AO community, PLEASE HELP!!!

[dark blade]

i have just been elected president of the paintball club at my university.

I also just found out that our funding went from being over $2,000 this semester to less than $450 next semester due to the previous president over spending.

I NEED HELP.

What can i do to raise money for my university club? our local field went under (eastern paintball) and we have no local field to go to as of now without paying out the ying yang.

Any ideas on fund raisers to raise money and keep the sport alive? ive even gotten 3 other members of the club to look for emags (1 of them i am building one for as we speak)



If there is some little trinket that you guys would like (a keychain or something) with an AO symbol or Univeristy of newhaven symbol or anything that you guys would buy to help support our club let me know.

I cannot let this club die, the field is gone and so is our money... but our spirit is still here, and this is certainly the only group of people i would trust to be kind in this matter.

any ideas would be appreciated... please email me at [email protected] with any ideas, or email me at [email protected] with any ideas.

A Sincere thanks from,
The new UNH paintball section president

[Madmarx]

Hey, you're a UNH???
My nephew is there too!

[Madmarx]

Automag or AO key chains would be sweet!

[dark blade]

whats his name, i will try to recruit him here for our club.

I need as many peoples help here as i can get.

If donations are offered i will take them, if parts are offered to be sold in our favor i will take them, if people have free advice on how to get money i will SURELY take those... I now know how obama feels after getting into office after bush.

[rchri44]

as stated by dark blade, our club is in desperate need of help. it was interesting to find out that, as i was elected treasurer, our club was severely underfunded for next semester. i just want to post my own plea here and now. please, please help!!!

i also want to say that if you have any ideas at all, you can send me a message as well. thank you for any ideas in advance.

sincerely,
the treasurer of the paintball club at the university of new haven

p.s. MAGS RULE!!!!!

[rchri44]

one more thing, if there are donations of any kind or size, pm me and dark blade so that i can keep it in our records and get the universities approval as well. thank you

~rchri44 - treasurer (call me raloz by the way )

[MANN]

I found that with our universities pb team you had to sponsor yourself.

[BigEvil]

Work something out with the local field and have a 'fund raiser game' Split the door or paint $$ with them. Promote the hell out of it. I bet every member of the club could bring at least 2 to 5 people to play something like that.

[dark blade]

ya we certainly have to sponsor ourselves next semester. I am looking to get the club to be a legitimate one that is not taken as a joke.

and big evil, i will certainly be doing that but seeing as most of the fields around here are very small... it might be hard to get them to do anything at all.


What about this thought though... what if i contacted a field owner and told them that i would split entrance fee with them, they can charge $50 a case for paint and they take whatever they paid for it at from the companies and we get whatever else there is. We would provide the reffing and the chronos because i have a few good ref friends and a few chronos.

Any thoughts on this idea?

[Sumthinwicked]

dude strategy plus is in ct in east hampton/marlbrough thats where i work and ref 15 a day to play fyi look into it good woodsball field and u might se me with my longbow out there or my micro LOL Strategy Plus Paintball Adventure Game
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[MANN]

something that has been done in the past is to host tournaments.

you do the ref/work/promote
The field gives you 75% profit/ they only get 25% your sponsors usually will give you some prizes. you can usually make ~ 500 bucks for a day.

pizza is always an easy money maker (buy it from any pizza joint for 5 bucks for a pizza.) sell it on campus for 1.00 a slice

Ask for sponsorship from local campus companies. put their logo on your jerseys

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IMO it is hard to make pb work. You have too many people that think it is just a free way to play. They want the fun without the work.

[Sumthinwicked]

if u work for him u play for free fyi i have been there for herm 12 years i think

[sffudapparel]

I was just getting ready to post for one my club's fundraisers in the off topic section! Check it out.

Depending on how big campus is / age of people you can do a fundraiser night at a bar. The bar near University of Cincinnati does a fundraiser every weekend for a student group. Ours is this weekend. $5 cover at the door. $1 beer inside. At the end of the night, we're responsible for buying the kegs from the beer sales, but the cover charge is 100% ours

[dark blade]

thanks for the idea, but the school will not allow that fundraiser and our advisor happens to be a policeman... who raids the bars every weekend

[Smoothice]

set up a shooting booth. Let people pay to take target practice on you and the rest of your team.

10 shots for a $1.

Have the targets in nothing but a mask and some shorts.

Or sell pies like in Revenge of the Nerds