Need to raise funds for your program?  Check out Reaching Our Goal, www.reachingourgoal.org for some help.   Sports International is proud to announce that we will again be working with Reaching Our Goal (ROG) for our 2013 summer camp season.   ROG is approaching their tenth anniversary helping school-aged groups and teams raise millions of dollars with a process that's "insanely easy." You can raise money with ROG in minutes, not days or weeks. You don't have to sell anything, promote anything, deliver anything or invest anything. There are no events to organize, no people to call, no doors to knock on. Simply share your story with the people who care about you. That's it. They want young people and adults to focus on their passions, not how to pay for them. They've managed to turn fundraising into a process that's fast, easy and painless. How great is that?

 Are you the parent of a player overwhelmed by organizing bake sales, car washes and spaghetti dinners only to learn that your hard work has produced just a few dollars?

 Are you a football coach who believes that raising money means sending your players to knock on neighbors' doors selling something or spending a weekend standing in front of a Wal-Mart shaking a can?

 Are you a football player already so over-scheduled between school work, conditioning, and extra-curricular activities that there just doesn't seem to be a spare minute ever?

 If you are a football coach, parent or player, then you know all about fundraising and what a truly agonizing process it can be. Yet, the pressure to raise money to compensate for increased costs and tighter budgets has never been greater for football teams in every state across the country.

 The good news is that the Internet and the power to reach out to anyone anywhere in the world to support your team has finally arrived to the world of team sports.  And, that means fundraising has been completely transformed from something you used to dread into a fast, easy and competitive advantage. 

 Football teams consume money - equipment, uniforms, transportation, camps - like an offensive lineman at the Sizzler buffet!  Everything the team needs costs thousands and each school year the team has to figure out how to stretch a dollar further and further.

Like the cavalry riding in to save the day, the company ReachingOurGoal.org (ROG) makes it simple for you to start and finish a fundraising effort in less than 24 hours without selling of any kind.  No canvassing, no products and practically no effort at all.

 This is state-of-the-art, football-ready, Internet-powered, donation-based program.  The average player takes about 15 minutes to complete his assignment from home.   It's completed by simply plugging into ROG's fundraising engine the email addresses of adults who know and care about you.  Customized messages are then automatically sent out and linked back to a beautiful donation page about the team where contributions pile up with the click of a mouse.

 Total contributions to a football team:  $7,500 or more on average.  The average individual donation to an ROG campaign:  $52.  The average profit margin for a team:  better than 80%.  Time spent:  minutes (not weeks or months).  Aggravation and frustration:  zero.  Plus, EACH supporter to you team receives a $50 THANK YOU gift for restaurants AND a 15% discount off Choice Hotels.  A great way to say, "thanks!"

 So, when it's time for you to think about how to help the team - or help yourself - raise some money, forget the boxes of candy, stacks of discount cards, cookie dough and printed raffle tickets. Instead, checkout www.ReachingOurGoal.org.  It's fast, easy and smart.