As a Volleyball coach, we understand finding new and creative ways for your team to fundraise is always top of mind. However, some options that are super creative can also be expensive, leaving less funds leftover for your volleyball team. Striking this balance between running a creative and cost-effective fundraiser is a difficult challenge, but have no fear, the Teamfi guys have your back!

We’re breaking down 3 creative and entirely free ways your volleyball team can raise the necessary funds for your team (hint: they all use Teamfi):

1. Be incredibly organized with your crowdfunding fundraiser.

Look, we get it, leading off with “being incredibly organized” as a creative fundraiser idea is maybe not exactly what you were hoping to see, but stick with us here because it can be an absolute home run for your volleyball team.

This was exactly the case with Grand Ledge Volleyball in Grand Ledge, MI who absolutely crushed the organizational side of their Teamfi crowdfunding fundraiser to raise almost $14,000 for their volleyball team.

Here’s what their athletic boosters had to say about their fundraiser:

“We had all the girls bring their list of contacts to practice one evening - so it was a requirement at the end of practice to sit there and put the contacts in together as teams. I sat with them and answered questions if they had any. That seemed to be really helpful!!”

- Sarah Lake, Grand Ledge Volleyball Boosters

So, instead of just telling their athletes to add their fundraising contacts for their Teamfi crowdfunding campaign on their own time, they were incredibly organized and intentional about using practice time for it and it helped them run a tremendously successful fundraiser by ensuring that they maximized their potential fundraiser supporters.

2. Run a crowdfunding campaign without the texts/emails

Monroe Saint Mary Catholic Central Volleyball in Monroe, MI used Teamfi to run a free crowdfunding campaign for their team’s fundraiser, but opted to not use Teamfi’s built-in automated text outreach to potential fundraiser supporters.

Instead, they used Teamfi in a creative way – they wanted each of their athletes to share their customized donation pages manually and handle the fundraiser outreach on their own. By making each of their athletes “do the work” of individually connecting with any family and friends who could potentially support them in their fundraiser, it led to a very successful fundraiser for their volleyball team – using this creative technique they raised nearly $6,000 for their volleyball team!

3. Run a Serve a thon fundraiser

Another way your volleyball team can mix-up your yearly fundraiser to keep things fresh is with a performance-based fundraiser like a serve a thon.

In running a serve a thon, your team would give each player a certain amount of set serves (typically somewhere in the range of  20-30), and would allow fundraiser supporters pledge an amount of money for each successful serve of the athlete on the day of the serve a thon. For example, if a fundraiser supporter pledged $5 for each successful serve, and then the participant ends up with 25 successful serves, that would end up as a $125 donation for your team.

As a result, your team can keep the community invested in your team’s fundraising efforts and successfully tie your team’s performance to fundraising dollars.

The best part? You can run your volleyball team’s serve a thon with Teamfi for 100% free! Our A-thon software (see liftathon, shootathon, and hitathon) will take out all of the manual work of tracking and collecting your team’s pledges and donations.

And that’s a wrap! Three 100% free and creative volleyball fundraiser ideas for your team. If you’re interested in seeing how you can use Teamfi for your team’s next fundraiser, you can book a quick (<30 minute) demo with our founder and he will walk you through exactly how to use Teamfi for your next fundraiser. Also feel free to check out our FAQ page, which provides some simple answers to the most commonly asked questions about fundraising with Teamfi.