Booster club fundraisers

We cleared $10,000 when my son was in high school on our media guide. We sold ads to local business and to players parents. We gave the media guide away at all home games. The ads sold for: Full Page $200 Half Page $125 1/4 page $75 business card $50. We found a printing company that put the program together for us. We provided the ads with art work that we received from the businesses. It was a great project and fairly easy. Get parents to sell as many ads as possible. Local businesses love to put ads in media guides especially banks, car dealers, hospitals, doctors, insurance people. Great money maker. And the nicer you make the program the better it is the next year.

We always did a Bingo night with a silent Auction, and Sell chances for door prizes. It is a lot of work to get donated items. Most of the time it is easier to get donated items instead of cash. Some comapanies only have so much money alocated for advertising. Items are easy for companies to come up with. Bingo night would bring in anywhere from three to five thousand dollars.

PD you have a PM.

PDad,

We(Berkner)do the fundraiser with the Rangers - its good for a couple of grand each year but I like it because the kids get to play a game at Ameriquest. This will be our 3rd year. Older son played his senior year (hit one out of Ameriquest, he will remeber that one for the rest of his life), this will be my youngest son's third year to play at Ameriquest(was 4 for 4 vs. Lake Highlands with four doubles last year). Have to sell 1,000 tickets, we get them for 1/2 price. Easy to sell if you dont mark them up very much. Some parents sell them by talking their companies into doing a group company outing at a Ranger game (we had a couple of 100 - 200 ticket orders by going after businesses as oppossed to individuals) . Each kids in the program has to sell x number of tickets. We easily sold more than double the minimum. Its not a difficult fundraiser...I understand the Roughriders have a program as well and you get to play in Frisco.

The Booster club earned $7500 just recently by getting 50 volunteers to work a Charity golf tournament. The company that "funded" the tourney paid the booster club for their help.

We have a Marathon game fundraiser that raises another thousand or so...

Besides that there is the concession stand, sign sales, car washes...

We tend to concentrate on the single day larger events that can bring in a couple of K or more instead of the $100-$300 events that take the same amount of time...

PDad,

We also do a "clinic" at the beginning of the year in which we target the elementary schools. For x number of dollars, the kids get a T-shirt and a burger and they get baseball instruction from the Varsity ball players (rotate small groups of kids through a bunch of "skills" stations...a hitting station, a bunting station, a ground ball station, a fly ball station, ...you get the idea). The younger kids think it is great spending a half day with the high school players. The players do surprising well with the kids. Its a good way to kick off the baseball season.

B-dad -- some great ideas -- thanks. Someone else recently mentioned their success with the Rangers fund-raiser. It sounds like a worthwhile endeavor.

PDad,
We did ALOT more than "a couple grand" on the Ranger Tickets!!
I handled this fundraiser for our booster....We came out REAL WELL!!
Also do the program & banner ads in the outfield....Our concession stand doew well, too.

I wonder how much a grill at the Friday night football games could add to the boosterClub coffers. Some stadiums already sell burgers but not enough.

Sorry to bring this post back up, but we are selling the Ranger Tickets also. We are not having alot of response. How did you sell so many? We are selling them for face value $15.00. Just curious. Thanks.

We sell them for less than face value, I think actually season ticket rate.

We've had a lot of luck getting local companies (and companies that parents work for) to buy blocks of tickets since they are below face value.

We sell them at less than face value as well.

We made a decision up front that we would treat it less as a fundraiser and more for just meeting our committment for the thrill of playing at Ameriquest. Having said that, the Rangers told us that we sold the most tickets of all the high schools last year.

Another thing we do - some schools limit their ticket sales to a few hand picked games and only for a certain level of seating (bleacher or corner box, ...) - except for the blacked out games - we take orders for any game, any type of seating.

Its not as tough a sale if it is less than face value. We also get a number of block sales from companies.

A "drawing" for a side of beef brought in $7000 for our summer team. Can't call it a raffle for HS teams - sold tickets (you can buy at office supply stores or Walmart) for $5 bucks each. It's pretty easy to sell groups of four tickets to one person. Some meat markets/butchers can cut the team a good deal since it's a fundraiser.

Only in Texas will you see a drawing for a side of beef.

The FM Booster Club does a variety of programs and takes in about 90K per year. The program consist of a multi-tiered sponsorship, membership, and fundraising package which includes Ranger ticket sales. This will be the first year we actualy made a profit ($5K plus) on the Ranger ticket program. Oh the concessions bring in a good portion too.