I have a problem with this.

[sand_man]

No and NO!

[matthewb0051]

How much fund raising is required of the football team?

.

[1990C4S]

Follow the rules. To the letter.

Make a disposable gmail address. Write it down on a piece of paper. Write it 19 more times. Hand it in.

Their rules say family and friends. It does not say 20 different email address.

[scottmandue]

Tell Coach B you would be glad to give him 20 email addresses...

After he gives you his SS# and credit card info.

[RANDY P]

Make them do all the legwork to raise donations, that's what they are there for, why should you do it for them? Let them get their own data lists from the school.

If you do that, why do you need a 3rd party?

rjp

[masraum]

Originally Posted by stomachmonkey

Conner is supposed to bring in a list of 20 family / friends email addresses that will be turned over to a third party fundraising organization who will take it from there.



I asked to get the reps contact info, he replied he'd have to ask to see if it was OK to pass that along.

"Hahah, wait, what? So I can give you the info for 20 family and friends, but you can't give me the contact for the business person? Do you see how absolutely ridiculous that is?

I'll tell you what, give me all of your friends and families numbers, I'll confirm them, then I'll post them on the Internet, and we'll call it even."

[Baz]

IMHO, there should be an option for parents like yourself concerned with spam that they provide YOU with THEIR email address and YOU send that to your 20 family and friends so they can decide whether or not to participate. Better yet...have a mailing address so a donation can be made with check or money order.

Fundraising is all about creativity and options.

Someone needs to be fired in this case....lol...

[Scott Douglas]

I asked my wife about this as she was PTA president when my kids were in HS and my son was playing baseball. Seems it is more widespread than I thought as my nephew was asked to do the same thing when he was in HS, which was about 5 yrs ago. Our BB coach asked for a $200 donation to the team from each player. My wife of course refused to pay, seeing as we'd done fund raising the previous 2 years without the need of a 'donation'. She also knew it was illegal for him to ask for such a donation and when pressured by other parents said she'd be happy to take it up with the Superintendent's Council, of which she was a part. Pay to play is not legal in public schools, at least not ours. YMMV.
To the original poster, you may want to check into what the school district policy says about fund raising for athletics.

[bbturbo]

I coached three years of high school tennis when I was still a pro, and we never ran our fundraisers like this. I don't agree with it, nor should you. There's much better ways to get funds raised for sports. I can understand the idea to raise the funds, since tennis typically doesn't get the budget that, say, football, or basketball does, but not in this manner. I'd respectfully decline.

[flipper35]

Another question, who in their right mind would give money to something like this that comes out of the blue? It would sound suspiciously like a phishing scam if I got one because you submitted the email address.

[racer]

Just list your 20 friends that are on the school board. I am sure they won't mind... since its for the kids and all.

[Heel n Toe]

Originally Posted by Baz

...they provide YOU with THEIR email address and YOU send that to your 20 family and friends so they can decide whether or not to participate.

Better yet...have a mailing address so a donation can be made with check or money order.

That's the first thing that occurred to me when I read the OP.

Just have the tennis coach compose an email about the whole thing and reasons they do the fund raiser and let the guys on the team copy and paste it into an email they send out to friends and family.

And there should be no set number of people it is sent to. 20 may be excessive for some... and others may want to send it to more.

[Tobra]

Is this a public school?

[RKDinOKC]

Just ask the coach if he would collect friends and families phone numbers so they could be called and asked for money to help the team.

[Vipergrün]

No way. Make the kids get off their butts and canvas neighborhoods if they want to fund raise. I'd never hand over money from an unsolicited email.

My son had to sell discount cards for local businesses and restaurants. If they didn't sell them on their own, they were scheduled to stand in front of a grocery store until they did. Luckily my son sold his on his own.

[Gogar]

Originally Posted by Vipergrün

No way. Make the kids get off their butts and canvas neighborhoods if they want to fund raise. I'd never hand over money from an unsolicited email.

That's actually a good point. Fundraising should be a good learning lesson.



SM you should tell 'em your gubmit clearance prohibits you from doing things like this.

[rattlsnak]

I understand the sneaky premise on which these are being gathered, but aside from handing out your friends/families addresses, what is the big deal if they get yours? Is it because they will sell/give it to companies that will hit you with a lot of spam? I mean, no 'real' harm right? Just making sure I understand what the issue is here. (seriously, not being sarcastic)

[mepstein]

No way!

[daepp]

So they'll collect emails from kids, use them to spam and then probably sell them

But

They won't give out the contact info of the rep from a commercial business?

Oh hell no!

[fanaudical]

You should have a problem with this.

I do recommend a letter to the principal and possibly the school board depending on the principal's response.