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Keeping the Peace in Band Booster Organizations
With many passionate voices, band booster organizations must implement strategies to avoid conflicts among leaders and volunteers. In volunteer-run organizations, ... -
Wearing Your Band on Your Sleeve
Band boosters and parents can show their pride by purchasing merchandise that features the organization’s name and logo. When The ... -
All Hands on the Field
Hosting a field show event takes coordination, organization, planning and many volunteers. Three minutes before the first Sonic BOOM! marching ... -
Engaging Alumni
Every spring, students and parents naturally leave the band program after graduation. Learn ways to keep them coming back. Every ... -
Building a Brand
There’s a lot more to designing a successful logo than simply drawing a picture and adding a school name. A ... -
Prepping for the Winter Season
Booster organizations shift gears at the end of the fall marching season, putting their focus on winter guard and indoor ... -
Keeping With Tradition
Performers strengthen their bonds by passing down rituals from year to year to welcome members, celebrate the season, and say ... -
Field of Vision
Aligned with their band directors on common goals and values, booster organizations can better promote their organizations’ cultures and support ... -
Trip Prep
Booster organizations make careful plans to ensure excursions to out-of-town events go smoothly. Every summer, the students in the Fontainebleau ... -
Cheering for Everyone
Band boosters use formal and informal etiquette policies to remind parents that every performer deserves respect and applause. Parents in ... -
Welcome to the Club!
Boosters share ideas for reaching out to new parents and helping them become valuable contributors to the marching band family. ... -
Budgeting 101
Find out some best practices for creating, sharing and implementing an operating budget. Creating an operating budget is not the ... -
Community Outreach
Band boosters help their programs form stronger local ties. Every fall, the four public high schools in New Hanover County, ...