Wednesday, October 30th - 4 hours

Today I talked to Mike in a much longer conversation than expected about fundraising and money assignments within the club. To complete the three full-size fields that are planned to go on the property, we need to raise quite a bit more money, which sounds simple, but it's not. There are certain assignments for money depending on how it's raised and where it comes from. I can't remember exactly how it all works, he explained it in a lot more detail than I could keep up with. The conversation started when I asked if he knew about the fundraiser website called Fundly where money can be donated to teams while donors do their everyday shopping if they go through this website. As people grocery shop, buy new Nike shoes, purchase Apple accessories, and more, a certain percentage of the money spent can go to the team. He said the club would have to have separate accounts for money to go to the field funding and general donations that go towards things like gear. He's more than willing to check out the website and see how it could be applied to the club. His main concern is that people won't pay attention to which account they are donating to and we will raise a bunch of money for things like new socks or bags, but not much for the field construction. Socks and bags are great, but we need field space! Someday in the near future we're going to circle back to this idea to see if we could make it work and come up with clear communications about the differences in the account and that money donated to the club isn't as easily dispersed as it sounds.