Fundraising · Booster Clubs
Booster club fundraising ideas that survive a change of officers.
The hardest thing about booster club fundraising is not raising the money. It is that everything resets when the board turns over.
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What are the best booster club fundraising ideas?
The best booster club fundraisers are the ones a new board can inherit without re-learning them. Annual business sponsorships and recurring purchase-linked programs both carry forward; event-based fundraising has to be rebuilt from scratch by whoever is left standing.
Annual business sponsorship tiers
A published tier sheet — banner, program ad, uniform patch — that renews every year. Documented, repeatable, and the single easiest thing to hand to the next treasurer.
Concessions and gate
For clubs that run home events, usually the largest single line. Heavy on volunteer hours and entirely dependent on the schedule.
Spirit wear
Steady, low-margin, and a genuine community builder. Print-on-demand removes the inventory risk that has sunk many booster treasuries.
Trip-linked giving
Boosters exist largely to fund travel — competitions, tournaments, the spring trip. When families buy travel protection through the club’s page, that travel starts funding the club instead of only draining it.
Can the trip the boosters funded raise money back for the club?
Yes, and that is the point of the partnership. Families are already covering their own travel costs for competitions and trips. Bought through the club’s BonaVia page, BonaVia shares up to 40% of what it collects back to the club as a sponsorship — with no cost to the club and no change in price to the family.
- Set up once; it keeps running when the board turns over.
- Reported in plain dollars, so the treasurer’s handoff is a number, not a story.
- Covers competition travel and families’ own vacations alike.
- No inventory, no event, no volunteers on a Saturday.
The full picture for booster clubs, bands, and youth sports: what the sponsorship funds and how it survives the officer handoff.
Questions people ask
What is the most reliable booster club fundraiser?
Annual business sponsorships. They renew, they are documented, and a new board can run them from the previous year’s sheet — which is the real test, since most booster fundraising dies at the handoff.
Does the organization have to sell insurance?
No. BonaVia is the licensed producer and coverage is underwritten by licensed carrier partners. The organization introduces the option and names the cause; licensing, disclosures, and paperwork stay on our side. Nobody in your group needs a license.
What does it cost the organization to set up?
Nothing. There is no fee to partner and no minimum. Members pay the same price they would pay for the same coverage anywhere else — the sponsorship comes out of what BonaVia collects, not out of a markup on your members.
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