Sustainability In FRC Teams

[XaulZan11]

Originally Posted by Brandon Holley

The NASA grant is a blessing, it does not hurt a team in the long run. The problem is, teams don't anticipate the drop off in funding and then are left high and dry with no plan. That is entirely the fault of the team who received the grant, not NASA for trying to get a team up and running.

I agree that the NASA grant is great and the fact that teams struggle after the grant is not NASA faults. But, what if the NASA grant (and other grants) required teams to create a fundrasing/sponsership plan before recieving the money? The plan doesn't have to be extremely detailed, but something so the team understands that eventually they will be responsible for funding their team.