Not that I have deep pockets... But sometimes the fund raisers don't make much sense to me. I had a conversation with the high school girls basketball boosters president about this. We were asked to purchase fan gear. I'm ok with that, but the number of items they wanted us to sell was a bit extreme. So I asked how much of the proceeds goes to the team. I was told 20%. So if I bought a shirt for $20.00, $4.00 went to the team. So I asked if I could just pay $40.00 to cover 10 items instead of selling all 10. That way the team still got the same amount of income from the fund raiser, but I wasn't selling a bunch of things that people really didn't want... Of course, I was accused of being "that dad" and that I really didn't understandNot the first or last time unfortunately...
We had the same conversation at a HS parent meeting with the new coach. I asked the coach what is the end goal for fundraising this year? How much money do you need? I said if you if put it out there, there might be some people that would rather write a check to purchase all or part of what you need. With fundraising through fancloth or selling candy or whatever, it seems that they energy you put into coercing people to buy and the net money back to the team is not worth it. We decided to have a garage sale instead. Who doesn't have crap to get rid of? If you get 10 families selling their stuff, you could make $1000's for the team.
