Campaign Ideas: Everydayhero Pro For Golf Events

Organizing a golf tournament takes time, organization and preparation.  They're resource intensive and require careful planning - but, they can make great fundraisers!   Golf tournaments are fun for supporters, create great sponsorship opportunities, and draw high net worth individuals.  Hundreds of schools and nonprofits run successful golf tournaments every year.  

NPEngage has a great blog post with 5 tips for golf tournament fundraising.  Focus on sponsorships, foursomes, post-golf revenue, ancillary revenue, and create a competitive environment, they say.  

What if you could do all these things by adding a peer-to-peer element to your golf event?  With everydayhero, you can.  Imagine, creating a peer-to-peer fundraising challenge as a part of your golf event that incorporated all of these focus areas, helping you to raise more by leveraging the power of your participants and their social networks - before, during and after the event.  Encourage foursomes to create a fundraising team and challenge them to raise as much as they can (ancillary revenue), while participants compete for prizes like tickets to your post-tournament celebration or vip treatment on the day of the tournament.  Incentivize fundraising by selling a sponsorship connected to the challenge, and using the sponsorship dollars as a matching gift for every dollar raised.  Then, after the tournament, encourage people to keep sharing their page (post-golf revenue) for a chance to win or earn a foursome in next years event.

Here are a few examples of our favorite golf events on everydayhero.



Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Ohio hosted their Joe Mortellaro Junior Golf Tournament on everydayhero.  There was no entry fee for this tournament, but the organization asked that each team raise a minimum of $500 for RMHC of Central Ohio. The prize for the top was an invitation participate in the 32nd Annual Joe Mortellaro Golf Classic & the opportunity to attend the special post tournament banquet that evening, with a seat next to Honorary Co-Chairs,



Charlotte Golfers for Charity recently hosted their golf event called the “100 Hole Challenge”, a fun and unique charity golf event. Golfers from all handicap levels are welcomed to test their skill and endurance in the ultimate challenge of playing 100 holes in a single day to raise money for local children’s charities. 




Board Members of the Indiana Golf Foundation and The First Tee of Indiana hosted a Play It FOREward fundraising challenge during the months of March and April, where board members we're placed in a bracket and competed to raise as much as they could each week. Now that's FOREward thinking!

Does your organization host a golf event?  If so, consider how you might use everydayhero to increase your fundraising this year!