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Countdown to Fundraising Corner!

State Chapter inquiries are now being accepted.

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Do you know of a booster worker who deserves to be recognized?

Scheduling booster club meetings on Tuesday or Thursday will increase your meeting attendance.

Including a guest speaker and keeping your meeting to no more then 1 hour will insure they come back.

Develop a solid agenda. Don't allow for your group to get sidetracked into conversations and topics not included in your meeting agenda.

People are busy and will only get involved if you show them how they can help your cause without overwhelming their lives with tasks. Keep it fun!

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

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.

The NBCA is proud to announce that we have a new mascot.

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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.

Dear Booster,
We are looking for guidance on how to structure a Booster Club to support our athletic teams at our schools. We've had a club in the past but in recent years it seems as though they've lost their way and no one seems to know exactly how a booster club should be organized and run. Any information you could offer would be appreciated.
S. Clay
Cameron R-1
Cameron, Missouri

Dear Shauna,
Welcome to the NBCA. Our focus is helping support booster clubs and the activities they promote. Through our online Internet portal - BoosterWorld, seminars, regional events and activities, fundraising programs and solutions, interactive booster club tools and ongoing guidance the NBCA is working to help both start-up and existing clubs gain a position of stable growth. Here is a link to a document that outlines sample booster club guidelines. You will also find other sample documents which can be used in starting your club. I would also like to encourage you to register your group once you have gathered some parents together to start the club. This will officially start the connection between your club and the NBCA so we can provide you more indepth support and guidance.

We welcome and encourage you to send additional emails as you start the process of building the club so we can provide one-on-one support and guidance. 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.

We want to thank all you who have shared Booster Trends with fellow club members, parents and other club officials.

As we all start a new and exciting school year we want to encourage you to pass this email on to other booster clubs in your school and from the surrounding schools in your community. Together we can help make a positive difference in the support of extra-curricular activities.

Thanks to our tremendous readers this newsletter is skyrocketing and we are very excited to provide booster clubs and those who support their cause from around the country with this monthly publication. If you have something special you would like to see in this publication email us your comments and suggestions to newsletter@boosterclubs.org .

We can't encourage you enough 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:

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.

We would like to encourage you to submit your answers to the following 3 questions:

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

Product fundraising generates $4.164 billion in annual retail sales, up roughly 7% since the previous survey in 1997, the last time the industry group collected the statistical data.

Clearly, product sales is a critical resource for schools and other non-profit organizations working to raise money for computers, class trips, athletic and music programs, playground equipment and much more.

Other key findings:
- Schools and school groups represent 80% of fundraising sales.
- Among school sales, more than half (54%) were made through elementary schools.
- Among survey respondents, top selling products were, in order: candies and confections, magazine subscriptions, frozen entrees, cheese and meat products, decorative novelties and gift wrap.
- On average, non-profit groups retain 46.5% of the total fundraising sale as pure profit!
- The average product fundraiser generates nearly $6,000 in sales.

Quote of the month-
If you won't be better tomorrow than you were today, then what do you need tomorrow for?