Initial cohort
Highland Boys Basketball is identified as the first approved cohort. Southwest Suns retains responsibility for selection, spending, and delivery.
Game Day Fuel · Prepare
Nobody should take the court running on empty.
Game Day Fuel helps eligible young athletes prepare with approved pregame food, snacks, and hydration. Contributions of every size combine toward our first $1,100 funding goal.
Questions about Game Day Fuel
Who chooses the groups and controls the funds?
A cohort may be a team, school-connected group, club group, or other approved youth-sports group that meets Southwest Suns' program criteria. Selection is based on mission fit, documented need, feasibility, safety, capacity, and available resources—not on donor selection.
Southwest Suns evaluates prospective cohorts against objective program standards and approves participation before public fundraising or delivery language is used. A cohort receives the program; it does not own the program or the funds supporting it.
What can campaign gifts pay for?
Approved Game Day Fuel food, hydration, purchasing, delivery, and reasonable program coordination. Gifts are made to Southwest Suns. They are not passed through to a team or individual athlete. Funds remaining after the first milestone stay available for Game Day Fuel purposes.
What does delivery involve?
Game Day Fuel provides approved pre-competition food and related program support according to the needs, logistics, safety requirements, and resources established for each cohort. Southwest Suns determines the program standard, budget, purchasing, and delivery process rather than operating as a pass-through for a team. Southwest Suns purchases or arranges approved program resources directly whenever practicable.
- Southwest Suns confirms cohort eligibility and program feasibility.
- Delivery requirements, timing, quantity, food-safety considerations, and local responsibilities are documented.
- Southwest Suns secures and allocates program resources.
- Approved fuel is delivered or made available through the documented program process.
- Southwest Suns records delivery and the evidence needed for responsible reporting.
How will the program be reported?
Game Day Fuel can report verified measures such as cohorts served, approved delivery dates, units or meals delivered, participants reached when properly documented, partner contributions, and program completion. Outcome claims—such as changes in readiness, attendance, performance, or well-being—require evidence appropriate to the claim before publication.
How can a business or community partner help?
Offer suitable food, hydration, supplies, logistics, or a larger contribution. Confirm quantities, safety requirements, timing, and recognition with Southwest Suns before making a commitment.
Why focus on preparation?
Young athletes can face practical and financial barriers that affect when and what they eat before competition. Those circumstances are not identical for every participant, and they should not become anyone's public identity. Game Day Fuel responds to the barrier with a structured program: approved cohorts, defined delivery, responsible use of resources, and evidence-based reporting.