Fund Raising Opportunity

Why Fund Raising

It has always been our goal to make the National Tournament an event that is worth taking a week of vacation to participate. In recent years we have become more concerned about want to making it possible that every player and family that wants to attend can afford to do so. Each year we continue to see the cost for families to attend Nationals increase in many areas. This year with gas prices moving to new highs we are equally concerned.

We know that many programs do group fund raising events and that is fantastic and we in no way want to replace those fund raising activities. However, when we created the National Basketball Foundation as a 501c3 two years ago we did it with the intentions of creating an avenue to help families. This program is designed to be used by an individual family or it can be adapted by a team that might want to use it to cover the National player and team fees as well as buy new uniforms or help the families that have the hardest time financially attending Nationals.

The Plan

On September 1, 2008 we will be launching a new website HomeschoolSportsOnLine.com this website will be integrated with both the Nationals website and Homeschool Sports Insider. The site will be a great site including current game stats/videos, players of the month, games of the month, All-American watch and much more. On this site each program will have its own page that will include their team picture and roster. We will create the page using the 2008 program pictures and rosters. The pages will be updated as we receive the new photos and rosters additionally we will allow teams to send in current game photos and other information to post on their page.

What is the fund raiser? We are going to allow each player to sell the banner ad space for their team’s page. Ads will be $100, $200 and $500. We did a program that was very similar to this last year and with the Storm and we had numerous players sell around the $1,000 in ad space and not one player who actually tried to sell ad space came up empty handed. We will be glad to forward you an information kit that explains how to sell the ads and the order form information.

Where’s the money? Basically for every $100 in ad space that you sell you get $50 to use for your families expenses in attending Nationals. There is no reason that literally hundreds of families can’t raise all the money it will cost to attend Nationals. The balance of the money will be used to maintain the website and be used to help us cover cost of the National Tournament.

Final information with complete detals will be available on June 10th. If you would like to get the information just send me (tim@flattmail.com) an e-mail with “Fund Raising” in the subject line and I will e-mail it to you as soon as it is finished. If you are a coach and want information for your team put “Team Fund Raising” in the subject line.

2009 Dates and Hotels

The 2009 National Christian Homeschool Basketball Championships
will be held in Oklahoma City March 16-21st.

Once again this will be a very busy week in OKC for hotels but I am pleased to announce that we have locked up 750 rooms on the Meridian corridor. I know the prices aren't bargin basement but with gas prices climbing the way they are location is becoming more important. If you are interested inlocking up rooms I wouldn't wait too long.

I want you to know that we do feel the pain your pain in the increasing cost for Nationals and we are working on a fund raising project that will work for any family that needs to raise funds to cover expenses to attend next year.

2009 National Homeschool Basketball Host Hotels

Clarion Meridian Hotel & Convention Center
(Headquarters)
737 S. Meridian Ave, Oklahoma City, OK 73108 * 800-784-7830
Rates: $82.00 Standard Rooms
$92.00 Suites
Amenities: Indoor Heated Pool, Expanded Complimentary Breakfast


Biltmore Hotel
401 S. Meridian Ave, Oklahoma City, OK 73108 * 800-588-6620
Rate: $99.00 All Rooms
Amenities: Indoor Heated Pool, Sauna, Hot Tub, Continental Breakfast or
Paid Hot Buffett


Springhill Suites
510 S. MacArthur Blvd, Oklahoma City, OK 73128 * 888-287-9400
Rate: $99.00 All Rooms
Amenities: Indoor Heated Pool, Breakfast Buffett


Best Western Saddleback Inn
4300 SW 3rd St, Oklahoma City, OK 73108 * 800-228-3903
Rates: $109.99 Standard Rooms
$139.99 Suites
Amenities: Outdoor Heated Pool, Sauna, Full Hot Breakfast


Ramada Airport North
2200 S. Meridian Ave, Oklahoma City, OK 73108 * 800-652-3781
Rate: $99.00 All Rooms
Amenities: Seasonal Outdoor, Continental Breakfast

Prayer Request

Kurt Talbot, the director of a number of NCHBC tournaments (The Gateway Regional and Tip Off) went to the doctors on Friday because he couldn't shake the flu. After some blood work he was sent to the Hospital in Springfield MO where he was diagnosed with Acute Myelogenous Leukemia.

Chemotherapy treatment began on Sunday. It looks like they will keep Kurt in the hospital for 3-4 weeks while he recieves his treatment. Of course Kurt is optimistic but this is a very tough time for Kim and the children. Please keep the Talbot family and especially Kurt and the doctors in your prayers.

Kurt is not only a friend to homeschool basketball, he is the kind of person that anyone would enjoy spending time with. There are very few people who are willing to make the kind of sacrifices for home school basketball that Kurt is so let's join together and ask God to heal him quickly.