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Big or Small?

Alright, so we really don't have one huge corporate sponsor that we get our money, this year we are getting $6000 from the school (a first ) and $5000 (hopefully) from Quest (see link in sig) and the rest come from other companies, last year we had about 20-30 minor sponsor's with smaller donations, and we fundraised...so my question is:

Is it better to get all your money from one huge sponsor, or split it up?

I personally think that splitting it up is good, for 3 reasons I can think of right now

a) If one company backs out, you still have others to go to, whereas if you get $100,000 from Company X, and they go under you have nothing and are left scrambling.

b) You can get more students involved, because you have to go out and look for your funds, and you can come up with more creative ways of making money, cause it all isnt there for you to go swimming in....For example, One nite we we're practicing at the old storefront we got to use, we sent 3 girls out in the parking lot with a box, they came back in 3 hours later with $350, that was awesome

c) You can get more companies in your community aware / involved with FIRST, the more money you need the more companies hear about it, plus they fill up your shirts more

Those are just my thoughts, vote and post!
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