GREEN COMMUTE CHALLENGE
Register & Manage a Team

Register a team

If your organization wants to participate in the Green Commute, it must first be registered with RideShare Connection. The person who enrolls the organization must be willing to be the employer administrator (i.e., the person who has access to the tracking reports, etc.). Consider asking someone in your human resources office to register the organization.

Managed a team before? Instructions for returning employers (pdf)

1. Log in to your RideShare Connection account.
   
   
2. On the Employer Administration page, click "Team Management" under the Commute Challenge heading.
   
   
3. Then click “Create Team.” This is where you enter your team name, slogan and upload a photo or company logo.
   
   
4. Click "save."
   
   
5. Once your company is enrolled, look for the "Team Management" button on the administration page. The "Commute Challenge" button on the navigation bar will show you your team results and the top 10 teams.
   

Build your team

• Click on the "Team Management" button to invite employees already registered on the RideShare Connection to join your team.
  
  
• You can also urge other employees to create an account in RideShare Connection and enroll themselves on the team.
  
  Send an e-mail invitation to employees (last year's email)
  Request graphics to post on your intranet
  Download or request printed posters (11" x 17")

To qualify for team awards, employers may not add or delete team members after July 31, 2012.

Personalize the team

As part of Commute Challenge features, you can personalize the following for your team:

• upload photos that will appear on members’ My Page
• create a team name and slogan
• modify text as needed during the contest

Contest updates

Each Friday afternoon, a RideShare staff member will e-mail a weekly update to all employer administrators for the Green Commute Challenge. This update will include a list of weekly prize winners, a tally of team points in each size category, a summary of miles and emissions reduced to date, and an educational factoid related to alternative transportation and air quality.

We encourage you to relay this information to your employees to keep them engaged in the contest. As an alternative, we would be happy to email the weekly update directly to your team members.

The Green Commute Challenge results page and the RideShare Facebook page will also be updated on a weekly basis.

Recognition

Employers will be recognized for their participation in the Green Commute Challenge in media releases and on our website. Team point totals will be listed online.

Throughout the challenge, the top 10 teams will be listed on each person's Commute Challenge page. The top 10 will be determined by the ratio of the number of points to the number of team members.

Have questions? Email us or call 816/842-7433.

OUR IMPACT

In 2011, the Green Commute Challenge's 43 employer teams and 1,794 participants saved:

• 688,528 miles of driving
• 636,841 pounds of emissions
• $372,494 in driving costs

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