World Coma Day 2024

We encourage all World Coma Day ambassadors to create a team fundraising campaign, set a goal, and recruit donors. All proceeds go to support the Curing Coma Campaign!

Here’s how you get started!

• Get Registered: Visit and register as a participant and fundraiser. Then create your own crew. As creator, you’ll automatically be set as the captain.

• Make Your Pages: Set up your personal fundraising page. This page is a great space for you to share your personal story and ask others to give in support of you. You’ll want to upload your own personal pictures so people can recognize you on your fundraising page and know they’re donating in the right place. On your personal fundraising page, you have the power to select which widgets (content blocks) to use and where to put them. As the team captain, you get that same power when putting together your team fundraising page. Not as artsy as another member of your crew? Assign your page designer as your co-captain and they’ll be able to put the finishing touches on your team fundraising page!

• Recruit Your Team: Once team creation is out of the way, you need to grow your network of supporters. Using the email feature, send invitations to your friends and family encouraging them to join your team or raise funds on your behalf. Include a link to your individual or team fundraising page.

• Online Fundraising: Use the power of your social media and email address book to direct people to your online fundraising page. These online donations go directly to the nonprofit without you having to handle cash or checks. Remind your friends to select your individual or team page to make sure you’re given credit for soliciting these donations. You can also send out donation appeal emails from your personal fundraising page! Head to the Share Event tab of your fundraising dashboard to get started. Make sure the rest of your team is doing their best to fundraise for the team as well.

• Team Fundraising: Host a team fundraiser to help reach your crew’s goal. You can hold a private fundraising event ahead of your nonprofit’s fundraiser or pool your individual donations together and manually enter cash and check donations to your team in your fundraising dashboard.

• Individual Fundraising: Lastly, contribute to your own goal by soliciting cash and check donations from family and friends. You can manually enter these donations to your team or individual fundraising dashboards. Want to set a good example? Make a donation yourself!

• Email Your Crew: From your fundraising dashboard, you can send out emails to your team encouraging them to fundraise or to attend your crew's mini-events! Keep in contact with your crew to ensure they stay engaged.

• Competition: Individuals and teams can earn badges that show off all your fundraising successes. Ready your cannons and prepare to plunder the top fundraiser badge from other teams. Proudly display your treasures on your team and individual fundraising pages. Anchor yourselves to the top spot by keeping donations coming in.

Don’t forget to revel in your success after the event because no matter where your crew placed, you’ve made a huge difference!

What can we do at our institution to raise awareness?

• Send an announcement email out to your team on March 1
  • With details on local events
  • Link to the WCD webpage and QGIV website
• Team photo + a coma teaching pearl
  • Post to Instagram / Twitter (X) during March 2024
  • List one fact or important teaching pearl about coma that medical or lay persons would find interesting
  • Tag with #WCD2024
• Photo with or of your favorite coma diagnostic tool or machine
  • Upload to Instagram / Twitter (X) during March 2024
  • List why you like it and how it contributes to understanding and curing coma 
  • Tag with #WCD2024
• March Miles Competition
  • During the month of March, the NCS is hosting weekly competitions for the most distance traveled via exercise or sports as a way to build excitement and competition
  • We will be using Strava, which is a social media app for tracking exercise. Download the free app here: https://www.strava.com/mobile to your smart phone. Also connect your fitness tracker watch or device, if you use one.
  • Before March, join the NCS Club: https://www.strava.com/clubs/1193628
  • On March 1, watch out for an email announcement to that the competition has started! If you are part of the Club, your miles will be automatically uploaded to the NCS Leaderboard
  • If you and your colleagues join the Strava club, you can view the leaderboard, even if you have 0 miles or 100 miles! This will be updated each week and the final leaders each week will be recognized on WCD.
  • During March, also consider organizing an informal local 5K run for Coma awareness!
• Actual event day
  • Organize a short lunch symposium around the global WCD content 
  • Teach a non-neurologist class on Coma
  • Dedicate a special RN huddle to Coma education
• Your own World Coma Day idea – tell us what you doin
  • Post to Instagram / Twitter (X), tag with #WCD2024

World Coma Day Graphics

Download the graphics below to accompany any social media posts, emails, banners, or blog posts you post about World Coma Day.

Click here to download our full suite of graphics!