Los Angeles County
Spirit wear fundraising in Long Beach
Team store fundraising for Long Beach booster clubs. One district, a long-established athletic league, and what that means for approval.
Long Beach is unusual among the cities we work in for how little of the approval question is ambiguous. One district runs the comprehensive high schools, so a booster club knows on day one whose marks it is asking to use and which office it is asking. That is the opposite of the position clubs are in a few miles east, where a city can be split across three districts and half the delay is finding the right desk.
What that simplicity does not remove is the licensing step itself. The school name, the mascot and any logo belong to the district rather than to the club that raises money for the program, and written permission still has to exist before a design does. The advantage in Long Beach is that there is only one place to get it.
The other local factor is scale. These are large comprehensive schools with deep athletic and performing arts programs, and the crowd at a Friday night game is not the parent list — it is a much larger and more casual audience, most of whom will never fill in an order form but will happily buy a hoodie from a link.
Districts serving Long Beach
Any use of a school name, logo or mascot is the district’s to license, so the first step is knowing which office owns the mark you want to print.
- Long Beach Unified School District. Runs the city's comprehensive high schools along with its elementary and middle schools, so a club deals with one district from kindergarten through twelfth grade.
Public high schools in Long Beach
We build stores for booster clubs, athletic programs, PTOs, bands and any other group raising money at these schools. Every one of them competes in the CIF Southern Section.
- Cabrillo High School
- Jordan High School
- Millikan High School
- Long Beach Polytechnic High School
- Wilson High School
What we handle, and what you do
1. You send colors, marks and rosters
Along with written confirmation from the district that the club may use the school name and logo. That is the entire job on your side.
2. We build and you approve
We design the range and the storefront. The range you approve is the range that sells for the rest of the season, so this is the point to be fussy.
3. We print, ship and support
Each order is produced after it is bought and shipped direct to that buyer. No sorting, no distribution day, no leftover sizes.
4. We promote it
Text and email campaigns to your opted-in families, timed to season launch, playoffs, senior night and the winter holidays.
5. You get paid
Up to 20% of total order value, remitted on a set schedule, with reporting your treasurer can reconcile.
Questions from Long Beach clubs
- Who approves use of the school logo in Long Beach?
- Long Beach Unified, not the individual school and not the booster club. Ask the district office for the written permission before any artwork is produced, and keep it — a vendor should be asking to see it.
- Our program spans two schools. One store or two?
- Two, in almost every case. Families buy the school their child attends, and a combined store dilutes both. There is no setup cost per store, so splitting them costs nothing.
- Does a large school mean a better fundraiser?
- It raises the ceiling rather than the result. What decides the outcome is how many of those families actually see the store, which is a promotion question rather than an enrollment one.
Nearby cities we cover
These share a district with Long Beach, which means a shared approval process and often a shared calendar.
- Spirit wear fundraising in Cerritos
- Spirit wear fundraising in Downey
- Spirit wear fundraising in Whittier