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Re: POOR
Ever since Keyspan stopped sponsoring all of the teams in the SBPLI regional, we have never had an official corperate sponsor. This year we lucked out and are getting anywhere from $1000-$4000 from Sports Illustrated (its good to know people, especially dads)(This is also nto an official corperate sponsor because my dad had to give money and then they tripple his donation and give it to us). Our school gives us $10,000, $5000 for the entrance and $5000 for the rest (except food and such, because pizza is kinda hard to order with purchase orders), so we have always had to do some sort of findraising. Candy sales have always been our main way of raising funds, we get about $200 - $400 depending on the amount of candy we well, and if we do that 3 times it comes out to about $1000 more dollars, most of which go into buying food, small parts and other things we need immediatly. We tried to sell doughnuts afterschool but we never got more then even because we wound up eating them all ourselves. Today we have a deal with Burger King where we get 20% of their profits for 3 hours (6-9) and we also tried to get people to go by offereing a raffle ticket for 50 dollars to best buy for a purchase of 10 dollars or more.
Our worst experiance with fundraising was trying to raffle off a protable DVD player in 1 month for 5$ a ticket. People in school just didnt carry around $5 dollars or were not willing to buy 1 for that amount. Its probably a better idea to offer something a little bit more valuable (cheap laptop?) for $1 a ticket and do it over the span of a few months. In our raffle we barely made it back to even and most tickets were purchased by members of the club.
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