carwash / hotdog & hamburgers sale at auto zone and at super walmart was very sucessful we raised an average of $600 PER EVENT. we did 1 a month and raised alot of money,

sell sub coupons

helmet drives at local stores

sell pepsis and candy bars cause my team sold 700 cases of soda and lots ofcandy bars

have a stand that sells cold drinks soda hot dogs and snacks

We have done various things for fundraising:

1. carwashes...remember to pre-sell tickets, and generate fliers for the kids to hand out to neighbors (the copy place was generous enough to donate these for us, hopefully you can find a place that will or at least cut you a break), our local Carl's Jr. was nice enough to not charge us a fee and give us a Saturday morning...we raised a little over $600.00 for our troubles...not bad for a couple hours worth of work.

2. Snack Bars... you can do this a number of ways. At practices...have a variety of water, sportsdrinks, snacks available for purchase during practice. *This however is more effective, and less about nickel and diming the team if the practice field is in a residential area and you've got a good amount of traffic that goes to that park.

---or if you can get permission from the league run a snack stand during games, this will generate a lot of money quickly. But you will need alot of donations from the team as well as adult volunteers to run it as it will be an all day affair...we've raised over $2000.00 each time we've been allowed to do this, this was even after we subtracted expenses, we also had a parent who worked for a meat distribution company and was able to get the meat donated (that was a big help). Make sure you have everything iced down. (Our league required a fee of 10%, plus we had to get a permit from our county to do this)

3. Raffles, we've had items donated to the team like barbeque grills, mini motorcycles that raised money...about breaking even if we were to have just purchased the item ourselves. The best raffles we've done were memorabilia from the team...a football signed by the players (the smallest haul we had on that was $250.00 the largest was over $600.00) , a jersey, a mini helmet etc. Only one item per game.

4. We sold discount cards also... we got a 50% return on each one, and we ran it for a week, and made over $2000.00 on it. If you can get permission from a grocery store, have the kids and parents out there in shifts, you don't want to be hitting up friends and co-workers all the time during the season. Walmart/Sams club even has a program of matching funds up to $1000.00 if your group qualifies for their quidelines.

That's all I can remember right now without looking at my notes hopefully some of this helps.