This document contains summaries of multiple articles and quotes about NFP Sports, a franchise company that provides fundraising programs and services to sports teams. The document discusses how NFP Sports aims to help coaches and teams raise money through an easy fundraising program. It also discusses how NFP Sports created a scholarship program to reward top fundraising student athletes and helps revive National Coaches Day. Overall, the document promotes NFP Sports and its mission to support sports programs through effective fundraising.

1. Media Book

2. “If you want to own a business
and work for yourself without
shouldering all of the risk by
yourself, a franchise is definitely
the way to go. Choosing the right
franchise opportunity is the key.
You should find one that fits your
interests and long term personal
and business goals. Many franchise
systems offer a great return on
your investment, but if you
don’t enjoy the business you may
lose interest and burn out over
time. That’s what’s great about
NFP Sports.”
- James Thomson

3. “We know how important
coaches are to their play-
ers and their communities,
and we wanted to create a
way for people to publicly
show their gratitude.
Few people realize it, but
President Nixon created
an official National Coach-
es Day on October 6, 1972
and too little has been done
to recognize coaches on
their big day. We have
taken it upon ourselves to
help establish this awards
program and an official
white house petition to
effectively revive this im-
portant national holiday.”
- James Thomson

4. Park Ridge football coach
Gary Mioli will receive a
posthumous award Thursday
in celebration of National
Coaches Day. As part of the
celebration to commemorate
Mioli’s accomplishments on
and off the field, NFP Sports
will present a banner, plaque
and $2,500 grant to the Park
Ridge Athletic Department.

6. Simply launching a
new company is
incredibly difficult.
Making it successful is
exponentially harder.
You will have sleepless
nights and work
insane hours. It’s
likely to take months,
sometimes years,
before your efforts
help you turn a profit.
Take it from us, if we
didn’t love sports, and
more importantly, the
work required to sell
and execute our
patented fundraising
program, there is no
way our company
would exist today.

8. St. Paul’s Jude Kelly and
Southington’s Mike Drury
were semifinalists for the
inaugural National Coach-
es Day Award, given out by
NFP Sports. NFP Sports
was created to serve the
fundraising needs of sports
teams and programs who
need the help. They are
looking to revive Nation-
al Coaches Day, which was
originally established as a
holiday by President
Richard Nixon in 1972.

9. “There are very few known standards for fundraising com-
panies in the industry, so the biggest thing for us was to cre-
ate some high level standards that the industry could oper-
ate and a franchise system is the only thing we can across
that would really do that.”
-- James Thomson, NFP Sports

10. In its third year, NFP Sports’ Scholarship Program awards
scholarships to the three top performing student athletes
during the school year. Each of these student athletes sold
more than 100 units and raised more than $2,000 for their
teams. With more than 100 sports teams and thousands
of student athletes participating in the NFP Sports High
Impact Fundraising Program every year, it is a tremendous
accomplishment to be one of the top three performers.
Each of
these
student
athletes
sold over
100 $20
units and
brought
in a total
of over
$2,000
each.
About the program — In its third year, NFP Sports’ Scholarship Program awards
scholarships to the three top performing student athletes during the school year. Each
of these student athletes sold more than 100 units and raised more than $2,000 for their
teams.With more than 100 sports teams and thousands of student athletes participating
in the NFP Sports High Impact Fundraising Program every year, it is a tremendous
accomplishment to be one of the top three performers.
2013/2014 NFP Sports
Connecticut Scholarship Award Program
1st Place-Kristiyana Petrova raised $2,400 for Montville High
School girls’ lacrosse. Kristiyana will receive $1,000 toward
her college tuition.
2nd Place-Alec Maisonet raised $2,260 for Plainville High
School football. Alec will receive $750 toward his college
tuition.
3rd Place-ChrisYoung raised $2,100 for Rocky Hill High
School football. Chris will receive $500 toward his college
tuition.
From left to right: Kevin Digby, Alec Maisonet, ChrisYoung, Kristiyana Petrova and JamesThomson.
First Place
Kristiyana
Petrova
Second Place
Alec Maisonet
Third Place
ChrisYoung

11. “The perception about fundraising
is varied. What we offer is a no-risk,
high-reward program. It all starts with
a meeting with the coaching staff. Our
NFP coaches will actually create a goal
statement with the coach. This is our
goal. This is why it’s important. This is
how it will make our team better.”
-- James Thomson, NFP Sports
“What’s important is for the student athletes, if you
cut high school sports, there’s leadership qualities,
sales skills, part of a team and knowing how to
operate in the real world. What’s happened with
education? With athletics there’s that stronghold of
coaches that really care and that’s really for us why
we like working with high school sports and coaches
because they really care and don’t get much pay.
-- James Thomson, NFP Sports

12. Member 2013 Award Winner
Lead Sponsor, Breakfast of Champions Sponsor 2015
The Walter Camp Football Foundation was founded
in 1967 to continue the work started by area native
Walter Camp of selecting and honoring the outstanding
college football talent playing the game across America.