Cal Ripken Alberta Baseball is a fundraising success story you can take to the ball game! This team has been able to raise over $2K two years in a row.
About Alberta Cal Ripken Baseball
Alberta Cal Ripken Baseball is a competitive baseball program for youth aged 8-12 in the Calgary area. Younger athletes can participate in their introduction team and try out for competitive teams as they grow into their baseball skills.
The biggest goal of the Alberta Cal Ripken Baseball organization is to provide an affordable experience for those who would like to participate in and better baseball culture in Alberta. Their primary focus in the program is development and growth, both as an athlete and a person.
As they have grown, one of the most coveted opportunities at Cal Ripken is for their elite players, who compete in the Cal Ripken World Series in the Spring and Summer each year.
“The cost of sending a team for the 10 days to represent CANADA typically costs $50 – $70K per year. It’s been the goal to send the best players to represent their country and province, however some families are not able to financially commit to the cost of training, travel, and tournaments required to prepare for the World Series.”
– Coach Rob A.
Consequently, they have also had to find a way to quickly up their fundraising game without overwhelming volunteers and supporters. When it came to finding sustainable baseball fundraising opportunities, they realized they needed to start thinking outside of the diamond.
Fundraising for Baseball Teams
Like many baseball organizations, Cal Ripken relies on fundraising to make their competitive season and travel possible. The team had tried several fundraising strategies, but found they often:
❌ Took lots of time to set up and get going
❌ Required a lot of effort to get traction from members
❌ Needed time-consuming management from volunteers
With this mighty goal in mind (and a little research), Cal Ripken found TeamFund. Here’s a quick summary of how it works:
TeamFund offers tasty food fundraisers with healthy, restaurant-quality, and mostly locally sourced fundraising products that families love! Cal Ripken opts for the Fill Your Freezer and Spolumbo’s*
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After signing up, parents and supporters are able to stock up on restaurant-quality meats and grocery staples while earning an average of 20% profit of all sales to help send players to competitions across the province!
All purchases are made online (no inventory or cash handling!) and delivered to the team a few weeks later.
One way that Cal Ripken makes its fundraisers unique is by starting them before the parent group has a chance to meet. This has been a fantastic way to help families get to know each other at the start of the training season.
Right off the bat, Alberta Cal Ripken Baseball knew they had found a fundraising opportunity that:
✅ Families were keen on buying and selling (everyone needs to eat!)
✅ Did not involve “chance” lotteries or raffles
✅ Restaurant-quality, healthy food options to fit their lifestyle
✅ Has an easy, user-friendly online fundraising platform
✅ Would not overextend already busy parents and volunteers with timely activities like door-to-door sales while taking advantage of the team-building aspects of fundraising
Avoid Family Fundraising Burnout
By working with TeamFund, Cal Ripken has saved hours of volunteer time, avoided having to hawk apparel or “chances” to win something, and had successful campaigns with great payback. Plus, they can easily return again and again with little to no start-up issues (whenever their freezers start to run empty!)
“It is a very seamless process. It is great having a TeamFund representative here to help and offer suggestions.”
Their efforts have paid off! Alberta Cal Ripken Baseball has been able to raise more money with less work and give families the opportunity to get to know each other at the same time (without competing for a cash prize).
Over $2K Raised Two Years in A Row! (~$5600 total)
![AlbertaCalRipken-March23 Wolverines Hockey Club, delivery in Calgary, June 2023. Holding cheque of all time raised over $36,000.](https://teamfund.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/AlbertaCalRipken-March23.jpg)
![AlbertaCalRipken-April24 Wolverines Hockey Club, delivery in Calgary, June 2023. Holding cheque of all time raised over $36,000.](https://teamfund.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/AlbertaCalRipken-April24.jpg)
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Your baseball team or group can do it too! Here is what Alberta Cal Ripken Baseball had to say about their experience:
“TeamFund developed an online platform that enabled the Team to invite, process, document and delivers the product to the supporter with no paper transactions. This allowed the Team to leverage their time more efficiently as fundraising can interfere with games, practices and team building. The coordination of a TeamFund event requires approximately 4 hours from start to finish, including reminder emails, updates and specifically product pick-up which accounts for 50% the total time”
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