Springtime means baseball, which translates to a BIG need for team money. Especially for a student-funded team (in its first year, no less!) that needs cash to pay for equipment, umpires, field rental, hotels, gas and other incidentals.

“In the past, the guys didn’t realize the importance of fundraising and it never got done.” says Team Leader Cary Bolnick” This might help explain why their previous experience at fundraising was just so-so, selling pizza cards that nobody wanted. “Ultimately, some of the guys had to buy the cards themselves.” he grimaces.

That was then. Today it’s a whole new ballgame.

Tasked with generating enough money to cover the team’s goals and make up the shortfall from their earlier debacle, the guys brought in CampusFundraiser. “We learned a lot from this program” says Oufielder Bolnick. “You taught us ways to motivate our players and ways to succeed. We will definitely use these techniques for all our other fundraisers.”

“You showed us how important fundraising is and everyone did better than we ever expected.”

At the end of the game, the Illini raised almost 50% more than they had set their sites on. HOT DOGS AND PEANUTS FOR EVERYONE!

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