Icing, Slapshots, and Soups: A Hockey Team’s Guide to Fundraising Success
The world of youth hockey is one of early morning practices and late-night games, where the bond between players often becomes as thick as the ice they skate on. But beyond the rink, there’s an opportunity to forge an even deeper connection within the community through the power of culinary delights — by creating a team cookbook.
Fundraising: The Face-Off Challenge
Youth hockey teams are no strangers to fundraising challenges. Parents and players alike often find themselves selling raffle tickets or organizing car washes to keep their teams on the ice. It’s time for a creative breakaway from traditional methods.
What does food have to do with hockey? Everything. Team cookbooks offer a fresh way to engage with supporters and provide a keepsake that captures the spirit of the team. It’s a chance to share those hearty meals that fuel players before games and the comfort foods that help them recover after.
CookbookFundraiser.com is the MVP, offering a user-friendly platform that assists teams in creating their very own cookbooks which can then be sold for a healthy profit. It’s designed to make the process as smooth as a Zamboni-treated ice surface, leaving team coordinators more time to cheer from the stands.
Making Your Hockey Cookbook
Each recipe in the cookbook is like a player on the ice — it has a role and adds to the team’s dynamic. Players, coaches, and families can contribute recipes, ensuring the cookbook reflects the diversity and strength of the team.
The cookbook should be infused with team spirit, incorporating team colors, logos, and perhaps action shots or team photos. This turns a simple collection of recipes into a treasured anthology of the team’s season.
Pre-selling the cookbook is like the warm-up before the big game — it prepares the market and gets fans excited. It’s an essential step that helps determine the quantity needed, ensuring that the fundraiser doesn’t end up with surplus inventory.
The Quick Shift: Pre-Made Cookbooks
For teams needing to fundraise on the fly, ReadyMade cookbooks can be a game-changer. These already designed cookbooks filled with family tested recipes can be customized to include the team’s identity and can get the fundraising effort started almost immediately.
The Big Game: Launching Your Cookbook
Launching the cookbook fundraiser can be an event as eagerly anticipated as a championship game. It’s a celebration of both the team’s and the community’s effort, complete with tasting events and perhaps even cooking demonstrations by the team members.
Like the hockey season itself, the cookbook’s usefulness doesn’t end with the initial launch. It can be promoted at games, tournaments, and community events throughout the year, becoming a continuous source of fundraising and spirit.
It’s time to take the shot and score the ultimate goal in fundraising. Team up with CookbookFundraiser.com to create a keepsake that will keep fans connected to the team long after the ice melts. Let’s lace up those skates, gather our best recipes, and craft a cookbook that will celebrate the team’s journey both on and off the ice.
Bill Rice is the Co-Publisher of Family Cookbook Project and CookbookFundraiser.com which helps individuals, churches, schools, teams and other fundraising groups create cherished personalized cookbooks using peer-to-peer tools and the power of the Internet to meet group funding needs. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest!
