do you know of any excellent proven fundraising ideas for socer teams?

Question

we need to raise $1,500 to go to several tournaments this season. I've never fundraised before and we have no money to put up-front to buy fundraising products. Any suggestions out there? Thank you!

Answer 1

Over the years I've been involved in several fundraisers for sports teams. Here are some of the things we've tried that worked very well.

Homemade Pizza Sales (kids made the pizza's) Ask local grocer for discounts on supplies.

Celebrity Auction, Even in a community of 5,000 people this was pretty easy. We wrote to many celebrities, (country music stars were great) and explained why we were raising money, ask them for a donation for the Auction. We received, t-shirts, books, and many many autographed photographs (let the buyer have the envelopes too). Advertise and have an auction. You can add to this by asking local community businesses to donate too.

Cow Plop and carnival, We had a small carnival with game booths and food (homemade funnel cakes, cotten candy etc) Buy supplies you cannot get donated from oritental trading, The cow plop is this: We marked a huge grid in a parking lot, Sold raffel tickets for each spot . Local farmers brought in cows, the first spot the cow poops in is the raffel winner! OK, it's a little weird but it worked where a farming community was close.

There are always the tried and true methods you can get a fundraising organization (look on the internet for one in your area)
who do candy sales, magazine sales, cookbooks, t-shirts, bakesales, etc.

Here is my best advise for whatever you choose, get everything donated. Then later make sure to have a Big Thank you in the local paper or something like that. It's good for businesses because they get free advertisement too. Get the parents involved, they may donate a lot of your items you need, or they may be able to donate time. Be specific about your needs when sending them a letter you will be surprised what resources you already have. Get the fans of the team involved, Many will be kids but they will be great at donating there time to something fun.

Fundraising is a big job and isn't easy. Put someone who can delegate well, and is a good leader, to head up the job. They need to get lots of people involved to do small tasks.

Thats what I can think of off the top of my head! Hope it helps.

Answer 2

Brownies are inexpensive ($1 for a box that makes 16-20 brownies--which you can charge 50 cents per brownie--do the math) and so is cookie dough (you can go to Sam's Club and get a bucket of cookie dough for $5 that'll produce well over a 100 cookies--at 50 cents each--that's $50 easy money). If there are parents interested in helping out, ask mom to take out the recipe book--another great treat is chocolate covered pretzels--you can make little baggies of them--sell for $1. Just think of easy treats to make--you'd be surprised how many only require melting chocolate onto something.

I worked at Johns Hopkins for several years and we had fundraisers each year and the baked goods always out-sold everyone else (and I know that they repeatedly were in the $1000-$2000 ballpark). The key would be to find yourself some place with heavy foot traffic and be there before lunch : )

Good luck!

Answer 3

Joe Corbi's Pizza. Used them several times, were ALWAYS a huge success. You can only buy them through a fund raiser, so the people who are familiar with the pizza look forward to being able to buy. Even if you use them year after year, it's always successful because you just can't go to the store and buy his products. Everything he offers is of the highest quality, so you won't have any problems with unsatisfied customers. Everyone likes pizza..and he has expanded the line..grandma's cookies, etc..He is known for product and integrity. His business is fund raising so I'd say give them a call, let them know your situation, and I'm confident they'll meet your needs. Good Luck! If you're close enough, I'll buy. My girls are in college, and we STILL are always on the look out for a Joe Corbi's fundraiser. Hope I've helped. www.joecorbi.com

Answer 4

Pledge drives have always been a great way to raise funds. When I was in HS I was in JROTC and we would organize a FREE car wash and before that date the kids would go around the neighbors and friends and get them to make either lump sum pledges or per car washed pledges of .10 cent to $1.00 and during the wash people were asked if they wanted to donate to the cause. I went to a pretty poor school and we always were a success in raising the funds. It was also a great tool to work as a team

Answer 5

Our local sports teams sell doughnuts, poboys, home interior candles, do car washes. They also have co-ed tournaments/fundraisers that the parents (family) participate in. Also, you can speak to your local Wal-Mart. Often, if you have a fund raiser at one of their stores, they will match the money you raised up to a certain amount.

Hope this gives you some ideas.

Answer 6

I've been buying a lot of discount cards recently. It is essentially a folded card the size of a business card and it is filled w/ discounts for area businesses. There are about 30 businesses on it ranging from restaurants to clothing stores. The discounts range from buy 1 get 1 to 10% off your order. The people I work with hunt down the people who are selling them. They go for $5 around here.

If you are familiar w/ them, I'm sorry for the long explanation.

Good luck!

Answer 7

I'm not sure if they cost money upfront, but you could do a Home Interior candle fundraising, a cookbook fundraiser (tons of work though), candy, cookie dough. I don't remember which fundraiser gives the most back though.

Answer 8

There are several ideas out there, all of which require time and commitment.

My sons league did a car wash, and we raised 650 dollars. We also did a garage sale where parents and friends donated items to sale...we raised 1600 dollars on that one.

Answer 9

Try your local Krispy Kreme the alway have fundraisers and everybody loves donuts

Answer 10

Hello,
My fishing club recently sold Corbi's pizzas. 10 of us raised 2000.00 with relative ease. Check out www.joecorbi.com
Good Luck