Tejas Volleyball Club Business Plan

Many families in the North Texas Region live day by day not knowing when their next meal will be and are unable to provide a Christmas that every family deserves. This year the club I play for, Tejas Volleyball Club, is making it possible for all families to experience the joys of a holiday so important. Tejas notices the stress on families that struggle with money this time of year. We realize Christmas should be carefree holiday that all families need to enjoy together with a Christmas dinner and gifts; this is exactly what we will provide this year to thirty six families in need. Every team at Tejas has a family they will “adopt” for Christmas. Each team has twelve to fifteen players, this will result in an abundance of gifts and food donated
To introduce Tejasmas to all the teams there will be a guest speaker, Jenna, who coordinates Tejasmas each year. She will give important information to every player about their “angel families” each team will adopt and how donations will work. In Jenna’s presentation she will begin with showing a video of her engaging in everyday life with a family in poverty to show how different and heartbreaking their lives are compared to ours. Next, she will meet with every team individually and tell them what family they will be “adopting” and information about them such as what they like, their style of clothing, their wish lists, and some personality characteristics. While doing so she will tell every positional group what they will be in charge of donating. Then she will explain that every team mom will deliver Christmas and dinner late Christmas Eve such as Santa would. To kick off the donations Jenna will place a sign and a donation box on the outside wall in front of the Tejas building. There will be a huge sign above the box that says “Donations to help provide a family Christmas” with flyers explaining Tejasmas. The Tejas facility is also combined with several hockey arenas due to the Brahmas hockey team playing there, a sports store, and an Italian restaurant; therefore, people will be constantly walking past this sign giving donation money. These donations will be split equally among every family to give them some extra cash this year. The
As of December 13th the 11s, 12s, 13s, 14s, and 15s team have all of their presents donated. The 16s, 17s, and 18s age groups are still working on getting their presents in. The young age groups having their presents in sooner was expected and happens every year due to their guardians taking on all of the responsibilities. As the age groups get older the players seem to be busier with tournaments, school, and recruiting and it is difficult for them to find time to go shopping. Due to this there were a few modifications made. Jenna recently met with the 16s, 17s, and 18s teams after one of their practices and explained that if a player is too busy to shop for their gifts they have the option to give Jenna fifty dollars and she will buy their presents for them. This helped the older teams tremendously, almost every player had their gifts in by the next week thanks to Jenna. The 18s team even wrote encouraging and motivating letters to their “adopted” children from Santa to help them stay positive through hard times in their life. I am so impressed with the amount of gifts donated and the extra effort put in by the 18s team. There were at least thirty presents for each family. They even began to run out of space in the gift’s storage room. I am so happy to be a part of Tejasmas and to be able to make someone else’s Christmas