Sports Fundraising Ideas

Bring the fun back in fundraising for pre-teen sports programs. Being sports fans themselves, parents easily influence their children to participate in such activities in school. Oftentimes, local schools do not have sufficient budget to support their sports teams, thus they turn to parents and local community to help fill in the financial gap. Parents and teachers can come together to raise funds to support their children’s affinity for sports. Such fundraising activities can be small and simple to organize, or rather large and comprised of local businesses willing to participate, depending on the cause. For pre-teen sports programs, the following are great ideas to raise funds.

Sweet souvenirs. Work with a team to brainstorm fundraising ideas that will put everyone’s creativity to a test. Pre-teens will enjoy giving a hand in bake sales, designing cookies, candies and cupcakes or other novelty items to sell for the fundraiser. Make use of easy to understand and identifiable themes that will make the fundraising effort stand out and be recognized within the community. The more creative the presentation and the products are, the more people will want to purchase them. The fundraising organizers may opt to bake cupcakes and cookies with sports-related themes or make hand-made knick knacks and souvenirs that will reflect the sports theme of the fundraiser.

Car wash. Organizers can hold a fundraising car wash at the school parking lot and play some good music while the cars are getting cleaned and shined.  Organizers can also opt to serve simple refreshments while giving a short speech about the fundraiser to raise awareness to those who are participating. Crank up the music and get the cheerleaders do a short number for those waiting in line for the car wash. Make sure to hold your fundraising car wash party in an appropriate place where no one will complain of the noise—or the soap suds!

Scratch cards. There are a number of great scratch card sources over the internet. Some provide cheap bonuses like personalization and design, with a reasonable amount of profit. Scratch cards easily yield up to 80% to 90% profit without the hassle. These scratch cards are pocket-sized booklets with scratch off circles and a coupon pad in the center. Some scratch cards can be personalized or designed with the theme of the organizer’s choice. Scratch cards can also be printed with the team’s photo in front. Each fundraising participant who gets scratch card will scratch two or more circles and will pay the total amounts revealed by the scratch off. Make sure to place amounts that are easily affordable but will raise sufficient funds to meet the fundraising organizers’ goals.

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