Chaska Chanhassen Hockey Association

We have received many emails in the past couple of months regarding Pulltabs.  In the spirit of openness, we are attaching for the membership's review an email sent to the CCHA Board from March 2010.  Please open Charitable Gambling 101.pdf.

It is important to recognize that we look into each and every idea that is brought forward.  Rolling out a fundraising program takes considerable effort from our volunteers and we will only seek board approval for those programs that will provide significant return on our investment.

We should also note, that after further review of what it would take to receive a Charitable Gambling License from the state along with the overall staffing and equipment investment for Pulltabs, the Board at this time has decided to not pursue Pull tabs as a viable option.

This topic is reviewed on an annual basis as we all know requirements of specific programs change.  should you have any further questions, please feel free to contact any CCHA Board member.

The number one concern we hear in Youth Hockey associations is the rising expenses of the sport.  Fundraising or lack of Fundraising has a huge impact to the fees that you see when comparing Association Fees in surrounding communities.

Here at the CCHA, all fundraising funds go into the General Fund to reduce expenses for the association as a whole and are currently not earmarked for any specific purpose.  Fundraising is necessary.  Our history has been consistent in that we ask our membership to participate in one required fundraising event and then we have several opportunities or optional fundraisers to participate in that directly benefit the association or the player. 

When evaluating different Fundraising events or ideas, we are assessing the perspective program and it's ability to give us the biggest amount of return for our player's/family's time.  We are continuously working on improving our communications.  You will find on this tab of the website a financial summary of the perspective season's fundraising activities.

As you review this data, please take special note that it takes many, many hours of many volunteers just to make a dent in the overall expenses.  While we should be very proud of what we have done, there is much more to do to impact rising expenses of hockey.

Think about the Golf event alone.  As an example:  We have an estimated 600 players in our association.  We made approximately $6000 at the golf event.  That represents an estimated $10 against each player's fees.  Doesn't seem like much, when you look at it that way.  However, every little bit helps and we should be thankful.

My question to you- what are you going to do differently this season in order to help reduce the costs of CCHA Hockey?  What are you going to volunteer for?  What new ideas do you have? 

Fundraising is necessary-  We hope to make fundraising as FUN as possbile for our membership!  We look forward to hearing from you and working with you in future events.

Tracy Langheinrich & Treacy Welch