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Hey there, I know there are alot of parents and players who read this board and I am trying to gain some fundraising ideas. Could anybody share what there program/Blueline Club does for fundraisers. Eithier big or small? Easy or Hard? Just interested to hear...

gamer19 wrote:Hey there, I know there are alot of parents and players who read this board and I am trying to gain some fundraising ideas. Could anybody share what there program/Blueline Club does for fundraisers. Eithier big or small? Easy or Hard? Just interested to hear...

Get a bunch of businesses on a coupon card and sell them for $20 per. Reusable for 1 year. Get places to give dollars or percentages off items, or buy one get one type of deals. Gas station giving 5 cents off per gallon. Get about 20 - 30 businesses on there and the cards are easy to sell.

Purchase a game-pack of tickets...

one game of the Wild, good seats (see if someone will donate them you know has good season tickets)
one game of the Gophers (same, see if you can get a donation)
one game of the T-wolves
one game of the Twins (if time permits)

package them together and sell raffle tickets for 10 buck a piece...winger gets the lot.

joint car wash with the cheerleaders - someplace busy - outside the Super Rink or Braemar.

Century HS does an annual Golf Tourny that brings in about 5K's, 4 man Best Ball Shot Gun Start

GR3343 wrote:

gamer19 wrote:Hey there, I know there are alot of parents and players who read this board and I am trying to gain some fundraising ideas. Could anybody share what there program/Blueline Club does for fundraisers. Eithier big or small? Easy or Hard? Just interested to hear...

Get a bunch of businesses on a coupon card and sell them for $20 per. Reusable for 1 year. Get places to give dollars or percentages off items, or buy one get one type of deals. Gas station giving 5 cents off per gallon. Get about 20 - 30 businesses on there and the cards are easy to sell.

The Hermantown Hockey Association sells coupon books ($10, I believe...my wife paid for it so not sure) which has a lot of special deals such as buy-one-get-one-free in local business in Hermantown, Duluth and Proctor. One coupon in there saves me $40 every year, so it's obviously worth it.

Seeing myself propping Hermantown hockey looks weird, but hey...it saves us in excess of $100 each season. I wish East would do something similar. It must be a lot of work coordinating this effort with all those businesses but it produces one heckuva nice product for the consumer.

Lee

I've seen some teams do yearbooks that are given out at all the games. Ads are sold to local business. Many include coupons. Parents and Grandparents take out an ad with thier player's picture wishing them luck for the season. Takes some effort, but ads are not hard to sell. Each player sells an ad or 2 - exposure is good for local merchants.

Colleges reach out to alum for donations/contributions.

Why not reach out to alumni families and alumni players? Personally, I would be willing to make contributions when my players are finished with their amateur hockey.

breakout wrote:Colleges reach out to alum for donations/contributions.

Why not reach out to alumni families and alumni players? Personally, I would be willing to make contributions when my players are finished with their amateur hockey.

GR has a blue line club. People pay an annual $25 fee for "membership".
What it really is is a donation to the hockey program. The dollars go towards meals for players on road trips, charter busses, hotels, etc. Worth it to support the local program, something I'm sure we'll be doing long after our kids are done.

east hockey wrote:

GR3343 wrote:

gamer19 wrote:Hey there, I know there are alot of parents and players who read this board and I am trying to gain some fundraising ideas. Could anybody share what there program/Blueline Club does for fundraisers. Eithier big or small? Easy or Hard? Just interested to hear...

Get a bunch of businesses on a coupon card and sell them for $20 per. Reusable for 1 year. Get places to give dollars or percentages off items, or buy one get one type of deals. Gas station giving 5 cents off per gallon. Get about 20 - 30 businesses on there and the cards are easy to sell.

The Hermantown Hockey Association sells coupon books ($10, I believe...my wife paid for it so not sure) which has a lot of special deals such as buy-one-get-one-free in local business in Hermantown, Duluth and Proctor. One coupon in there saves me $40 every year, so it's obviously worth it.

Seeing myself propping Hermantown hockey looks weird, but hey...it saves us in excess of $100 each season. I wish East would do something similar. It must be a lot of work coordinating this effort with all those businesses but it produces one heckuva nice product for the consumer.

Lee

Hermantown also held a very succesful hockey reunion fundraiser this spring.

http://www.hermantownstar.com/2008/04/h ... ebrat.html

http://www.hermantownstar.com/2008/04/h ... -ho-1.html

east hockey wrote:

GR3343 wrote:

gamer19 wrote:Hey there, I know there are alot of parents and players who read this board and I am trying to gain some fundraising ideas. Could anybody share what there program/Blueline Club does for fundraisers. Eithier big or small? Easy or Hard? Just interested to hear...

Get a bunch of businesses on a coupon card and sell them for $20 per. Reusable for 1 year. Get places to give dollars or percentages off items, or buy one get one type of deals. Gas station giving 5 cents off per gallon. Get about 20 - 30 businesses on there and the cards are easy to sell.

The Hermantown Hockey Association sells coupon books ($10, I believe...my wife paid for it so not sure) which has a lot of special deals such as buy-one-get-one-free in local business in Hermantown, Duluth and Proctor. One coupon in there saves me $40 every year, so it's obviously worth it.

Seeing myself propping Hermantown hockey looks weird, but hey...it saves us in excess of $100 each season. I wish East would do something similar. It must be a lot of work coordinating this effort with all those businesses but it produces one heckuva nice product for the consumer.

Lee

Virginia, Hibbing, and Eveleth all do the same thing with Iron Range businesses. I beleive they all actually sell the same book. Has hundreds of coupons with deals from businesses from Grand Rapids, Hibbing, Virginia, Eveleth, Hoyt Lakes, and everywhere in between. They sell them for $10 each. I use the pizza coupons and it pays for itself instantly!

GR3343 wrote:

breakout wrote:Colleges reach out to alum for donations/contributions.

Why not reach out to alumni families and alumni players? Personally, I would be willing to make contributions when my players are finished with their amateur hockey.

GR has a blue line club. People pay an annual $25 fee for "membership".
What it really is is a donation to the hockey program. The dollars go towards meals for players on road trips, charter busses, hotels, etc. Worth it to support the local program, something I'm sure we'll be doing long after our kids are done.

Great idea

Could there be different levels of membership? Maybe bronze $25, silver $50, Gold $100 and Platinum $500. Consider tapping deep into the alumni and alumni families.

That could bring down the cost of hockey in some communities and help scholarship some kids who otherwise could not afford to play hockey.

Detroit Lakes Youth Hockey does two fundraisers. One is a banquet similar to a DU Banquet. It was very worthwhile from a money standpoint. The second is a raffle where we give a away a Chevy PU, ATV of some type, 2 seperate trips, a plasma TV and 25 cash prizes.

It's quite a bit of work, bot for the money raised, it should be!