Fundraising Information
This year we have quite a few great fundraisers planned. See below for more info, or download our letter here.
We have some great fundraisers planned for the 2024-2025 season. Please note that the bottle drive and the Cheer for a Year fundraisers are mandatory. To ensure that the Association has the funds to support increased costs to ice rentals, officials, bench staff training and the ongoing maintenance/replacement of equipment, all fundraisers except for Cheer for a Year will distribute 80% of the profits to the player’s Team Fund and the other 20% to the PRA. Cheer for a Year will distribute 20% of the profits to the player’s Team Fund and the other 80% to the PRA. The online 50/50 raffle will go 100% towards PRA, but we will have a fun incentive for the team who sells the most tickets. This will help us to keep costs low and increases to a minimum for player registration fees.
BOTTLE DRIVE
The Bottle Drive will be organized by each team individually. Teams have two options:
- Pick a date and location that works best for the team to collect together, while verifying with the Executive that the area has not been previously solicited by PRA players this season.
- Collect individually from family and friends, return the bottles individually and hand the money into your team Manager. Team Managers will keep track of how much money each player hands in on the team budget.
Team Bottle Drive money is due at the same time as J.D. Sweid forms - Sunday, October 27th. If individual players would like to continue to collect bottle money on their own throughout the year and hand in money periodically that is fine, just email fundraising@parisringette.com to arrange collection, or give it to your team Manager.
J.D. SWEID (ELMIRA CHICKEN)
Forms will be distributed the week of October 7. Assuming we hit the required minimum sales of $2,300 across the association, each player will receive $4.00 per box sold, and PRA will receive $1.00 per box. If we do not hit that minimum, each player will receive $2.80 per box sold and PRA will receive $0.70 per box sold.
Orders will be due Sunday, October 27th. Orders will be available for pick-up 2-3 weeks later, and this will happen on a weeknight at the arena when some teams are already there for ice times. We will communicate the pick-up date as soon as we can.
ALTITUDE COFFEE
Order forms will be distributed the week of November 4th, due back in by November 24th. Orders will be ready for pick-up 10-14 days later. Coffee will be sold for $20 per bag, which gives $4.80 profit to the player and $1.20 to PRA per bag sold. Available in dark, medium and decaf roasts, in ground or whole bean form. Bags are 320g in size.
Altitude Coffee Roasters Forms
MEAT STICKS
Order forms will go home the first week back from Christmas. Orders will be due by January 26th. Product will be ready for pick-up approx. 2 weeks later. See brochure for details on profits/pricing and remember that 80% goes towards your player’s fund, and 20% to PRA.
50/50:
Tickets will be available for purchase online only. We will distribute details once we have the online site setup. We are hoping to run this all year, and draw at the beginning of March. 100% of proceeds will go towards PRA.
CHEER FOR A YEAR:
Tickets will be distributed in booklets of 25. We ask that each player sell at least one booklet of 25. Ticket stubs will need to be returned with the money to your team Manager. Tickets will be distributed before Christmas, and the draw will be held the Saturday evening of our Paris tournament - February 15th, 2025.
FUNDRAISING IMPORTANT DATES:
| Product | Orders Due | Orders Delivered |
| Bottle Drive | BOTTLE DRIVE IS ORGANIZED BY EACH TEAM INDIVIDUALLY We aim to have all bottle drive money collected by Oct 27th | |
| J.D. Sweid | October 27th, 2024 | 2-3 weeks later |
| Altitude Coffee | November 24th, 2024 | 10-14 days later |
| Halenda Meat Sticks | January 26th, 2025 | Approx. 2 weeks later |
| 50/50 Draw | Sales start as soon as site is up | Draw March 1st, 2025 |
| Cheer for a Year | February 15th, 2025 | Prizes distributed after draw |
INDIVIDUAL TEAM FUNDRAISING:
If your team would like to look into running additional fundraisers that will be managed within your own team, that is totally acceptable. Please run any ideas by the PRA Executive first to ensure there are no conflicts with fundraisers we are looking at running later in the season. All fundraisers managed within individual teams will be subject to the rule of 80% of profits going to the player and 20% to the PRA.
Ideas Include:
FlipGive
Mitchell’s Soup Company
Little Caesar’s Pizza
Rheo Thomson Smoothie Chocolate Bars
Please email fundraising@parisringette.com with any questions.
