In my experience on Aces High we have a unique way of fund raising. Each student takes the names of a some businesses around our surrounding towns an goes out to the company and explains who we are, what we do, ect. we then show them a yearbook with all the events we do (our sponsors from previous years are in them) an give them the option in supporting our team. We have sponsor amounts ranging from $30.00-$2,000.00. Each different price the company pledges for allows their name on something. (ex. 30.00 gets you a business card size ad in our yearbook, say $500 gets you the ad an your company name on our banner) Many companies love donating their time an money to our team once we explain everything about our team an how we work. They find it very fascinating what we do, an they usually do not hesitate in giving us money. Each year students go back and ask again, an each year we get a great success rate.
Our biggest fund raiser is our pre-ship scrimmage. This is the biggest event before ship date in our area and teams from Ct, Ma, NH, and even NY have come to it. We get to test out the FIRST field. We have our registration fee, the food stand, a bake sale, we sell shirts, all of this money is helping our team, an we thank the other teams that help support us. If you can manage something like this, or smaller it helps a lot.
Even the pasta dinners. We held our first one last fall, an it was a great success! It can be a lot of work, an a lot of setting up, but once its time for pasta, you're guaranteed some great fun and laughs. Just think great team bonding!

It really works, and your community is supportive. Even ask Rosie, RAGE, or Gus. They would tell you the same thing.