Category: Clips
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What Booster Officers Need to Know About Title IX
Published online at Boosterland.com As schools continue to face shrinking budgets, funding for extracurricular activities is often first on the chopping block. Administrators increasingly rely on the hard work of booster clubs to keep these programs open to the students who benefit from them so very much. But while generous, donations from booster clubs can…
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A New Kind of Bake Sale: Ditching prices for donations
Published online at Boosterland.com If you’ve ever participated in an extracurricular program or know someone who has, chances are you’ve been to a bake sale. A classic, bake sales have been a staple fundraiser for teams, clubs, and groups of all kinds for many years. While they’re a reliable go-to event, they can come off…
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Should Your Booster Club Buy Insurance?
Published online at Boosterland.com It was a booster club’s worst nightmare: A referee at a charity volleyball game injured her ankle when the stand she was sitting on collapsed. The booster club turned to the school district for help, only to be told that the district’s insurance would not cover the referee’s worker’s compensation claim,…
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How To Raise Funds Outside Your Community
Published online at Boosterland.com When it comes to fundraising, there’s no business too big or too small to approach for help. Some of the big-name businesses may seem out of reach for booster clubs, but you’d be surprised to know how many have programs in place for just such donation. From airlines to retail stores,…
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How To Raise Funds Inside Your Community: Partnering with local businesses for mutual gain
Published online at Boosterland.com Local business can be a great fundraising source for booster clubs, and most are happy to help. Parents, friends, and fans of student clubs and teams are potential customers, and partnering with booster clubs can be beneficial for both parties — booster clubs can raise funds through established, profitable businesses, and…
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Donor Retention: Your booster club’s priority in 2014
Published online at Boosterland.com The numbers have come in, and they don’t look great for booster clubs and other nonprofits. Recent surveys on charitable giving have found that engaging new donors will become more and more difficult: Of the four generations surveyed, a majority in each group said they expected to give the same amount…
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Fundraising Spotlight: #GotTurf?
Published online at Boosterland.com In Southern California, one high school booster club has taken on an ambitious task. The Scorpion Athletic Booster Club (SABC) in Camarillo began fundraising this fall for their Turf Field Project, a $1.7 million plan to install artificial turf on the Camarillo High School athletic field and resurface the track. While…
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Sierra Magazine Bulletin: Sassafrass
Published in print and online by Sierra magazine, March/April 2014 Name: Jo Billups and Karen Harvil Location: Lillian, Alabama, and Waveland, Mississippi Contribution: Musical activist duo Sassafrass Website: bit.ly/sassafrass_band ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISTS HAVE A REPUTATION FOR BEING A LITTLE INTENSE. ARE PEOPLE LESS INTIMIDATED BY YOU BECAUSE YOU’RE MUSICIANS? Jo Billups: We’re holding guitars, you know? Holding banners is wonderful, we’ve done that, but guitars…
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Why You Should Remember the Passenger Pigeon
Published online on Sierra magazine’s Green Life blog, January 27, 2014 An estimated 2 billion birds darkened the sky above John James Audubon’s head in the autumn of 1813, a flock of passenger pigeons more than 50 miles long that would take three full days to pass out of view. “The birds poured in in countless multitudes,” Audubon wrote. “The air was…
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Green Stocking Stuffers for Everyone on Your List
Published online on Sierra magazine’s Green Life blog, December 17, 2013 Green Stocking Stuffers for Everyone on Your List With only a few shopping days left before the holidays, most people have their big presentswrapped and ready to go. But don’t forget that sometimes great things come in small, stocking stuffer-sized packages. We’ve collected small gift ideas for everyone on your list, from the outdoor…
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Book Review: EarthArt
Published online on Sierra magazine’s Green Life blog, December 12, 2013 Book Review: EarthArt In Bernhard Edmaier’s EarthArt: Colours of The Earth, (Phaidon, 2013) we learn that chemical weathering is responsible for the vivid, highlighter-hued yellow of the Crozon Peninsula in France. Flip a few pages, and we read that the rusty-red shade of crusted salt lakes indicates the presence of halophilic…
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New Styles for Fashionable Cyclists
Published online on Sierra magazine’s Green Life blog, December 6, 2013 New Styles for Fashionable Cyclists The number of Americans commuting by bike continues to rise, and fashion designers are sitting up and taking notice. Neon spandex generally isn’t considered appropriate office attire, but the fits of most slacks and dresses don’t lend themselves neatly (or safely) to pedaling. Anyone who’s caught a pant leg…
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Slow Cycling Gains Momentum: 5 Ways to Slow Down
Published online on Sierra magazine’s Green Life blog, December 5, 2013 Slow Cycling Gains Momentum: 5 Ways to Slow Down There’s a new cyclist in town, and he’s eschewing spandex and speed for comfy clothes and picnics. Slow cycling — intentionally setting out for a leisurely ride, with the goal of socializing and exploring — has become organized. Groups have cropped up in cities…
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Give Green, Fight Waste, Make Change
Published online on Sierra magazine’s Green Life blog, December 3, 2013 Give Green, Fight Waste, Make Change Black Friday has made the news in recent years for the frenzied and sometimes dangerous enthusiasm it incites in the nation’s most devotedshoppers, many of whom gather outside malls and big box stores as soon as they’ve downed their turkey. But the Environmental Protection…