FAQ

We strongly recommend you ride your own ride, meaning take it at your own pace. And, be sure to check out our series of safety videos. Click here to watch them. 

Yes, we will have coffee this time, as well as bottled water available.  

Our riders are invited to stop at the Pit Stop for refreshments. The Pit Stop will be located at Thousand Trails Pio Pico.

We will have tickets available for purchase. You can purchase 5 for $20 or 1 for $5 at Alzheimer's San Diego and AleSmith. 

Of course, everyone is welcome! Please join us at the After Party where there will be great food, music, and tickets for a chance to win door prizes. This is a family-friendly event, and dogs are allowed at AleSmith. 

Please contact our Rides4ALZ hotline at 858.966.3319 or email at Rides4ALZ@alzsd.org.

Click here to see our 2023 sponsorship packet. 

Yes. You can make a donation to a rider on a team or you can make a general team donation.

All donations should be mailed to:
Alzheimer's San Diego
3635 Ruffin Rd Suite 300
San Diego, CA 92123.

Please make all checks payable to: Alzheimer's San Diego.
In addition, please make sure that in the memo it says  who the donations should be credited to.

Click on the home page and begin typing the first or last name. Your options will display as you type.

Any donation made online should post immediately. If an online donation does not post within 5 minutes, please contact us at 858.966.3319 or Rides4ALZ@alzsd.org.

If you check this checkbox, you will be charged the amount indicated next to the checkbox. This amount will also be visible to the nonprofit. However, on the fundraising page, your initial donation amount will be displayed.

All monetary donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.

Any donor who mailed their donation and provided an address will receive a receipt via mail once the donation has been processed. If you made your donation in installments, you will receive a receipt each time a monthly payment is processed.

Yes, anyone who donates online, regardless of the amount, will receive a receipt via email.

A Tax ID number identifies Alzheimer's San Diego as a 501(c)(3) non-profit Organization. The Alzheimer's San Diego Tax ID number is 47-5534541

When you make a donation online, you can designate what you want to appear as your recognition name on the participant's Honor Roll. This may be your name, or it could be something such as "From the whole Wolf family" or "in memory of Aunt Cathy."

If a donation check has been written out to you personally, you may endorse the back of the check and mail it in with a completed donation form to Alzheimer's San Diego.

It is not a good idea to send a cash donation in the mail. You may drop off the cash at Alzheimer's San Diego along with your information or you can deposit the cash into your checking account and send a personal check from your account.

Any donation made online should post immediately. If your donation does not post within 5 minutes, please contact us at 858.966.3319 or Rides4ALZ@alzsd.org.

You can't enter a check online. What you can do is enter a check as a pledge. This can be done in the fundraising section of your headquarters page. The status of the check will be pending until the check is received by Alzheimer's San Diego.

A Tax ID number identifies Alzheimer's San Diego as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Many donors will request this number to validate their donation as tax-deductible. The Alzheimer's San Diego Tax ID number is 47-5534541.

As your donors make a contribution, they have the option of whether or not they want to appear in the Honor Roll.

Log in with your email and password to visit your headquarters page. Select My Fundraising Report on the left side. You will then find a list of all of your donors as well as a list of all donors to your team .

To easily send thank-you emails to donors, follow these steps:

1. Log in to your fundraiser dashboard by clicking the "My HQ" link in the top right
2. Click "My Fundraising Report" in the left sidebar
3. Locate the donor/donation you'd like to thank, and click "Send Email" (If the donor didn't submit their email address, this option is unavailable.)
4. Type the message in the pop-up window, and click "Send Email"

You are receiving these emails because we would like to keep you updated on your fundraising efforts. If you wish to stop receiving these updates, please login to your headquarters and edit your account preferences.

A personal URL is a shortened link to your team or personal page that you can send to friends and family in emails. A personal URL will look like this https://alzsd.rallybound.org/ride4alz2023/ben.

When a donor makes a donation online, s/he can enter text to appear on the fundraising honor roll. This may be the donor's name, or it could be something like "From the whole Wolf family" or "In Memory of Aunt Cathy".