HS baseball fundraisers

I have recently secured 14 local merchants to offer a discount that will be on the backside of a "card" that has our team logo on the front, no cost to merchant, we are selling them for $10 each and the discounts are for one year, unlimited. Should be able to sell some and aside from my cost to print and laminate its all profit. One community sold 400 last season for 4000.00.

We have a 100 inning game. People pledge $ for every inning we play. We have a pitching machine set up at 90+ mph, and everyone gets one pitch. JV vs Varsity, 5 innings at a time.

I assume you're talking about a travel team. You should be incorporated as a not for profit. If not, that's another conversation that needs to take place. If you are and it's allowed by the state law, run a daily numbers game based on the daily lottery. Sell monthly cards for $10. Winners get $50. We sold $2,500 worth of cards. Four people won. Three told us to keep the mmney. You can make the cards yourself in desktop publishing to save money. Use heavy weighted paper.

Some WalMarts will do matching funds based on a can day in front of their store. Get permission to be there and find out if they match. Anything door to door people are sick of. Between sports, youth organizations and school the doorbell never stops ringing.

Our boosters did a comedy night/dinner that was pretty successful. We found a group of comics that were reasonable and we held down our overhead by renting an inexpensive hall and covered the bar with our own beverages and bartenders. The cost may not be exact but I'll try to give you a breakdown.

Hall - $500
Food - $1,000 ($10.00 per person @ 100 people)
Bar - $500 - $700 (parent tended bar and we purchased drinks)
Comics(3) - $750 total
Total cost - $2,750

We sold approx 100 tickets @ $60 each and cleared over $3,000. (Truth is we had already advertised the price thinking the food would have cost us much more or we would have sold the event for $45 or $50)

We also had a $250 50/50 at the event and held a silent auction on donated gifts that yielded another $1,000.



The players sold the tickets however this was a 21 and over event so they couldn't attend. We still made sure on our selling literature that we were very clear that there may be some colorful language. Didn't want any offended grandma's out there.

All totaled we brought in over $4,000 and the evening was a blast.

We actually sold a cleaning product called ESPRO SPORTS CLEANER. It is a great stain remover for white baseball pants and they offer a fund raiser program where you can sell their 4 oz travel size bottle and make some good money. Plus you are turning people on to a product that they will probably end up using from now on. Check it out at www.esproclean.com

I think bamamom is synonymous with spam. Check her previous posts.

We've had good luck with crab feeds. This is the beginning of Dungeness Crab season here on the west coast, and if you get a hall and can organize a crab feed, you can make some siginificant money. To turn a profit, you have to get to about 200 people, and if you get up around 300 you can make some serious money. One local feed that has been around for a long time in our area gets 600+ people, and they make a LOT of money.

If you live near an Applebee's restaurant, inquire if they sponsor pancake breakfasts fundraisers.

They usually have them on Sat. And Sun. mornings from 8-10 or 9-11.The breakfast includes 3 pancakes, bacon or sausage, juice and coffee for $5 but your group keeps $4 of that. Tie in a chinese auction and you can make $1000-2000 in 2 hrs!

sdmama, you have a pm

Here in Arizona, we have good luck with golf tournaments. It costs us almost nothing upfront. We get local merchants to donate prizes for golfers and raffles. We negotiate rates with the golf course, they handle the tournament. We usually make about $7k-$9k per tournament.

Golf tournaments work well for us, too. We also do a breakfast at Beef O'Brady's just like the one suggested at Applebee's.

I think pretty much every HS team has outfield banners, where a sponsor pays a fee to have their banner displayed on the outfield fence, and the sponsorship goes to pay all or part of the player fees.

We also had an Alumni Day game. It was a lot of fun, but didn't make much money in the short run. In the long run, it got a lot of alumni who had sort of lost touch to get involved in the program again, many as sponsors, so it was a good thing.

We just held a "Battle of the Bands" yesterday. One of our fathers made a deal with a local restaurant, found 8 bands (all were amazing) and made a deal.

The team got 100% of all tickets sold (each family sold 10 each) a percent of any food/beverages sold outside. We did have to acquire a permit to block off the street and hire off duty police but that was the extent. Each parent worked a two hour shift.

Best % of profit to date with the least amount of effort.

i have heard calendars with each day being a different prize, which each day a different winner is selected works well. especially if you can get the gifts donated you just have the cost of the calendars and the rest is straight profit. most effect fundraiser is corporate sponsorship if you can find it.

We were very luck to have the Northeast Credit Union and Harold's Square Eatery both make very generous donations this year, helped us offer the kids in our program a few extras.

I don't want to leave out many other donators who exchanged gift cards, smaller donations and actual product for space on our website www.granitestatebaseball.org. It has worked out well for all involved, if you have a site you have something to offer local shops and resturants, you can be their best value for advertising.