How do you fundraise?

Here's a few things that we have done, I coach both high school and a summer program.

for the high school

a little league clinic

$20 each adds up, players do the instructing.


a golf tournament

annually raise $4,000 in a small area. 90 golfers and 75 hole signs. After the first couple of years, it runs pretty easy.

outfield fence signs

$500 each, first year build the signs, all profit after that.

Sweatshirt, hat and t-shirt sales, add a couple of bucks to the cost and sell to the parents. our high school sweatshirts and hats are the most common ones in the area.

for our summer program

ask the local business community for team sponsorships

Cookie dough sales - it sells itself

work in the fireworks booth

car washes ($750 in a day)

We have the kids help out with all of our fundraising.

Thanks MLL, all great ideas of things to do. I'm happy to announce that I have reached a sponsorship agreement with the glove/bat maker Akadema. This a very big step in getting our program in the right direction, I can't thank Akadema enough. But we will still be implementing ideas like you MLL have mentioned.

Please keep contibuting your ideas and experience in raising money for the program your involved with.

My team has done many fundraisers. The two most successful ones where putting on a baseball tournament and simply asking businesses for sponserships. The tournament for ages 9-14 usually brings in about $5,000. Sponserships will bring in the bulk of your budget as long as the parents and kids are working at it. We always send them a thank you note and one of our team hats. It seems to make them happy.