[Kingland093]

4215 has used our school's non-profit status since we formed in 2012. For the most part it's been running well. We've worked a lot with the school's business manager who has set up an account specifically for the robotics team. We just send any checks or receipts to him and he handles all of the transactions and deposits for us. Considering that our school is a small private school that doesn't employ many people, this system has worked fine for us.
Using the school's non-profit has saved a lot of time and paper work for us so that's what I recommend.

However, the school does not give us anything apart from 3 classrooms to work out of in terms of helping us. The one time they did help us find sponsorship was when we qualified for Champs this past year. They have been rather unsupportive as a whole since we formed. We're currently working to establish better ties with the school administrative people and I cannot unfortunately help you in that department.

My advice is to establish good relations with the business person/department at your school/school district. They'll help you a lot more than going straight through to your headmaster/principle/superintendent/insert whatever role here

Hope this helps!