Tips for Clubs

Welcome to our Curling Tips page
This section is dedicated to providing (hopefully) useful information primarily to newer clubs or those seeking guidance or resources to strengthen their club. If you have information you would like to share, please feel free to send it along to president@mopacca.org. Our goal is to create a bank of information for clubs in our region.

Sections:

Organizing a Club

• USA Curling Club Insurance
• Description of Director & Officer positions (Template)
• Directors & Officers (“D&O”) Insurance
• USA Curling Brochure
• Managing your Arena Curling Club (pdf document)
• Sample Club Bylaws (pdf document)
• WCF’s Development page

Facilities

• WCF Facilities Support

Start Up Equipment

• WCF/USA Curling’s Stone Program (Note: this document is dated 2011. Contact USA Curling for updated pricing)
• MoPac Rock Program – those interested should contact secretary@mopacca.org for more information
• USCA’s My First Broom Information Article

Classes for your club volunteers

• WCF’s online classes 

Bonspiels

• USA Curling Club & Bonspiel Rules of Play
• Organizing a Bonspiel 
• Curling Draws Template

Fundraising

• USA Curling/RallyMe Fundraising
• Free Fundraising Resource Library from NetworkForGood
• Techsoup Products for NonProfits

Learn To Curl

• USA Curling’s Learn2Curl Brochure (2014)
• WCF’s Curling – The Basics
• Curling 101 Basics (Video filmed at Coyotes Curling Club)
• USA Curling’s Newsletters

Leagues

• USA Curling Club & Bonspiel Rules of Play

Marketing/Recruitment

• Recruiting and Retaining Arena Curlers (pdf document)
• Publicizing an event (pdf document)
• Building Membership Momentum Part 1 (pdf document)
• Building Membership Momentum Part 2 (pdf document)

Dedicated ice – We want to give a big thank you!! to Steve and Carol McKee for their generosity in sharing information about their Club’s process as they planned and built a dedicated facility for the https://charlottecurling.com/.

[Come back often as we add more of their documents.] Warning: some files may load slowly!

• Building+a+Curling+Facility+Manual
• CCA Business Plan V4-31
• Potential needs for new facility (word version)
• Potential needs for new facility (excel sheet)

This webpage and its links are shared for general information purposes only.  Each clubs’ circumstances may be unique and MoPac does not make assertions that the information will necessarily be helpful for your curling club.  Also, the law may vary from state-to-state, so that some information on this tips page may not be correct for your club’s situation.  Therefore, any information contained in these links cannot replace the advice of competent parties which may be licensed in your state. Finally, the information contained on this website is not guaranteed to be up to date. While we make every attempt to keep the links current, we may experience broken links.  If you find a broken link, feel free to report it to president@mopacca.org