Going for the Green!: An Insider’s Guide to Raising Money With Charity Golf
Posted on
January 18th, 2010
by Kahuna
Product Description
How profitable is golf as a fundraiser? The numbers speak for themselves. According to the National Golf Foundation, * An estimated 140,000 charity tournaments take place each year …
* Drawing 15 million players …
* And raising a gulp-inducing sum of $3 billion for everything from cancer research to special education. If you’re late to the tee and want to launch your own tournament, or enhance an existing one, then Tom King’s book, Going for t… More >>
Going for the Green!: An Insider’s Guide to Raising Money With Charity Golf
RSS Feed Subscription
Follow Me On Twitter
Join Me On Facebook
Having worked a couple of golf tournaments in the past, I wish this book had been available. So many things would have worked better if we had had this tool. Mr. King’s down-to-earth approach makes this fundraiser look more like a “Fun” raiser.
Rating: 5 / 5
Even if you don’t know a front nine from your front steps, you can pull off a charity golf event with confidence, thanks to Tom King’s thorough, charming, step-by-step book, complete with checklists.
This book is great as far as it goes. It will get you to the day and through the day with a minimum of confusion and a maximum of cash. But it’s missing a chapter desperately sought by serious fundraisers: How do you — or even can you — convert players into true donors to your mission? A discussion of that persistent quandary would have raised my review to five stars.
Rating: 4 / 5
This book “Going For the GREEN” was sent to me by the publisher Emerson and Church for a review on my web site. Since I have played in many charity golf events and have organized Ladies Golf Tournaments I found this book very helpful and entertaining. Tom King is a Texan as I am and these charity golf events are popular in Texas. You will be able to use Tom’s suggestions in many other types of charity run events. His work sheets and tips will help many volunteers who are running golf tournaments. You can raise lots of money for your charity by having people sign up to play in these fun events. You do not need to be a true golfer as most of these tournaments are scrambles so your shots may not mean much but you may get lucky and sink that very important putt. In that way you have helped a worthy cause in your neighborhood and have a good time.
Rating: 5 / 5
For someone who is not a golf fan, I found this book to be surprisingly both entertaining and interesting. Tom King presents information that is extremely useful and practical and very easy to understand, and he does so within a style of light-heartedness and humor. I know of no fundraiser who has a lot of time on their hands, and this book is ideal as a quick and very informative read. The information is presented in a sequential and detailed enough format so that the reader will know how to do what and when and where. I highly recommend this book…if I enjoyed it, I know many others will also!
Rating: 5 / 5