Running school clubs and sports teams comes with certain responsibilities, and fundraising is trickier.
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Volleyball Fundraising & Ideas
Running school clubs and sports teams comes with certain responsibilities, and fundraising is trickier.
Fundraising is often needed to ensure that your volleyball team has enough money to travel between matches and events and pay for equipment and practice gear.
But fundraising year after year in a small school community without your fundraising attempts getting stale is challenging. If you rely on the same fundraising methods every year, students and teachers will be uninspired, and you’ll find the funds you’re raising don’t stack up.
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How to host a successful volleyball fundraiser
Successful school fundraising involves organizing amazing events everyone wants to attend, keeping your events calendar fresh each year, and ensuring that donations are maximized at these events.
The first is up to you; make sure you go all out to make your events as good as they can be. This shouldn’t mean spending lots of money because that would defeat the point of raising funds. If you call in lots of favors and put the legwork into organizing a fantastic event, word will soon spread that hockey fundraisers are worth attending.
Keeping your events calendar fresh is trickier, but with a bit of planning, it’s possible to host plenty of varied events each year without your community feeling bored. Choose a few classic fundraisers and mix them with more unique and creative options to stop your calendar from getting stale. Bakes sales, yard sales, raffles, car washes, and auctions can complement online quizzes, sports tournaments, social media challenges, and sponsored runs to keep things interesting.
Maximizing donations is the final detail to consider when putting together your fundraisers. It’s possible to host the most amazing events throughout the school year without making huge amounts from donations; this is where business savvy comes in. Open up multiple avenues for donations: online sponsorship, ticket sales, and event collection points can help make the most of your event. Marketing your event will also help maximize reach and drive higher donations.
The best volleyball fundraising ideas
If you’re stuck on ideas, try something new. Your volleyball team can put together the following:
- A social media photography competition. Encourage everyone in the school to take their best snaps and charge a few dollars for entry, with the winning image featured in the school paper and a small prize. This gets everyone involved, and it’s easy to host.
- Family challenges. You can combine this with doing your part for the community and challenge families to raise money by recycling the most, cleaning up litter, or donating the most to your cause. Play around with family challenges and see what your community is receptive to.
- eBay off some prized possessions to raise funds for the team. Get everyone to contribute; you can even appeal to the wider school and community if they’ve got anything they’d like to donate. Selling items on eBay is less convenient than at a yard sale but can often bring in more money.
Websites like Pinterest are packed with fundraising ideas for school sports teams and clubs, so it’s always worth getting more inspiration from the net before planning your calendar of volleyball fundraising events.
Maximizing your donations
As mentioned earlier, one of the most important things you can do when organizing a fundraiser is to maximize the donations you receive. Going all out to host the best events of the school year is great, but if this doesn’t convert into donations, something needs to change.
The first step towards maximizing donations is your marketing strategy. Advertise your fundraisers as much as possible; don’t just settle for the school paper. Use posters and flyers around school and the local community, get an advert on the local radio, and post on social media. Anywhere you can get your fundraiser noticed without spending much money is worth considering.
You’ll also need to work to ensure that your attendees and participants donate as much money as they want. If you host an event with a ticket price, many people will assume that their ticket price is enough of a donation, even if they’d be willing to pay more. Opening up more avenues for donations will probably mean that people will donate more overall, and you might even get donations from people who can’t attend your event but want to support the volleyball team anyway.
How does Classful work?
Classful is an online fundraising platform for schools and educational institutions that can help sports teams, clubs, teachers, and PTOs to raise funds for school activities. Like other fundraising platforms, Classful offers teachers and students an easy way to set up a page that donors can use to donate money to, keeping up to date with news about the fundraiser and posting updates on how much money has been raised.
Classful offers schools a fantastic chance to market their fundraisers online, collect donations in a way that is quick and convenient for most donors, and communicate with donors and other members of the community to keep them engaged and involved in the fundraiser. It’s easy to use, and schools or volleyball teams can set up pages.
Get in touch
If you’re looking to maximize the money you can raise for your volleyball team this year, Classful can help you. We support schools across the US to raise more money to enable students and clubs to reach their full potential every year. Sign up with Classful today to create a fundraising page for your volleyball team, or get in touch with us to learn more about how we work and how our platform can help you successfully raise funds for your school.
