Your Scouts, athletes, or club members already go door to door every season — popcorn, discount cards, wreaths, whatever it is. HOMERUNYEP pays your program per door delivered, on top of whatever the fundraiser itself sells. Your route also does something for your community while it's at it — it's the delivery channel that lets your favorite local merchants get their seasonal offers in front of the neighbors who actually live in your service area, screened against a real, firm set of exclusions (see the FAQ below). No cost to join, no new gear, and your program decides how the money gets split.
No fee, no contract. Tell us your door-knocking season dates.
Pick a run size your program can comfortably deliver — see the sizing guide below for a starting estimate.
Flyers arrive already rolled and individually rubber-banded — no assembly, ready to hand out. Local merchants pay for every bit of that ad space, not you.
The same door-to-door walk they already do. One tap per door logs it — built for kids as young as 5, with an adult alongside.
$1 per door logged, whether or not that house buys anything. Fundraiser sales are separate and still yours.
We built this to slot into a route your kids are already walking — not to add a second program on top of your existing one.
Joining HOMERUNYEP costs your program nothing. We're paid by the merchants who buy ad space, not by you.
Popcorn, wreaths, discount cards, whatever you're already selling — the flyer just rides along with it. Nothing about your product or pricing changes.
The delivery app is one big button per door — no reading or typing required to operate it, so it works for a 5-year-old with an adult alongside, all the way up through teens.
If your kids already know how to knock on a door and drop a flyer, they already know how to use this. Setup takes a leader about two minutes per route.
Batches print and deliver on your program's own sell/delivery window — we don't ask you to change your season.
Kids aren't selling the flyer — they're just delivering it. The $1 is paid for the delivery itself, not for a successful sale.
Batches ship to your mailing address already rolled and individually rubber-banded — no assembly needed. Each kid just grabs a stack and goes, looping one over each door handle as they go.
Traditionally, only the roughly one in five doors that buy something puts money in your program's pocket (example assumption — replace with your program's actual historical rate whenever you have one). HOMERUNYEP pays for every door logged — the other four start earning too.
When a merchant buys ad space on your flyer, they're buying reach across your program's entire committed run — not a number they pick, but a real capacity you set based on how many kids you've got. Here's a rough starting point, based on roughly 100–166 doors per kid over the sell season:
| Program type | Est. kids | Doors/kid | Suggested run |
|---|---|---|---|
| Church/civic youth group | ~10 | ~100 | 1,000 |
| Cub Scout Pack | ~30 | ~84 | 2,500 |
| Robotics team | ~30 | ~167 | 5,000 |
| Spring High School Sports | ~60 | ~166 | 10,000 |
| Scouting Organization | ~90 | ~166 | 15,000 |
| Football Boosters / Marching Band | ~120 | ~166 | 20,000 |
| Elementary PTO | ~300+ | ~166 | 50,000 |
HOMERUNYEP only operates alongside a fundraiser your program is already running. We are not a standalone paid-delivery service, and we're not trying to become one. Here's why that's a rule, not just a preference.
The $1/door incentive works because it's marginal pay on a walk your kids are already doing for their own cause. Building routes from scratch with no underlying fundraiser is a fundamentally different, far more expensive business — and simply isn't what we do.
HOMERUNYEP pays the participating organization, not individual youth — riding along with your program's own fundraiser, rather than existing as a separate activity of its own. Participating organizations remain responsible for their own volunteer, fundraising, youth-protection, tax, and allocation policies. We'd rather stay simple by design here than create complexity for your program.
A flyer from a neighbor's kid raising money for their team means something different than a flyer from someone paid to leave one. That's not just a nicer story — it's why doors open, why the ad gets kept on the fridge, and why we protect it on purpose.
HOMERUNYEP pays your program as a whole. What happens next — general fund, individual youth accounts, or some mix — is entirely your leadership's decision. Because the app already tracks doors per kid automatically, whichever model you choose is easy to calculate and administer without extra bookkeeping.
Fundraising is a numbers game — the more doors you knock, the more sales you net. It's simple math: if roughly 1 in 5 doors buys something (example assumption — swap in your program's own historical rate if you have one), then doubling the doors you actually reach roughly doubles what you sell. HOMERUNYEP pays kids for every door they visit, not just the ones that buy — so kids have a direct incentive to knock the doors they might otherwise skip. More doors knocked means more shots at a sale, which means your fundraiser itself should see stronger returns, on top of the delivery pay below.
No. Your product (popcorn, discount cards, wreaths, whatever it is) stays exactly as it is. HOMERUNYEP just pays for the delivery walk that's already happening alongside it.
Payments are made to the program, not to individual kids or families, once a batch's deliveries are logged through the app. Your leadership then applies whatever allocation policy you've chosen.
No — you can set your policy per fundraiser season if that works better for your program. Most units find it easiest to keep the split consistent so families know what to expect.
You're paid for doors actually logged by the app, not a guaranteed number — see the merchant-side estimate note for how batches and actual delivery counts relate.
A short, firm list: political campaigns and ballot measure advocacy, payday/title loan and other predatory lending businesses, cannabis and hemp/THC businesses (a real Minnesota law specifically bars this kind of business from sponsoring activities primarily attended by minors — not a HOMERUNYEP-specific rule), multi-level marketing and direct-sales recruitment businesses, adult content and adult entertainment venues, tobacco and vape businesses, gambling/casino/lottery businesses, and debt collection or bail bond agencies. Every other local business is welcome — merchants self-certify against this list before checkout, so it's enforced consistently, not left to case-by-case judgment calls about who "seems fine."
No — a family restaurant that happens to serve beer or wine stays eligible. The line isn't "does this business hold a liquor license," it's whether the ad itself is built around alcohol. A restaurant's general food promotion is fine even if it happens to run during what they call "happy hour" internally; an ad specifically pitching drink specials isn't, regardless of how ordinary the restaurant otherwise is. Same standard either way: it's about what the ad actually promotes, not a blanket category sweep that would exclude half the restaurants in town.
We're not accountants, and how you structure payouts — especially to minors — is worth a conversation with your program's own financial advisor or your council/league's guidance before your first payout.
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