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Post by coachirish on Dec 15, 2015 16:21:19 GMT -6
One of our rival coaches every spring has his players send out letters to 20 people asking them to donate 20 bucks to his football program. He has like 60 players and have had some real success with this. Anybody do anything similar to this. My school is in a more rural, poorer area so I've considered 10 from 10 but hey go big or go home right?
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Post by coachbdud on Dec 15, 2015 17:43:20 GMT -6
we do something with eteamsponsor.com/a local coach/friend started the company a few years ago and many schools in our area use it with pretty good success its like the old school begger letter but they send it out through people's emails and you can share the link to your school page all over twitter/facebook they take a portion of the money, but they do all the work, even come in and have a guy who shows the kids how to set it up he came in, i had our teams meet in the computer lab (freshman first, JV came 30 minutes later, Varsity came 30 minutes after that) and got their accounts all set up, and kids started adding emails they had collected from their parents, and copying pasting the link all over social media all i had to do was put our roster in hudl ... which we do any way (they use the roster export to get the player's name and email info to create their account) we made a little over 3k off of it i believe and it was not much work |
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Post by coachwillby on Dec 15, 2015 18:52:19 GMT -6
We do it. Have had great success. Kids focus on out of town relatives.
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Post by coachirish on Dec 15, 2015 19:04:08 GMT -6
We do it. Have had great success. Kids focus on out of town relatives. [br Do you have a template or specific letter that the players use? I would love to see it. |
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Post by ahall005 on Dec 15, 2015 19:14:48 GMT -6
In college we did a walk/ run and every player had to get 10 people( could be 20 though) to donate per lap. see how many laps the guys get in an hour and collect the money. similar idea but you might get more than 20 per person... but you might get less
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Post by coachwoodall on Dec 15, 2015 19:19:19 GMT -6
It's the classic political fund raiser mass mailing.
You get a list people to mass mail(email)
You flood them with mail
You keep a list of those reply (send money)
Then keep those on a 'will send $' list
Rinse and repeat next year, but with an established 'will send $' list included to start the gig
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Post by bigm0073 on Dec 15, 2015 20:08:20 GMT -6
we do something with eteamsponsor.com/a local coach/friend started the company a few years ago and many schools in our area use it with pretty good success its like the old school begger letter but they send it out through people's emails and you can share the link to your school page all over twitter/facebook they take a portion of the money, but they do all the work, even come in and have a guy who shows the kids how to set it up he came in, i had our teams meet in the computer lab (freshman first, JV came 30 minutes later, Varsity came 30 minutes after that) and got their accounts all set up, and kids started adding emails they had collected from their parents, and copying pasting the link all over social media all i had to do was put our roster in hudl ... which we do any way (they use the roster export to get the player's name and email info to create their account) we made a little over 3k off of it i believe and it was not much work We used E team sponsor as well this fall.. We cleared around $7,000.00 dollars. Well worth it considering we as coaches did very little... |
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Post by peacock1915 on Dec 15, 2015 20:26:37 GMT -6
Ourfund.us
Snap-raise.com
These are two I have used in the past but same general idea as above. They keep 20-30% but send out emails on your behalf. We have raised around 4-5K a year the last 3-4 years with very little work on my part.
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Post by John Knight on Dec 16, 2015 8:22:41 GMT -6
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Post by John Knight on Dec 16, 2015 8:23:35 GMT -6
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Post by John Knight on Dec 16, 2015 8:33:47 GMT -6
I am not a big fan of just gimme $20
Give them something for their $$$
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Post by hsrose on Dec 16, 2015 9:59:18 GMT -6
We did the HUDL email campaign last year. Worked very well for it being the first time. Decide to start the campaign, get it going with HUDL. Coach calls a number and answers some questions, they pull some team highlight videos, add the coach voiceover on the video. That's the 'hook', not the letter writing, but what the coach says when he answers the questions. Players on the roster enter email addresses (they suggest 10, I went with 15), they send a message to the folks, directing them to the link with the team site and the video. They take the donations via credit card and keep 4% to handle the credit card processing. Rest is sent by check when the campaign is over.
Beg-A-Thons - That is essentially what the email and letter campaigns are, simply asking for donations. I've done letters, flyers, it's all the same. This year we will be linking community service, 1.5 hours per player, to our HUDL campaign. Given that we have probably 60 players that will be 90 hours of community service. Last year we were lucky to get things going. This year we know how this works and the players are better able to more fully participate so we will be doing cleanup or something as a payback for the donations.
Discount cards - Easy to do, did them ourselves the past few years. Can buy 1100 cards (1000 to sell, 100 for graft/greed/payoffs to admin, vendors and such) for about $700 all up, shipping and design and everything, sell them for $10. Design is easy to do. Our colors are purple and gold so we alternate the card front with those colors. Categorize the target vendors by area and market - younger, middle (young adults, new parents), and older (empty nesters) to identify target vendors, what vendor in which area will be attractive to that market segment. We have 3 primary commercial areas over 35 miles so we have 3 distinct geographic areas to approach vendors. Players have to sell 10. When you use a card company they typically take a % from you but also charge the vendors to be on the cards. We don't charge them and instead use it as 'you get 1,000 possible impressions' of getting their name out and about. Made $5,500 last year in a smaller, rural area in the central CA foothills.
We also worked the local 4th of July fireworks, doing parking and such, got $1,000 for that. Also did the Grape Stomp where the players would stage the barrels of grapes for the competitions. Lots of fund and got $900 for that.
4 events, $11,500, at a school of 650 with 62 kids in the full program.
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Post by coachirish on Dec 16, 2015 11:08:42 GMT -6
Ourfund.us Snap-raise.com These are two I have used in the past but same general idea as above. They keep 20-30% but send out emails on your behalf. We have raised around 4-5K a year the last 3-4 years with very little work on my part. Which one did you like better? I went to both sites. What kind of cut do they take? |
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Post by peacock1915 on Dec 16, 2015 15:10:40 GMT -6
I liked snap better. They came out filmed a video that was put on and the kids can enter emails in right from there phones, but they offer rewards for money raised and we have yet to get them and it has been several months.
Our fund was s little more generic in that I just talked to a guy on the phone he set stuff up and the I made sure kids put in emails.
We raised a little more money this year with snap but a better job was done by my freshman team than in years past.
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Post by mariner42 on Dec 16, 2015 15:56:30 GMT -6
We used Snap the last few years and have raised a pretty silly amount of money from it with minimal work.
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Post by canesfan on Dec 16, 2015 19:27:48 GMT -6
Very easy fundraiser:
Get a local grocery store to allow your players to Carryout groceries.
Tips go towards the team.
A team in our area (in a relatively decent sized city/great program raised something like $8-10k in one day like this.
Were in a small city (2,000), with a low SES (one of the poorest communities in the state) and little program history and raised $1,500 in a day. Local grocery store matched $1K too.
Easy to do. Lots of fun. If your city is bigger, you could easily make $5k or so.
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Post by natenator on Dec 16, 2015 19:38:43 GMT -6
Very easy fundraiser: Get a local grocery store to allow your players to Carryout groceries. Tips go towards the team. A team in our area (in a relatively decent sized city/great program raised something like $8-10k in one day like this. Were in a small city (2,000), with a low SES (one of the poorest communities in the state) and little program history and raised $1,500 in a day. Local grocery store matched $1K too. Easy to do. Lots of fun. If your city is bigger, you could easily make $5k or so. Tips for carrying groceries? Is that really something that happens? Never heard of you seen this in Canada |
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Post by coachfloyd on Dec 16, 2015 19:46:05 GMT -6
Never heard of you seen this in Canada Yoda? |
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Post by canesfan on Dec 16, 2015 19:49:49 GMT -6
Very easy fundraiser: Get a local grocery store to allow your players to Carryout groceries. Tips go towards the team. A team in our area (in a relatively decent sized city/great program raised something like $8-10k in one day like this. Were in a small city (2,000), with a low SES (one of the poorest communities in the state) and little program history and raised $1,500 in a day. Local grocery store matched $1K too. Easy to do. Lots of fun. If your city is bigger, you could easily make $5k or so. Tips for carrying groceries? Is that really something that happens? Never heard of you seen this in Canada Happens here. But that Kentucky. Southerners are a kinder folk. |
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Post by Chris Clement on Dec 16, 2015 19:51:30 GMT -6
$400 for free would be a life-changing sum of money for most Canadian high schools.
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Post by coachplaa on Dec 16, 2015 23:43:52 GMT -6
Hudl Campaign! Made 8k last year with minimal effort. They only take 3% for processing fees. You keep 97%!
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Post by PIGSKIN11 on Dec 17, 2015 0:34:21 GMT -6
Hudl Campaign! Made 8k last year with minimal effort. They only take 3% for processing fees. You keep 97%! Rather do Campaign or a lift-a-thon? |
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Post by coachplaa on Dec 17, 2015 10:52:34 GMT -6
Hudl Campaign sends you a check when you are done. No loose change or bills to collect. Can't beat the 97%. Its so simple that you might as well do BOTH the Campaign and the Lift-A-Thon.
They used to keep 30% like some of the other fundraising companies out there, but they went to 3% because as I understand it they didn't want to be in the fundraising business, but they wanted to give coaches a platform to raise the money to pay for their film service.
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Post by coachbdud on Dec 17, 2015 11:50:08 GMT -6
Hudl Campaign! Made 8k last year with minimal effort. They only take 3% for processing fees. You keep 97%! definitely going to look into this we need all the fundraising we can get our usual biggest fundraiser (my team camp) might get the axe from our section so we need a new way to replace that money |
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Post by mariner42 on Dec 17, 2015 12:35:27 GMT -6
Hudl Campaign! Made 8k last year with minimal effort. They only take 3% for processing fees. You keep 97%! definitely going to look into this we need all the fundraising we can get our usual biggest fundraiser (my team camp) might get the axe from our section so we need a new way to replace that money Is that an NCS issue only? We do team camps that line up with the CIF rules on contact, etc. |
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Post by coachwillby on Dec 17, 2015 14:14:48 GMT -6
We do it. Have had great success. Kids focus on out of town relatives. [br Do you have a template or specific letter that the players use? I would love to see it. Yes I do. Email me at coachwillby@gmail.com and I will send you a copy of it. |
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Post by coachbdud on Dec 17, 2015 14:50:16 GMT -6
definitely going to look into this we need all the fundraising we can get our usual biggest fundraiser (my team camp) might get the axe from our section so we need a new way to replace that money Is that an NCS issue only? We do team camps that line up with the CIF rules on contact, etc. we did a "control" camp last summer, it worked perfect, all teams did a great job of getting some reps but staying super safe there were issues with other camps that pretty much went full bore (in our section, and in SJS) we received an email a couple weeks ago from NCS where we got to vote on a proposed rule... they will consider what the schools want but in the end the NCS board this spring will set one of the following policies 1. control camps same as this year, strict rules about policy and tempo 2. Camps can be in shorts and helmets only 3. camps can be in shorts and cleats only 4. no team camps at all now NCS did vote in a "contact period" last summer, where from July 22nd we could do full contact 2x a week, 90 minutes... as that falls in with the CA state law saying you can begin going full contact 30 days prior to the start of your season (July 22 was 30 days prior to our first date we can scrimmage) so if they keep that technically i could run my camp the last week of July as long as it is just 2 days and 90 minutes max a day that was a long response lol, essentially it is a maybe NCS issue, depending on how they vote |
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Post by mariner42 on Dec 17, 2015 15:47:12 GMT -6
Is that an NCS issue only? We do team camps that line up with the CIF rules on contact, etc. we did a "control" camp last summer, it worked perfect, all teams did a great job of getting some reps but staying super safe there were issues with other camps that pretty much went full bore (in our section, and in SJS) we received an email a couple weeks ago from NCS where we got to vote on a proposed rule... they will consider what the schools want but in the end the NCS board this spring will set one of the following policies 1. control camps same as this year, strict rules about policy and tempo 2. Camps can be in shorts and helmets only 3. camps can be in shorts and cleats only 4. no team camps at all now NCS did vote in a "contact period" last summer, where from July 22nd we could do full contact 2x a week, 90 minutes... as that falls in with the CA state law saying you can begin going full contact 30 days prior to the start of your season (July 22 was 30 days prior to our first date we can scrimmage) so if they keep that technically i could run my camp the last week of July as long as it is just 2 days and 90 minutes max a day that was a long response lol, essentially it is a maybe NCS issue, depending on how they vote Yeah, a couple of our Wing-T brethren were among the programs that got popped for that and lost practices. After that, our boys were pretty glad to follow all the control measures we used. |
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Post by PIGSKIN11 on Dec 17, 2015 19:00:14 GMT -6
CIF is going to have a blanket policy in place for next summer...
1 - NO CAMPS AT ALL
2 - CAMPS BUT NO GEAR
3 - CAMPS WITH JUST HELMETS AND SHOULDER PADS
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Post by vicvinegar on Dec 18, 2015 12:05:37 GMT -6
Our vendor for all of our attire gives us a kickback on what's sold. Best "fundraiser" I've seen. All the ordering goes on through their website so the only work we have is to pass out flyers when the website is open (I'll explain) and distribute when the order comes in. They only open ordering through the site 4 times throughout the year to prevent little orders coming in all year. You wouldn't want to have to meet up with the vendor every other week to pick up a pair of socks. Usually it's opened for two weeks, once in January for workout packets, beginning of summer end of summer, and a few weeks before playoffs. It's usually seasonal appropriate. On our largest order we made over 3K. This is a school of about 65 players 10-12, but we also have our 7,8, & 9th order too. Not sure the exact percent we get back, I remember thinking it was high like 10%. We raised somewhere close to 10K for doing something we would've done anyway. All we did was pass out flyers, and distribute gear. If your vendor won't give you a kickback, find one that will.
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