BoosterTrends Newsletter

October, 2002

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Dear Booster........

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Updates

Fundraising Corner is LIVE!

Chapter inquiries are now being accepted.

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Club Fact

Does your school have an Executive booster club?

Schools with one booster club that helps to oversee the activities of say the football, debate, cheerleading and band booster clubs have found an increase in parent participation and a decrease in problems between clubs.

Fundraising

Boot Camp "101" Fundraising for Booster Clubs - excerpt online now.

Visit us at: boosterclubs.org

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Dear Readers,

Thank you for helping make Booster Trends a success! We also want to welcome those of you who are just receiving Booster Trends for the first time. You join a growing list of fellow booster associates from around the country. To those of you who have been with us these past months we want you to know that we enjoy your letters, emails, comments and questions. Please keep them coming!

Now, on to this month's issue.

IN NEXT MONTHS ISSUE

• Increase your membership by 50% or more.

• Fundraising solutions that work.

FUNDRAISING CORNER IS LIVE!

Fundraising Corner is now back online. Clubs can now fundraise online 24-7 without volunteer burnout. Fundraising just got easier.

NBCA NEEDS YOUR SLOGAN IDEAS

Help us design a slogan and a look for Booster Bee.

Click on the link above and email us your best slogan or email a drawing of how you think Booster Bee should look. Booster Bee will become a life size mascot and participate in NBCA activities around the country.

VENDOR SPOTLIGHT OF THE MONTH

The NBCA is proud to introduce Pacific West Marketing from Laguna Niguel, California.

Pacific West Marketing specializes in creative and unique fundraising solutions. Company president Ed Shriber says "We provide innovative & quality designed products that are guaranteed to make your next fundraiser a special event!! We feature creativity & putting the fun back in fundraising!"

We are excited to welcome Pacific West Marketing to the NBCA family. We encourage you to visit them online in Vendor Alley and in Fundraising Corner.

DEAR BOOSTER .....

Dear Booster,
Can you please tell me if there are any by-laws that a Booster Club has to have, and if there are, are they similar to ones of the PTA By-Laws. I have been elected President of my sons ROTC High School Booster Club. Have been in PTA for 12 years and not sure what are the rules the booster club would need to follow. Thanks, SAEJP@aol.com

Dear ROTC Booster President,
Unlike a PTA group, booster clubs are independent parent organizations established to support a specific activity or sport. And in most all cases a booster club is many times larger then a PTA group. Due to the type of activities, amount of fundraising and the state and federal guidelines that place a booster club in the same category as a business you will need to follow a few guidelines in setting up your booster club correctly.

Through our online Internet portal - BoosterWorld, you can find documents designed to help your group start out on the right foot and insure a successful development of your club. Here is a link to a section in our website that provides sample documents for getting started sample booster club documents. I would also like to encourage you to register your group with the NBCA so you can access all the resources you will need to help build and maintain a strong and thriving booster club.

Review the documents and then email us so we can help insure your booster club becomes a huge success.

Send us your Dear Booster.... article and we will select one each month to share with the readers of Booster Trends. To submit your question email dearbooster@boosterclubs.org.

BOOSTER CLUB TIPS & POINTERS

We want to give special thanks to this months contributor, Tina Hoffman with UltimateFundRaising.Net. Tina's tips come from Lawrenceville, Georgia.

I have two tips:
1. To get new members to be club officers, try having last years officer co-chair a position with a new member. When someone is there to "show you the ropes", the position doesn't seem quite to huge.

2. To gain membership, my daughters Chorus Booster Club offers incentives to join. When we paid our $10 dues, we received a coupon from a local restaurant for a free sandwich plus, when we show our Booster Club Membership Card at some of the local stores, we receive a discount. The restaurant and local stores donate these items/discounts to the booster club - it's free advertising for them!

Thanks Tina we appreciate your suggestions. You can visit Tina and Ultimate Fundraising.net in Vendor Alley and in Fundraising Corner.

REGISTER YOUR CLUB FOR COMMAND CENTRAL

DON'T FORGET!

Your booster club now has the tools to succeed! Again this month we want to encourage you to get your booster club registered and start taking advantage of Command Central, a secure section where clubs can control multi-tasking activities such as:

	- Building and controlling membership, alumni and vendor databases
	- Developing and sending club newsletters
	- Sending mass emails with ease
	- Building monthly activity calendars which can be printed or emailed
	- Controlling online fundraisers and recording important information on successful offline fundraiser's
	- Cataloging club documents as well as gathering new documents from other clubs through a "share all directory"
	- Recording club tips, pointers and suggestions for future club officers.
	- And many more club specific activities.

Command Central is available to all clubs. Some Command Central activities however are restricted to NBCA affiliate clubs so make sure you club signs up today. To register to use Command Central visit BoosterWorld now.

CLUB SURVEY RESULTS

In last month's issue we asked the following 3 questions

1.	What fundraising activity does your club have the most success with?
2.	Is your club looking for new fundraisers?
3.	What would be an ideal fundraiser?

Here is what YOU the readers had to say:
1.	63% of respondents replied that raffles were their most successful event. 21% stated that candy sales were their #1 seller 11% remarked that selling specialty foods ranked #1, and 5% marked car washes as their #1 most successful fundraiser.
2.	An overwhelming 97% of respondents answered that they were actively looking for a new fundraiser while 3% said they were happy with what they were currently doing.
3.	Asked "what would be an ideal fundraiser" 79% responded - one that was easy and made lots of money 14% answered with, something new and exciting 7% stated they didn't have any idea


This month we would like to get your response to the following question:

What is the #1 challenge facing your club?

Submit your answers now
We will report the results in next months Booster Trend e-newsletter.

FAST FACT

Quote of the month-
"Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do."

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