About Alberta Dance Academy

Alberta Dance Academy is a vibrant dance studio based in Okotoks, Alberta. Since 1990, they have cultivated an inclusive and loving community of expressive and coachable dancers. The Alberta Dance Academy is built on the values of grit, discipline, ambition, humility, and empathy. 

Alberta Dance Academy supports both recreational and competitive dancers. Recreational dance is from 2-year-old beginners to adults. Their competitive team comprises of 79 dancers across eight different groups, spanning ages 5-18. Most of their competitions are in Calgary, Red Deer, and Medicine Hat. However, some teams are venturing as far as Scottsdale, Arizona this year! 

In 2007, Erica Hendry became the owner of the Alberta Dance Academy and cherishes the familial community that defines the studio. Regardless of age or skill level, everyone supports each other to create a nurturing environment for dancers to thrive. 

For Erica, dance is more than just a form of creative and artistic expression. Dance is also a way to impart life skills that go beyond the studio: punctuality, discipline, work ethic, and how to balance ambition with empathy. Aside from these skills, it is also a great activity to keep youth busy, active, and out of trouble.

Keeping Dance Affordable with Food Fundraising

Unlike a traditional sports team, the amount of time a dancer dedicates to their craft is unique amongst each family. Some dancers will do just one competitive dance in a year, while others will do up to thirteen. From classes to costuming to travel, it can become a very expensive sport. 

Erica runs several fundraisers throughout the year to help support dancers with fees. Some of their smaller fundraisers include chocolate and seasonal flowers (perfect for celebrating an amazing show!) However, their biggest fundraiser each year is with TeamFund. 

This October, Alberta Dance Academy raised over $4800 in their most recent fundraiser with a Fill Your Freezer, Simple Simons, and Thai Manna options. 

TeamFund allows families to purchase delicious food while supporting Alberta Dance Academy’s talented and dedicated dancers at the same time. Soups and curries are perfect quick meals for the cold and the Fill Your Freezer allows families to stock up on grocery staples. 

Alberta Dance Academy allows any dancer to participate in fundraising to help with their dancing costs, whether they are a recreational dancer or competitive one. 

During the fundraiser, TeamFund automatically keeps track of profits per dancer. Once the fundraiser is over, the funds are divvied into dancers’ accounts, and families can use those funds toward class fees, costuming, or competitive fees.

TeamFund Saves Organizers & Volunteer Time

When the Alberta Dance Academy did not have a parent committee, Erica was looking for a profitable fundraiser that was easy for her to manage on top of running her duties of running the academy. That’s when TeamFund came in! 

Erica loves TeamFund’s easy-to-use online tools that allow her to navigate, change, and update any details easily during the fundraiser: 

“It’s a really easy-to-use fundraising system.” 

TeamFund handles the organizing, tracking, setting up delivery, and taking payments so that Erica has more time to promote and share the fundraiser with dance families and connect with her community. 

Erica loves that TeamFund can deliver the product to their studio, where volunteers can organize and distribute the tasty eats to supporters.

Some of the other fundraisers they have tried in the past only had a pick-up option, and having delivery makes it a smoother experience: 

“TeamFund is organized and efficient. I love that they deliver, and I receive our profits almost immediately after the fundraiser!” 

Erica was happily surprised to learn that the Alberta Dance Academy has raised over $17,000 with TeamFund to support its incredible dancers since 2021.

ALL TIME: Over $17,400 raised!

They always like to keep it fresh and exciting. Over the years, they have tried lots of options: Bacon, Fill Your Freezer, Thai Manna, Coco Brooks, Simple Simons, and Spolumbo’s! 

The strong community of the Alberta Dance Academy and Erica’s passion and grit are evidenced by the four awards they won by readers’ choice in the local Okotoks newspaper, Western Wheel: 

• Best Place To Take A Dance Class 
• Best Established Business 
• Best Customer Service
• Favourite Business Owner 

With such an incredible community of supporters, families, and dancers, it is no wonder the Alberta Dance Academy can raise more and more each year. Be sure to check out their studio! 

Congratulations to the Alberta Dance Academy for your fundraising success. 

Your dance studio or academy can do it too! Download a fundraising package today and get started in 3 easy steps: 

About Alberta Dance Academy

Alberta Dance Academy is a vibrant dance studio based in Okotoks, Alberta. Their programming is both recreational and competitive, supporting dancers aged 2 to adulthood. 

Their competitive team is made up of 79 dancers on eight teams. Most of their competitions are within the province, but this year they are heading to their first international competition in Scottsdale, Arizona! 

Erica Hendry has been making an impact in her local community through Alberta Dance Academy since 2007, when she became the owner. She loves that the community feels like family and that everyone supports one another, regardless of age or skill level. 

Dance is not just a form artistic expression, but also helps dancers develop life skills beyond the studio: punctuality, discipline, work ethic, and balancing ambition with empathy. It is a great activity to keep youth busy, active, and out of trouble. 

Keeping Dance Affordable with Food Fundraising

Unlike a traditional sports team, each dancer can decide to commit to different amounts of classes and competitions. Some dancers will do one competition a year, while others will do up to thirteen. Expenses like class fees, costumes, and travel can add up when dedicating 

Erica runs several fundraisers throughout the year to help support dancers with fees. Some of their smaller fundraisers include chocolate and seasonal flowers (perfect for celebrating an amazing show!) However, their biggest fundraiser each year is with TeamFund.

Any dancer can participate in fundraising to help with their dancing costs, whether they dance recreationally or competitively

This October, Alberta Dance Academy raised over $4800 in their most recent fundraiser, combining Fill Your Freezer, Simple Simons, and Thai Manna options.

These fundraisers allow families to purchase delicious food that they may otherwise purchase at the grocery store and support Alberta Dance Academy at the same time.

TeamFund tracks profits per dancer so that Erica can split the funds at the end of their fundraiser.

Soups and curries are perfect quick meals for the cold and the Fill Your Freezer allows families to stock up on grocery staples.

TeamFund Saves Organizers & Volunteer Time

When they started with TeamFund, Alberta Dance Academy didn’t have a parent committee. Erica was looking for a fundraiser that was easy to manage on top of her busy schedule as an owner while still being profitable to support the studios’ dancers.

That’s when TeamFund came in! Erica loves TeamFund’s easy-to-use online tools that allow her to navigate, change, and update any details easily during the fundraiser:

“It’s a really easy-to-use fundraising system.”

TeamFund handles the heavy lifting, and all Erica had to do was provide her details and promote the fundraiser to her dance families. 

After signing up, TeamFund takes care of tracking results, setting up delivery, and taking payments so that Erica can spend more time doing what she loves: connecting with her community. 

Erica loves that TeamFund can deliver the product to their studio, where volunteers can organize and distribute the tasty eats to supporters: 

“TeamFund is organized and efficient. I love that they deliver, and I receive our profits almost immediately after the fundraiser!”

Erica was happily surprised to learn that the Alberta Dance Academy has raised over $17,000 with TeamFund to support its incredible dancers since 2021. Read their featured story below: 

Alberta Dance Academy has a strong local community, which combined with tasty fundraising options means the studio brings in great results! 

Congratulations to the Alberta Dance Academy for your fundraising success.

Your dance studio or academy can do it too! Download a fundraising package today and get started in 3 easy steps: 

No need to dance around this Fundraising Success Story

Successful Dance Fundraisers are a Snap with TeamFund!

Snap Dance Studios stepped out of its comfort zone and rocked out several Successful Dance Fundraisers with TeamFund.

In particular, the latest and greatest raised over $6000.

So, how did they make that happen?

After chatting with Shawnda, the fundraising organizer, it became clear that they had been looking for a way to streamline their fundraisers for a while.

“We wanted to avoid all the paper work, we wanted something online.” – Shawnda

Before TeamFund, Snap had tried other dance fundraiser options:

• Chocolates (paper fundraising)
• meats (paper fundraising)
• plants (paper fundraising)

Granted, these other fundraisers did make them money.

However, organizing and managing multiple smaller fundraisers took up a lot of volunteer time and effort.

Although families with kids in sports or activities have plenty of:

• passion
• goals
• spirit

What these busy families don’t have is time to fuss around with spreadsheets, tracking people down, cheques and inconvenient delivery times.

Ultimately, this is what made them switch and stick with TeamFund to sell online, reduce paperwork, and get expert fundraising advice.

“Really, it was just so much easier and more convenient. You don’t have to deal with cash or cheques. There’s no paperwork. It takes away the stress on volunteers. Everything is online which is perfect.” – Shawnda

 Furthermore, TeamFund’s unique webpage and sales portal makes using and tracking your fundraiser easy. Planning a fundraiser using a well developed on-line platform can:

• Reduce the number of volunteers and planning time: Above all, the automated platform streamlines your campaign. Therefore, your team spends less time managing the fundraiser
•  Increase profits: Because, fundraising with food is one of the fastest growing and most profitable markets for team and school fundraising
• Reduce stress: First off, sign-up and data entry are easy. With secured delivery dates, locations and times there is no need to worry about negotiating with vendors directly. Also, you will never have to distribute order forms or collect cash or cheques
• Reduce paper work: Considering, an automated process means no spreadsheets and bookkeeping to track data, there is less paper and fewer paper trail errors

On the whole, TeamFund knows that food is the future of good fundraising. More importantly, they have worked hard to find:

Great vendors with quality products and reliable track records

Finally, Shawnda and her team loved how easy the setup was, how quickly they could get the fundraiser details out to all their members and the online platform’s transparency.

Given their success, Snap didn’t skip a beat in offering an endorsement of TeamFund’s fundraising platform to others searching for successful dance fundraising ideas.

Now, there’s a dance partner success story we can celebrate!

Food Fundraising is Easy with TeamFund

Our sign-up process is as easy as 1-2-3! 

01 Download a Fundraising Package

Our free fundraising package is meant to be shared with your committee and includes important information, goal calculators, and more!

02 Find Fundraisers in Your Area

Find the perfect fundraiser for your group. We have fundraisers featuring local favourites in Alberta and Winnipeg!

03 Sign Up Your Fundraising Group

Ready to get going? All you need to do is sign up for a fundraiser and start planning! Our online fundraising platform takes care of everything except the selling!

Get your own online store to make sharing your fundraiser and collecting payments easy! You gather the supporters, we’ll take care of the boring spreadsheets and logistics. 

Did you know? Even though we are an online fundraising platform, we are human! Throughout your fundraiser, we are here to answer any questions you have.