Fundraising

Fundraising money is good way to offset your soccer expenses.  MapleBrook Soccer Association has a fundraising policy (pdf) in place to ensure the proper collection and disbursement of fundraising dollars. 

Approved fundraising opportunities are summarized in the table below.  Additional information is provided following the table.

If your team would like to do a fundraiser not listed (in the table), please fill out a request form for the fundraiser and submit it to a board member.  Click to link to the Fundraising Policy and Request Form (pdf).

If you would like to know your account balance, please email our accountant, Nancy Calkins, at ncalkins@maplebrooksoccer.com.  If you would like to submit a request to use your fundraising money, click for the fundraising check request form (pdf).

Scrip Program

Earn money while you shop at your favorite stores or restaurants. Earn 2-18% at local businesses. Orders go in the 5th of every month and you will receive your gift certificates two weeks later! Go to the Great Lakes Scrip website (www.glscrip.com) to see the most current retailer listing (make sure to check the website frequently because retailers and percentages change).

Set up your account at www.shopwithscrip.com.  On the right side, under the "Member’s Login" box, click on "not a member? - click here."  Complete the enrollment process by filling out your personal information.  At the end of the enrollment process, you need to put in the enrollment code.  Click here for enrollment code.  Contact Susan Hahn-Hamamoto at shamamoto@maplebrooksoccer.com for this enrollment code.  Mail your check for your order to: Attn: Scrip, MBSA, 13570 Grove Drive, #256, Maple Grove, MN  55311.  Full payment is due at the time of the order.

Oil Changes

Buy a Gift Certificate for $18.95 and have $9.00 put in your fundraising account! Oil changes are good at Maple Grove Auto.  Please send a check payable to MBSA and mail it to: Attn: Fundraising, MBSA, 13570 Grove Drive, #256, Maple Grove, MN.  Please indicated how many oil change coupons you would like, name of the player and team, and address you would like the coupons mailed to.  Or you can contact Susan Hahn-Hamamoto to make arrangements to pick the coupons up, shamamoto@maplebrooksoccer.com or 763-244-6433.

Taste Test - Food Perspectives

Taste Testing Food - Your fundraising account will earn approximately $9 per taste test and you will earn whatever they are paying for that taste test. You can visit the Food Perspectives website at www.foodperspectives.com to learn more information. Sign up online at the following link: Online Signup.

Please be sure to contact Susan Hahn-Hamamoto (shamamoto@maplebrooksoccer.com) to let her know that you are signing up and the name of the player who should receive credit for your taste tests.

Spring Flower Sale

Each Spring, Lynde Greenhouse in Maple Grove has been providing bedding plants, hanging baskets, 3-gallon patio pots, and 1-gallon perennials. A portion of the profit is distributed to the individual player accounts based upon their total sales -- between 30-40%, depending on the number of orders. Earn 20% on gift certificates; gift certificates start at $25 and increases in increments of $5 above $25.  This is an individual fundraiser (managers are not responsible for collecting a team order). 

Please have people make their checks out to you (individual fundraiser--not the manager) then you (as the individual fundraiser) write one check payable to MBSA to submit with your plant order. **Please make a copy of your order form because we will not provide you with one.

Submit one check payable to MBSA and your order form to: Attn: Fundraising, Carrie Des Marais, 8930 Dallas Lane North, Maple Grove, MN  55369.  You may mail your check and order form or drop them off at Carrie's home.

You may download a 2010 brochure with descriptions here (large file). For a photo display  of a Sun Perennial Garden click here.  For a sample of a vegetable garden lay out click here.  All orders must be paid in advance. No phone orders. ORDER DEADLINE is April 7, 2010.  There will be exceptions past the deadline date.  Click here for the order form.  Money will either roll over to the following fall or summer soccer season, or a refund will be given since this fundraiser is after the April 1st deadline when all club and team fee payments are due.  The approximate delivery/pickup date is a few days before Mother's Day 2010.  Final delivery date will be posted later.

You will be contacted with the delivery date and time. Contact Susan Hahn-Hamamoto with any questions.

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