2023 Battle of the Lights Interest Form

The Joyful Battle of Lights was born from ONE family who contacted our organization about using their light display to collect donations for our organization and has grown into a way to involve light displays all across our area! Our organization, Worthdays, works all year long to spread JOY to those in our local foster care system while also meeting unmet needs and raising awareness. We often refer to our village of supporters as JOYMAKERS! Holiday lights are one of the most pure forms of joy and those who spend the time and resources to provide that joy for strangers are joymakers, too! This is how the idea of the Joyful Battle of Lights was born to use the JOY of holiday lights to raise money so that we can provide joy throughout the year to those impacted by the foster care system. It's an opportunity to join in with other light displays to magnify the joyful impact to even more people in our community! 

Are you are a light fanatic that puts in tireless hours, time and resources to bring joy to friends, family and strangers? Could you get excited about being part of a friendly, joyful battle of lights to raise money for an organization that helps bring joy to kids in foster are throughout the year? 

If so, here are the details: 

- Worthdays will provide you a yard sign (that we will deliver) that has a specific QR code to your family/house's team fundraising page! You will place the sign somewhere in your yard that is most accessible to those looking at your lights. When someone scans your specific yard sign, it will take them to your fundraising page and they can make a donation. Each "team" will "battle" to see who can raise the most money! If you want to participate as a culdesac of a few houses, that will work as well. In those cases, one sign will be provided for the culdesac. If you are a local business that would prefer a tabletop sign for an indoor location, this can be accomodated as well! 

- Worthdays wll provide you graphics specific to your family/house that can be used for social media or website purposes. You can use these graphics to spread the word about your participation in the Joyful Battle of the Lights. 

- Worthdays will provide you with information about how to get your fundraising page started. Everyone can follow along on the website set up for this event to get people excited about giving to our organization! You can share it with friends and family to crowdraise for our organization and help your team do even better! In addition to the QR code, we will provide you the link to the page that can be shared via social media or in an email with friends and family if desired. 

You can check out the 2022 Inaugural Joyful Battle of Lights fundraising page to get an idea of how this works! You can learn more about last year's fundraiser on the front page of the Richmond Times Dispatch last year along with a CBS6 news article. Please check out more information about our 501(c)(3) organization, Worthdays, here. We want you to feel connected to our cause and do not want to distract from those who already use their display to fundraise for other worthy causes! We encourage you to check us out  on Facebook and Instagram

If you are already getting excited just thinking about magnifying the already amazing joyful impact of your light display and want to be part of the joyful battle, please complete the information below and we will be in touch! 

If you have any questions at all, please feel free to be in touch by emailing Caroline Neal at caroline@worthdays.org