[Cynette]

Do your letters suggest that the donation may be tax deductible? For our school district, inorder for a donation to be tax deductible it has to be given to the district at large and allocated by the district in what ever way they see fit - which may not be for the robotics team. We learned this when we asked the school for the Tax Number that our sponsors should use for the tax deduction and they said - you can't do that!

We currently advise our students to tell potential sponsors that they should consider their sponsorship of us as part of their advertising budget, and produce a patron books containing all if the "ads" and distribute it to all the patrons and community at large. We also acknowledge them in newsletters, on our website and on our t-shirts and robot (depending on the size of the sponsorship). It's quite a lot of advertising bang for the buck, at least that's what we tell the sponsors!