Softball Fund Raising Idea

A customer called the other day and told us they were having a hard time coming up with a great softball fundraising idea. They had looked at a bunch of fundraising websites but didn't find anything specific to softball teams, leagues or players.

He had found sites with great baseball fundraising ideas and most all other sports, but none that focused on holding a softball fundraiser.

This article will quickly identify our top softball fund raising ideas and briefly touch on how to make sure you get the most for your effort. Our top softball fundraisers are:

• Softball scratch off fund raising cards
• M&M's Variety Pack candy fund raising
• Dry Mix Cookie Dough Fund raiser

The best way to make sure your team or league gets the most out of its fundraising effort is to plan in advance and get people involved early on. Remember, you are looking for a fundraiser for a team sport. Make it a team effort.

How do you make it a team effort? First you need to identify a team goal. Make the team goal as specific as possible. We want to hold this fundraiser to pay for our new uniforms. If we don't raise the money, you will have to pay for the uniforms yourself. In order to achieve the goal, each new uniform will cost $50. There are 15 people on the team. That means you need to raise $750.

By going through the simple exercise above, you will have set a specific goal - raising $750 for uniforms. You will also have made it a team goal since the amount needed would take care of all the players on the team. Now everyone is responsible for helping out the team buy new uniforms.

The second thing that helps teams wanting to raise money is by making the fundraising effort a contest and rewarding the friendly competitive spirit among teammates. One suggestion might be that the person with the lowest sales has to clean and polish the top-sellers shoes for 3 weeks. This plan results in players will not wanting to be the worst seller and thereby creating better participation from everyone. And, the reward of recognition for the top seller will motivate everyone to sell a little more.

Pick one of our three suggested softball fund raising ideas above and create a competitive spirit working for a common goal and you will be well on your way to exceeding your fundraising goals.