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May
1
2012
Football fundraisers – why are these popular
Football is the most popular game on the planet; it is called the Beautiful Game. It is a game with mass appeal. The best thing about football is that it does not need a great deal of equipment; in its most basic form you can enjoy the game with a football and some open space. Football lends itself wonderfully to fundraising because the costs involved are low, anyone can participate, the game is open for all, and most importantly the game is fun.
A football fundraiser can get you great returns on what you choose to invest. If you succeed in instituting a footballing tournament that takes off with the clubs and the masses, then nothing like it. There is a lot of money and prestige that can be gained from an event like this. You can easily incorporate a football-kicking tournament in any fundraising event. A dollar as participation fee and a prize for a person that can net a goal beating the keeper, or drop three cans with one kick. There is a lot you can do with the humble football. For example, you can get people to test the power in their kicks by placing a...
Mar
9
2012
Baseball fundraising and its unique appeal
Baseball fundraising has its own unique appeal and is considered to be a truly all-American activity. Any sporting activity lends itself nicely to fundraising, and baseball is no different. Just imagine the business you can do if you can put up a stall outside a baseball stadium, doesn’t matter if its minor league or little league or even softball. You have access to so many people who have to come there to have a good time and are in the mood to spend.
There’s no dearth of stuff that you can sell as a part of a baseball fundraiser and the profit margins are very impressive. On your part, you need to ensure that you approach the job with enthusiasm and try as hard as possible to introduce an element of freshness into the whole proceedings. This is to ensure that prospective buyers have something new to look forward to. After all, yours is not the only baseball fundraiser out there and with so many of them doing the same thing, donors are likely to get bored with the whole thing.
Hot dogs, candies, memorabilia, and ice cream are wonderful items to sell outside baseball stadiums. Another cool idea to...
Feb
14
2012
Soccer fundraising – score the goals
The unique appeal of soccer fundraising lies in the fact that anyone can patronize this form of fundraising – from a two year old kid to an eighty year old granny…anyone can step up to kick a football and contribute to a cause. So any charity wishing to avail the benefits of a soccer fundraising can do so easily. All it takes is some planning, reaching out, space, and maybe collaborating with an internet fundraising company. Let us take each of these points one by one.
Planning entails knowing the amount you wish to generate with a soccer fundraising; if you have successfully carried out such a fundraising before you will have a better idea of what you need to do to succeed here. You also need to plan on the number of people to call and the type of people you wish to target. The thing is that soccer fundraising can be carried out in more ways than one; all of them at the same venue. So, you can have a team matches playing for a trophy and you can have individual dribbling events or guys trying to score a goal. All of these are fun activities and as mentioned...
If there’s one sport that can unite an American public to a cause, then that’s basketball. Maybe baseball can too. But if you’re talking about fundraising, then basketball has a big advantage over other sports. It can be played all year round and there is no dearth of indoor and outdoor courts for a game of hoops.
School fundraising, college fundraising and even church fundraising lend themselves nicely to the use of this sport for raising money. Let us not forget fundraising for your sports team, it can really benefit from a basketball event geared to get you some funds.
Although this is a game associated with youth, anyone and everyone can have fun throwing balls through hoops. You can schedule a basketball event to make it fun for everybody and a money earner for you. The best way to garner public interest and participation is to hold a tournament. Remember, with every effort the beginning is always going to be small. With time and work it will grow, your basketball tournament too will in all likelihood begin small. You may be able to get three teams to participate or fifteen. It all depends upon your organization skills. Tournaments thrive...
Whether you belong to a club baseball team or a school baseball team, you know that you have to fend for yourself. There are costs and these have to be met. Traveling to a tournament costs money, equipment is an expense, practice costs both time and money, plus there will be sundry other operational expenses.
Baseball fundraisers are popular in America, it’s an all-American game and citizens don’t shy away from pitching in to take it forward. The important thing to remember is that your fundraiser should yield a high profit margin. But that’s not the only thing. It has to appeal to as many people as possible, only then can you reach out to more donors.
Fortunately there are many fundraising activities that are tailor-made to help you raise money for your baseball team. And there are several fundraising ideas that can be bespoke to the sport. Remember to check out baseball fundraising ideas that don’t cost a lot in either time or money and yet give good returns. Two examples of such an idea would be to hold a junk sale; all you need is space and people willing to give up stuff they no longer use. You can collect...
Along with a candy fundraiser, a popcorn fundraiser has a kind of universal appeal. And this type of a fundraiser can be organized anywhere you can get a little space to put up a popcorn vending machine. Unlike candies that are ordered from vendors, popcorn is prepared fresh in front of your eyes. The whole process and the unbeatable aroma is what attract people. Not to mention that this is an all-time favorite inexpensive pleasure open to all.
As a charity that wishes to do popcorn fundraising, your only significant investment will be in getting a popcorn machine or you can even put together a contraption, no problem at all. If you do get a machine, you can rent it for other events, weddings, charities, etc. This fundraiser has one of the best returns for the kind of outlay it requires. There is a huge profit margin in this. A good popcorn machine should cost you around $700.
Put the popcorn pot on a gas stove, set up stall where you think you can get footfalls and you are good to go. A fistful of popcorn in the pan with heated oil and you should have them all popped in...
Aug
15
2010
Basketball Fundraising – Easy and Profitable
Sports fundraising work. That’s a fact which most charities and non-profits are aware of. Americans love sport and any fundraising centered on a sporting activity gets them going. Basketball is one such sport. It offers a lot of scope for raising money.
Some of the advantages of a basketball fundraiser are –
• Easy to organize – You don’t need a lot of space. Unlike other sports you do not have to trudge to a field. You can do it in a corner of a building compound. It is not something that people have to take time out for to come to. A basketball fundraiser allows participants to come over even after a hard day’s work and arrive to take part in their shorts, t-shirt, and sneakers.
• Family activity – Anyone can participate. Grand-dads and grand-daughters can test their arms and their aims. Nice way to improve participation and increase probability of getting donations. It cuts costs and increases returns because you don’t have to do anything extra.
• Great activity – A basketball fundraiser can work as a standalone item or in combination with any other fundraiser. There is no clash, it blends nicely. Again, because it requires less space, it is an...
Feb
23
2009
Fundraising Ideas for Your Sports Team
Every team needs to raise funds for sports, whether it is a school team or a league team. You need funds for uniforms, to maintain the grounds, staff salary, equipment costs, first aid, cheerleaders, advertising, printing tickets… the list is endless.
Fundraising is an integral part of maintaining a sports team. Sports enthusiasts are not hard to find and it is not that difficult to generate support for the team that a community loves. The trick is to do it in such a way that the fundraising event makes maximum use of the season, whether summer, fall, or spring and of course it should try and align itself with the sport. I mean selling ice hockey pucks in a baseball fundraiser held in spring won’t get you many sales.
Adapting to new trends in fundraising is key if you wish to get the maximum benefit from your time spent in organizing a fundraiser. Sports attract young crowds and the youngsters dig gadgets. A happy marriage between sports and gadgets is a good idea for a sports fundraiser. A keychain digital image viewer to share and view images of your favorite sports stars; a small Pico projector to project images and videos...
Jun
17
2008
Looking to have a Baseball Fundraiser?
A great baseball fundraiser that is fun and can help benefit your entire team is to arrange a group trip to a local baseball game. If you contact the stadium they will be more than willing to either lease you the picnic area for the event or to sell you bulk tickets at a great price. This is great because you will make some excellent profit from the markup on the tickets. If you rent the picnic area then you will also be able to provide your own meals and beverages. If you cater this or have it prepared by volunteers you can either charge people to eat or include it in the price of the ticket for even more profit potential. This is also a really great motivator for a baseball team to see their heros play ball and see what they are capable of accomplishing if they work hard...
