FUNDRAISING FOR COLOR GUARD
New silks every show, rifles, uniforms, props, travel — guard costs add up fast, and they're often outside the band's budget. Running winter guard too? It has its own season and its own page.
WHY IT WORKS
Guard is always the add-on line item. Fund it directly.
When guard money has to come out of the band's leftover budget, the season starts with a shortfall. A guard-specific campaign — or a guard fund inside the band's campaign — gives your members' families and alumni a direct way to fund the thing they actually come to watch, and the small-ensemble playbook is already proven.
Run it as its own fundraiser or as a branded fund inside the band program's campaign — either way, guard money is tracked as guard money.
Twenty performers with 25 contacts each is 500 personal asks. The 38-member Rouse Royals prove the size works: nine straight documented seasons.
The contact lists your members build for fall guard carry straight into the winter season — the second campaign starts warm.
PROVEN IN THE FIELD
Guard-sized groups, documented results.
THE SIZE TWIN
$126,965 from 38 members
The Rouse Royals — a guard-sized ensemble with guard-sized costs — have documented nine straight seasons, growing from $4,785 to $22,286 a year.
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Guard families already give
Rouse and Leander band campaigns — $994K and $694K documented — include guard members' networks every fall. A winter campaign taps the same list at its warmest.
Read morePart of a bigger department? A Campaign Hub puts every fine arts program on one page — each as its own branded fund, with per-fund reporting and one payout.
See the Campaign HubBEYOND THE CAMPAIGN
Two more streams, all year long.
Every campaign also includes a corporate sponsor page for local businesses and a monthly giving club for your most loyal supporters — steady money that keeps coming between campaigns, with students earning incentive credit for both.
If winter guard funds itself separately, yes — its own campaign (or its own fund in a Campaign Hub) keeps the money and reporting clean. If the band boosters fund everything, join the band's fall campaign and skip the second ask.
Fall guard usually rides with the band's fall campaign, as its own fund or alongside it. Winter guard is a separate season with separate fees — run that campaign in November, right after marching season.
They care about your kids specifically. Personal pages with each performer's photo and story is what raises money — the activity explains itself the first time a donor watches a show video on the campaign page.
Also serving: Winter Guard · Marching Bands · Dance Teams
Free to start. Five weeks. The floor tarp practically funds itself.
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