BaseballMania - a unique fundraiser based on the excitement of baseball

An exciting sweepstakes based on professional baseball!

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Profits and Costs with BaseballMania

Profit
Determining your profit with BaseballMania is easy. To raise money, you sell CharityMania Tickets for $10 and keep 65% of the money you collect. Ticket holders receive $10 worth of premium digital music downloads (read why the music is important for this fundraiser), and they are entered into the BaseballMania sweepstakes. Sell 10 tickets or 10,000 tickets... you make $6.50 on every ticket. It is really that simple.

Costs
You determine how many CharityMania Tickets you need and then purchase them from us for 15¢ per ticket (to cover the printing costs) plus shipping and a $10 handling fee per order. You then sell each CharityMania Ticket for $10. With each sale you pay $3.50 to CharityMania to cover the costs of the music downloads, the management of the sweepstakes, and any prize money your tickets may win. The remaining $6.50 is your profit! Sell 10 tickets or 10,000 tickets... you pay $3.50 for only those tickets you sell. View our Financial Flowchart (PDF) for more details about how and when payments are made during the fundraiser.

Profit comparison with other fundraisers

Cookie
Dough

30 - 50%
profit

Cookie dough may sound good to eat, but it doesn't make you much money in a fundraiser. Unless you sell a lot of tubs, you will keep as little as 30% of the money you collect.

Wrapping Paper
and Candles

~45%
profit

Physical goods typically let you keep a little less than half of what you collect. Plus you need to deliver the purchased goods to the buyers. This can be a lot of work to coordinate.

Magazine
Sales

20 - 40%
profit

Magazine sales don't require inventory management (like cookie dough or physical goods), but the most you can profit is typically very low.

CharityMania
Tickets

65%
profit

You keep 65% of the money you collect, no matter how many CharityMania tickets you sell. This makes it great for any size organization. Plus there is no inventory to manage.

Have questions? Contact us at...
e: inquiry@charitymania.com
t: 888.909.9994

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CharityStudio music downloads

Why sell music downloads? Why not just use the sweepstakes game cards?
There is a legal difference between a sweepstakes and a raffle. In a raffle, people pay money for a raffle ticket that gives them a chance to win prizes. Only specific types of organizations can conduct a raffle and states strictly regulate how the raffles can operate. A sweepstakes is not a raffle. A sweepstakes is a promotion that provides extra incentive for people to buy a product or service that you are selling. The sweepstakes must have a ‘no purchase necessary’ method of entry. In a CharityMania fundraiser, the sweepstakes game cards are for promotion only and are not sold directly. Every time someone buys a CharityMania Ticket, they purchase over $5 to $30 worth of premium music downloads (depending on the price of the CharityMania ticket) from our CharityStudio. The sweepstakes game card is the promotion that provides a great extra incentive for a person to support your cause.

Our Sweepstakes Game Cards work much like the game pieces in the Monopoly sweepstakes at McDonald’s. You can not buy a Monopoly game piece directly. Instead, you purchase things like hamburgers and drinks and receive the game pieces for free. The Monopoly game pieces are a promotion.

No purchase necessary sweepstakes:
All CharityMania sweepstakes are “no purchase necessary”. If someone wants a free sweepstakes game card, they can come to your organization and fill out a request form (provided by CharityMania) to get a free Game Card. They mail the completed request form to CharityMania along with a self-addressed stamped envelope and then we will mail the person a game card. We do not mail them the access code that allows people to download the digital music (because they are not paying). This process is very standard for all companies that conduct sweepstakes.