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: Choose a tasty fundraiser for your group, availability varies by area (Delivery to AB, SK, BC, YT, NWT, 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.

Get your own online store to make sharing your fundraiser and collecting payments easy!

You gather the supporters, we’ll take care of the reporting 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.

Fundraise for any season and any reason with TeamFund Fundraising! 

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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: Choose a tasty fundraiser for your group, availability varies by area (Delivery to AB, SK, BC, YT, NWT, 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.

Get your own online store to make sharing your fundraiser and collecting payments easy!

You gather the supporters, we’ll take care of the reporting 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.

Fundraise for any season and any reason with TeamFund Fundraising! 

Follow us on social media to stay up-to-date!

TeamFund is perfect for your soccer fundraising idea.

Running a food fundraiser means feeding families and supporting youth sports programs.

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Susan shares her perspective on TeamFund as a high-level soccer club organizer. Real families, relatable stories!

TeamFund Fundraising makes fundraising tasty, profitable, and easy.

I wanted something straightforward as the organizer but with a way to earn some real money for the team.

We have tried bottle drives in the past, but summer is a tough time for those. Many players are taking holidays, and so are the homeowners you are trying to collect from. It can work if you can catch people just after New Year’s Eve. However, you need to get there before they return their own empties.

If you do, you can make a decent amount of profit. However, for summer fundraisers, these are often just a way to eat up a lovely Saturday afternoon for 15 families.

If it’s not hot out there, then it’s probably raining. The kids dislike it, and so do their parents.  Ultimately, you may only raise a few hundred dollars for all your trouble.

There is also no way to quantify the effort you put in. We’ve been on bottle drives where my daughter works hard, hitting as many houses as possible. Another player on the soccer team was wandering around, looking in puddles and twirling down the sidewalk. She made it to about a quarter of the front doors that my daughter did, and when there were bottles to carry, she seemed to disappear. Ultimately, they shared in the profits equally because they had both been there for 4 hours.

As the organizer, I didn’t want all the hassle and frustration.

The summer is so short. For us, the outdoor soccer season is only in full swing for about 3-4 months. That means we have a short time to plan, organize, and execute a fundraising campaign.

So I wanted to find a way to raise funds in a short amount of time. Honestly, TeamFund couldn’t be a better fit for us.

While I volunteer for the soccer community, I am also a busy mom who volunteers at several community groups. As an organizer, I want it to be easy, but more importantly, as a seller, I NEED it to be.

One of the things I’ve always loved about TeamFund is how easy the process is.

From the first contact to collecting the profits, Dominique and her team make this the easiest fundraising you’ll do. So when I needed to organize our most recent fundraiser, I knew where to go.

All the fundraisers are run online. This means it’s cheaper, faster, and more environmentally friendly.

Not only do people lose forms or forget to hand them in but you are stuck chasing people for money and balancing the books at the end. It’s the worst part about organizing a fundraiser.

I love that TeamFund eliminates the paperwork headaches

You can still access paper forms for supporters who are not comfortable with computers. However, most people buy at the online store, and your organizer job is much simpler. You aren’t spending hours or days sorting through everything at the end.

We decided to run a meat fundraiser for my daughter’s soccer team.

Now that the snow is off the ground, people are starting to think about their BBQ.

People want to get outside, whether it’s a get-together with friends or a hot summer day.

That makes vendors like Spolumbo’s, Bow River Meats, and the popular Bacon fundraisers an easy sell to supporters. It’s also something our families want for themselves.

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We purchased meat during the fundraiser and filled our freezer!

Meat is something most families buy at the grocery store anyway.  A portion of that sale helped support my daughter’s soccer. 

The meat from all of these vendors is top quality. In my opinion, it is frequently better and fresher than we find at our local grocery store provides. We had no problem convincing our friends and family to support us when selling meat from TeamFund vendors.

This is a less intimidating fundraiser for sellers because you don’t need to beg people to support you or talk them into it. Whether they buy one item or ten, you get the profits.

As the organizer, I loved that it was so easy.

My daughter had her entire tournament paid for.

• hotel costs
• tournament entry fees
• and funds for team dinners and such
• Of course, every player on the soccer team made sales. It was awesome to have this calculation done for us so that the profits were distributed fairly to those who earned them. There was no arguing and no frustration.

We had an amazing fundraiser, and now we have all summer to BBQ delicious meals. The money raised helped our team pay for the out-of-town tournament, and the girls got an amazing experience.

Your friends and family are already customers. They will be shopping for meat and you are missing out on the profits if you don’t run fundraisers.

It’s a win-win situation and now is the time to act.

With our amazing weather, people are ready to hear from you!

It’s real people, real profits, and TeamFund does the heavy lifting!

Fundraise for any season and any reason with TeamFund Fundraising! 

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Talking to families about fundraising and youth sports.

We sometimes forget that families are an important piece of the puzzle in kids’ sports.

| TeamFund Fundraising is an online food fundraising platform. In honour of Family Day, we share the importance of family in youth sports.

Sports isn’t just competition and training, but also building confidence, interpersonal skills, and other life lessons for kids. And parents? They make it possible through their volunteer hours and fundraising efforts. 

I had the chance to sit down this week with Susan. She’s the mother of three busy kids and an active volunteer within the soccer community.

At the soccer club level, Susan is involved in equipment management and helping with evaluations. Susan also supports her children’s teams with fundraising initiatives and is undoubtedly a true soccer mom.

How I got introduced to Susan

I first met Susan years ago when our daughters were quite young. They were in Goalie Training sessions together for a couple of seasons.

Like many soccer families, we’ve chatted a little over the years, even though the girls no longer train together. Susan’s daughter is still playing goalie and is on a highly competitive tier 1 team. Her oldest son is also on a tier 1 soccer team, although it has a somewhat different focus from her youngest.

Finally, her middle child has other interests and he currently isn’t playing any sports. This means they are a very busy family that is often going in multiple directions. I’m sure many other sports parents can relate.

One of the things that impressed me about Susan is that she sees her kids as capable individuals. Regardless of where their passions lay, she allows them to pursue them. Having the opportunity to try, whether you succeed or fail is important. It creates confidence and a certain level of independence in her children. They are bright and driven kids. That motivation comes from within them and it’s taken them far.

While drive can be related to someone’s personality, there are ways to foster it too. I’ve seen kids over the years that made it to a high level in the sport because their families pushed them. It’s not something that can successfully be forced upon them forever though. Eventually, things fall apart if the parents are the main motivators.

>> Want to read more about how overcoming some adversity is good for kids?

The day Susan and I met was grey and dreary. We sat inside the coffee shop, trying to ignore the serious lack of springtime weather outside. While we nursed our coffees, she relayed her experiences seeing kids who were pushed to play by well-meaning parents. If the player only works hard to avoid getting yelled at, they are missing the benefits. It’s through setting goals for yourself that kids learn and grow.

Susan has always struck me as a parent who allows her kids to try to do things on their own and in their own ways. She has allowed each of her children to choose their own path. They learn to be courageous and confident in themselves when parents instill that kind of support and confidence in them: “Have high expectations but allow them to fail.”

As we sat drinking our coffees, Susan explained how capable her kids are. Not just bragging about their ball skills or being the fastest runner.

She talks about their ability to cope out in the world. It could be as simple as letting kids check themselves in for tryouts at the start of a season.

Let them make mistakes. They will grow from it. Holding their hand through everything won’t help them learn to be independent. It’s the ability to handle yourself in a tournament without your parent being present.

Encourage them to try something new, maybe a little out of their comfort zone. We even discussed the benefit of letting your kids learn how to approach strangers at the local soccer center or store to sell raffle tickets.

>> Want to help your child in reaching their goals. Check out our article on SMART goal setting.

When families step back and let children attempt these things, they learn valuable lessons. Susan’s kids have developed a sense of responsibility that comes with these expectations and commitment to their teammates.

It’s not sustainable for a parent who pushes their child through everything. They learn nothing from it. It’s not just practices and games but technical training, fitness, psychology sessions, and team bonding.

Your team becomes your family, and you need to really want to be there.

We will talk more next time about what it takes to fundraise for a top-level team with additional training and travel costs.

Susan has a wealth of experience in parenting and fundraising for youth sports.

Despite two of her kids playing tier 1 soccer, the teams have very different philosophies. Her daughter’s team does a lot of fundraising that pays for various activities and training. Her oldest son’s team has less fundraising with separate goals.

Are you a parent or board member for a youth sports team  or club who is looking for fundraising ideas? 

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