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MonClubSportif, the tool to help you manage your sports club

Financing Written by: Karl Demers July 2021
MonClubSportif, l’outil pour faciliter la gestion d’une association sportive.

As we all know, running a sports association can sometimes be complicated. It takes a lot of structure and hard work to get everything up and running, especially at the start of the season.

Lack of funding and the difficulty of finding volunteers are among the 2 major problems facing coaches and technical directors.

Today, MonClubSportif shows you how its application can give you the tools you need to better address these issues.

1. Lack of funding

For sports organizations, finding funding is an ongoing challenge. 32% of coaches point out that funding is also one of the major issues in running a sports organization.

For a coach to ensure the proper development of his players, he needs the necessary resources. Without funding, this can be more difficult, and in the long term can have a considerable negative impact on the organization.

Solutions and benefits

Unfortunately, there’s no magic bullet for obtaining more funding. Nor is the idea to organize dozens of fund-raising activities a year.

Try to find activities that are out of the ordinary. Golf tournaments or spaghetti dinners are very popular activities, but they are not very original and attract fewer and fewer people.

Don’t hesitate to reinvent yourself with new activities.

The quality of the activities you choose will benefit your organization. Obviously, it’s by varying your fund-raising activities that you’ll get results.

By reducing your workload in terms of administrative tasks, you can also put more time into organizing fundraising events.

2. Volunteers

For a sports association, it can be very hard to find volunteers. These are the pearls who give their time for the pleasure of sport.

Building a large network of volunteers can be difficult, and when it comes to finding replacement volunteers for a sporting event, it can be a real challenge.

Solutions and benefits

It’s important to value the work of volunteers and create a positive atmosphere throughout the network already established. They need to feel a sense of belonging to the association.

Using a private Facebook group is always an excellent way to keep volunteers engaged.

Preparing thank-you events at the end of the season is also a good way for a sports organization to show its gratitude to its volunteers.

Of course, good communication is always preferable to encourage the development of the volunteer network.

The use of a sports association application, which offers a simple communication platform, is certainly worth considering to build a loyal relationship with volunteers.

With MonClubSportif, you can create a team with just volunteers, assign them to events, and let them communicate with each other.

Solutions and benefits

It’s important to value the work of volunteers and create a positive atmosphere throughout the network already established. They need to feel a sense of belonging to the association.

Using a private Facebook group is always an excellent way of keeping volunteers engaged.

Preparing thank-you events at the end of the season is also a good way for a sports organization to show its gratitude to its volunteers.

Of course, good communication is always preferable to encourage the development of the volunteer network.

The use of a sports association application, which offers a simple communication platform, is certainly worth considering to build a loyal relationship with volunteers.

With MonClubSportif, you can create a team with just volunteers, assign them to events, and let them communicate with each other.

With a sense of belonging and recognition, volunteers will be more eager to participate in various sporting events.

Private Facebook groups reserved exclusively for volunteers will enable them to communicate directly with each other to find replacements when needed.

This will also take the responsibility away from other members of the organization, such as coaches.

How simple can it be to manage a sports organization?

The answer is YES.

It’s obvious that managing the logistics of a sports organization is a time-consuming job. With the right tools in hand, you can reduce your workload.

With the pandemic period almost behind us, normal sporting activities will begin to resume, and you’ll be able to find original fundraising activities to support your sports association.

You don’t have to choose a dozen, just plan 2-3 activities that will appeal to your network.

Don’t forget to recognize the work of your volunteers: they’ll be more inclined to repeat their experience if they feel that their work is valued and that their presence is important!

Don’t hesitate to check out our blog for more tips on how to make your work easier!

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Karl Demers

Karl Demers is the founder of MonClubSportif. From an early age, Karl has been passionate about sports, whether it's soccer, baseball, field hockey, volleyball... and the list goes on. To combine business with pleasure, Karl has been passing on his passion for 8 years now through the blogs he writes and the information he shares to simplify the lives of sports enthusiasts like himself.
Karl Demers

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