If the event is for charity, have your family walk through your neighborhood to collect pledges.

General Clark's finances were helped by supporters who collected financial pledges as they urged him to run.

Westdale students collect pledges in the weeks before the run, then they may choose to walk, jog, or run through Westdale Village.

Students collect pledges before the run, then they may walk, jog, or run around the soccer field.

Participants obtain fixed donations from supporters or collect pledges based on the number of runs skied.

Planned after the stock market plunge of 1987, the museum had difficulty collecting pledges from some major benefactors, he said.

Participating students are responsible for collecting pledges from the community.

Thirty-four young people collected pledges totaling $3,500, $1,000 of which was earmarked for the family of Stanley Ferris, 36.

So far, the group said, it had collected pledges of more than $10,000.

The walk has the same starting line as the race (Endicott Estate) and participants collect pledges for the cancer institute.