Unique Fundraising Ideas for Sports
For many sports teams, fundraising is necessary to provide money for uniforms, equipment, and facility rental. As you plan ways to raise money, consider how you can capitalize on the skills of your team members and the interests of your audience. By using sports as a central theme, you can attract a wide range of potential donors.
Other People Are Reading
-
Skills Clinic
-
Bring the community into your sports team by conducting a skills clinic fundraiser. Choose your best players and set up workshops that target different areas of the sport: shooting, pitching or hitting, for example. Conduct the clinic on a single weekend day or during the early evenings over a period of weeks. Create a flier campaign that advertises the skills clinic and put them up around the community. Talk to the coaches of high school and elementary sports teams, and let them know about the clinic so they can invite their team members to participate. Charge a flat fee for the clinic to raise money and offer refreshments for sale during the day.
Sports Theme Party
-
Instead of conducting a traditional spaghetti dinner fundraiser, plan a sports-themed dinner. Rent a space that relates to your sport, including a mini golf course, batting cages or a soccer field, and set up tables. Recruit local companies to donate products and food to keep costs down, and plan a main course that will require low-cost ingredients, including pasta. Decorate the space to go along with your sports theme, and make it accessible for families to attract a wider audience. Charge a fee for admission and use the party space as part of the activities.
-
Kids' Night Out
-
Give local parents the chance to have a night alone by conducting a kids' night out with a sports theme. Choose a location that can host a number of events, such as a school gym or a community center. Set up various sports for kids to play, including soccer, flag football or dodgeball. Find activities that are suitable for a range of ages. Set a per-child cost for attendance and specific hours, and invite parents to drop their children off for the evening. Recruit your team members to run each game.
Sports Bar Crawl
-
If you are targeting an older crowd, organize a sports bar crawl. Set up a deal with local sports bars to offer drink specials for members of the pub crawl, and charge participants. You might request two for one drink specials, for example, or free appetizers. Choose a night when there is a big game, and use the bar crawl as a tailgate party or pre-game experience before the game. End up at a bar that will agree to broadcast the game.
-
References
- Photo Credit softball,sports image by Neil Denize from Fotolia.com
