There is more to a team fundraising campaign than simply reaching your goal. Through the process your players will learn some valuable lessons that will help them in their personal growth and development. Also,
if run properly a team fundraising campaign can even help coaches bring the team together while working toward a common goal off the field.
While they may not be apparent on the surface here are 5 benefits of participating in a well organized team sports fundraising campaign.
1.) Personal Growth
Your players will expand their personal growth in-kind donation by learning self confidence, self-esteem, and resiliency. They will develop more maturity and learn independence while gaining a better perspective of themselves and the world around them. Working in this environment fosters development of practical life skills and communication as well as problem solving and stress management practices. Often times just the fact that your players have an individual goal that they then work to accomplish make great strides in helping them mature as individuals and as team members.
2.) Teamwork
Your volunteers are already part of a sports team and therefore understand teamwork. Everyone working together on the fundraiser can serve to reinforce this understanding. They will gather that if the idea of teamwork succeeds in sports then teamwork will succeed in other endeavors as well.
3.) Goals
Volunteering in a fundraiser will teach players that goal setting is a powerful force that makes a huge difference in outcomes. Goal setting and the accomplishment of them, help your players to understand the goal setting process. They can learn that properly set goals can not only build self confidence but can be motivating as well. Fundraising is an excellent teacher in the art of setting goals, both long and short term, and how to achieve them.
4.) Value of Volunteering
The value of volunteerism is immeasurable. Not only will your players learn that volunteering can be fun they will also learn that it can be rewarding in its own right. They will learn new skills, get a taste of career possibilities, and have an opportunity to do something outside of themselves and feel good about the accomplishment.