The Ramona Bulldog Booster Club

Ramona High School

1401 Hanson Lane

Ramona, CA 92065

The Ramona Bulldog Booster Club is a voluntary, non-profit club that supports all athletic and non-athletic clubs and organizations on the Ramona High School Campus. Our goal is to increase interest, loyalty, pride and attendance at all school activities as well as help make those programs as successful as possible.

In prior years we have provided funds for transportation, uniforms, equipment and general grant requests. This was accomplished with membership support and involvement.

Your help is both needed and appreciated!

Please attend our Booster Club meetings on the 1st Monday of every month at 7pm in the RHS Library.

Your involvement does make a difference!

To contact the RBBC:

- You can write to us at RBBC, P.O. Box 804, Ramona, CA 92065 or send e-mail to pres@rbbclub.net.

- You can join our meetings, the first Monday of each month at 7pm, in the RHS Library.

- Messages can be left at the RHS office, in our mailbox

BULLDOG FOUNDATION FUND

(click here to make a donation)

The RBBC is now pursuing a new project...The Bulldog Foundation Fund! The goal of this project is to build a $1M protected principle fund, for which the yearly interest will be utilized to fund RHS Sport and Club activities. The benefits of this fund will be:

· Assures minimum funding, year over year

· Increases funding levels, helping RHS programs to become the “Best of the Best”!

· Reduces long term fundraising pressure on the community, local business and families.

Building a necessary foundation that will fund the future needs of RHS Sport and Club activities

With your support, we will need to attract between $100K and $250K a year and it is our expectation that we will achieve our goal within 5 to 7 years. To achieve these goals, we will need to greatly expand the RBBC membership levels. Currently sitting at under 200, we will need to raise membership to 1000. By achieving this membership goal, the individual contribution levels become more manageable. While we will accept any level of contribution, we recommend a $100 and $250 year level…this equates to less than $10 and $25 a month!!!

We must maximize our membership levels…target 1000

By giving and participation in the RBBC, for the benefit of the students at RHS, we gain a sense of profound satisfaction that: we are engaged in the lives of our children; we are providing necessary resources to allow maximum participation in school activities; and we are building a necessary foundation that will fund the future needs of these programs.

We are building something good for our community


*Who are we asking to donate?*	*How* are we gathering the funds?
Parents	Monthly solicitations
Alumni	Local business partnerships
Local Community	Government grants
Local Business	Corporate & small business donations
Corporations	School events
Government	Community events

We must protect the investment!
It is important to place safeguards that protect the principle and interest from abuse. By-laws are drafted to insure

– We Protect Principle
• Until the principle reaches $50K, the fund can be housed within the general bank accountancy, managed by the board treasurer.
• An outside fund manager must be utilized for the fund, when the principle exceeds $50K.
• Only principle available for withdrawal is that above $900K
to use principle, 80% of RBBC membership must pass with vote of 75%

– We Protect from misuse of interest
• Pay-out drops to 50% of available interest if either the district or school reduces the athletic department or activities budget by 5% and 75% if reduced by 10%.
• $60K cap in 1 school year, any excess remains with the fund as added principle
• No money is to be utilized for basic maintenance of infrastructure (i.e., maintaining the grass fields, lighting, etc.