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re: Received a request to donate to someone’s sons travel baseball team
Posted on 7/3/25 at 9:01 am to burger bearcat
Posted on 7/3/25 at 9:01 am to burger bearcat
Let’s do the math…
$5k
15 players
$333 per player
Charge $15 car wash/$40 grass cut
Would take each player a week, and teach them character and earning
Might be a business idea for funding youth sports…
$5k
15 players
$333 per player
Charge $15 car wash/$40 grass cut
Would take each player a week, and teach them character and earning
Might be a business idea for funding youth sports…
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Posted on 7/3/25 at 9:02 am to burger bearcat
I don't mind donating to a kid if they are doing the work to raise the money. But I am not just giving away money.
I'm also not just buying your Girl Scout cookies while your lazy self sits in front of the grocery story while I used to have to walk the streets and hustle door to door. Sorry!
I'm also not just buying your Girl Scout cookies while your lazy self sits in front of the grocery story while I used to have to walk the streets and hustle door to door. Sorry!
Posted on 7/3/25 at 9:03 am to burger bearcat
We bought some raffle tickets from a close family member as a fundraiser for their kid's travel ball team a couple years ago and won an ice chest full of random booze. $10 worth of tickets for a couple hundred dollars worth of booze was a win/win IMO.
I don't mind buying raffle tickets, but I'm not just donating.
I don't mind buying raffle tickets, but I'm not just donating.
This post was edited on 7/3/25 at 9:39 am
Posted on 7/3/25 at 9:03 am to burger bearcat
quote:
Had a client at work send me a link to a go fund me for his sons baseball team.
There's a pretty easy way to handle this sort of request.
Posted on 7/3/25 at 9:03 am to BamaCoaster
quote:
Let’s do the math…
$5k
15 players
$333 per player
Charge $15 car wash/$40 grass cut
Would take each player a week, and teach them character and earning
Might be a business idea for funding youth sports…
would be hilarious if this was just a GFM for that one family's cost of the world series.
Travel, week long hotel/condo, child fees for team etc.
Posted on 7/3/25 at 9:04 am to Shexter
quote:
This is how we earned it
If a lot of these kids had to do work to earn money for their team, they wouldn't have a team. Sell me a dinner, offer a service..
But I learned this a long time ago.. Never buy anything or donate to anything dealing with co-workers. You quickly become a target. Everyone will start asking and then you will think "well I did this for ______ so I guess I have to do it for this one". No.
I blame gofundme for this "donation culture".
Posted on 7/3/25 at 9:04 am to HoustonChick86
quote:
I'm also not just buying your Girl Scout cookies while your lazy self sits in front of the grocery story while I used to have to walk the streets and hustle door to door. Sorry!
great, then we gonna have threads about girl at door rang bell one too many times.
Posted on 7/3/25 at 9:04 am to burger bearcat
So don’t donate.
I’ll never understand people that get their jimmies all rustled because they were asked to donate to something and don’t want to.
I’ll never understand people that get their jimmies all rustled because they were asked to donate to something and don’t want to.
Posted on 7/3/25 at 9:08 am to Tyga Woods
Let client know you will donate 25 bucks if his son comes over and cuts your grass.
Posted on 7/3/25 at 9:09 am to burger bearcat
What kind of business? Donate, then raise your fees to cover the donation. Never lower the fees back to the original amount. Win win
Posted on 7/3/25 at 9:13 am to AbitaFan08
If the company donated, they should have a patch on the uniform
Posted on 7/3/25 at 9:13 am to Chad504boy
quote:Yes it is. They are donating their time and I'm donating my money for their donating time. I'm not giving them a 1099.
that is not donating now is it
Posted on 7/3/25 at 9:13 am to burger bearcat
quote:
They weren’t offering to sell candy bars
You probably don’t need candy bars, doing you a favor, burger.
Posted on 7/3/25 at 9:13 am to burger bearcat
Sounds like the family of the 10-12 players need to come up with 400-500 bucks a family and they can fund their team like adult and not beggars
Posted on 7/3/25 at 9:16 am to burger bearcat
Why doesn’t the client send something to Todd Graves? He’s out there bragging about all of the billions of dollars that he’s worth, but yet producing chicken dick sized fingers.
Posted on 7/3/25 at 9:17 am to CubsFanBudMan
Years ago...........I had a neighbor who asked me to help her daughter raise money by selling cook books.
It was a crappy cook book but tried to help.
The next year my daughter was selling cookies for her cheer squad. I asked the same lady......................she flat out said no.
And I paid 20 dollars for the cook book and she couldnt pull 5 dollars for the cookies.
Glad I dont do that anymore.
It was a crappy cook book but tried to help.
The next year my daughter was selling cookies for her cheer squad. I asked the same lady......................she flat out said no.
And I paid 20 dollars for the cook book and she couldnt pull 5 dollars for the cookies.
Glad I dont do that anymore.
Posted on 7/3/25 at 9:17 am to burger bearcat
Pretty easy to ignore and move on
Posted on 7/3/25 at 9:17 am to AbitaFan08
quote:This would have been my answer 10 years ago.
HOWEVER, if this is a good client or a client that you could see being profitable long-term, the smart play would be to go to your boss and pitch having the company make a donation. shite like that helps keep clients loyal to your business.
And it is the correct answer.
But it isn’t correct for me any more.
I’d now instead give a valued customer a discount on my invoiced rate and if they want to apply that (or some amount) amount themselves to a donation, that’s their business.
Posted on 7/3/25 at 9:18 am to Deep Purple Haze
quote:
frick that
Exactly. There is a lady here in town that has a daughter (younger than 10 yo) participate in club cheer. Every year, she posts a silhouette of a cheer uniform on Facebook requesting people select an item of the uniform to buy as a “sponsor.” She’ll post again asking for more of these so-called sponsors to help pay for trips to Florida and other places where they compete. Pretty trashy.
Posted on 7/3/25 at 9:18 am to Antonio Moss
quote:found a guilty party. You don't get it huh?! It's shameful.
So don’t donate.
I’ll never understand people that get their jimmies all rustled because they were asked to donate to something and don’t want to.
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