bretthogan43 wrote:
My best advice to you would be to try and extort money from your grandparents or other people close to you that will blindly give you money if you can give them a good enough reason. That's how my team has a lot of its money. Try going to the restaurants or shops close to your high school and find the frequent patrons or storeowners who you know will give to something if it benefits the some part of school activities (in this case, quizbowl).
I would not do this. Your best bet for fundraising is to make a good or preform a service that people want in exchange for money. Assuming you can get your friends on the team to help, you can get them to work your event for free so the team can make money. You have plenty of options for fundraising including the obvious bake sale where you can get parents to buy the the ingredients, help you and your team bake the treats, then sell them for 50 cents or a dollar each. You will make plenty of profit because you are buying the ingredients almost at cost from the grocery sale, while you can mark up highly for the bake sale. I remember when I was in high school, there were laws on the books banning school bake sales and pizza sales, etc. that were instituted under the Obama administration (this is what our advispr told us), so if you can't sell food, you could do a Saturday car wash for $5. You just need to buy sponges, soap, brooms and use your school's parking lot. A lot of other high school teams make money by running tournaments but it seems late in the year to announce anything.
If you are not interested in doing an event, you could ask local restaurants in your area if on a weekday night (say Tuesday where business is bad), part of the profits can go to your team. If you advertise for the business, the business gets more patronage on a night it needs more customers, and you take home a percentage of its profit. In short, make it worthwhile for both your team and the business. You are much more likely to be successfull at fundraising if you can make it worthwhile for both sides -- get a double coincidence of wants.
)so we don't have a lot of extra funds in the bank right now and some of our more active players have already spent an additional 200-250 dollars on going to far away tournaments without the whole team. Our coach has been reluctant to fundraise so another player and I have been burdened with gathering all of the money along with completing our senior year of high school. Anybody have any advice on how to go about raising these funds? Are corporations/colleges willing to donate if it is tax deductible?
