Fundraising

Seadog,

We are running 2 fundraisers and are looking at raising about $2000 from them. We are running a lottery based on the NY daily number (pick 3). I'm not sure if you have a lottery there, but this is how it works. Every kid (13)sells 30 tickets at $5 each. Each ticket has 2 three digit numbers on them. When the number on the ticket matches the daily number, we pay out $25; $50 on Sunday. I don't have the numbers right in front of me, but our minimum profit for 1 month is $1,150. Plus, by only selling 390 (13 x 30) out of 500 possible tickets, that leaves 220 chances for the team to win the daily number. If you can sell all 500 tickets, you'll make even more $$$. If the kids don't want to sell them, mom and dad can buy them and have a chance to win their $$ back.

Our 2nd fundraiser is selling great also. I had a banner donated to the team that we are selling advertisement squares on for $100. The squares are 18" x 24" and cost the team $15 for the artwork-the guy donated the material and is doing the computer artwork at cost. These are selling like crazy-I sold 3 last week and only handed out 5 solicitation forms. We were going to have a 12' x 4' banner, but I think we're going to have to go bigger. We'll hang this banner somewhere on the fences at every park we play in. Either the dugout or outfield. An 85% return on a fundraiser is hard to pass up. I think we've sold 8 in 2 weeks without really pushing it yet.

Paul

My goal was for every kid to be able to play for free and it looks like we'll do that even with a $200 franchise fee and a $1,200 uniform bill.