There are times when the soccer team needs new uniforms and the sponsors can not afford to pay for the entire cost of these new uniforms. This is where the team depends on the soccer moms and their knowledge of fundraising come in.
Soccer moms can band together and come up with some really good ideas on raising money for new uniforms and equipment when needed by the soccer teams.
Fundraising events can be for the adults only such as a trivia night in which groups or teams of people purchase a table and then everything is included like their drinks and food. The soccer mom’s would get donations from local businesses for the drinks and food in exchange for advertising the local businesses before and during the trivia night event. The soccer moms could approach a local radio host or some other local personality to host the evening as MC or the person who asks the questions. In addition, there must be prizes and these can be donated by local businesses in exchange for visible advertising on all signs and announcements regarding the fund raiser.
Other adult only fundraisers could include a dinner and dance or a Vegas casino night. Fundraisers that could include the children are movie and popcorn night at the movie theater; bowling; a day at the amusement park or regular park or a swimming party at someone’s house or a local swimming pool.
Fundraising is mostly about donations and advertising and soccer moms know how to do both. The soccer moms know how to get the donations for the sale of items or for the prizes. They play on the sympathies of the big business or even the small businesses to get the donations. Another good way to get the donations is to offer free advertising in exchange for the donations. This is always a good way to get donations from both small and large businesses. Putting ‘sponsored by:’ on the signs or in the announcements with the businesses name always helps the businesses because it is like free advertisement for them and it only costs them the amount of the product or service they are donating.
Many of the soccer mom fundraisers for uniforms and equipment can include the soccer players because they need to learn the value of working for what they need. Fundraisers like dog washes; car washes; bake sales in which they make or help make most of the baked good and yard sales are all something the children can help with.
Having a soccer mom yard sale to help raise money for equipment and/or uniforms is something everyone can get involved in and it not only helps the team, it helps the environment because you are recycling old junk that you would normally be throwing away when you clean your house. The kids can clean out their room of old toys and books they no longer play with and the adults can clean the house of unused items as well.
Visha Lopez is the owner and head soccer mom at http://www.momvoice.com See more of her articles about Soccer Moms at http://www.momvoice.com/about-soccer-moms-articles.html
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