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Have students write up letters about the success of the team and how the team has helped them grow as a person. Explain how much of an honor it is to attend the Championship, and ask for a donation at the end of the letter. Include a team photo & a return envelope. Put them in mailboxes of the neighborhoods that the students live in. Going door to door puts people on the spot, but allowing people to write checks and donate when they have the resources to might work out a little better. Just stress that you need it ASAP.

Also send out information packets to businesses around you and include any clippings from newspapers [preferrably of your team, but can just be about FIRST in general] - even to businesses you may have already hit up and been declined or haven't heard from before -- businesses may be willing to help a team that has now proven that they are definitely on the right track. 1058 got a handful of new sponsors after winning the Granite State Regional.