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Message |
Chris
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 9:00 pm: |       |
hey everyone, i recently was hired as an assistant coach for a high school in a low income area. because of that, the players are limited on the proper equipment to use and a good enough playing field to play on. us coaches have worked our tails off trying to find ways to raise money and to spend what little we have on the right things. im now looking outside the community for help. a booster club was mentioned, but there arent enough people willing to join to help out. if anyone has some suggestions that would help tremendously. thank you. |
Arthur Cossabone (Acteach2003)
New member
Username: Acteach2003
Post Number: 1
Registered: 3-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 01, 2005 - 3:48 pm: | |
What kind of sport are you coaching. How about looking at local businesses. |
Vianna Perez (Perezv11)
Junior Member
Username: Perezv11
Post Number: 3
Registered: 3-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 9:25 am: | |
It all depends on the sport. Make sure the parents are involved. in my high school car washes were always helpful. um if you are coaching swimming i have a good idea to raise money for that. |
Larryecua
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 07, 2005 - 5:37 am: | |
You could always have local businesses take out ads in your program, take up a booth at a local fair, community celebration, public gathering selling a breakfast or dessert. You could open an account at the local redemption center and have your athletes' families all take their bottles and cans there. You could have t-shirts made up promoting your team and sell them $5 over cost to parents and/or community members. Try putting on a public supper, having the boosters make a dessert to sell with a low cost meal, ie. pasta, bake beans, etc.
Use your imagination and when the cost/initial investment is low, the risk is low, and the returns could be outstanding. |
Stacy Binder (Sab1310)
New member
Username: Sab1310
Post Number: 1
Registered: 9-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - 10:23 am: | |
The best thing you need to help raise money is parental support. I played volleyball at a very small highschool who did not really support girls athletics so we did not have much money. Almost every parent was involved in raising money by having a very good concession stand during the games. The parents would ask for donations from grocery stores or businesses. If you think about it that game is not the only thing going on in the school at that time. There might be other sports going on or even other practices, some teachers still might be in the building looking for dinner. Consession stands aren't your only way, you can also do car washes, dinners, bingo, and raffle tickets at your games. Hope I've helped |
Kimberly Baker (Bakes)
Junior Member
Username: Bakes
Post Number: 3
Registered: 1-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 14, 2006 - 5:18 pm: | |
From personal experience in fund raising for sports I found I made the most money by selling coupons from local restaurants (mostly fast food restaurants). If you talk to the manager, they will give you coupon packets to sell and you get a percentage of each booklet you sell. You could try going around to restaurants and see it they will help you out. |
Amy Kolling (Axk8393)
New member
Username: Axk8393
Post Number: 1
Registered: 1-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 22, 2006 - 5:24 pm: | |
I ran cross country in high school and we did not have a lot of money. We did a car wash every year and during the season we would have sub sales. One of the parents worked for Home Interior so she got us a deal on candles so we sold them during the season as well. If one of the parents works for a place where they can get deals on their products, that would be a good way to raise money. We also sold coupons for local restaurants. |
Nicki (Nicki85)
Junior Member
Username: Nicki85
Post Number: 2
Registered: 3-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 1:18 pm: | |
Depending on your location and the age of the athletes you should look into working a weekend at an amusement park, college game or professional game. For some of my college clubs we went to Cedar Pt. I know we made some decent money working there for a weekend. I believe it was $50 a person. During our time off we were allowed to ride the rides and what not for free. They also put you and your group up for the weekend in dorm like rooms. We also do some odd jobs at Pitt Games and Steelers Games. Again, I don’t know if that is for college students only but hey it’s worth looking around in your area to see if something like that is offered. |
Michael Butterworth (Mjb8796)
New member
Username: Mjb8796
Post Number: 1
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Monday, March 27, 2006 - 10:23 am: | |
One of the biggest fundraisers that was used throughout my community back home was the selling of the pizza kits. They sold for about $15 a kit and we got to keep $10 for every kit that we sold. The kids had a real easy time selling them and we raised a lot of money. There were a variety of different kinds of pizza to choose from and came in three per kit. The company delivered all the kits at one time to where ever you wanted. |
