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[quote=Anonymous]I have no experience with Boosterthon, but I was one of the people integral to setting up and pulling off an our own fun run at my kid's school.  What many people are forgetting to factor in is the incredible amount of time it takes for parent volunteers to run these fun runs -- i.e., the opportunity cost to the parent volunteers.  I in effect gave up several hundred dollars of wages each day I took off to deal with managing the various aspects of the fun run, and that was just one person.   As those of use who do a lot for our schools know, it is very difficult to get parents to volunteer.  It is especially difficult to get parents to actually manage or head an event, or even part of an event.  Most parents who are willing to help are only willing to do so an hour here or there, and feel free to cancel at the last minute if their kid gets sick, they have a sudden work conflict, etc.  -- legitimate problems, but it all  has to do with priorities, and those decisions leave the volunteers in charge having to do even more work and make them not want to take on these commitments in the first place.  So paying someone else to do the work is not a bad option.  Also, it looks like Boosterthon provides a T-shirt to all the kids at the school.  We did that too.  That alone costs thousands of dollars.  So $15,000 profit from $30,000 raised is actually not ridiculous, based on my experience.   [/quote]

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