to try to raise $800. We help participants in setting up a personalized fundraising website (see button below), and brain storming possible event ideas.

******Please note, while we understand there are other fundraising sites available (e.g., Go Fund Me, Facebook), we greatly appreciate that you use the fundraising system we provide as it allows us to easily follow up with donors with a tax-exempt letter, keep track of donations, etc. whereas other systems make this much harder for us to track. In the event that you do use a different fundraising tool or platform, we request that you inform us of this and provide us with some type of receipt or proof of the donation. ******

It cannot be stated enough how important this pledge means to TNT's sustainability!!!

***Due to some misunderstanding and good questions we have received about the pay-it-forward pledge, we wanted to provide some clarifying information. Please note that while we do ask our participants to make this pledge on behalf of a future participant, it is just a pledge and not a binding contractual agreement that holds any form of material consequence. We understand that some people, due to different life circumstances, are unable to fulfill it, either in part or in full. And that's OK. We get it. We just ask that people try their best (just as someone else did before them), whatever that looks like, on a case by case basis. We try to support participants and help them creatively brainstorm different ways to fulfill their pledge, and while we may check in early on to see how it's going, we do stop asking, and realize that it's not in the cards. Maybe it will be sometime in the future. Maybe not. The fulfilled pledge helps cover about half of the cost of one person, and it has been an incredibly helpful way for our organization to sustain what it does. In addition to helping pay for part of a participant's experience, the pledge also helps us get the word out about TNT to others who would have never heard about us before. We are tremendously grateful to everyone for trying and are happy to have a conversation if there are additional questions or concerns. Please call David Victorson at 773-972-2367. Thanks