When Montclair resident and CrossFit participant Jon Feigelson stepped up for his 17 minutes of the Fight Gone Bad IV workout on
September 26th, he wasn’t competing just for himself. He was raising funds for the Wounded Warrior Project and Athletes for a Cure. Jon raised $39,782 which makes him the highest individual fundraiser for FGB IV. There is no award for highest individual fundraiser, but he is getting a pair of Limited Edition FGB IV Oakley’s because he was the Home Stretch Challenge Winner for Thursday Sept. 24th and collected $3600 in donations that day.

As the clock struck 5pm on Monday, CrossFit Culver City and Guerrilla Fitness were neck and neck vying for the highest fundraising FGB IV affiliate with more than 26 members. Donations were flying in and it was too close to call. When the dust settled, it was clear we had made FGB history. The winner was… a TIE. CrossFit Culver City and Guerrilla CrossFit will both be the recipients of a $5000 Rogue Fitness package!

National Grand Prize: A $5000 Rogue Fitness Package and a Concept 2 Rower

26> *TIED* $53,449 CrossFit Culver City – 98 members – Culver City CA AND Guerrilla Fitness – 61 members – Montclair NJ
25< CrossFit KMSF – $14,669 – 16 members – San Bruno CA

Regional Awards:
The highest fundraising affiliates in each division receive a Regional Traveling Trophy, engraved with their affiliate name and year awarded.

NorthWest:
26> Jogo CrossFit Bellingham – $5090 – 36 members – Bellingham WA
25< CrossFit Alaska – $8902 – 24 members – Anchorage AK

NorCal:
26> CrossFit Los Altos – $24,669 – 71 members – Los Altos CA
25< LaLanne Fitness/Powered by CrossFit – $7275 – 25 members – San Francisco CA

SoCal:
26> CrossFit Los Angeles – $31,620 – 71 members -Los Angeles CA
25< Oceanside CrossFit – $10,874 – 24 members – Oceanside CA

Great Basin:
26> CrossFit Las Vegas – $4989 – 36 members – Las Vegas NV
25< CrossFit Albuquerque – $3525 – 17 members – Albuquerque NM

Rocky Mountain:
26> Windy City CrossFit – $20,457 – 57 members – Chicago IL
25< Bulldog CrossFit – $4060 – 15 members – Oak Park IL

Hell’s Half Acre:
26> CrossFit Central – $34480- 152 members – Austin TX
25< CrossFit Cedar Park – $7322 – 20 members – Cedar Park TX

MidWest:
26> Forged Fitness – $29,269 – 114 members – Raleigh NC
25< CrossFit Louisville East – $3745 – 21 members – Louisville KY

NorthEast:
26> CrossFit South Brooklyn – $27,631 – 57 members – Brooklyn NY
25< CrossFit NYC – $5662 – 25 members – New York NY

Mid-Atlantic:
26> Crossfit OldTown – $21,083 – 68 members – Alexandria VA
25< CrossFit Spotsy – $7657 – 25 members – Fredericksburg VA

Dirty South:
26> CrossFit Hyperformance – $13,737 – 54 members – Savannah GA
25< Harbor City CrossFit – $4610 – 21 members – Harbor City FL

Canada West:
26> CrossFit Edmonton – $6110 – 26 members – St. Albert AB
25< CrossFit Calgary – $7640 – 20 members – Calgary AB

Canada East:
26> N/A
25< CrossFit Fredericton – $4332 – 25 members – Frederiction NB

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All proceeds go toward the Wounded Warrior Foundation, and Athletes for a Cure.

All thanks to Erica Saint-Clair from CrossFit Boston. 131 sold and $1700 raised so far.

1. The Sportsgrants Foundation parses event production expenses from all of the other expenses a modern foundation must pay before money can go to services.

2. We create a “net donation.” Simply put, when the thousands of Crossfitters are done, we pay for the t-shirts and posters, then write a check to each charity. Three staff members and as little overhead as we can operate with. It sounds like the way it should be done, but as of this writing, we’re the only ones doing it.

In order to raise and distribute funds more efficiently, this year Fight Gone Bad will be produced by The Sportsgrants Foundation for three key reasons:

1. The Sportsgrants Foundation operates as one of the only nonprofit event production companies in the US. We retain just 10% of the event proceeds to cover overhead as opposed to a nonprofit industry standard of Fee + 25-75% of all funds raised.

2. We operate at zero expense to the charities. If either or both of the beneficiaries of this year’s event took on the production cost, added the expense of their staff time and overhead, far less would reach the researchers, families and soldiers than any of us would like. We take the risk, and we believe the people we serve are worth it.

3. We are able to create partnerships between organizations that were previously unheard of in the nonprofit world because we are essentially creating two big donations at no expense to the charity, AND with 25 years of experience everyone gets a first-rate event.

We believe in the ideals of philanthropy. We don’t believe that nonprofit is a “sector,” or a “business.” Fight Gone Bad IV will be the bigger than any previous edition, and by shifting the expense burden to The Sportsgrants Foundation, rather than the foundations we serve, FGB IV will also be the most efficient event of its size ever conducted in the US.

For more information go to: http://sportsgrants.org

In 2007, charitable organizations spent $1.33 for every $1.00 received in eventfundraising revenue (1), making organized events the most inefficient form of charitable fundraising. Sportsgrants has a different vision – one with a better road to a profitable end result. Our model shifts the event fundraising paradigm by creating, producing and fundraising sports events independently – at little or no cost – to our grant recipients.

We’ve successfully produced over 100 events and programs, raising over $5 million for charity.

(1) Charity Navigator 2007 – Special Event Study

http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm/bay/studies.events.html