Who are your sponsors?
 

Since 1022 lost our sponsors this year, I'm putting together a packet to give companies to try to get them to sponsor us for next year.

One of the pages of the packet was going to give examples of companies that sponsor teams. Perhaps if a company like a doctor's office sees that other doctors offices sponsor teams, they'd be more likely to sponsor us.

I'm especially intersted in colleges, doctors offices, hospitals, etc. But please list any sponsors you have.

It'd help a lot.

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Google, Inc. (One time grant)
InnovaIT, Inc. (Web Technologies)
Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (Surgery Robots)
Berger Manufacturing, Inc (Machine Shop)
The Law Office of Wei Qun E (Legal Firm)
Los Altos Community Foundation (Grant)
Los Altos Rotary Club (Grant)

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Cyber Blue 234 has found great success in getting a few smaller sponsors to support our team. We've gotten quite a few smaller sponsorships but the money adds up in the number of those smaller sponsorships. Many of the smaller sponsorships are of doctors, dentists, carpet companies, and other similar non-chain local businesses. Here is our list of those type of sponsors.

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Xerox.

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Bausch & Lomb

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Proud to be a,
BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB!!!
team. :cool:


GO 1403!!!

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The best way that I found sponsors is to talk to the kid's parents. Some of them own their own businesses and pretty much all of them probably work somewhere. It's tougher when you have to have a lot of them, but hey, it works.

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Thank you, this is exactly what I was hoping to get.

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And, we have small local sponsors.
But, unfortunately, that won't help you out much >_<

I hope you find a new sponsor!
It would be a shame to lose a FIRST team!

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the above is the major sponsor

along with:
-Johnson & Johnson
-Mahany Welding Supply
-Klein Steel
-BIC Technology
-Monsees Tool
-Laird Plastics

here describes what all of the sponsors do to our team

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NASA (Rookie team in AZ)
Sulpher Springs Valley Electric Co-op (local power co)
Westtech International (contractor on military base here)
US Army IEWTD (local military outfit)
Weathergard construction (local business)
Snap-on (local dealer)
Heart Felt Help (local business)
Arizona tax credit donors

There might be a few I am missing, but this is most of them.

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As a member of team 379 the Robocats, I know what its like to not have a major sponsor. In 2003, the Robocats lost GM as a corporate sponsor and since then, we have built up a huge "fundraising machine." We alone raise about $30,000 and then get grant money and donations from just about everywhere. Martha Holden Jennings Foundation helped us out in a great way until we were able to get back on our feet, and they still help us now. Don't get me wrong, we are still looking for a sponsor, but we are able to live without one. It IS possible to live without a corporate sponsor, and still do great things. All the fundraising brings the team closer together, and spreads the word of FIRST in the process!



If anyone needs help with fundrasing, visit our website at www.girardrobotics.com and find the media section where there is a hand-out explaining a well tested fundraising monster!

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Current Sponsors:
Visteon Corporation
NASA
ITT Tech
Plymouth - Canton Community Schools
Weldcraft Wheels
Plymouth Rotary Club
Fastenal
Johnson Controls
Domino's Pizza
Plymouth Rubber & Transmission

Former Sponsors:
CTS - Creative Technology Services
Alcan Aluminum
Ilmor
RS Electronics
UAW
INA

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me too

Re: Who are your sponsors?
 

Something important to add in your packet is why they should want to sponsor a team. Include information about everything FIRST is - more than
just a robot - teamwork, speaking skills, website development, community service, and so on. Remember, they probably have many, many people
come in and ask for money - you need to convince them why FIRST is
the best place for them to spend it. Try to think about it like a business would and highlight those points.

Try this link to a sponsorship package for some ideas -

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/papers/1677

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A while back we had Boeing as a sponsor.

Here are our current sponsors:

Jet Propulsion Laboratory (engineer support)
Tru Cut (machine shop)
The Kauffman Family (major financial contribution, mentor, expert in lasercutting and sheetmetal fabrication)
Arrow Metal Stamping
Gordon Woods Welding Supply
Hardcore Racing (they make really awesome RC car parts and did lasercutting and machining for us)
Glendale Community College (sponsor since 2002, welding and machining)
HEC
Clark Magnet High School (main financial contributor and provider of workspace)

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Our main sponsor Johnson and Johnson Consumer and Personal Products

our current other sponsors are
Summit Associates
Don Wells & Rancocas Valley Toolmakers
MKM Engineering
Jtec Systems Inc.
Advanced Micro Systems
Sissco
Raritan Valley Disposal Service
Blanche & Irving Laurie Foundation
Zansitis Painting
State Tool & Gear

with some other minor sponsor

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Large Sponsors:
Lockeed Martian Space Opps (5 years and growing stronger)
United Space Alliance (3 years)
ASRC Aerospace (1st year)

Small Sponsors:
Ace Hardware
Olsen Indurstrail Sales
Merritt Island High School
a handfull of doctoral supply companies

Past sponsors:
NASA
JE (Jacobs Sverdrup)
Publix
Lynda Bradley saved our team in 2004!!!! Seeing a come back in the 2007 year!

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Delphi
Ivy Tech Community College

Along with the school and career center ofcourse.

Re: Who are your sponsors?
 

We have a large variety of sponsors; mainly General Motors but here are a few others:

Fast Eddie Racewear (Uniforms)
Local dentist
local doctor
CAW Local 222 (Union representing GM employees)

A lot of our sponsors were obtained through networking. Talk to the parents of students and give the students your packages to give to their parents. That is how we obtained many small but helpful sponsors!

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Team 612 is sponsored by:

Mitretek Systems
Northop Grumman
SAIC
Integrity Applications, Inc.
Curry's Auto Service
OEC Engineering

Re: Who are your sponsors?
 

Here's a great booklet that Gail Alpert, our team leader and a huge help for Detroit area teams and regionals for funding, put together... It's really a great piece to help get sponsorship...

http://www.freebmw.net/don/FIRST/TeamBooklet/

Obviously you would need to modify it to suit your team, but it should be a good start...

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We went through the same thing a few years back. We survived for a couple of years with just local companies. A couple hundred here, $1500 there adds up pretty quick. You might also want to talk with school officials, they may be able to help you find grants to get you by. Let me tell you its easier to replace a $1000 sponsor rather than a $30,000 sponsor.
We have had, grant money, tool & die shops, pizza shops, a welding company, a general contractor, local market, all sorts of places. Don't be afraid to go to anyone! What is the worst they can say, no?

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Built on Brains is blessed to have a long list of sponsors including these primary ones:

Gentex Corp. (where I work) - Manufacturer of automotive mirrors and fire protection devices
Herman Miller Foundation - Foundation associated with large office furniture manufacturer
ITW Drawform - Precision deep drawn and metal stamping
Mead Johnson Nutritionals - Manufacturer of baby formula
Midway Machine Technologies - Maker of Conveyor systems
Plascore - Manufacturer of honeycomb panels
Town and Country Group - Commercial controls, electrical, and telecommunications contractor
Transmatic Manufacturing - Precision deep drawn stampings and assemblies

We also get support for others like Holland Motor Freight, Zeeland Lumber and Hardware, West Michigan Uniform, the local supermarket, and small machine shops. In the 2000 season when Drawform stopped providing full support for the team we got help from many small donors and even our neighboring team's sponsor.

Having a wide base of sponsors and mentors from many of these companies is one of our greatest assets.

Work through parents, the Chamber of Commerce, Rotary Club, engineering societies, the school board, anyone you can find contacts with. More and more teams seem to be getting grants from foundations also. Get your presentation materials ready and make arrangements to show the robot to groups. Have video and pictures to show at meetings with individual potential sponsors.

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Here is a list of our past patrons (not all of them contributed this year). We received between $30 and $1000 from these people. We also receive services from a machine shop and are sponsored by UTC Hamilton Sundstrand and UTC Pratt and Whitney.



Our Patrons
A-1 Chrome & Powder Coating
A Supreme Auto Upholstery
ASNT CT Valley Section
Bardaglio, Hart & Shuman, CPAs
Charles Carilo Insurance
Colonial Auto Sales
Crawford Door Sales Company, INC
Edward Loiseau
Fleming Transportation
Hamilton Sundstrand Federal Credit Union
HARP Mechanical, LLC
Headquarters Hair Salon
Highland Park Market
International Association of Mechanical Engineers
Merrigan & Lefebvre Realty, Inc.
Nicholas Hair
Phil's Automotive
Sunfire Golden Retrievers
The Driving Image
The First National Bank of Suffield
Three Way Communications
Wells Eurobodies
Windsor Locks Teacher Association
Vallid Labs
Century 21
Twin Brooks Restoration
Susaye Construction
Health Direct
Suffield Fire Dept

Re: Who are your sponsors?
 

we have one

GM Powertrain

Re: Who are your sponsors?
 

Wow, you guys have a whole lot of sponsors. My team had only 3:

Ford
NASA
UPS

And Sanderson Industries was about to help us fabricate a body for our launcher, but because they didn't get it done and waited too late to inform us of that, we had to scrap the idea for a shooter.

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You guys just wait till I get my hands on our list. 50+ small sponsors on it.

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http://instigators1596.com/sponsors.html all the information youd want

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Motorola all the way.

And also, for the raffle at the end of th year we get alot of donations from many different places in the Chicago area. That doesnt count as a sponsor but they do support us.

-Court-

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Exxon Mobil: www.exxonmobil.com

Echo Pizza: www.echopizza.com

Eastern Regional High School Board of Education

AAA South Jersey: http://www.aaasj.com

Eastern Educational Foundation: http://eastern.k12.nj.us/EEF/2003/ea...l#Anchor-49575

Thomas Builders: www.thomasbuilt.com

Dewey's Dry Cleaners

Re: Who are your sponsors?
 

Along with what Jason said, our team also has 74 proud grandmas-yep, we have every member on our team have their grandma give a five or ten dollar sponsorship. Their name gets on our sponsorship poster and goes everywhere we do, and they have their own page on our website. Over the summer, our team also does many car washes to help our team. Hope that helps!

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Somehow I know someone is going to correct me someway, but for now I am going to list the current sponsors team 581 has are(That I remember):

- BAE Systems http://www.na.baesystems.com/
- Bullard http://www.bullard.com/
- The House Foundation
- San Jose High Academy http://sjha.ca.campusgrid.net/home

I know sometime in the past we had:

- Compaq
- San Jose State University
- 21st Century Learning
- Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
- San Jose Unified School District
- United Defense, LP (Now part of BAE Systems)

There was a construction company that funded us partially last year, but I can't remember their name, and for that I am sorry.

And of course, like almost all teams, we were funded by NASA for A few years.

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GE Healthcare
QuadTech
Rockwell Automation
Quest Technologies
Pentair Water Systems

and other local companies like Pick n' Save or Piggly Wiggly

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Unfortunately, our school district doesn't really like the word "sponsor", so we have had to go through a long process of attempting to get a system that we can receive donations through, so our school and district has completely funded our operation this year

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To add to the list... our [well-known] top sponsors also include eBay, Nestle, and Lexus.

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Current Sponsors:
Michigan Technological University
Houghton High School
Keweenaw Research Center
Hancock Rotary Board
Ford Motor Company
General Motors
DaimlerChrysler
NASA (one time grant)
Plowe's Funeral Home
Pasty.net

Past Sponsors:
Bay Machining
Portage Hospital
SnapOn

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JEA (Jacksonville Electricity Authority) and Vistakon (Division of Johnson & Johnson) has been our sponsors for over 10 years and continue to support Team Resistance. HUGE thanks to these awesome companies.

-WJS

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I can remember...

Metapurple (Mentors company)
Microsoft
Intel
ARM
Hills Road Sixth Form College (Our school)
Thermokill

Re: Who are your sponsors?
 

:D Team 433 (aka The Firebirds) is mainly sponsered by McNiell
However, I do believe that we have several other smaller sponsers...but I'm not exactly sure who they are yet, I'll post them when I find out. :D

Re: Who are your sponsors?
 

Our sponsor since 1998 has been The Gillette Company (Gillette). It has been a privilege to work with the professionals from that company. If there are any large corporations near you, don't be afraid to ask...the worst they can say is "no."

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Chuck is mainly sponsored by Dupont, Penelec, Osram Sylvania, Citizens and Northern Bank, along with many many others. Feel free to pilage any info you need from my Lockheed Martin Proposal and good luck!

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We have amazing sponsors!

First and foremost, Bristol Myers Squibb, without whom we'd never have gotten as far as we have.

Time Warner
Royal Hawaiian Creations (where we get these b-e-a-utiful Hawaiian shirts from
Local Electrical Workers Union
+more

Re: Who are your sponsors?
 

If it helps, you should also differentiate between a "sponsor" and a "patron". The act of sponsorship implies much more of an ownership and active participation in the team, whereas a patron may be more passive and only doing a financila contribution.

So, most teams have a "sponsor" that supplies not only funding, but also supplies the mentors. Yes, you can and should get lots of "patrons" to provide donations for some sort of recognition (patron book listing, name on your shirt/robot, etc)

Our team, 1511 Rolling Thunder is "sponsored" by Harris Corporation's RF Communications Division in Rochester, NY. But we also have many "patrons" that provide funding and all of that was student-driven as part of the annual team participation requirements.

yes, every parent has connections into one or more local businesses that is a ripe pool of patron possibilities....