Corporate Donor Program a Big Hit with Community!
Returning for the 2009-2010 season is the Stampede’s popular “CAPTAIN’S CLUB”, a community goodwill program that helps distribute individual game tickets to youth groups, disadvantaged children with special needs, wheelchair patrons, families with limited means, elementary and middle schools as reward incentives, and non-profit charitable organizations and their volunteer members.
Samples of some of the charitable groups that have benefited in past seasons include:
- Big Brothers & Big Sisters
- Children’s Care Hospital & School
- Children’s Home Society
- Children’s Inn
- Dakotabilities
- Make-A-Wish Foundation
- Ronald McDonald House
- Sioux Empire Boy Scouts of America
- Sioux Falls CARES
- South Dakota Achieve for People with Disabilities
- Special Olympics South Dakota
- The Banquet
- The United Way
- Turning Point
- Volunteers of America Dakotas
Harold Bittner, father of former Stampede team captain J.B. Bittner (2000-01), is credited with the formation and naming of the “CAPTAIN’S CLUB” after purchasing game tickets that were donated on behalf of J.B. to the Special Olympics for the 2001-02 season. The Stampede charitable outreach program originated as “PUCK PALS” prior to the 2000-01 campaign.
The Sioux Falls Stampede organization is proud to salute the following businesses for their special partnership and support of the “CAPTAIN’S CLUB”. Each company has the option to donate a block of game tickets to a local charitable organization or youth groups that will be distributed by the Stampede on a game-by-game basis.