Do your guys’ team provide services to communities, companies, or other teams to raise money? Things like mowing lawns, doing inventory, etc. If so, what do you guys do? How effective is this?
We host a LEGO programming camp for FLL students. That does well.
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1296 partners with a local service club to put out and collect flags for subscribers around certain national holidays (I believe this is. 2-3 time a year thing). The team gets paid for this & students earn volunteer hours.
I know some teams will also do stadium clean-ups after sporting events as a fundraising task. I believe this is something some high schools support as do some universities. Typically this is also a 1-3 time event per year.
Summer camps are an incredibly common way for teams to make money - sometimes teams make enough that they can also pay student counselors.
I would be wary of highly repetitive manual labor tasks (like mowing) because that becomes the equivalent of working a minimum wage job for free. Growing up in Milwaukee, a common fundraising tactic was working a concession stand at the Bucks’ stadium and making some percentage of sales. I suggested that to my FRC coach who shot it down on two fronts: “only adults can do that work and at the end of the night we’d be better off working for minimum wage and donating our paycheck.”
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+1 to this. A lot of parents will jump at the chance for educational childcare during the summer. A 2 week camp can bring in hundreds of dollars per head.
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