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Originally Posted by Ronald_raygun

Our school has unfortunately banned the clubs to solicit for donations. (sponsorship, basically) Has anyone thought of a way to circumvent this?

At our school, we're not allowed to solicit either. As far as I know, no student organizations are allowed to. Clubs are allowed to have on-campus fundraisers though. We've talked to the administration about this several times, but it's all about politics. If we ask some company for $10k, the school won't be able to ask them for $50k later on for other things. And we're not allowed to solicit parents either. The rule is that we're not allowed to ask. But, if they happen to find out about us and donate something, they can request that their donation go directly to the robotics club. Again, we're not allowed to ask for donations, but if they find out that we are in need and want to give us something it would be rude to refuse them.

If we wanted full autonomy to be free to solicit donations, we won't be allowed to associate ourselves with the school. We could probably still use the facilities, but not the name.

Edit:
Addendum: We also found something interesting. Each club gets some amount of money from the school. The robotics club was an off shoot of the science club. I don't know if it's still true this year, but last year, both clubs existed on paper. Therefore, both clubs got money even though they were the same organization. This money is also in addition to the money the school throws our way for FIRST.