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Post by WTR on Apr 25, 2006 11:42:10 GMT -6
What has been some of your better fundraisers?
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Post by superpower on Apr 25, 2006 11:54:22 GMT -6
We did a community service project where the kids sent out letters to family and friends asking for sponsorships. We made about $4000 last fall. We worked through a group called Affinity Funding Group. The guy's name is Craig Haw. He is excellent to work with.
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Post by knighter on Apr 25, 2006 13:00:20 GMT -6
1- Yardline sales
2- Varsity Gold Cards
3- Springtime window washing
4- Athlete Auction
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Post by Coach Huey on Apr 25, 2006 14:07:01 GMT -6
varsity gold, easy, lucrative
check out mudslinger shades. nice product to help promote school spirit. easy to sell -- everyone wears sunglasses. simple little project that can get the whole community involved -- i.e. have local stores or businesses push them for you, too.
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Post by coachdawhip on Apr 25, 2006 14:19:07 GMT -6
Don't forget about Terrible towels!
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Post by rathernot on Apr 25, 2006 16:19:28 GMT -6
What is this?
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Post by coachsml7 on Apr 26, 2006 6:36:02 GMT -6
We do a golf outing with sponsorships and all and raise about 10,000 dollars on it. You need alot of parental involvement.
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Post by sls on Apr 26, 2006 7:25:59 GMT -6
Also curious about yardline sales?
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Post by fbcoach33 on Apr 26, 2006 8:17:18 GMT -6
We do a lift a thon, kids get sponsers and then they max out, its pure profit, Honestly a bit of a pain in the butt getting the money collected but we raise about 1,000 for every ten kids we have on a given year.
Also we sell Football T shirts in season, pretty easy as well, hand out order forms, people prepay, we get the shirts out, not to much work as a whole.
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Post by aeder on Apr 26, 2006 11:16:33 GMT -6
I've been trying to figure out how to host a Texas Hold 'Em Tourney. I think you have to turn the chips into raffle tickets, then make sure the chip leader actually gets his number called.
I have seen them raise money for cancer, just need to figure out the legalities for a school sponsored event work.
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Post by sls on Apr 26, 2006 12:23:56 GMT -6
Hold em tourney's have become big at the local Legion Post. They do theirs like this, $100.00 buy, $90 goes to prizes, $10 to food and the post. They try to have 100 players. Our boosters have been talking to them about having one with $50 to prizes, 10 to post and food, and 40 to boosters. We think it would be great, but super is kind of against it.
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Post by 5point0shelby on Apr 26, 2006 13:23:37 GMT -6
We have a Golf tournament and the Cow Patty Drop.
Cow Patty is on May 6th. Kinda like a Carnival with a bull in a square pen. Parents sell squares in the pen and if the bull does his business in your square you win $2000. There are also drawings and a silent auction.
Pretty cool and raises a lot of money.
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Post by groundchuck on Apr 26, 2006 13:29:01 GMT -6
Lift-a-thon was really good. 100% profit since we never had to pay an outside company or buy "x" number of discount cards. I think the discount cards a really good though if you can sell enough of them.
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Post by bulldog on Apr 26, 2006 15:04:30 GMT -6
Our best fundraiser is a schedule-poster. We have the kids sell business card-sized ads to businesses in the community for about $100 per ad (we could probably charge $150 and still fill the poster). I do the graphic design and layout the football team's schedule, some pictures and the ads. I only feature the seniors on the poster - both a group shot and individual photos. I can fit about 75 ads on a 24"x36" poster, so we gross $7500. It costs about $1200 to have 1000 posters printed. We send about 5 posters back to each business and expect them to display the poster in their business. The kids and other students get the rest of the posters. The great thing is that the kids do all the leg work and it is a very easy fundraiser to administer. And unlike if we used a business who sells schedule posters, we keep 100% of the proceeds - and we have sold out the ads each year. If anyone wants to see a sample poster or get more information, just let me know.
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Post by coachdawhip on Apr 26, 2006 22:21:58 GMT -6
We sell the mugs.
The best fundraiser that we have run is Christmas tree sales. All trees are pre-ordered and we have an order form as a page in our football program. Each player is asked to sell 3 trees; one for their own home, one for a relative and one for someone else. I've built in incentives such as any player who sells five trees gets his spirit pack for free, sell seven trees and get a set of team sweats free, etc. We make a profit of $20.00 on each tree and everything is sold as a pre-order. If someone doesn't like their tree then we refund their money. All left over trees are then sold to a local Christmas Tree lot, so we don't lose any money. Sometimes we even donate a couple of trees to those less fortunate or to a local charity.
Do a Golf Tournament and a silent auction and dinner afterwards. Call your local pro teams and businesses and college schools and ask for donations
This is from other posts
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Post by coachnichols on Apr 28, 2006 12:39:00 GMT -6
Posted by superpower on Apr 25, 2006, 12:54pm
We did a community service project where the kids sent out letters to family and friends asking for sponsorships. We made about $4000 last fall. We worked through a group called Affinity Funding Group. The guy's name is Craig Haw. He is excellent to work with.
Was it just sponsorship the team, the individual? What did the individual putting up the money get in return? Heach Coach at Saddleback College in California talked about something similar (at least it sounds similar), where they just sent a letter asking for money. Depends on the community, but it could work. What do you think?
Oh, and what are the Mudslinger shades? Is there a website?
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Post by mudslinger on Apr 28, 2006 13:05:00 GMT -6
At Mudslinger Shades we make sunglasses in your school colors and put your school name and mascot on the temple area......mudslingershades.com is where you can see pics,or just click on my banner at the bottom of any page.......some of the coaches on this site have seen them and/or ordered some......they can tell you of the quality of the glasses............if you order we also make a donation to this site on your schools behalf to help Coach Huey keep this site improving......if anyone has any questions feel free to call or email.......you can also send a personal message on this site..........Thanks again,  Mudslinger |
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Post by Coach Huey on May 7, 2006 21:41:08 GMT -6
i know of 2 teams that have used this... click here |
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Post by knighter on May 8, 2006 5:12:34 GMT -6
yardline sales are simple
charge whatever you want (we charge 30 bucks I think) and sell each yardline from 1 to 1. At the end of each quarter the position of the ball dictates who wins the 100 bucks. This is for home games only, and typically we sell every yard line very early (at the pre-season scrimmage). So if the ball is on the North 48 at the end of the first quarter,(our field runs north south) and Joe Smith bought the north 48, Joe wins 100 dollars. We do this at the end of the first quarter, half, and at end of 3rd quarter. So in a typical season (5 home games) we give away 1500 bucks. We raise around 600-700 dollars a year.
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Post by dacoachmo on May 12, 2006 20:37:22 GMT -6
what about wristbands? any websites???
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Post by mudslinger on May 13, 2006 18:42:15 GMT -6
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Post by 5point0shelby on May 15, 2006 11:04:46 GMT -6
We have a Golf tournament and the Cow Patty Drop. Cow Patty is on May 6th. Kinda like a Carnival with a bull in a square pen. Parents sell squares in the pen and if the bull does his business in your square you win $2000. There are also drawings and a silent auction. Pretty cool and raises a lot of money. Will be on Texas Prep Xtra Monday May 15th at 6:30 PM. I know that doesn't help you out of state guys. |
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Post by sinned68 on May 15, 2006 13:07:55 GMT -6
What about soliciting ads for the Game Day Program?
Does anyone have information on what they use (forms, levels of donations, suggested prices, etc.)
Our booster club is gone and I am seeking information.
Thanks
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Post by coachcb on May 15, 2006 19:14:21 GMT -6
Have midget death matches and sell tickets- a concession stand outside the ring could make some money.
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Post by ray on May 18, 2006 7:55:59 GMT -6
Host the Regional or State Power Lifting Meet
Golf Tournament
3rd - 9th grade football camps
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