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SECTION SIX FINANCIAL REVIEW

2014-15 Corporate Partners

Thanking our Corporate Partners and Sponsors

Corporate involvement is essential for most In return, these young people are learning life
not-for-profit organizations, and the IHSAA skills that cannot be taught in the high school
is no exception. That’s because the IHSAA classroom. Skills such as respect for authority,
receives no federal, state or local tax monies, self discipline, sportsmanship, time manage-
and unlike many state organizations, it does ment, teamwork and persistence. This is the
not charge its member-schools an annual same skill set that will help them become more
membership fee or any tournament entry fees. productive employees and more responsible
The IHSAA’s only sources of revenue are gate citizens. So when a company or organization
receipts at tournament events (a substantial invests in high school sports, it literally is
portion of which are returned to member- making an investment in its community.
schools), official licensing fees, broadcast
rights fees and corporate partnerships. On behalf of the IHSAA’s 410 member-schools,
its coaches and administrators, and the thou-
In reality, our corporate partners are not sands of student-athletes who play the games,
supporting our association, per se, but rather the we say thank you to all of our corporate partners
160,000 student-athletes who participate in the and sponsors. Your support of high school
21 tournament sports that the IHSAA sanctions. athletics is much needed and much appreciated.

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