HS Fundraising

We did a golf tournament this year and raised $3000 in November. I was really surprised we did that well at that time of the year.

Also, we do Powder Puff football and raised about $1000 on it. Girls love it and draws a nice crowd.

Not involving hostages ...right?

We raffled a four day cruise for two a couple of months ago. We raised over $4,500.00. I made sure that we got a nice carribean cruise with gratuities and taxes paid and also good through 2008. We sold the raffle tickets for $5.00 each. It was the easiest fund raiser we had ever put on. Each kid was responsible for selling a certain amount of tickets, a lot of parents came through by selling a lot more than was required. The cruise left out of quite a few different ports (including New Orleans) which is only 2 hours away.

My son's high school team has an annual hit-a-thon. The day starts at 9 a.m. with scrimmages between the freshmen, JV, and varsity teams. At around noon, everyone eats a catered Mexican lunch (cost is $8 per person -- don't think we make money on that). Then at 1 p.m., all of the players (and most of their dads) get a crack at 5 balls spit out by a pitching machine. It is a big event, with all the parents and many of the siblings there to watch. A great opportunity to get a first look at the team and also to laugh at the dads, many of whom cannot make contact with the ball. All of the players are required to raise at least $150 of pledges from relatives, neighbors, friends, lawn customers, etc. Many of the dads get pledges too. Pledges can either be a flat amount or a certain amount for each foot of the hardest hit ball (e.g., 10 cents per foot for a 250-foot hit = a $25 contribubtion). On the same day, as a fundraiser, the baseball booster club sells Hit-A-Thon T-shirts to sons and dads, baseball T-shirts and sweatshirts, hats, and baseball pins. Last year's event raised $13,000, which was used for lodging and meals for out-of-town tournaments, meals for the team on game days, and field improvements.

Our league rival has a pretty cool fund raiser. For $300 you get pollo shirt with team logo, team hat and 10 prepaid dinners. The dinners are at the local legion hall and the coaches provide the entertainment by going over the past weeks games, stats and video footage.

Our hs holds an annual reverse raffel and it is very successful. They sell 200 tickets at 100.00 (1 ticket good for two people). They sell several 3.00, 5.00, and 10.00 side boards at the event. It is held at a local party center, open bar, great food, and DJ. I am pretty sure they raise over 20,000 each year.

Our High School has had a B**** ball tournament, followed by dinner and a auction. Big dollars have been raised and the kids don't have to sell magazines or anything else.

We started something years ago and the coach continues to do it to this day.
Two pre season tournies, one for JV and one for Varsity. With the money raised at the gate and food sales, it's enough to keep the team going for a year. We do not have to turn gate money over as we did during regular season to teh sthletic department. Everone wants in because everyone wants to start playing before season. We have to turn teams away. Many teams do that during spring break, we began pre season.
You do need to find out if those games count in the overall equation according to state rules.

TPM- You get to charge gate money? What do you charge per person? We do not get to do this.

Here's one I just came across today that looks quick, easy, and helpful!

When I stopped at Cub Foods on my way home from church, one of the local HS baseball teams was bagging groceries as a fundraiser. Players and parents were participating, all wearing team sweatshirts. They just asked each shopper if they would like their groceries bagged for them, and there was a donation table near the door with a few players and parents greeting and thanking.

There were about a dozen checkout lines, all busy. If 300-400 shoppers came through per hour and averaged a donation of $2 each (some less, some more), it seems like one team could earn a couple thousand in just a few hours during the busiest shopping time of the day. A volunteer parent calling to ask the stores for permission could point out that it makes all the shoppers happy, as the lines were moving along very quickly with groceries being bagged so conveniently.

Our program:

1) sells signs on the outfield fence to local businesses

2) has a hit a thon (slightly different than the above - each player gets 10 swings - total distance of all hits = payoff multiplier - e.g. 3000 feet of hits * 0.01 = $30)

3) Hosts a pre season tourney with a gate fee that goes to the program.

4) Has an annual "big game" towards the end of the season with a gate fee. Played against a local non league rival school. This day also serves as a senior day for both schools and typically draws around 2000 for the day. A whole day of baseball with all three teams playing, skills competition between the graduating seniors, BBQ, and of course senior day ceremonies.

Probably some other stuff as well - program is pretty well organized.

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1. Our school boosters run a bingo session at a local bingo hall once a week. Baseball is responsible for six dates each year, and we get a cut of the boosters' take. About 10-12k/year.

2. This year, we undertook a major field renovations project, and we raised money the old fashioned way. WE ASKED FOR IT. We asked parents, businesses, politicians, anyone we could think of or come across. As of right now, the field is built, 220k is raised and we have 20k more to come up with. Folks out there have more money these days than in years past and God bless 'em, a lot of them are generous with it!

3. We also had a weekend in early Dec. where we obtained and sold Christmas trees and wreaths. I think our first-time profit was around 8k. Needless to say, this was the "first annual", and our coaches plan on doing this every year to see how big they can build it!

We no longer sell candy, scratchers, soap-on-a-rope (I mention this just because I want to see if gotwood can post a picture!) or whatever.

Our high school baseball program has the best fundraiser - a co-ed softball tournament in the fall. Each co-ed team may only have two players that are in the baseball program and costs $20. We play on the local softball & baseball little league fields. There is a high school division and an adult division. The teams are filled with kids from football, basketball, softball, volleyball, theater, band, etc. Prize for best team name and best uniform.

Rules: Must have girls in outfield and infield - when you get up to bat - count is 1 ball and 1 strike, a bunt is an out, foul ball is an out, after two homeruns the team must pay $10 or the HR is an out, games last an hour drop dead time. Parents and baseball players umpire.

The tournament has grown over the past 3 years - I think this year there were 40 teams with both kids & adults from all over participating. Money is made not only from registration and the homeruns, but the concession stand, silent auction & raffle, and a homerun derby.

Last year I think the profit was $16,000 - this year it was around $25,000.

I can't tell you how much fun this is - kids and adults have a blast!!