Common questions
For high school athletic directors, booster club presidents, and class advisors evaluating a blanket fundraiser.
Typical HS campaigns raise $15,000-$35,000. The biggest single HS campaigns we've run have raised over $50,000 in 4 weeks. The actual number depends on enrollment, alumni reach, blanket retail price (usually $65-$75), and whether you have an organized booster leader or AD running point. We give every high school a custom raise estimate before they commit.
No. Our presale fundraiser has zero upfront cost. Parents, alumni, students, and community members order through your campaign page over 2-4 weeks. Production only starts after the campaign closes. The school never holds inventory, never fronts a dollar, and never gets stuck with leftover blankets. You only pay for what was already sold.
A sponsored campaign is completely free to your high school, zero dollars ever. Spectator Sport covers all design, production deposits, and shipping; your community buys the blankets, and your program distributes them and gets paid based on how well the campaign performs. This is usually the right starting point for high schools brand-new to blanket fundraisers or schools rebuilding after a few quiet fundraising years. It proves the market, builds awareness in your community, and leads to a stronger presale the next season.
Design approval to profit check usually runs 6-10 weeks. Custom mockups arrive within 48 hours. The campaign itself runs 2-4 weeks. Production runs 2-6 weeks depending on blanket tier (Nubay Rapid Print is fastest at 2-4 weeks; D-Luxe NubaySoft is 4-6 weeks). Most schools time launches around homecoming, senior night, state playoffs, or graduation season to maximize community attention.
The school runs promotion to its own community. That's what makes presale campaigns work, because your AD, booster president, or class advisor already has the trust and the text chains. We provide everything else: the campaign page, the social flyers, the email and text scripts refined from 7,000+ campaigns, and best-practice playbooks. You bring the audience; we bring the production system and the proven assets.
Our strongest campaigns are led by an athletic director, booster club president, cheer or band parent leader, senior class advisor, or an organized PTSA officer. The common trait isn't the title; it's access to parent text chains, school Facebook groups, and game-day announcements. If your school has someone who already runs comms for a team or program, that's your champion. We've run successful HS campaigns led by a coach, a cheer mom, and even a senior class president.
Yes. Single-program HS campaigns are common: football boosters, cheer, marching band, theater, robotics, senior class trip, state-bound varsity teams. The blanket design can feature that team's mascot, roster, season record, or championship year. Profit goes directly to that program. Many of our HS partners run 2-3 different program campaigns per year.
Yes. Senior class blankets are one of the most consistent HS use cases. Common patterns: Class of 20XX commemorative blanket with all senior names on the back, varsity letter blankets for athletes, championship year keepsakes (state title, region champ, undefeated season). Some schools fund the blankets through senior class dues; others sell them as presale and pocket the margin.
NubaySoft is the proprietary ultra-soft plush fabric Spectator Sport developed and manufactures exclusively. The most popular tier (D-Luxe NubaySoft, 600 GSM) is heavy, soft, and photo-realistic when printed. It's what makes a HS blanket a keepsake families actually display for years, not a fundraiser product they buy once and shove in a closet. The material is only available through the Spectator Sport network.
Same parent company (Spectator Sport), same NubaySoft material, same proven presale model. The difference is focus. MyHighSchoolFundraiser.com is built specifically for high school programs: athletic departments, booster clubs, senior classes, marching band, cheer, theater, and HS-specific revenue goals like trips, equipment, scholarships, and senior events. FundraiserBlanket.com covers the broader category including K-8 and churches. If you're a high school, start here.
Small high schools (under 500 enrollment) often do really well because their communities are tight-knit. We've seen rural HSs raise $8,000-$15,000, which is proportionally higher per student than large suburban schools. There's no minimum order. You only produce what your community buys. If you're a small HS, a sponsored campaign is usually the right entry point.
Yes, we've shipped to high schools in all 50 states. For presale campaigns we drop-ship directly to each individual buyer, so the school never handles inventory and you can sell to alumni and family members anywhere in the country, not just in your school's zip code.
You only pay for blankets that actually sold. There's no minimum, no penalty, no leftover inventory. If 30 sell, 30 get produced. If 300 sell, 300 get produced. We've never had a high school lose money on a presale campaign. The worst outcome is a smaller raise than hoped, not a loss.
Every Spectator Sport order (presale, sponsored, or wholesale) includes the full go-to-market kit. We build your custom campaign landing page branded with your HS mascot, colors, and approved design. We make social flyers and share graphics sized for Facebook, Instagram, and parent group chats. We give you ready-to-send email and text blast scripts refined from 7,000+ campaigns. You get a real-time order tracking dashboard, plus a dedicated rep from design approval through profit-check delivery. Blankets drop-ship directly to each individual buyer. Even on a 50-blanket wholesale order for your spirit store, you still get the campaign site and the social kit. We'd rather make the sale easy than just take an order.
Spectator Sport is a Murray, Utah-based company that's been manufacturing and distributing custom blankets for schools across all 50 states for over 20 years. We invented presale blanket fundraising at Mountain Ridge HS in 2019 and have served 7,000+ schools lifetime. MyHighSchoolFundraiser.com is one of our network properties. The company also operates spectatorsport.com (parent brand), highschoolblankets.com (wholesale ordering), nubaysoft.com (material brand), schoolblanket.com (general school spirit), seniorblanket.com (graduation), mascotblanket.com (design showcase), and fundraiserblanket.com (the broader fundraising program).
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