I am looking for any information on fundraisers that you do at your schools. Can anyone give me some ideas?

Pre-season dinner with a live and silent auction. Also at this we sell fancy desserts. You'd be surprised how many 100-200 dollar cakes and pies you can sell!

Bar-type stools on the 1 st base line - with a table arm rest that runs along the front. Auction off a year's use or get the buyer to give that amount per year every year his kid is going to be in the program. Just 4 to keep it "exclusive"

Camps

Snack bars

Alumni games w/ BBQ

I did powder puff football and would get around $1000 profit from it. Charge the girls about $15 and get them a shirt. Each class is a team and you can split the field and have two games at once. Then two winners play for a championship and have the two losers play to get them another game.

Kids love it.

we are lucky and are 15 miles from bristol motor speedway. that provides us with many fundraising opportunities. we work in the hospitality village and make about $5000 for the august race and $2000 spring race.
we've done real good with varsity gold meal coupons and cookie dough.
our basketball team has a duck race. $5 per duck. we race the rubber ducks down a creek that runs through our school grounds. winning duck gets $500. we clear between 4000 and 5000 dollars on this.
do any of you high school coaches have a fundraising minimum or a participation fee for your players? we require our kids to fundraise $200 each. alot of them just bring the money and dont participate in the fundraisers.

Find somebody that has a lot of money they can donate to the program. No strings attached of course. good luck

thats not going to happen with us. our parents think the school system gives us all the money we need. in actuality they give us $0. they pay the water and electric bill. thats it. even when i tell them otherwise and show them our expenses we still have some that want to complain about fundraising. anybody else have that problem?

I started helping our program out last year and the two things that were the best were:

1. Signage: By far the best way to go. Get local business' involved and they get good value for the marketing $ and the program gets additional funding.

2. Sponsor a tournament: We did one for the first time this year and it was a huge success. We cut our JV field grass to support 54/80' dimensions and got local Pony teams to play as well as doing a 16U High School tournament. Huge success for us we made over $7000 in one week-end plus it keeps the fundraising baseball focused and does not impinge or overlap other programs fundraising.

Good Luck!

Hit-a-thon.
$2,500+ a year for us in a community of about 1,000 people.
We do it like this: Players are given pledge sheets about 2 weeks before the event. The sheets have spaces for; donor's name, amount pledged per foot, flat donation (if they don't want to go with the amount per foot), distance ball is hit, and amount owed.
We advertise the event on the local radio, have it at night with the lights on, and sometimes invite guest hitters (principal, sheriff, dj's, etc.). The players have gone out ahead of the event and secured pledges on how far they can hit a baseball. For instance, if you pledged me a penny per foot and I hit one 400', then you would owe me $4. Some people prefer to give a flat donation.
Before the hit-a-thon we measure a semi-circle around the outfield @ 200' and place cones at different points along the 200' line. This will speed up measurement that comes later. We set up our pitching machine on the mound grooving straight fastballs and place a bucket and screen behind 2nd base for shagging.
A batting order is set and the players rotate from shagging in the of, to the bucket, to on-deck, to hitting, to back to the of. The players are a dozen or so swings (more if needed to "blast" one) and the batted ball that is hit the farthest is measured. We measure carry and roll (it is a fundraiser!) and measure from the cones we have set out @ 200'. Our PA guy will announce the players name hitting and his distance at the completion of the round. The player who hits it the farthest wins a prize, as does the player who raises the most money.
As the hit-a-thon goes on I record the distances on the sheets the players have given to me before the start, and the amount of money they will need to turn in to me, and return them after the event. I will then set a deadline for the money to be returned. Those who don't return the money by the assigned day are given "motivation" that doubles every day it is late.

The concept is very similar to a 100 inning game, but this only takes about an hour to run off.

Ryno: i like your "guest hitters" idea, hadn't thought of that.
Home basketball and football games provide huge crowds for you to have 'auctions' .