Start Your Own Fundraiser
We want to support the community that supports Oakland Yard Athletics!
Let our event experts help you raise money. If your club is a current client of Oakland Yard Athletics, the facility is yours to use. If you are not a current client and would like to take advantage of this opportunity for a fundraising event, contact us for details.
We have lots of ideas to help to raise money
Whether you are thinking cornhole tournament, a road rally, an evening cocktail party for parents on the patio, there are lots of ways to raise money for a good cause.
One of the most popular ways to raise money is to promote an evening cornhole tournament with food, drinks, music, silent auction, and lots of fun. Charge what you want per person and keep virtually all the money raised. There are two expenses charged each event to offset the cost Oakland Yard incurs to help outside groups raise money – the first is a $150 flat fee to build out the registration page for each event. This cost must be paid up front to start the process. The other is a 3.5% credit card processing fee for all registrations. There are no other fees to use our facility. We will provide each organizer with a check after each event.
How Does It Work?
Oakland Yard Athletics provides the fundraiser as a virtual free service and donates the facility, maintenance and bar staff, and assists with the registration and event organization. Oakland Yard does not run your event. Oakland Yard will provide the needed tools to help make your event successful.Lots of organizations have detail driven members capable of running a social event or sporting competition. If this is the case, tap one of those volunteers within your organization to help execute the final night. We’ll help with the logistics, then hand off the running of the evening activities to your group.
If your organization doesn’t have that person or just chooses to have someone else run the evening's activities, consider hiring our tournament director Mark to pull the night off flawlessly. In most instances the hiring of Mark will make more money in the long run, make it more enjoyable on the night of the event, and make it a more organized experience for the guests attending the evening. The cost of hiring Mark to run the evening's activities is $350. If your organization wants help running your event, you need to reach out to Mark directly and secure your date with him tournaments@oaklandyard.com.
You can choose to accept registrations per person or per team. Registration per person is more flexible than per team as it allows a single individual (or any uneven number of people) to register even if they do not have a matching partner at the time of sign-up (they can be teamed up the day of the event). Events must use our web site; we will not accept events unless all registrations flow through our system. Once your event has been approved, we’ll build the backend to get the registration started quickly. A link will be emailed to the organizer who in turn can simply email the event out to their network and publish on social media to start the registration process.
Events with 26 paid teams, 48 hours prior to the event start time, will keep 97% of the registration fees collected (the 3% offsets the credit card processing fees charged to OYA). Events with less than 26 teams fully registered will keep 50% of the registration fee.
How Do We Get Started?
Contact our Event Planner Philip Douse ( pdouse@oaklandyard.com or 248 761 1220) and have a conversation about your vision. There are no rules to start, every event is unique. Understanding your demographic and event type is first, a close second is determining a date.Once we have a plan put together, the information on this form will be needed so we can display it on the fundraiser page we will be creating for you. If you'd like to include a link to the registration page when you create your flyer, you can use: www.oaklandyard.com/fundraisers . If you do not plan to promote your event by other means, there's no need to create a flyer. We will put all the info you require directly on your registration page. If you put together a flyer, and would like it uploaded on your registration page, it must be emailed as a PDF to fundraisers@oaklandyard.com.
Once the registration page has been set up, you will be provided with a link and asked to verify the registration page. Once you approve it, your event will go “live” and you can then start distributing the registration link to your prospects.
Event Planner: Philip Douse
pdouse@oaklandyard.com 248 761 1220
All the events on this page are non-profit fundraisers hosted by the sponsoring groups in hopes of raising funds to help people. These events are hosted by, organized by, and overseen by these organizations; these events are not promoted by Oakland Yard Athletics.