NRL clubs are flooding the Australian Sports Foundation website with appeals asking for tax-friendly donations of up to $15,000 to keep them afloat during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Bulldogs announced plans for 17 donors to become founding members of the Premiership Patrons, which requests a pledge of $15,000 to help a project titled 'Bulldogs tackling COVID-19'.
It says 90 per cent of staff were stood down when the NRL season was suspended with "COVID-19 ... putting at risk the operations of our club". "In some ways the sports foundation was just another vehicle for either our community programs or the high-performance centre, but when this all hit we went out and said, 'We've got this, we might need to do something about it for staff or Souths Cares'."
The Raiders have been asking for donations of $250 or more from supporters to have their name featured on a playing jersey this year. The initiative has already banked more than $42,000.The Tigers have raised more than $1m through the Wests Tigers Foundation, becoming one of the first elite rugby league clubs to list with the ASF.
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