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| I have a young friend who's been fighting the battle of his life since December when he was diagnosed with lung and testicular cancer... A few weeks ago he found out he had it beat, and a week later he found out he has a brain tumour. Well, within days of finding out about his tumour, he lost mobility in the left side of his body. This 24 year old "kid" is a cowboy, a role model for his peers, and just a really good guy.
His family was always there for me through a rough time in my late teens... His dad was my boss at the feedlot I worked and and was more like a dad to me than a boss. I was a drunken disaster, and he worked my little @$$ off for it, but he and his wife always made sure I was ok. They're just some of the best people I know.
Anyways, I feel like I need to do something for their son. They now live 8+ hours away from me so I can't exactly go do their chores, so I'm thinking of putting on a benefit calf roping. I'm wondering the best way to make this a successful event. I think I have a stock contractor willing to donate calves, my hubby is a pro calf roper so o know the ropers will show up, but where do I make it a money making event? Any and all ideas are very welcome. |
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Location: Lost in Texas | Silent auction, bake auction and if the calfs and whatever percentage you hold back from the entry fees. |
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| Ive seen and bid on lots of FB auctions that are fundraisers.
If the stock is donated, the "stock fee" contestants usualy pay could go to the young man.
If you want and go ahead with any type of auction, I will donate 10 straws of a maine - anjou bull we own canadian rights on, we are just starting to get him out there but he's really nice.
You could always have a Speedo roping side pot and auction the guys off ... lol joking. Be better watching than a bikini barrel race though .... ...
Edited by della 2015-07-18 12:55 PM
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Location: Louisiana | After the calf roping you could have a "Rope Horse Barrel Race!" A team roping benefit did that here a few years back and they got a decent turn out for it. I think they actually may have done it between rounds to get more entries.
Silent auction. Go to all your local feed and tack stores, many are willing to give something. A lot of times they're more willing to give an item over a check. The hot item at the last benefit I went to was actually a painting of a cow. It was gorgeous and all the women wanted to hang it in their living room!
See if you can get a friend to cook a pot of jambalaya, sometimes grocery stores will donate a portion of the meat, or at least give you a discount. See if you can get a bounce house donated for the kids that day, more kids means more concession sales!!
Having the stock and labor donated will be a huge help.
A lot of the team roping around here do "buy-backs". If a team misses in the first head, they can pay to get another steer. That money could be straight profit to the fundraiser. |
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Location: Peach State | We did a benefit roping for a family member. Raised over 11k. Had an auction where people donated simple tack stuff. A few of the close friends donated very nice trophy saddles to be auctioned off as well. Also had a cake auction. Contact a local breeder and see if you could raffle off a free stud fee those types of donations really add up! |
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Location: the other T-town, Oklahoma | We had a barrel benefit and a roping benefit for a husband/wife team that had cancer. Combined we raised over 25,000!!!! Arenas were donated, cattle donated. All the concession items were donated, added money donated. If your husband is a pro roper, contact his sponsers. Cactus Ropes did a huge donation, as well as NRS! We had a huge concession stand with tons of different food items and sold a bunch of grilled burgers! My suggestion is not to do a silent auction. We shut the arena down and did the auction at the barrel benefit between the exh and the race, allowed an hour in our schedule to do so. People will spend more and it is a lot of fun. Our auctioneer was great, made it fun and involved the crowd. We had lots of used tack and it went for a great price. |
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| punkypower - 2015-07-21 7:13 AM
We had a barrel benefit and a roping benefit for a husband/wife team that had cancer.  Combined we raised over 25,000!!!! Arenas were donated, cattle donated. All the concession items were donated, added money donated. If your husband is a pro roper, contact his sponsers. Cactus Ropes did a huge donation, as well as NRS! We had a huge concession stand with tons of different food items and sold a bunch of grilled burgers!  My suggestion is not to do a silent auction. We shut the arena down and did the auction at the barrel benefit between the exh and the race, allowed an hour in our schedule to do so. People will spend more and it is a lot of fun. Our auctioneer was great, made it fun and involved the crowd. We had lots of used tack and it went for a great price. Â
O ya! Talk to dean edge i bet He'd sell the auction!
If not I could talk to some of the auctioneers I know. We feed cattle for a world champ ;-) |
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| I like the rope horse barrel race idea... Calcuttas are also an easy way to make extra boot with minimal work. Many of the big calf ropings have them anymore. What location are you thinking? Be sure to advertise the crap out of the roping... there aren't a lot of good calf ropings to go to, so guys are willing to drive if they know about them! |
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| Thanks for the ideas! Joy, I'll definitely talk to Dean, and I think the buy back option is a really great idea. I'm hoping to have the stock donated, and I'm thinking of seeing if the Daines family would let me use the rodeo grounds as everyone loves roping there, and I know them fairly well so fingers crossed. I have definitely considered the auction/silent auction, however most of the jackpots I've been to here don't really have many people show up... It seems like it's usually just the towers and maybe the odd family member. Another drawback is that this cowboy is from SK, so most of the people out here don't know him and may not be quite as willing to donate because of that. Either way I still want to do it and at least be able to make some sort of contribution.
Thanks very much for the ideas! |
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Location: Colorful Colorado | A lot of us are crafters. Put the word out and ask people to donate. You can get things like quilts, leatherwork, painted hats and so forth. For a benefit I made a basket of homemade jellies, and it sold well. Not everyone can buy big items, so it's nice to have some smaller items also. |
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