- Nov 11, 2011
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Hey Everyone! I am going into my 5th year at the HS I coach at, and when I started we had very active boosters, they did a lot of fundraisers and consistently had large rollover season to season. About 3 years ago, the parents started to "fight" with each other, less and less would help with the Boosters. I intervened one year, gave a number of ideas, people were responsive, however, I was getting stuck in the middle of parent wars, so I was asked by the AD to step back. Something to keep in mind, ZERO of our competition costs are paid by school.
We run a competition, have concessions at basketball, and do the 50/50 at Football. In addition we have binders about youth clinics (used to run 2-3 a year), designer bag raffles, basket bingo, car washes, and other various items, small and large to help athletes with both individual expenses and team expenses, that have not been acted on this past season.
I was told yesterday we are starting at a deficit for 2016-2107, my only reaction was this is not my fault, I asked about dates for clinics and if we were going to do our designer raffles. In addition, we used to do a resturant night a month which isn't a lot of money, but that is easy. To start w/ a deficit is a HUGE issue and we shouldn't have it. I am constantly questioning why things aren't planned and why we are in this hole. Also, I stayed under my projected costs for the year, so there should be at least a little left over (I think they used it for the banquet which is fine).
Does anyone have issues w/ Booster Programs and parents not wanting to help? Does anyone have ways to try and get everyone to understand no fundraising, no competition?
Thanks!
We run a competition, have concessions at basketball, and do the 50/50 at Football. In addition we have binders about youth clinics (used to run 2-3 a year), designer bag raffles, basket bingo, car washes, and other various items, small and large to help athletes with both individual expenses and team expenses, that have not been acted on this past season.
I was told yesterday we are starting at a deficit for 2016-2107, my only reaction was this is not my fault, I asked about dates for clinics and if we were going to do our designer raffles. In addition, we used to do a resturant night a month which isn't a lot of money, but that is easy. To start w/ a deficit is a HUGE issue and we shouldn't have it. I am constantly questioning why things aren't planned and why we are in this hole. Also, I stayed under my projected costs for the year, so there should be at least a little left over (I think they used it for the banquet which is fine).
Does anyone have issues w/ Booster Programs and parents not wanting to help? Does anyone have ways to try and get everyone to understand no fundraising, no competition?
Thanks!