Modern Fundraising
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Believe I read here where someone had raffled a donated yeti cooler with good returns. Also my nephew team is currently doing a 5 gun raffle with limited ticket sales. I believe it should do very well.
Gift card raffle. If you begin selling early Aug and sell until the last Sunday before Black Friday you should see a nice return. Plus who doesn't want a chance at winning some gift cards. The key to this is have parents solicit local business for donated gift cards. Also, Super Bowl Squares, March Madness Bracket, Quarter Auction, Bingos, Beef and Beer. Every Fundraiser is a money maker if parents are willing to work a 2nd job at fundraising.
SnapRaise, raffles, football squares, golf tournaments, etc.
Our team just hosted a tournament. It's a bit of work, but if you go around to local supermarkets they usually will give you donations (we got a bunch of gift cards) that you can use to get supplies. We contacted hot dog companies and we got 300-400 hot dogs for $40. Tastycake donated like 50 boxes of cakes. Pepsi and Coke donated sodas and water. We spent very little out of pocket and we pulled somewhere between $2000-3000 in food concessions and $1000 in tournament T-Shirt sales. We could have made more $$ but the food and t-shirts sold out.
We also made a team banner and had local business give donations to have their name added to it. That pulled in around $2000.
The previous year we did a Coach bag bingo and had about 20 different baskets at the event for a Chinese auction. That event alone made $4000+.
If you want to go big, you could do a cow-chip bingo or golf ball drop that makes $10,000 but you need to sell 1,000 tickets at $20 a pop. So a team of 12 would have to sell about 80 tickets a kid or you could go in with another team in your organization and split the proceeds.
Weekly football pick em pools. My DD's soccer team did that and we made $2000+ for the season. We also did a suicide football pool and superbowl block pools. DD's soccer team also did a guest bartender night at a local bar where the parents helped the bartender, had a Chinese auction and we got the tips from the night. The bar asked us to come back because they said it was their busiest night of the year. That pulled in $1500.
We also made a team banner and had local business give donations to have their name added to it. That pulled in around $2000.
The previous year we did a Coach bag bingo and had about 20 different baskets at the event for a Chinese auction. That event alone made $4000+.
If you want to go big, you could do a cow-chip bingo or golf ball drop that makes $10,000 but you need to sell 1,000 tickets at $20 a pop. So a team of 12 would have to sell about 80 tickets a kid or you could go in with another team in your organization and split the proceeds.
Weekly football pick em pools. My DD's soccer team did that and we made $2000+ for the season. We also did a suicide football pool and superbowl block pools. DD's soccer team also did a guest bartender night at a local bar where the parents helped the bartender, had a Chinese auction and we got the tips from the night. The bar asked us to come back because they said it was their busiest night of the year. That pulled in $1500.
Our best success has been coach/designer bag bingos. Each kid is responsible to secure $100 cash donation (I have had girls parents write $100 check, girls who got a business to sponsor them or girl who gert $10 from 10 people). We hit the outlet store up grab the purses, Tickets run anywhere is this area $25-$35 each person (your ticket gets you however many rounds of Bingo you decide on - typically we see 12 rounds and than 3-4 special rounds -specials are typically a bigger bag or a bag wallet combo). Its a BYOB and food event, your only OOP cost are the ticket printing and bingo supplies (we always sell extra bingo cards and dabbers) Last one we had we raised about $6,000. Not bad for limited work!
If you have a major league in your area, call them.
Have your speal ready.
Have your speal ready.
The key to the success of any fundraiser is getting the players and parents involved. It has been my experience over the years that @ 20% of the parents would rather just stroke a check and @ 20% will not participate regardless. That leaves you with 60% of the families doing 100% of the work. Over the years we switched to a model where players dues were set and we offered some fundraising opportunities for families that wanted to participate. We never had much luck with fundraisers that went into the general fund.
I am in the write a check group,trick is to get out of the immediate circle. Relatives do not want any more cookies or arts and crafts.
