1. Sign up/Pick your Primary Cause

Selecting your primary cause at sign up is very important because it cannot be changed. This will be the primary way you are aligned with others. Cure Pals donates 10% of platinum membership fees and proceeds from other products to your primary cause. This is why you can't change your cause you pick at sign up. No worries, once your account is activated you can pick up to 5 total causes to support and align with. And you can change the secondary causes any time you want.

Tip: Do not use a work email to sign up. Most work emails have filters in place, that prevent you from receiving your confirmation email.

2. Sign up/Pick your Membership

Make sure you click on the membership button on the home page to read more about which membership is right for you.

3. Account Activation

After registering your sign up, you must go to your email you used to sign up and click on the email sent from Cure Pals. Click on the verify button to complete activating your account.

4. Create your Avatar

Pick boy or girl, and then name your Avatar. We recommend using your username. Make sure you click on Store button to find more options for your avatar. You must click on items you want to purchase to unlock them for your Avatar. After you have done this, leave the store and now when you click on the different features (Ex:skin), you will see more features you may select.

5. Invite your family/friends

In the main navigation, scroll over Pals. Click on Invite Pals. Now you can select which email service you use, and invite your contacts to join you on Cure Pals. Inviting your friends and family to join you can help raise awareness and support for your cause(s). In our community you will make new pals, but it is more interactive if you have some of your family or friends as pals.

6. Getting Connected

Build your support community with pals and groups. Scroll over pals in the top navigation bar and click on Find pals. You can select what pals you would like to connect with (Ex: causes,location), and then click on their avatar profile picture. Once you are on their profile page, scroll down to middle of page and click on Invite Pal. This is how you send a pal request to connect with them. To find groups, organization or interest groups, scroll over groups in the top navigation bar. Click on organization or interest, and then scroll down the list of groups. Click on the group, and scroll down the page. Click on the Join icon, to join the group.

7. Create your own group

Scroll over groups in the top navigation bar. Click on Create a group. Group pages can be anything of interest (Ex: support, hobby, sports,etc). The first step is to upload your group's profile picture. When on your group page, after you completed set up, click on edit profile. Click on browse, and pick a picture off of your computer. Repeat the same step to upload pictures for your groups image box. For the images, once you are done uploading, there will be a Not Featured/Delete option below each picture. You can pick up to 3 pictures to feature for your pals to see, and the rest of the pictures can be viewed when someone clicks See All. To feature a video, click on Not Featured, and it will change to Featured. To upload videos, repeat the above steps. Instead of browsing from your computer, you just copy/paste the url address from youtube. To feature the videos, up to 3, repeat the above steps.

1. Sign up/Account Activation

Pick Organization during the sign up process. After registering, go to your email and open the Cure Pals email. Click on verify to activate your account.

2. Upload your Profile Picture

Click on Edit next to the profile picture. Click browse, and select your organization's logo or picture from your computer.

3. Upload Images/Videos

Click on Edit next to images or videos. For images click browse, and select which pictures you want to share with your pals. For videos, visit youtube and copy the url address and paste it in the url box. For pictures/videos, you have the option to feature up to 3 of each on your group page. Underneath each picture or video is Not Featured/Delete option. To feature simply click on Not Featured and it will change to Featured. Your pals can view all of your pictures/videos aside from the 3 you feature, by selecting See All.

4. Build your support community

Reaching a new demographic on Cure Pals is a great way to connect and find new supporters of your mission. To help build your support network faster, invite supporters from email lists and other social media to join you on Cure Pals.

5. Newsflash/Bulletin Board/Blogs

Newsflash is a status update you might not want to get lost in your bulletin board news feed. It could be an event, mission statement,etc. Bulletin Board is a mass messaging system so you don't have to send emails to every pal. Once you post on the bulletin board, it is updated to all of your pal supporter's personal bulletin boards. Blogs on Cure Pals are a great way to keep your pals following your organization's journey. People are more likely to volunteer or donate, if they feel more connected with an organization.

6. Donations

If you are a 501(c)(3), you can use the donation feature to raise more funding for you organization. Click My Account on your group profile page, and go to the donation box. Copy the url from your organization's website donation page, and paste it in the url box. Now when pals click on donate, they are automatically directed to your organization website donation page. We do not handle these transactions.

7. Forums

Interacting on the forums is a great way to connect with people, and help educate them on your cause and mission. Being more helpful interacting with the community typically results in gaining more vision and support.