If you have ever been part of a sports team, are a parent of a student-athlete, or you’re a superfan of the local high school football team, odds are you have purchased a discount card or a box of candy bars to help the team raise money for their upcoming season.
Fundraising is incredibly beneficial to K–12 schools – especially for their athletic departments! There are the known reasons, like raising funds to buy new uniforms, but fundraising goes beyond equipment upgrades.
Let’s take a look at the 5 essential benefits of online fundraising for high school athletics.
- Financial Support: Fundraising provides sport programs with essential funds needed to successfully operate each season, across all sports. Whether that means paying for equipment, activities, essentials, or upgrading facilities. Fundraising, and more specifically, online fundraising — helps bridge the financial gap many teams face. But teams still end up sacrificing 20% or more for platform fees! Through our partnership with Schoolfundr, you can keep the money you raise and get the financial support you need to fuel a successful season.
- Team Building: Fundraising brings a team together, working as one towards a common goal. A-thon based fundraising is an engaging form of team building that teaches athletes the importance of their role on the team and how to rely on each other. Schoolfundr enables unique, a-thon style fundraisers tailored to your school’s needs, with personalized goals, rewards, and activities designed to empower students and drive results.
- Character Development: Fundraising requires a variety of skills like listening, planning, time-management, communication, and more. These lifelong lessons not only help students with fundraising, but also in their coursework, collegiate journey, and future employment. The skills that are developed through fundraising stay with student-athletes throughout their lives and play a vital role in their character development.
- Inclusion: Not every student-athlete can afford the necessary costs of competing on an athletic team. Fundraising helps offset that. Online fundraising with HomeTown + Schoolfundr allows every student-athlete on the team the same opportunity to participate. All students deserve the opportunity to compete on the playing field, and fundraising helps make sure that is possible.
- Community: Fundraising has a way of bringing the community together, both on and off the field. But fundraising doesn’t always have to be confined to your local network. By using an online fundraising platform, students can spread the word about their fundraiser with just one click, making it simple and convenient to reach their extended network. Let anyone help make your hometown team successful!
"As an experienced HomeTown customer, I'm well aware of the impact that advanced digital tools can have on my program. Our District has already had a great experience running multiple campaigns using the Schoolfundr platform, and Schoolfundr is now going to revolutionize the way we fundraise, and how we manage our finances across the entire athletic department."
Ready to get started? HomeTown wants to support you on your journey to raise more! Start fundraising today and see how HomeTown + Schoolfundr can help your teams score big this season.
