Fundraisers are important to the Club to help keep dues affordable, to offset the costs to participate in leagues and tournaments, and to buy needed equipment. 

SEE BELOW FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE NEW FUNDRAISING PROGRAM.  YOUR PARTICIPATION IN THESE EVENTS HELPS THE CLUB AND RAISES FUNDS FOR YOUR ACCOUNT!

Annual events include:

Wine Over Water Polo - wine tasting, hors d'oeuvres, and great fun - adult only event, scheduled for June 2.  Sponsors needed!  Every family asked to sell 4 tickets, guaranteed that $10/ticket will go to your family's fundraising account.    Also, each age group is putting together one basket that will be raffled off that night.  See Luanne Aakhus on the pool deck to get tickets, contribute or get more info. or email her at laakus@bak.rr.com

Car wash - our athletes get into the act with buckets and sponges, usually at the Brookside Market.  Tickets are pre-sold for $5 each, but last minute customers are welcome!  THANKS TO ALL WHO HELPED WITH THIS YEAR'S CAR WASH, which took place October 18 and raised roughly $2,000 for the Club.  Great Job!

Cinnamon Rolls - delicious cinnamon rolls, sold frozen by the dozen.  This is a favorite with everyone!   Orders for this have closed until Fall 2012.  

New for 2011/2012: Outback Steakhouse Drive Thru Dinner.  $15 Pre-sell tickets buys your customer a complete dinner, with no muss or fuss.  For each ticket sold, $4 will go to the Club and $5 will go to the athlete-family's account to offset future tournament fees.  This SUCCESSFUL event was held Monday, Jan 23, with more than 500 dinners served.  THANKS TO ALL OUTBACK AND ALL PLAYERS AND PARENTS!

Dates and events to be announced.  Contact Coach Jason if you are willing to be the event coordinator for any one of our fundraisers, or if you have any other ideas that you think would work well for our club.

CLUB ANNOUNCES NEW BWPC FUNDRAISING MODEL:

BWPC makes every effort possible to keep dues and fees to a minimum.  In order to provide your children with the best possible water polo experience, it is critical that we actively participate in fundraisers throughout the year.  Fundraised dollars go towards things like: Offsetting tournament entry fees, purchasing new equipment (balls, caps), paying quality coaches for the time both at practice and time spent coaching tournaments on the weekends, and offsetting the ever rising cost to rent pools.  We are fortunate to have fundraisers that give us the opportunity to yield a high profit.  For most of the fundraisers that we do, we offer a split of about 50/50 between the athlete/family and the club, (after the cost of the fundraiser is taken out.)

For example:

Outback Dinner Take Out/Drive Thru:    Cost per ticket/dinner=$15
→ Cost that the club pays Outback per dinner = $6;  $9 profit per ticket sold.
→ Of that $9, $5 goes into the athlete’s “Account” and the other $4 goes directly to the club. 

For any dinners that are sold on the spot, the day of, the entire $9 profit goes to the club.

Collected monies for all fundraisers are turned into the club.  Each family’s “accounts” are kept within the bookkeeping of the club.  Money in an athlete’s account can be used for tournament entry fees, NOT seasonal practice dues.  Simply let coach Jason know that you would like your credit to be used for a particular entry fee, and that money will be credited towards that particular tourney. 

We have 2 major fundraisers coming up this summer. 

1)     Wine over Water Polo. This is the 3^rd year of this event.  This is an adult only fundraiser and the athletes should not be selling tickets.  This particular fundraiser does have more of an overhead than most of our other fundraisers so for every ticket sold, $10 will go to the athlete’s account and the remaining $30 will go toward the cost of the event and back to the club. 

2)     TNT Fireworks stand. This is the first year that we are doing this and as a first year stand, we have the potential to make between $5,000-$15,000. 

We will be selling “presale” tickets to as many people as possible.  This is how each athlete/family can earn quite a bit of credit for your account.  For every $10 presale ticket that you sell, a few dollars will go back into your account.  (I’m not sure what the exact number is yet.  You’ll know before you start selling. Fireworks sell for about double what we pay for them so the club and the athlete would split the profit, about $2.50 each)  All sales that are “walk ups” to the booth will go to the club. 

The other big responsibility of running a booth is that it needs to be manned by several adult at any one time, 24/7, from June 30-July 4^th.  The club expects 100% participation in volunteer hours for the fireworks booth.   I am guessing that with about 50 families involved with our club, we will need each family to volunteer about 10 hours in order to have the booth properly staffed for the week.  (that could be 5 hours per parent).  In the next couple weeks, I will start asking for specific time commitments to work the booth. 

Again, we do these fundraisers to provide our children with the best possible experience playing the sport of water polo. If we all work together, our fundraisers will continue to be very successful.

Thank you,

Jason Gall