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Originally Posted by zdeswarte
We had all these letters typed out and edited to go to businesses asking for donations to our club. It would've worked out well because we were sending out a lot of letters to companies we knew would have interest in helping us out. So our mentor tells us to go talk to the chair of his department at school to get envelopes and postage stamps. She decided to keep the letters and edit them herself, and it is taking forever to get them back. Now its getting really close to crunch time and we have no funding whatsoever. Does anyone know of grants other than the FIRST and NASA grants for this competition? Or what would you recommend our team does?
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You should try approaching the chair of the department and politely reminding her you need the letters like... NOW. Maybe you can get smaller donations from local businesses, every dollar counts.