RAYBA Travel Basketball Program - Volunteer Deposit

First of all, thank you for your intrest in RAYBA’s traveling basketball program!  Our program is intended to provide the youth in the southern part of District 728 an opportunity to develop their basketball skills and prepare them for participation in the High School program. 

RAYBA is a non-profit organization.  All of our operating capital comes from one of two sources; fees and fundraising.  We’ve worked hard to become self sufficient and have been successful in keeping our fundraising activities within the program.  We understand that in a growing community, fundraising can become overwhelming, so we don’t ask our families to help sell candy, holiday items, or vendor cards or subscriptions as other organizations have elected to do.

Rather, we raise our funds by hosting a spring basketball tournament for Minnesota Youth Athletic Services; Minnesota’s administrator of the nationwide AAU program.  By being a host site for MYAS, we raise funds by collecting gate fees and in the sale of concessions.

Hosting a tournament is heavily dependent upon people; people to help monitor the gate, help prepare and sell concessions, help cover the official tables and help in general organization of the event.  This past year we expanded our hosting to include two sites; a change that meant greater revenue but also taxed our resources!   Thanks to you and the other parents in the travel program, we were again successful and continued to gain the respect of MYAS as a tournament host!

This year we will again be hosting one or more tournaments for MYAS.  We again need help from our families in staffing the vital needs of the tournament.  This is the only volunteer / fundraising effort we ask of our travel players or their families.  In order to ensure we have full participation from our families we ask each to provide a volunteer deposit.  This deposit is simply held until spring.  After completing the required volunteer time at the tournament we simply mail your check back to you in the envelope you addressed tonight.   No deposits are cashed.  The check you receive back is exactly the same check you provided tonight.

The only parties that are exempt to the volunteer deposits are RAYBA board members, Head travel coaches and ONE assistant coach from each travel team.

The tournament is normally hosted at the Rogers High School the first weekend of April

We hope this helps answer any questions you may have regarding the need for the deposit or the plans around the spring tournament.  Again, as the details continue to come together we’ll be posting updates on www.rayba.org.

Thank you again for your support and involvement.  It is truly that support that has made this a very successful youth basketball program.  And it is that involvement that will continue to establish RAYBA in the future.

Thank you,