Fundraising…

Just4Fun · Post by **Just4Fun** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 8:45 am

I know this topic isn’t a fun one, compared to discussions about matchups, teams, and players. But what are other schools doing for fundraising?
Our fundraiser isn’t well liked by the players, who have to “sell it” or the parents who end up “buying it”. Do most schools fundraise? Who handles the funds? Coach? Parents? What do teams use the funds for? As you can tell I’m new to all of this. Any ideas would be appreciated.

SportsMa · Post by **SportsMa** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 12:11 pm

In our community, the girls hockey fundraiser takes many forms. It is directed by the booster club which is made up of the players' parents.

The biggest fundraiser is a dinner and silent auction where the gals serve the meal and parents and girls find items for the silent auction but there is also bagging groceries at the store twice a year with tips from the shoppers, hot dog feed, a meal served at a local eating establishment twice a year where the club gets a percentage of the money from that night, car washes and sometimes working some summer events such softball tourney(depends on which teams' turn it is).

SportsMa · Post by **SportsMa** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 12:16 pm

Funds are used to upgrade buses for long trips, upgrade some of the equipment, help cover tournament fees and supplement hotel and food costs at times. It also generally covers the senior gifts come the end of the season, helps with any banquet decorations and helps with costs of additional dryland expenses. It also helps with the parents and senior nights if there are additional expenses.

Also, our town does chuck a puck. The girls also sold some food this year~oops, forgot about that.

I will be interested in hearing what others do, too. Always looking for more ideas.

SportsMa · Post by **SportsMa** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 9:14 am

Don't any other teams have to fundraise??

pondhockey · Post by **pondhockey** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 10:06 am

We also do a chili feed with a silent auction and we have a puck shoot that has corporate sponsors. The funds raised are mainly for paying for the charter bus to take them to their out of town games and some of the other expenses that SportsMa mentioned.

hockeygod · Post by **hockeygod** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 10:17 am

Have the kids bag grocery's for donations. you do this 3 times a year on a saturday or sunday at one of the big grocery stores you'll end up with 6 to 8 thousand dollars and you won't have to deal with selling things. I'll gladly pay a kid 5 bucks to bag my grocery's and when they have done it at our local cub foods you can see them just pulling in the cash. The key dates are the weekend before thanksgiving, the weekend before christmas and the weekend before easter. people are always in a good mood and the stores are packed

SportsMa · Post by **SportsMa** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 10:24 am

Wow, hockeygod~I am green with envy that your team can pull that kind of money in with the grocery stores bagging. It is a good fundraiser for our girls but not to that level but we are in smaller town. We also fight for those "best" weekends. Timing is everything. The weekends you identify are great as well as around 4th of July in our area.

hockeygod · Post by **hockeygod** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 10:45 am

see we live in a a suburb that has 1 grocery store, and when they bag, it is a 12 hour day and there are 40 to 50 kids taking part (bantam boys) but it works well they do it in shifts and they make alot of money

SportsMa · Post by **SportsMa** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 10:51 am

Figured you were some where there was more "traffic" through the grocery store than what we get. Awesome deal and I bet the boys have fun with it and parents appreciate not having to help with multiple fundraisers!

hockeygod · Post by **hockeygod** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 11:06 am

at least for me I would rather just write a check than deal with the BS of the fundraiser. Currently I'm not real happy with our high school program but if we had a good program I would have no problem donaing 4 or 500 dollas to the cause. but the I think the next best thing is a fundraiser where the parents don't need to be heavily involved because parents start to hate dealing with that stuff

SportsMa · Post by **SportsMa** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 11:58 am

Personally as parents we have done the buy-outs fairly often as our kids are in lots of activities and fundraising for them could become a full time job. I know some families don't have the resources to do that or chose different priorities which is why we are always on the look-out for others fundraising ideas, too.

I know people in our area do get tired of fundraising as we even had a meeting with the various booster clubs to try and figure out a way to coordinate something together but too many groups unable to figure out a way to work together and divide monies.