All cheerleading teams know that fundraising can be a big challenge.  My friend, fund-rasing expert Kristy Hall, and I are developing a new system that is designed to be fun and profitable.  Kristy has appeared in this blog before.  She specializes in helping small non-profits raise cash fast. In this video, Kristy offers a first in a series of tips on raising funds for your cheerleading organization.

We welcome your comments and questions so please go to the “Contact” page to write to me or contact Kristy directly at kristy@universal-synergy.com.

Cheerleading squads have big expenses.  There are cheerleading uniforms, pom poms, equipment, travel costs, banners, and much more.  Well, here’s a way to earn $2000 for your school and get something for yourself, as well!

How?  Enter the Bring it on: Fight to the Finish essay contest!  All you have to do is write a 300 word essay about how your cheer program has benefited your community and school. Now 300 words isn’t much.  I bet some of you text hundreds and hundreds of words a day!  So why not take some time, gather your thoughts, and write them down.  Maybe you could enlist a group of your cheer buddies to work together on this.

All submissions will be judged on 3 dimensions: 1) Impact on your community and school; 2) grammar; and 3) clarity of thought.

In addition to the $2000 for your school, you, as the winner, will receive a $500 gift card to Pottery Barn Teen!

Go to this website for full details:  

Good luck!

Raising money is a chronic challenge for cheerleaders.  Typical ways of raising cash is by selling things such as cookie dough, pizzas, T-shirts, and other items or by hosting car washes and so forth.  These methods can be time consuming and may not actually yield much in the way of funds. 

My friend, Kristy Hall, is an expert on fund-raising and she has developed some innovative ways of helping organizations raise money - fast! 

 For example, Kristy helped a non-profit organization called One Home Many Hopes raise over $40,000 in 30 days last fall!  I might add that this organization is small and entirely run by volunteers; they have no paid staff and had no budget. 

Kristy has produced a complimentary DVD of this successful process in which she describes the exact strategies One Home Many Hopes used to raise over $40,000 in 30 days.  

The DVD also describes: 

 >>How One Home Many Hopes Did This With No Budget, No Paid Staff & Virtually No Database

>>Specific Ways They Implemented the Strategies 

>>How Their Strategies Changed Over the 30 Days 

>>How They Got Their Team to Reach Out To Their Networks 

>>How They Kept Their Team Motivated & Focused for 30 Days 

>>Specific Tips You Can Immediately Implement With Your Team 

>>How Much Time Is Required to Raise $40k in 30 Days

>>The Step-by-Step Process I took One Home Many Hopes Through to Get Results 

>>5 Key Things One Home Many Hopes Did To Succeed - and How You Can Do Them Too! 

 Kristy is offering this DVD for FREE (you pay only shipping and handling) to anyone who would like one. 

Simply go to her website to order yours now!

Meet Kristy Hall - an expert on fundraising for non-profits! I had the pleasure of interviewing Kristy a while back and we recorded the call so here it is! In this call, Kristy offers cheerleaders several tips on how to raise funds - fast! Kristy recently helped a small non-profit raise more than $20,000 in less than 30 days! What could your cheerleading team do with $20,000?

For more information about Kristy go to www.weneedfundsnow.com/cheer. Please feel free to contact me or Kristy with your questions. If you like, I can invite Kristy to a special teleconfernce call where she can answer your questions in detail.

Here you go:

In my quest to meet cheer coaches and learn more about the sport, I have discovered that finding money to pay for everything from uniforms and equipment to camps and competitions is a huge challenge.

Some schools pay very little to their cheer teams (and coaches!) and so it’s up to the team to dream up ways to raise funds.

I have teamed up with an expert fundraiser to begin to address these problems.  This expert, who works exclusively with small non-profit organizations, met with me to record an information-packed interview that provides all sorts of tips on ways to raise money.

The interview will be available within the next week or so, so be sure to stay tuned!  In the meantime, feel free to post your questions about fund-raising and I’ll pass them on to get you answers!