SS&A Mini-Grant 2017-2018

/ SS&A Mini-Grant Request

Prepared by (Name and Email)= Sara Rutherford

Presented to the ASG Board on (date)=

Presenter’s Name= Sara Rutherford, Cheerleading Captain

Type of organization (place x):
X Recognized Student Organization
Student Program
Other
Requested Amount / = $5,500
Budget Number
Budget Title / =
= Cheerleading
Current Amount of Baseline Budget* / = Full
Advisor / Supervisor / = Toni
E-mail / =
Project Name / = Cheer uniforms
Start Date / = Ongoing
Project Completion Date / = June 2018

Project Purpose

Briefly describe your project, event, or activity.

We would like to request money to subsidize out of pocket expenses for uniforms for our school’s cheerleading squad. This year the entire team is made up of incoming members and therefore the whole squad needs uniforms. In the past two years uniforms have been covered solely out-of-pocket. Last year due to financial restraints, cheerleaders were not able to acquire all of the “basics” in order to make our uniforms all weather or competitive with other similar schools. Additionally, it took some students over 4 months to save or borrow enough money to pay for bare bones uniforms putting us quite behind. Due to the quickly approaching fall game schedule (of basketball, soccer and volleyball), and a myriad of other upcoming school events, we do not have the time to wait and save. I would like to help make cheer more accessible to everyone and for students not to miss out on cheering or having the support of cheer at fall sports. This is a benchmark year for us as this is the very first time cheer will be involved in soccer and softball, with the return of founding Cheer Advisor Toni Semanskee, and last year of 3 year captain Sara (the last captain to cheer under the founding SCC cheerleaders), we are hoping to cement the involvement of cheer into fall sports and more academic activities before turning over Shoreline Cheer to a whole new generation of brand new squad members.

Student Learning Outcomes:

Describe how your proposed expenditure reflects the purpose of your club/organization, how it will directly benefit students, and what advantages there are for the college as a whole. Please choose from one of theCAS domains and dimensions.

The purpose of cheerleading at SCC is to build school spirit and promote athletics and academic/community building events throughout the college. Within our team our purpose is develop teamwork, leadership skills, and teach/learn dance and cheer skills, supporting self-esteem and healthy living along the way.
Dolphin Cheerleading fits many of the CAS domains particularly interpersonal and practical competence.
Interpersonal; meaningful relationships are developed between teammates and with other parts of the scc community, interdependence is experienced through timing and stunt work, collaboration in almost all aspects of performance, and effective leadership during events and in planning especially by the captain and co-captain.
This year the special focus of cheer is not only promoting the community but promoting creating community whether inside or out of the gym.
Practical; through pursuing goals- whether the goal is small, like perfecting a hand motion, or bigger like learning a new stunt pursuing goals is a constant in cheer at SCC. Communicating effectively with teammates and leaders, maintaining health and wellness through cheering and dancing itself, promoting athletics and by each member maintaining a personal workout schedule for outside of practice.

Success Criteria:

List the measurable, verifiable results that will determine the success level of this project.

This mini grant is more of a long term investment instead of a “project” that will finish up in one or two meetings or practices but good benchmarks of success would be that the team has uniforms for the beginning of the sports season, that students would have the opportunity to perform and promote the school and give other athletes and a whole new group of students and fans the chance to experience cheer first hand year round. And that cost would no longer be a factor in students decision to participate or a stress on participants.

Resources Required:

What will it take to get this project going both money and labor wise?

List items and associated costs. Please list revenue sources including: fund-raising, ticket sales, services, college money, and in-kind donations, etc. Do you raise money for any purpose other than organization expenses? If so, please estimate and explain how these funds were used. Are members of your organization expected to contribute their own money (cost-sharing) towards activities?

For those not familiar with cheerleading uniforms, at Nathan Hale High School cheer costs are $2,500 per cheerleader every year. Collegiate cheer squads tend to cost even more per student however data was not available as expenses are usually covered fully by the school or athletic department. Our uniform rep Kellee Wallace estimates up to $4,000 per collegiate cheerleader.
Typical cheer uniforms as those given to cheerleaders at most universities, all star and local high schools include, multiple practice uniforms and camp wear, multiple pairs of cheer socks, indoor and outdoor shoes, weather gear-ponchos/gloves/earwarmers, sports bras, uniform and 1+ alternate uniform, long sleeve shell, warm ups, sweatshirt, two + pairs of poms, 2+ bows, full makeup, water bottles, bags, baseball jerseys, 2+ briefs, cheer underwear and bras, occasionally other jerseys, bags and bag tags and pom bags.
With budget in mind we selected only uniform pieces that we felt were essential our full season-that can be reused for multiple sports and as may purposes as possible and at as low of a cost as possible as available through the school mandated uniform supplier VarsitySpirit Brands.
These pieces include:
-Shoes (cheer shoes are needed for safety when stunting, dancing and tumbling, approved athletic shoes are also required in the court and nike logos are required on all shoreline televised footwear)
-Top/Bottom (only one as we are willing to do outdoor sports with jackets)
-Warmups/Fleece/Earwarmer (we will use these for travel, outdoor sports and events, game day/spirit days, and for injured or suspended athletes)
-Bow (only one, worn for basketball-besides being an essential part of a uniform we will also use these as bag tags during travel as well as they are part of of our community building theme-this year each cheerleader is getting paired up with at least one athlete of each sport to particularly support them not only in the gym with signs and cheers but also with academics and connecting them with the squad ect these pairings will be chosen at random by the number on your bow)
-Bag (our stuff is visible to all cameras, cheer bags will be helpful when traveling as having the same bag makes it easier to squish into cars but are also essential to not squishing poms during practice, travel ect. saving money in the long run)
Labor has been done by the captain, with assistance from “captains in training”.
-Poms (poms can always be be reused as practice poms for returners, some girls are using poms at practice they have had for almost four years however new game poms must be purchases as they ware and all need to match each other)
We came to the number $5,500 because we would like to offer 10 scholarships we felt $550 per student, which, based other found averages we feel is a reasonable contribution to a frugal squad. If costs reach above that, which as the numbers show is likely, we will expect each participant to fund the remaining amount.
Whether students are also expected to contribute by buying their own, performance makeup, necessary cheer undergarments, hair accessories, game day wear, cheer practice wear and their outdoor cheer shoes. These items are all specific to the sport, typically provided by the school/included in the uniform and we feel are a significant contribution towards the uniform-however would not put a large financial strain on any student or the overall timeline of the squad.
“Labor” is mostly organizational, planning events, ordering uniforms, getting approval from coaches and athletic director all which and is done by the captain with assistance from the advisor.

Plans for Remaining Baseline Budget Funds:

Clubs and programs are not advised to apply for mini-grants if they still have significant money remaining in their baseline budget. If you currently still have money from your baseline budget or money allocated from the SS&A budget, please explain how you are planning to spend those funds. Please also include a note if your club/program has already spent most or all of your baseline budget.

The baseline budget has been allocated access to fitness evolution for all team members for their nightly team workouts (~$315), making signs/crafts (we are saving over $100 by creating them instead of having them made by Varsity and also creating another activity), ~$80, and funding a guest coach. All of this will likely exceed the budget however, as there is no timeline as there is for uniforms and trip expenses, we will work to fundraise and save out-of-pocket until those goals are met if needed.

Stakeholders:

Who's going to be affected? Who else may have interest in this project? Please also list a student contact (this is not the advisor but at least one student belonging to the club/ organization).

The primary stakeholders for this mini grant are our school’s cheerleaders. However, I would also include shoreline sports fans, athletes, and any staff and students in attendance at any of the events (International Student Orientation, PhinNation, Spirit Days) where the cheerleaders may be performing or appearing, as secondary stakeholders. The cheerleaders are integral parts of the athletic community and these events, and hope to become part of more (specifically; soccer, baseball/softball, SunFest among others) but without the addition to the uniforms and our budget this may not be possible. Particularly this year cheer is putting an extreme emphasis on creating and maintaining a strong community in and out of the gym. We feel we are at a pivotal year and not only is this a cheerleader’s duty but necessary for survival of the squad. On the idaho trip, other stakeholders include (in addition to ourselves and SCC athletes) other cheer squads that may not have had the opportunity to cheer against us before.

Timeline:

Please include a project start, completion date, and also the projected start and completion dates for all tasks associated with the project.

This mini-grant would allow cheer to continue for a full school year, from 5 weeks from receiving the money (hopefully this monday) when uniforms arrive which would be ~15th of November to June 2018 After that, any returners could potentially re-use uniforms as the same style will be available for four more years via BSN. Again, we also expect this year to be a milestone for cheer. Having the opportunity to start cheer early this year well a seasoned captain (and advisor) are still involved, will also hopefully cement cheer’s involvement in years to follow with fall sports.

No handwritten applications will be accepted, please email completed packet to Budget and Finance at !