Laying a Foundation

[lingomaniac88]

Team 1554 is looking for ways to raise money for our team. We tried looking at ideas from this thread, but many of the ideas listed there require either a lot of preparation or a lot of money to invest in them. We don't have much of either. Every year, our high school provides us with the $6,000 registration fee; the rest of the fundraising is up to us. For this season, we only raised about $600, and we only have a few hundred dollars left.

Right now, we are looking for ways to raise large amounts of money, say, between $250 and $1000 (or even more), in relatively easy ways. We are especially looking for methods of fundraising that require little to no investment, since our funds are limited and we cannot afford to take a lot of risks.

One idea that we have is creating and selling T-shirts. The middle school in our school district contains some equipment for making T-shirts, so this would be a good way of making a nice amount of money.

Our ultimate goal is to lay a foundation for next year and for years to come. Does anyone else have any suggestions? What has worked well for other teams?