[MysterE]

I know that this is not along the same lines at all - but I do want to offer a suggestion for those teams who look at us who build outside of our school with a bit of jealousy:

One type of Sponsor to consider is a realtor. We have build for the last two years in a shopping center, in an unrented building. The real estate company provides the power and water and we get keys to the site. When build season is over, we pack up and leave the place open.

The reason this works for us is that it gives us 100% freedom to come and go when we please. The only fallback is transportation for students and our location is generally close enough to the school to mitigate this.

We make it a point each year of having a build-site group that cleans up the space entirely. We fix broken roofing tiles, paint walls that are grungy, pull up old carpet if the realtor asks - we basically remodel the place. So far, each site (both of which were unrented for about a year before us) found renters that moved in the day after we left.

Originality in Sponsorship can get you a lot of places.