Fundraising opportunities
Fundraising
In a dwindling economy one must understand that fundraising must be an integral part of a football program. Knowing this, each class of players in the program will devote time outside of football and school to fundraise as well as maintain a positive image of our program in the community. Community projects will be developed by each individual class of players: freshman, sophomores, juniors, and seniors, while the head coach will oversee the project and supervise the players when they are in the community. Some examples of class community projects might include: raking leaves in the fall, caddying at a golf tournament, or doing a school wide clean up or beautification. Although the players will be doing their own projects among their respective classes, there will also be several fundraising efforts conducted as a whole team throughout the year. An example of a team wide fundraiser might involve sending out a letter asking for support from player’s families and relatives, which will have donation amounts easily available for the donors. As a head coach I firmly believe in maintaining a strong relationship with parents, boosters and the athletic department in order for my players to be successful on and off the field.
As a football program we are one of the most popular teams at the school, on Friday nights or Saturday afternoon we want to provide the community with an action packed atmosphere to watch our games. Knowing that we have the communities support is extremely important to me as a head coach. Thus we will continually try to give back to the community through many different kinds of projects and opportunities for players. Some examples of community projects include: reading buddies (players go to local schools and read with one or two children for an hour), serving dinner for the elderly (working with local retirement centers and the senior center), as well as working with local realtors when they need help moving furniture out of a house.
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Comments
Ryan, I love your ideas for giving back to the community. Not only does it endear your team to the community, but it's a great character development opportunity for your players. My question is would you "make" them participate, or do your players sign up for the community projects? What do you do if a player refuses to help out?
That's a great question Brady. If a player would like to participate on the football team I would require for them to participate in the small number of fundraising efforts that we will do as a team. As for community building activities and outreach types of oppunities the players will be asked as a class (Fresh, Soph, etc) To develop and carry out a project to enhance the relationship among the football team and the community. So yes the players will be asked to participate fully in these activities and I truly believe it will build commradrie throughout the players and prepare them for their future, in which they will be asked to do things that they might not always want to, such as the workplace.