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Explore various fundraising ideas to offset tournament costs, travel expenses, and training equipment. Get assistance in choosing the best options, motivating your daughter, and reaching out to contacts.
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Why do we need fundraising? • To offset high costs of tournaments • To pay for additional travel costs per team to away tournaments • To pay for training equipment and facilities? (is this true?)
How can you help? • Help decide on the best, easiest and most profitable options • Help motivate your daughter to participate with her teammates • Help your daughter see the direct benefits of her efforts • Encourage (and coordinate) groups of teammates to sell together • Reach out to your personal and business contacts to help us reach our goals
Ideas for fundraising • Poinsettias sale • Dominos Pizza cards • Raffles • Bake sales • Candy sales • Printer cartridge/cell phone collection • Car washes • Partylite and Arbonne parties
Poinsettia sales • How does it work? • Take orders for poinsettias, deliver or set up location for pick up dates • When do you sell? • Pre-holidays (Nov and Dec) • Profits expected • Buy for $3 each and sell for $10 each • Pros • Short time period, easy sell, high profit • Cons • Seasonal, must start now • Must coordinate the delivery and pick up locations
Domino pizza cards • How does it work? • Buy large quantity of cards at low cost and sell for 3 times as much • When do you sell? • All year long • Profits expected • Buy cards for $3 each and sell for $10 each (receive free cards for large quantities ordered) • Pros • Easy sell, can use anywhere in country, mass appeal to families on the go (everyone east pizza!) • Cons • Too much competition among other groups selling cards? • Buy cards in advance so $ upfront • Pressure to sell once you buy them
Raffles • How does it work? • Get donated prizes, sell tickets to win prizes • When do you sell? • Anytime, especially around holidays • Profits expected • Guaranteed 100% if prizes are donated • Pros • Easy to sell if prizes are good • Cons • Must round up good prizes • Involves direct selling • Must coordinate delivery of prizes
Bake sales • How does it work? • Make baked goods, sell in front of store locations or at events • When do you sell? • Anytime • Profits expected • Baking ingredients donated by parents or bought, 100% profits of items sold • Pros • Relatively easy to sell, high profits • Cons • Coordination needed, full team/parent involvement needed, donations needed, too common?
Candy sales • How does it work? • Girls sell candy bars (organized or individually) • When do you sell? • All year long • Profits expected? • Not sure, profit per bar • Pros • Relatively easy to do, proven track record with other organizations • Cons • Need to buy product up front • Everyone does it (not a unique idea?) • Sometimes candy is not name brand? • Should set up group selling locations (some parents oppose door-to-door selling)
Printer cartridge/ cell phone collections • How does it work? • Tell people to turn their cartridges and phones in to us, set up a drop box, promote to as many people as possible • When do you sell? • All year long • Profits expected • Not sure? • Pros • Easy, non-time intensive, easy to promote, everyone uses these products • Cons • Collection coordination needed • Need continual active promotion
Car washes • How does it work? • Girls wash cars, take donations, parents/businesses donate supplies • When do you sell? • Spring time is best • Profits expected • Been done in the past with great success • Pros • Fun for the girls, limited time commitment • Cons • Weather is a factor, need good location, need full participation
Partylite (candles) and Arbonne (skincare) Parties • How does it work? • Moms have parties, proceeds of sales go to the team • When do you sell? • Anytime • Profits expected • 25% to 35% proceeds from the party sales go to the team • Pros • Easy to set up, no work involved from teams, invite existing personal/business contacts • Cons • Need moms to volunteer to set this up (2 already set up!)
Next Steps • Discuss, review and vote on all ideas • Roll out program at parent meeting • Set up calendar for year long activity • Start organizing most timely efforts • Assign one parent per team to act as team chairman/chairwoman • Decide on minimum required levels needed per team • Create incentive package for winning team (most sold)