The Serve-A-Thon: Funding a Whole Cheer Season by Giving Back

Morgan Fabrizio co-coaches cheer at Duchesne High in small-town Utah, where the district funds nothing—so she raises every dollar. She breaks down the serve-a-thon, a tiered sponsorship program, and a season of hard-won fundraising advice.

Show Notes

Morgan Fabrizio co-coaches cheer at Duchesne High in a small Utah town, where the program gets no district budget and she has to raise every dollar it costs to run. Her answer is a serve-a-thon: for every $250 the team raises, the squad performs an hour of community service, cleaning the bleachers, scrubbing Main Street, playing elves at the town Christmas. It raised over $5,000 this year with 16 cheerleaders, and it's only one piece of the puzzle. Morgan walks Mark through her whole funding portfolio: a tiered business-sponsorship program (ad packages from $100 to $1,000) that brings in around $20,000, junior clinics, concessions, and a per-family self-pay amount. Along the way she drops a season's worth of hard-won advice: build the budget first, tell parents the real number, keep the window short, and remember the money comes from asking people directly, not from posting and hoping. Read the full playbook: https://www.successfund.com/resources/playbooks/serve-a-thon-fundraiser

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