What your volleyball fundraiser builds: pick your goal
In Mwanza, on the southern shore of Lake Victoria, our local team adoption hub leader David Neeke runs sessions for the children of Play Positive Academy on dirt courts. On ground like that, a donated ball lasts two to three months. Every new ball gets used until it gives out.
Every fundraiser needs a goal people can picture. Thirty balls for Mwanza is something your teammates can see in their heads. Here are the five goals you can choose when you start a fundraiser, what each one builds, and how to pick the one your community can reach.
Five goals, one for every size of fundraiser
Under $1,000: balls, equipment and materials
The quickest goal, made for a birthday, a single match or a bake sale at your club. It buys what every session needs: balls, nets, pumps and the kit that wears out fastest. In 2026 our Impact team sent 60 balls to Tanzania: 30 to David in Mwanza and 30 to our local project coordinator John Paul in Moshi.
$1,000 to $2,500: a month of coaching support
Balls need coaches. This goal brings a volunteer coach to one of our team adoption hubs for a month to support the coach education programme. Local coaches work alongside them every day, through training sessions, matches and planning, so the learning carries on long after the volunteer flies home. It suits a team fundraiser or a club tournament.
$2,500 to $5,000: a contribution to an outdoor court
A court changes what a school can do. Without one, rain cancels practice and balls wear out on stone and dirt. When we visited Ifugao in the Philippines, 130 players turned up to play on one court, against the 80 we expected.
At Umoja in Tanzania, the local community built an outdoor court alongside us in 2026 and painted the floor together in local colours. Your fundraiser contributes to the next court at one of our schools.
$5,000: one team adoption for a year
A team adoption funds a full school programme for a year: coaching, equipment and the local coordination that keeps it running. Modena Volley, Stanford University, Slunks, A5 Volleyball Club and many more clubs, universities and companies stand behind our schools this way. Adoptions grow stronger every year they continue, so organisers aim to repeat the goal year after year.
Over $5,000: an adoption and more
Clubs and companies that pass $5,000 can combine an adoption with a court contribution or extra equipment. Email info@lktbf.org and we can agree the mix with you.
Thirty balls for Mwanza is something your teammates can picture. That is what a good goal does.
How to pick yours
Your goal comes from your people. Write down everyone you will ask personally, and count them. Most will give between $10 and $50. Twenty people at $25 is $500, a strong goal for the first bracket. A club of 100 members, with their families, can reach a coaching month or a court contribution. You can always raise the target once you pass it.
Where the money goes
The money you raise goes to our team adoption hubs and global projects across multiple continents, wherever the need is highest. If you'd like your fundraiser to support a specific region, email info@lktbf.org and we'll explore together what fits best. When your fundraiser closes, we can share what it built, so you can close the loop with everyone who joined you.
Whichever goal you pick, it ends on a court: a team playing with what your supporters built, and a photo to share with every one of them.
Read next: How to ask for support and get your first donations in one evening. Your goal is set; here is who to ask first, and how.
