VA Elite
Volleyball Club
Fundraising Ideas
2006-2007
Why do we need fundraising?
 To offset high costs of tournaments
 To pay for additional travel costs
per team to away tournaments
 To pay for training equipment and
facilities? (is this true?)
How can you help?
 Help decide on the best, easiest and
most profitable options
 Help motivate your daughter to
participate with her teammates
 Help your daughter see the direct
benefits of her efforts
 Encourage (and coordinate) groups of
teammates to sell together
 Reach out to your personal and
business contacts to help us reach our
goals
Ideas for fundraising
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Poinsettias sale
Dominos Pizza cards
Raffles
Bake sales
Candy sales
Printer cartridge/cell phone collection
Car washes
Partylite and Arbonne parties
Poinsettia sales
 How does it work?
 Take orders for poinsettias, deliver or set up location
for pick up dates
 When do you sell?
 Pre-holidays (Nov and Dec)
 Profits expected
 Buy for $3 each and sell for $10 each
 Pros
 Short time period, easy sell, high profit
 Cons
 Seasonal, must start now
 Must coordinate the delivery and pick up locations
Domino pizza cards
 How does it work?
 Buy large quantity of cards at low cost and sell for 3
times as much
 When do you sell?
 All year long
 Profits expected
 Buy cards for $3 each and sell for $10 each (receive
free cards for large quantities ordered)
 Pros
 Easy sell, can use anywhere in country, mass appeal
to families on the go (everyone east pizza!)
 Cons
 Too much competition among other groups selling cards?
 Buy cards in advance so $ upfront
 Pressure to sell once you buy them
Raffles
 How does it work?
 Get donated prizes, sell tickets to win prizes
 When do you sell?
 Anytime, especially around holidays
 Profits expected
 Guaranteed 100% if prizes are donated
 Pros
 Easy to sell if prizes are good
 Cons
 Must round up good prizes
 Involves direct selling
 Must coordinate delivery of prizes
Bake sales
 How does it work?
 Make baked goods, sell in front of store locations or
at events
 When do you sell?
 Anytime
 Profits expected
 Baking ingredients donated by parents or bought,
100% profits of items sold
 Pros
 Relatively easy to sell, high profits
 Cons
 Coordination needed, full team/parent involvement
needed, donations needed, too common?
Candy sales
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How does it work?
 Girls sell candy bars (organized or individually)
When do you sell?
 All year long
Profits expected?
 Not sure, profit per bar
Pros
 Relatively easy to do, proven track record with other
organizations
Cons
 Need to buy product up front
 Everyone does it (not a unique idea?)
 Sometimes candy is not name brand?
 Should set up group selling locations (some parents
oppose door-to-door selling)
Printer cartridge/ cell
phone collections
 How does it work?
 Tell people to turn their cartridges and phones in to
us, set up a drop box, promote to as many people as
possible
 When do you sell?
 All year long
 Profits expected
 Not sure?
 Pros
 Easy, non-time intensive, easy to promote, everyone
uses these products
 Cons
 Collection coordination needed
 Need continual active promotion
Car washes
 How does it work?
 Girls wash cars, take donations,
parents/businesses donate supplies
 When do you sell?
 Spring time is best
 Profits expected
 Been done in the past with great success
 Pros
 Fun for the girls, limited time commitment
 Cons
 Weather is a factor, need good location,
need full participation
Partylite (candles) and
Arbonne (skincare) Parties
 How does it work?
 Moms have parties, proceeds of sales go to the team
 When do you sell?
 Anytime
 Profits expected
 25% to 35% proceeds from the party sales go to the
team
 Pros
 Easy to set up, no work involved from teams, invite
existing personal/business contacts
 Cons
 Need moms to volunteer to set this up (2 already set up!)
Next Steps
Discuss, review and vote on all ideas
Roll out program at parent meeting
Set up calendar for year long activity
Start organizing most timely efforts
Assign one parent per team to act as
team chairman/chairwoman
 Decide on minimum required levels
needed per team
 Create incentive package for winning
team (most sold)
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