Great Sports Fundraisers - Cookie Dough

 

Sports Fundraisers: Forming Your Volunteer Team 

                   When forming large fundraising projects especially sports fundraisers, you should consider putting up together a volunteer team that will help you in your goals and objectives. Otherwise, you will be overworked and exhausted and your fundraising project would crumble into pieces. The most ideal team should be volunteer-based so that you can maximize your financial income at the end of the whole project. You can hire someone but make sure it is just for specialized tasks that most people can’t handle.

            In doing sports fundraisers, you may think that most people don’t like volunteering and do it with resent but that idea is far from reality. In fact, many people would be more than happy to help out and pitch in for the simple reason of just helping out for a good cause. People naturally help out other people’s activities especially if they know that they are doing it for a good cause. The best people that you should approach are those individuals or groups that have prior experience in doing fundraising activities and people who are supportive to your cause. They can even use their experiences to further improve your fundraising campaign plan. Good examples of this are parents who are interested to help their players on a sports team that needs new uniforms. You can even use you own sports team to participate on your fundraising event. You can also look for individuals that are just naturally giving their precious time and effort to help you achieve your goals and objectives. These people often have the drive as well as the ambition of several volunteers combined so make sure to look out for them. Looking for volunteers is just common sense. You can start from people whom you have worked before in a fundraising event if they are still interested to work with you again. You can even place ads on your local shopping mall, park and community center that you are looking for competitive volunteers to help you out with your fundraising campaign. You can even approach your local newspaper if they can spare a small ad space for you to find help.

            When talking to your potential volunteers, tell them what you are trying accomplish and what would you expect from them with regards to time and effort. Show your fundraising plan in front of them so that they would know that you are serious about the whole fundraising project. They will also know how they can help out in your fundraising project. Make sure that you have a good insight in their skills and capabilities so that you can decide what kind of task and responsibility that you are going to give them. This is a good way of saying to them that you acknowledge their talents and abilities. Don’t give out tasks which are not related to their skills.

            Take good care of your volunteers because they are the life force of the whole fundraising project. Without them you will never achieve success on your fundraising project. Show gratitude when they do a good job and motivate them to do better when they fail.