Fundraising Tools for Rodeo Committees

Fundraising at your rodeo helps you give back to your community – supporting local charities or working with the Justin Cowboy Crisis Fund to support the cowboys and cowgirls your fans come to see compete.

You can even fundraise to support the work your rodeo does – making arena improvements or operating community programs like 4H.

Whatever your fundraiser’s purpose, Rodeo Ticket offers several tools to help you fundraise successfully:

• Donation Page
• Donations During Ticketing & Registration
• Online Silent Auction

We’ll cover how these tools work to grow your rodeo fundraiser.

Donation Page

Accept online donations from a dedicated page to your fundraising cause.

• Preset Donation Amounts – Customize preset amounts that people can click to donate.
• Custom Donation Amounts – Allow people to set their own amount to donate.
• Goal Progress Tracker – Display your fundraiser’s progress towards your goal in real-time on your page.
• Recent Donations – Show recent donors and their donation amounts. Allow donors to choose anonymity.
• Easy Fundraiser Sharing – Donors and supporters can share your donation page with friends and family on social media and via email or text by clicking a button.
• Peer-to-Peer Fundraising – Let people create their own mini-fundraisers and recruit their friends to support your cause and help you reach your goal.

A donation page with these elements helps you expand your donor audience beyond your rodeo attendees.

You can even print QR code posters that direct people to your donation page. Post these posters around your rodeo so people can scan to make a donation.

Donations During Ticketing & Registration

Include donation opportunities during your ticket purchase path or registration for non-sanctioned events. People coming to your rodeo can make a donation as part of their order.

Even if people don’t include a donation with their order, you’ll draw more attention to the causes you’re supporting. Getting people thinking about the causes you support also makes it more likely that they donate later.

Online Silent Auction

Expand the footprint of your silent auction with online silent auction tools. Feature each of your items on a webpage. You can hang QR code posters that people can scan to check out your auction and place bids.

People who go to your silent auction tables can also place bids online by scanning unique QR codes for each item.

You can make managing your silent auction easy with:

• Starting Bids – Set starting bids for each of your items.
• Bidding Increments – Set required bidding increments for someone to outbid the current top bid.
• Bidding Approaches – Have your attendees manually enter each of their bids or let them set the maximum they’re willing to bid and our system will automatically bid for them up to their maximum.
• Automatic Outbid Notifications – Automatically notify your bidders when they get outbid to boost engagement and raise bids.
• Automatic Invoicing or Payment – Automatically charge or invoice the winning bidders when your auction closes.

You can increase engagement with your silent auction and simplify management with free online silent auction software.

Learn more about fundraising strategies for rodeos.