FAQ

To join a team, click on "Join a Team" in the Participant Centre's main menu. Next, search for the team you’d like to join and click “Join”. Once you’ve clicked on the team you’d like to join, you’ll be taken to their Team Page.

Please note: Teams with a symbol beside their name are invitation-only and require a password.

Once you’ve reached a fundraising milestone, your incentive reward will be mailed to the address you provided when you registered.

You earn incentives when you reach a pre-determined fundraising milestone. These milestones are based on the amount you’ve raised on your fundraising page. For more information, please visit our Incentives page.

The Participant Centre is your one-stop-shop for fundraising, and you can use the Email Centre to send thank-you and follow-up emails. The Email Centre makes your campaign more successful by giving you easy access to email templates for staying in touch with your existing donors, sponsors, and teammates.

Donors who make their donation online with a valid email address will receive a tax receipt via email immediately (they may need to check their junk folder if they don’t receive it). Donors who mail in a donation will receive their receipt by email if they give a valid email address, and if they don’t provide an email address, they’ll receive their tax receipt by mail.

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When you register as an individual, you’re working towards hitting your own personal fundraising goal. When you register as a team, you’ll work together with your teammates to hit your shared team goal.

The funds raised through a Quest fundraiser directly support over 1,600 researchers and scientists at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre. To see how donations like yours support breakthroughs in cancer research and care, please read our 2024 – 2025 Impact Report.

The Participant Centre is the password-protected area of the website that’s available to you once you register. Once you’ve signed up, you can log in with your username and password to access the helpful tools that will help you monitor your donations, set up or edit your Personal Page, send emails to potential donors or teammates, and more!

Here’s a quick summary of you’ll find in the Participant Centre:
Personal Page
Your Personal Page is the place where you tell your story to potential donors, appeal to sponsors, and show your fundraising progress. You can update your page with photos and videos to tell people about your D.I.Y. Fundraising and let them know why you’re participating.

Email Centre
In the Email Centre you’ll find various email templates you can customize (or you can create your own) to help support your fundraising efforts.

Edit Profile
The Edit Profile/Team Profile section is where you’ll find (and make changes to) your user information, including your ID, password, contact information and fundraising goal.

Donation History
Your Donation History allows you to keep your campaign on track by monitoring the funds you’ve raised, viewing donation details, re-issuing Tax Receipts and even adjusting your fundraising goal.

The Address Book
The Address Book allows you to add or import contacts from other email programs and edit contact information plus send, monitor, and track responses to your fundraising efforts.

Follow-Ups
The Follow-Ups section helps you track and monitor your campaign communications with handy reminders that let you know who has visited your Personal/Team page, who has donated, who you need to send a “Thank You” email to, and much more.

Donating online is easy with our secure online credit card process. Click the "Donate" button at the top of this page and select the participant or team you’d like to support. Then choose a donation amount and follow the instructions. Online donors will receive a tax receipt via email.

There are no registration fees and no fundraising minimums but you can earn rewards as you fundraise by hitting different fundraising milestones along the way.