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| barsred98 |
Posted - 08/12/2011 : 11:58:47
That time of the year again. Throw out your best and worst fundraiser ideas! |
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| eileenmaprnbc |
Posted - 03/14/2012 : 10:25:10
Hi Mad1, I love this idea. Did you use a local shirt company?quote:
Originally posted by Mad1
One of the ones we do is sponsor shirts for the kids. We make a team shirt for the kids with 12 Baseballs printed on the back and team name on the front. The baseballs are sold for $20.00 each and the sponsor gets to have something printed in their ball. Either company name or some small quote or encouragement. That brings in 240.00 a shirt at 20.00 a baseball or more if you sale the baseballs for more. Cost about 20.00 a shirt to print, and about 220.00 profit per player. They get to wear the shirt too.
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| AimeeStinson |
Posted - 03/13/2012 : 11:01:11
We did a Pancake Breakfast, and sold Krispie Kreme Doughnuts
We let every player sell the tickets and doughnuts and the money that player made, is his money for the team. We do it that way because some players and parents do not want to do the fundraisers and ask people to buy things, and that is ok if that is what they want to do. So if one player sold 100.00 in doughnuts or pancacke breakfast tickets, that player gets the 100.00 for him and the player that did not sell any tickets gets no money.
Good Fundraisers
Pancake Breakfast, Doughnuts, Candy Bars, Car Wash, Baseball Game, Host Baseball Tournament
The Baseball Game, you can use a field and have a kids Vs parents game for people. Make it 5.00 to play or any amt you want, have a gate fee of 2.00 for peole who wants to go to the game, and have a consession table and sell drinks and food
You would make money from the people who want to play, people who want to go to the game, and people who drink or eat at the game.
Host Baseball Tournament, You would need money to rent the fields, pay the refs, but teams that host baseball tournaments puts in about 1000.00 and make about 5000.00 and more. One team made 8000.00 for their team |
| Mad1 |
Posted - 03/08/2012 : 21:55:35
One of the ones we do is sponsor shirts for the kids. We make a team shirt for the kids with 12 Baseballs printed on the back and team name on the front. The baseballs are sold for $20.00 each and the sponsor gets to have something printed in their ball. Either company name or some small quote or encouragement. That brings in 240.00 a shirt at 20.00 a baseball or more if you sale the baseballs for more. Cost about 20.00 a shirt to print, and about 220.00 profit per player. They get to wear the shirt too. |
| TracyStansell |
Posted - 03/08/2012 : 18:23:30
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Originally posted by barsred98
That time of the year again. Throw out your best and worst fundraiser ideas!
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| bbmom2 |
Posted - 08/26/2011 : 13:29:02
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Originally posted by kidsgame
Well . . . fundraising is a pain in the neck for sure.
But, with my young player (10U), I believe that there is some value in having him participate in fundraising. It's expensive to play travel ball. It's important that he understands and appreciates that it's expensive - how better to teach this lesson than to have him work to earn money to pay for it - whether it's going door to door or selling donuts or sending emails about sports tickets (a great fundraiser that we do in partnership with the Atlanta Falcons. We are still selling great discounted Falcon's tickets for the September 1 pre-season game - so just let me know if you are interested in some tickets :)
My disclaimer though - I lean perhaps a little too heavily on baseball as a crutch in parenting!
barsred988, some ideas that I have heard include, putting on a road race (I would love to do this but I am sure it is a great deal of work); a "charity/non-profit" poker night with donated space and prizes; a dinner party with a cover charge; magazine sales; Phiten sales; candy bar sales; Clayz Out sales (no more iron out for me!); and Christmas tree pick-up. I am sure there are many more clever ideas out there. Let me know what you decide to do.
Kidsgame - if every parent had your attitude, would love to do a fund raiser for that reason. My son is a Scout and it's been years since we had to right a check.
Saw something last year that did not materialize but thought it would be cool - a marathon baseball game. Kids get donations for number of innings... very cool. For some reason it was canceled. I can get more into things like that that the boys enjoy than selling donuts on the sidewalk... although if you have to buy a bunch of stuff - Krispey Kremes aren't a bad thing!! ;-) |
| 23sDad |
Posted - 08/25/2011 : 09:53:56
Anybody wanna buy a pretzel?? |
| kidsgame |
Posted - 08/24/2011 : 19:42:23
Well . . . fundraising is a pain in the neck for sure.
But, with my young player (10U), I believe that there is some value in having him participate in fundraising. It's expensive to play travel ball. It's important that he understands and appreciates that it's expensive - how better to teach this lesson than to have him work to earn money to pay for it - whether it's going door to door or selling donuts or sending emails about sports tickets (a great fundraiser that we do in partnership with the Atlanta Falcons. We are still selling great discounted Falcon's tickets for the September 1 pre-season game - so just let me know if you are interested in some tickets :)
My disclaimer though - I lean perhaps a little too heavily on baseball as a crutch in parenting!
barsred988, some ideas that I have heard include, putting on a road race (I would love to do this but I am sure it is a great deal of work); a "charity/non-profit" poker night with donated space and prizes; a dinner party with a cover charge; magazine sales; Phiten sales; candy bar sales; Clayz Out sales (no more iron out for me!); and Christmas tree pick-up. I am sure there are many more clever ideas out there. Let me know what you decide to do. |
| BaseballMomof2 |
Posted - 08/24/2011 : 11:21:23
I prefer to cut a check or have the option to bring in sponsorships to cover the amount we owe. |
| rippit |
Posted - 08/17/2011 : 15:17:17
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Originally posted by bbmom2
I think my best fund raising is to just write the check... fund raising, in my opinion, either ends up being checks being written anyway or just a select few doing the work. I try to make it very clear up front - just let me know how much it will be - we will either get it sponsored on our own or will just pay for it. Don't ask me to sit for garage sales or go door to door selling coupon cards or sports cups or anything else. Only exception is if the team puts on a really, really good tournament - well run and makes money that way - but not for everyone.
I gotta say I agree with you. Too many times the ones complaining about the money never lift a finger to actually help with a fundraiser. They must be democrats.
No seriously, if anybody asks me how much something costs and the next question is whether we are doing any fundraisers to offset the cost, I will tell them they are welcome to head that committee up and let me know how it goes. Who has time during the actual season to do that stuff anyway? Not me.
I do envy the teams though that have 8-10 guys stay together year after year who are organized enough to do fundraising in the OFF season. But, the older the kids get, the more team hopping you see, especially in the metro area where a team is popping up on every corner. |
| bbmom2 |
Posted - 08/16/2011 : 21:53:27
I think my best fund raising is to just write the check... fund raising, in my opinion, either ends up being checks being written anyway or just a select few doing the work. I try to make it very clear up front - just let me know how much it will be - we will either get it sponsored on our own or will just pay for it. Don't ask me to sit for garage sales or go door to door selling coupon cards or sports cups or anything else. Only exception is if the team puts on a really, really good tournament - well run and makes money that way - but not for everyone. |
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