Fund raising ideas for little league team???

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I'm looking for ideas for successful fund raisers for my 10-yr olds' little league team. I am also looking for suggestions on how to approach corporations for sponsorships. We're a 501(c) organization, but I'm not sure how to best use that in my approach to companies.

Last year we had an opening ceremonies day where we set up a pitching booth and radar gun that drew in a big crowd, and a 50-50 raffle that did fairly well, but fundraising efforts for the rest of the season weren't aggressive. I'm hoping to improve that this year.

Suggestions? Ideas?

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My son, who lives in Virginia participates in a fund raiser that is very popular in their area. I believe it's the Scouts (but I could be wrong on the organization ) take orders for bags of mulch in the early spring. They must work out a good bulk purchase price. They spend one Saturday using a large flatbed truck to deliver the bags of mulch. If you live in a nice residential area it seems that this could be a nice fundraiser.
Here is one example produced by a quick google search:
http://www.lumberjake.com/services/fundraisers/
 
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:biggrin:or 1/2 of the number of teams:biggrin: Thereby having twice as many funds to go to half as many children. Big win-win situation
 
on a more serious note, The corporations and businesses you approach will already know that your a 501c. Your not the first time they have been approached. If you have a rotary club or other business coalations hit them first. Most teams are sponsered by small businesses. Their kids are probably on one of the teams.
 
MarkD said:
My son, who lives in Virginia participates in a fund raiser that is very popular in their area. I believe it's the Scouts (but I could be wrong on the organization ) take orders for bags of mulch in the early spring. They must work out a good bulk purchase price. They spend one Saturday using a large flatbed truck to deliver the bags of mulch. If you live in a nice residential area it seems that this could be a nice fundraiser.
Here is one example produced by a quick google search:
Mulch Madness Fundraisers | School Fundraisers In Northern Virginia | JK Enterprise
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Our scouts leave a door hanger on every house in the neighborhood with a mail back envelope for your order (and check) with the different types available and two delivery date options. They will also drop the bags where you want them (not just at the curb).
 
MarkD said:
My son, who lives in Virginia participates in a fund raiser that is very popular in their area. I believe it's the Scouts (but I could be wrong on the organization ) take orders for bags of mulch in the early spring. They must work out a good bulk purchase price. They spend one Saturday using a large flatbed truck to deliver the bags of mulch. If you live in a nice residential area it seems that this could be a nice fundraiser.
Here is one example produced by a quick google search:
Mulch Madness Fundraisers | School Fundraisers In Northern Virginia | JK Enterprise
Click to expand...

When my son was in scouts back in the mid '80's, we had a fund raising campaign doing bark mulch. We did so much mulch that it almost turned into a full time business... One of the dads allowed us to use his driveway as a staging area, we line both sides and down the street in front of his house with 40 lbs bags of mulch... I think we wound up doing 5 or 6 40' trailers of mulch that year.... I worked for a transportation company and was in charge of transportation and buying the mulch... I found a company in GA or ALA, don't remember exactly that would sell us the mulch for about $1.50 per bag, and a local company (Continetal Can) that ran loaded trucks in that direction and dead-headed home empty.... they were glad to offer us a really low rate on the trucking just to pay the fuel homeward...

We required the boys to help with the unloading, stacking and delivery of the mulch and a certain amount of the profits was credited to individual accounts, depending on how much work the boy put into the effort. We sold enough mulch delivered, that every boy in the troop had their way paid to the Scout Camp that summer and a number of them had money left over in their accounts...
 
I have been involved with several fundraising activities over the years (when my children were younger) and the most $$$$$ raised was the result of a golf outing.
The kids were very involved,several fun things thru out the course (nothing to distract others ) ball swap chips (first two were $5 ea,2d two were $10 ea) some of the lesser golfers were trying to buy in 10 chip lots,it was a fun day and quite a bit of money was raised.
We only needed that 1 fund raiser.
Mark
 
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