Sponsorship Needed & Necessary

Eleven-year-old Malik Rounds pushes the sled around as he trains with the Wichita Trojans at Fairmount Park

For the Wichita Trojans youth football team, fundraising is part of the lifeblood of the small, nonprofit organization. Donations buy equipment and help pay yearly enrollment fees for some players.

There's no money left at the end of each season; no money to carry over to the next.

So when Gino Pipkins found out that his team's tax-exempt status had been revoked by the IRS, making it impossible for the team to accept tax-deductible donations, he was shocked.

"It's probably going to really hurt us financially," said Pipkins, president of the Trojans and a former coach. "At the end of the year, we're broke. We're back at a zero balance."

Wichita Trojans coach Richard Clark works with K-2nd grade kids at their youth football camp at Fairmount Park

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