Finding sponsorship

[akaria]

I have found that just going and presenting is usually not enough to get major amounts of funding. all of the sponsors that have given usa few thousand dollars have been from contacts that my team has known, people from work or church or even naighbors that have had contacts in big buissness have panned out well.
Presenting to a buissness is deffinitely a good thing to do though. Make sure that in the prsentation you tell them exactly why giving money to your team would not only be a good charity thing but also be profitable advertising. Show them how much students learn from the program, and how good it is. And also as was said before, keep talking to a minimum and show off the robot a lot. There are mostly engineers in the room so you want it to be interesting to them.

[MrToast]

This isn't really about how to approach businesses but rather which businesses to approach:

Go to your local Chamber of Commerce and ask for the listing of all businesses in the area. They should be organized by service, so you could quickly find a machine shop to hit up, a hardware store, a bank, and so on.

MrToast

[tiffany34990]

s.p.a.m goes out and shows our various bots in action to companies-- yes we do have pratt & whittney giving us some of the green stuff but it isn't enough--we have been losing sponsorship from them--we like to make sure our sister team swampthing gets money from them too-- so we have to go into our local community--we created a sponsorship form--different levels and all-- we don't expect much from our local community with the econonmy and all and a lot of business are family owned-- we do asked for donation from the doctor offices-- that seems to always work out about a hundred from one of them--and u get alot then u get obviously more of the dough-- i also ask my relatives if they would sponser my team--it's like one of the best presents u can ask for--helps get us to competition so i'm happy w/ that

if u'r school system can't give u money like i know ours doesnt' just do get there support of course-- and a lot of time companies do have things where if their employee gives money they'll match the money and sometimes even double the match--

good luck to all teams finding sponsorship-- i know it's really tuff at times

enjoy u'r summer cd community and HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!!

-tiff

[Amanda M]

On 60, we approach both large and small businesses for sponsorship. We have a manual in the White Papers section of this forum. It goes into great detail about our small and large business plans. We've made huge amounts of money using it, and if you do read it and have any questions, feel free to PM me. I'd be more than happy to help.