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Then once they have some matches if you have more than one high school program you can
have a high school play another high school. So you can have scrimmages at the high schools
amongst their own team or you can have two high schools play each other like they would
in football or basketball or anything else. I encourage that you let them sell tickets
and I encourage that you set a price so that they can raise some funds. We have successfully
be part of high school leagues in Southern California; there are two big ones in California,
the Los Angles one and the San Diego one, and there’s one in Wisconsin, Central Texas.
There’s a couple on the East Coast and they all have in common that the high school teams
are able to raise funds themselves and then as an organization you can help them to know
what that money is available for. It can be available for charitable things; it can be
available to help with the development of their own team like buying the uniforms or
paying the coach or a host for the show. It could fund the theatrical production of the
school; maybe their school can’t afford a theater department but with the funds raised
with their improv shows maybe they can. We found the average school can raise fifteen
to seventeen hundred dollars with a few matches and a few exchanges with other schools. Perhaps
that goes in to scholarships for the graduating seniors, book scholarships or something. There
is a lot of things that you can do with the money, and you can help them to generate it.
Maybe they want to sell popcorn and candy bars at the events and that would be up to
them. Now in addition to having a sponsor you’re going to have the kids self manage
themselves into some fliers, promotion and it ends up being sort of a cottage industry
that will teach them how to manage their own interests.