How can I effectively handle fundraising for a large team of athletes?

[ihavethetools]

I met a lady who does Team in Training. They are athletes who train for free and in return raise money for Leukemia/Lymphoma Society, a set amount that they set as a goal.

This particular lady is a team leader and she has people with her that each do the same. In other words, each are responsible for their own fundraising, and the athletes train together and support each other. I believe she said this is 25 people!

Any suggestions on how best to handle this? My thoughts are to handle each individually as it's own fund raiser, doing a fund raising show for each person that wants to. I'm not sure that my friend is 'seeing' it this way. I think she may be thinking to have one HUGE fund raiser at her house, where all the team will invite all their people.

This could be huge and I want to do it right! Both for maintaining a good reputation, AND for doing what's right for the LLS.

Kris

 

[lisacb77]

Yes, it would be better to do it individually...that's kind of how the Team FR works.

However, you could also do it as a bigger group to ensure they'd get the bigger percent. Just have them use order forms that track the member's name, and online, have them put that person's name in the address field (first line after customer's name before customer address). Then it's up to the group to divvy the PC check accordingly.

HTH

 

[soonerchef]

I would do what Lisa said except I would have a fundraiser kick-off show with the entire team...then if the team members wanted to do individual shows you could do that as well, but at the very least you could send each team member away with a packet that contained 10 catty's and 20 order forms with the expectation that each gets a minimum of 10 orders. If each did just that the fundraiser would be a $7500 show!!

 

[ihavethetools]

GREAT idea Andrea, now I have a direction to go when I call her today!!!

Thanks!

Kris

 

[soonerchef]

I hope it goes well....keep us posted!