Living guides built from interviews with the schools, teams, and parent groups behind real campaigns. Real numbers, real playbooks, updated as new conversations ship.
Local business sponsorships: packages, pricing, outreach timing, and why renewals out-earn new asks.
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Youth camps and clinics from registration to roster. What fills camps, what the waiver flow should look like, and where programs leave money behind.
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Walk-a-thons, read-a-thons, and pledge drives. Per-unit pledge mechanics, finalize-day math, and the participation tricks that lift totals.
Read the guide →Mountain Brook Schools turned the closing keynote of its annual teacher conference into a community fundraiser: $25 tickets to the empty auditorium seats, sold out in under 24 hours, more than $8,000 raised on an event that never used to make money. Kari Austin walks through how a two-person team ran it and what she'd do differently.
Read the playbook →Morgan Fabrizio co-coaches cheer at Duchesne High and has to raise every dollar the program costs. Her answer is a serve-a-thon (one hour of community service per $250 raised) pointed at families, a tiered business-sponsorship program (~$20k/yr) pointed at local shops, and a portfolio of smaller fundraisers filling the gaps. The whole system: the service reframe, the sponsor ladder, the budget-first advice, and why the money comes from asking, not posting.
Read the playbook →Emile Gibson runs a used uniform sale at her K-8 charter school that raises about $1,000 every summer in a two-hour window. The surprise: adding a free piece-for-piece exchange, which looked like giving money away, pulled in more families and kept revenue strong. Here's how the inventory, the exchange, the three-station floor, and the timing all fit together.
Read the playbook →How a girls' basketball coach raised over $30,000 selling sponsorships to local businesses: the tiered packages, the two-hour telethon night that pulled in $12,000, and the tracking habit that keeps you from burning your community.
Read the playbook →A middle school orchestra teacher stopped selling products and threw a party kids raise money to get into - turning a $5,000 goal into about $8,000.
Read the playbook →A head coach who's also the AD, a teacher, and a dad didn't add an event to his calendar. He bolted a silent auction onto the barbecue his team already throws and raised close to $2,000 on a night that used to net nothing.
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