Darien Stars Fundraising

Darien Stars Super Bowl Squares Fundraising

Good afternoon!

I wanted to reach out to you regarding fundraising to offset some baseball expenses.  Now that practices and apparel items have been quoted so I can give you a better idea of cost. 

Cost expectations:

• 11U Parents should expect costs between $450 - $475 for the Darien Stars Program, a $50 fee for the Winter Workout and $220 fee for DYC Baseball In house per player.
• 9U Parents should expect costs between $475 - $500 for the Darien Stars Program, a $50 fee for the Winter Workout and $210 fee for DYC Baseball In house per player
• 8U Parents should expect costs between $475 - $500 for the Darien Stars Program, a $50 fee for the Winter Workout and $200 fee for DYC Baseball In house per player

So in talking to a number of families regarding fundraising everyone has a different perspective on it, So what I wanted to do is create a flexible program that will let each family decide how much they want to fundraise and in turn apply that costs directly to their individual family expenses.

Here is the Super Bowl Square program:
How a 100 square football pool works is very simple. Whoever the party host or pool host may be creates at 10 squares by 10 squares chart; this is numbered on each axis from 0-9.  Each axis is also labeled home/away or by each team playing, if chosen.

The pool host will then try to sell each square on the chart, usually ranging from $5-$20, depending on their selected commitment. Pool hosts will have all the entrants write their names down inside a single square of their liking on the blank 100 square pool sheet and then randomly select the numbers at the top and the bottom of the grid.

What do the numbers mean? Every square on the board will assign two numbers. For instance, if you had a square in the middle of the board, this would correspond to 5 for the home team and 5 for the away team. So what do those 5’s mean?

The numbers 0-9 correspond to either the last number in the home or away team score depending on where the square is located. So 20 points would be a 0 whereas 35 would be 5 points.

So how do those playing win? At the end of the first quarter, halftime, third quarter, and final score whatever the score is will be awarded to the person who owns that square. If the score is 17-10 at the half with the home team winning, the person with the squares of 7 and 0 would win that portion of the game, and you play that throughout the game ending at every quarter.

I will set up the entire square pool electronically and manually.
Game Link: http://100Boxes.com/game/3828
Join Game Link: http://100Boxes.com/game/3828/join/

You will get to decide how much of a commitment to fundraising you want to make.   Whatever you fundraise will be applied directly to your individual family bill.    

You will be responsible for selling the squares off of your portion, collecting the money for your portion, paying winners off of your portion and making a donation check to DYC with the remaining funds

Here is how it works
Step 1: Choose a program option
Program Options:

• A - $5 per square for 100 squares which yields $250 in fundraising / $250 in winnings  (winners get pad $50 for every quarter and fourth quarter receives $100).
• B - $10 per square for 100 squares which yields $500 in fundraising / $500 in winnings  (winners get pad $100 for every quarter and fourth quarter receives $200),
• C - $20 per square for 100 squares which yields $1000 in fundraising / $1000 in winnings  (winners get pad $200 for every quarter and fourth quarter receives $400),
• D - Not interested

Step 2: Choose a commitment level (you are responsible for your entire commitment level so pick a level you are comfortable selling at 100%)

• A - Selling 25% of the squares
• B - Selling 50% of the squares
• C - Selling 100% of the squares
• D - Not interested

Once you have sent me your preferences in Steps 1 and 2, i will partner you up with other Darien Stars families and create all the necessary information for you, so you can promote the pool. 

Realistically families could end up fundraising 100% of their expenses this year with one pool, but it is up to you.