Fundraising for Youth Football

Most youth football players will be involved in some kind of fundraising. It may be selling candy, raffle tickets or a walk-a-thon.
Whatever the activity is, I am sure the youth football league will have you as the coach involved. Again, I suggest Team Mom to the rescue. Ask Team Mom to organize and get other parents involved on passing out the information and collecting the funds at the end of the fundraiser. You need updates of what is going on, especially since there is money involved. I just try to stay away for the day-to-day involvement.
I have been lucky since the league I am involved with does not require each individual player to sell anything for youth football fundraising.
Some of the more recent fundraising ideas have been wine tasting for the adults, special dinner engagements with deep discounts given by the restaurant and sponsorships. The sponsorships can come from a variety of sources, but we find that local business's are more than happy to help out if you give them some advertising and keep the request amounts reasonable. In this tight economy we ask for $150 to $500 and will pass out coupons and advertising a few times a year, plus we email our parents with special offers.
I have found that if you just ask, many people will be happy to help and ask any and all business contacts for a donation. By keeping the amount of money requested low, we can expect a larger number of local business's to help us out.
Jim has over 22 years of hands-on experience as a youth coach. The system he has used with great sucess for both youth football and youth basketball. His personal teams have won over 80% of their games.
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