Super Bowl Squares Fundraiser Template

How do you use this Super Bowl squares fundraiser template?

Type the cause into the first box and whatever supporters need to read under it into the second, add the teams, the square price and the prize amounts, and print one master sheet that a single person keeps hold of until the board fills. Everything else on this page is about making that one sheet do its job while several people sell squares for it.

1. Fill in the form above and print the master sheet.
2. Post it where supporters gather, or keep it with the organizer.
3. Let each supporter choose an open square for their own name.
4. Draw the digits once every square is claimed and paid for.
5. Mark the winning square at the end of every quarter.

The banner matters more than it looks, because a board taped to the wall of a gym or a bar gets read by people who never heard the pitch, and the first thing they want to know is who it supports. The line under it is yours to write, and it is usually best spent on the second question, which is who to talk to about a square, so the sheet keeps selling on the days nobody from the team is standing next to it. The house-rule box at the bottom of the form is the place for how people pay, so the game notes on the printed sheet answer that without anyone having to ask.

How do several sellers share one paper board?

Several sellers can share one paper board only if one person holds the master sheet and every sale gets checked against it before a supporter is promised a square. A youth team usually has a dozen parents selling to their own relatives and coworkers at the same time, and the moment two of them write names onto separate printouts you have the same square sold twice and an awkward phone call to make.

The simplest routine is for sellers to text the organizer a supporter's name and the square they want, and to wait for a yes before taking the order. Printing a spare copy for each seller is fine as a reference for which squares are still open, as long as everyone understands that only the master sheet counts and that the spare copy is out of date the moment another sale lands. Supporters still choose their own spot on the grid, which is part of the fun, and it costs them nothing in fairness because the digits get drawn later and nobody knows which numbers a square will carry.

What should the sheet say before you post it?

A fundraiser sheet should settle every rule in writing before the first square is sold, because once supporters have bought in there's no fair way to change anything. The note line on the template is there for exactly this, and these are the five decisions worth making first.

Filling the empty squares is worth singling out on a fundraiser, since the team buying the last few at the normal price both completes the board and adds to what the cause takes home. The Super Bowl squares number generator gives you a draw that everyone can watch once the board is full, and our Super Bowl squares rules cover the reverse score rule and every other call a group might want on the note line.

How do you set the square price for a fundraiser?

Set the price by working backward from what you want the cause to receive and from how many supporters you can realistically reach, since a board that never fills raises nothing no matter how high the price was. A higher price is harder to sell but raises more once the board is full, while a lower one sells out faster and caps the total.

The full math, including why a fundraiser divides its goal by 50 rather than 100 on a 100-square board and a quarter-by-quarter example, lives in our guide to running a Super Bowl squares fundraiser. Youth sports teams and people raising money for a charity or a cause they care about are the two groups who run these most often, and workplaces run plenty too, so the right number really does depend on who's going to be buying.

When is an online board better than a printed fundraiser sheet?

An online board is better when most of your supporters won't be in the same room as the sheet on game day, which is true of nearly every fundraiser. The grandparents two states away and the coworker who bought three squares as a favor have no way to see a sheet taped to a wall, so every question about who won lands on the organizer's phone.

Play Squares gives every supporter the same board from a link, so they claim their own squares without a seller in the middle, and the two sellers who wanted the same square find out instantly instead of after the fact. During the Super Bowl LXI broadcast it tracks the score and shows the pending winner, meaning whoever is on track to take the quarter if the score holds, so supporters follow the game from their own phones rather than texting you. Our football squares fundraiser page shows how a team runs one online, the Super Bowl squares page covers hosting on Play Squares, and if you'd rather print a sheet with no fundraiser banner, the standard Super Bowl squares template is the same grid without it.