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Your booster club can reduce the loss of parent involvement if you eliminate Sr. parents as your executive members.

If this is somewhat of a shocker then consider this. Senior parents will be challenged during their son or daughters senior year with helping to prepare for college, scholarships, senior party, and a host of other activities that will take precedence over administrating the booster club.

By electing to have your clubs officers rank only in the underclass (Freshman, Sophomore and Junior) you have done two positive things. First you have established a constant mentor base as senior parents will still be involved if you ask them to stay active and second, you have reduced the loss of valuable knowledge which traditionally goes out the door when the child and parent graduate.

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Dear Readers,

Thank you for helping make Booster Trends a success! We also want to welcome those of you who are just receiving Booster Trends for the first time. You join a growing list of fellow booster associates from around the country. To those of you who have been with us these past months we want you to know that we enjoy your letters, emails, comments and questions. Please keep them coming!

Now, on to this month's issue.

The importance of a "good" booster club.

Each day we are provided with the opportunity to assist booster clubs from around the country, many are just starting out and have no idea of how or what to do and some clubs have been around for generations but struggle to gain the parent involvement and support they need.

Regardless of whether your club supports a sport, band, cheerleading or debate team the needs are basically all the same and without a good mentor or coach we are all only as good as those around us.

For the past four years we have continued to piece together the support structure to help bring together booster clubs from around the country, providing a cooperative environment that will and can provide opportunity for expansion and continued growth.

If you are an Athletic Director, Principal or parent involved with a booster club that has not taken the opportunity to become associated with the Booster Club Association you need to realize that you are leaving a valuable and vital component to your clubs success locked away in the closet. Now is the time to motivate them to get involved and to start benefiting from the positive reinforcement, contacts, resources and coaching they will gain.

Working together we can make a positive difference. We can help to insure the continuation of extra-curricular activities and we can help to create clubs that prosper year after year. We can develop support systems that will allow a club to continue growing even when key volunteers leave, and working together we can build a support and resource network that is second to none.

I want to encourage you to get your entire booster club registered to receive this monthly publication, encourage them to become registered chat members and to share their ideas and suggestions. Getting them tuned in and turned on with new ideas and resources is the starting point for club expansion. Developing a good booster club takes commitment, dedication and hard work. So I invite you to join with the thousands of booster clubs from around the country who are realizing for the first time that they have an organization that is dedicated to helping them succeed.

I welcome your emails and look forward to assisting you in success.

Dear Booster,
I was involved with the PTA for many years when my son was in grade school. Now that he is in high school I was asked to join the booster club and take on the position of vice president. I don't want to sound stupid, but what does the booster club do? It doesn't appear that the parents involved with the club really know what to do. There doesn't seem to be much of a focus and the organization is pretty scattered. I called my old PTA contact and was told that they didn't work with or support booster clubs. Seeking your help! Needy Mom, Mobile, AL

Dear Needy Mom,
The NBCA is a national organization that supports, trains and works with booster clubs. Working with state booster club associations we provide a nationwide support system that provides guidance, training, resources, contacts and answers to questions such as the one you posed asking "what is a booster club".

A booster club is the parent organization the supports a given activity or cause. Many of us are familiar with the college booster clubs that support sports, or the local booster club for the semi pro or professional team but like many parents entering the high school ranks many do not know what the booster club does or is.

A booster club helps insure the continuation of the activity by providing hands on involvement in conducting fundraising activities, running events and tournaments, staffing concessions as well as helping with transportation, building and supplying new equipment and a multitude of other helpful activities. Booster clubs are parent organizations who seek to help insure the continuation or extra-curricular activities for all kids.

Send us your Dear Booster.... article and we will select one each month to share with the readers of Booster Trends. To submit your question email.

We are proud to announce that starting November 15th the NBCA will introduce weekly bulletin board chat sessions covering fundraising and club finances.

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COMING NOVEMBER 15TH

In last month's issue we asked the following question:

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Fact of the month-
People will only get involved with something they feel welcomed and educated in. If you want to increase your meeting attendance and volunteer base you must establish an environment that welcomes and encourages the active participation from all parents. Don't isolate or leave out. Invite and welcome all parents into your organizations. Your membership will increase as will your meeting attendance and volunteer base.

Quote of the month-
" It's not how much you have that makes people look up to you, it's how much you give."