By Costea Lestoc
When it comes to a sporting event, usually only one team can ultimately win. There are ties, but for the most part, just one group of athletes takes away the trophy. However, on the local community level, it doesn’t matter who wins the game as long as there is a game.
There’s a big difference between local sporting events and nationalized sporting events. The former is an all-consuming pastime which fills a brain with statistics and numbers pertaining to individuals. The other is a community event that bolsters the local people.
A hometown sporting event brings people together, fosters hard work and leads to the completion of goals. It takes up otherwise idle time with good, clean, healthy, fun, community-building and memorable activity. Additionally, it’s generally cost-effective with the benefits for those involved being lifelong.
Most youth participating in sports do not go on to be national stars—and it would be bad if they did. Not all sports careers result in good life decisions. But children playing on community, school, and college teams serves educational and psychological purposes.
Teamwork is an important life skill.
Focus On The Community
It becomes integral when you’re running a charity sports event to help communicate this to potential donors. You shouldn’t focus only on adult sports fans, as though there is some overlap, it doesn’t follow that non-enthusiasts won’t want to help their community as well. That’s the difference.
One way to help communicate this and reach a wider audience is to help explain some tangent scientific benefits. There are new breakthroughs in health all the time, and it truly is astonishing how much is known about the human body today, and how little scientific communities have truly uncovered. Take brain health, for instance.
When it comes to healthy brain activity, there are a whole new family of organizations dedicated to disseminating new knowledge; like Corpina, who, according to Corpina.com, have made it their mission to: “…inform the world about Nootropics and responsible Nootropic use.”
Did you know that the brain can be reprogrammed in a matter of days through repetition of habit? This is called neuroplasticity, and in a nutshell, you basically build neuro-pathways in your mind whenever you do anything. Repeating a habit ingrains it. To that end, you can ingrain bad habits which can be removed.
Sports Help Facilitate Good Habits
Sports taking place over several seasons can help instill habits incorporating physical activity, which is good for overall health throughout a person’s life. When you’re in better health, you’ll naturally have less stress. Facilitating healthy living habits that help decline stress throughout the community is an angle of approach to reach donors with.
There are certainly many ways to raise money for sporting events that involve a door-to-door approach; but be sure you think outside the box. Have bake sales, sell food at community events, put up concessions stands, have races for charity, host events, work with local advertisers throughout the community, and don’t forget to use the internet!
Sometimes one of the best avenues of fund acquisition is through crowdsourced options at Plumfund.com, which provide a: “…tasteful, online fundraising platform allow[ing] friends and family to give and receive without fear or etiquette concerns.”
If you sell your charity sports event as more than just an athletic contest between locals, and more of a community-building, mind-enhancing, health commending, skill-producing activity, you’ll get additional support, and from more diverse supporters.
About Costea Lestoc
I began writing as a professional on my personal blog and then discovered my true calling, which is writing about technology and gadgets in general. I am a technical writer, author, and blogger since 2005. An industry watcher that stays on top of the latest features, extremely passionate about juicy tech news and everything related to DYI