A Brief Overview of Fundraising

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A Brief Overview of Fundraising

• Presented by Danny Jamieson and Jason Hendrickson

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The Basics

• How to organize within the team
• How to present your program to potential sponsors

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How to organize within the team

• Find what works best for YOUR team

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• Create a budget
• Gives a goal to raise
• Helps plan
• Creates a timeline
• Sets goals for completing car
• Shows sponsors that teams are
• Long term
• Organized
• Mature
• Serious

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• Support team
• Designate a team within the team to focus on
  fundraising
• Leadership Opportunities
• Display a chart showing progress
• Be colorful and creative
• Can be student specific

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FUN-damentals of Fundraising

• Get over the Fear
• Be Prepared
• Possible Sources

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Working with your fear

• Role play with team members
• Critic not everyone has had speech class
• Attend at least 2 presentations prior to
  presenting

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Preparing yourself

• Always
• BE
• PROFESSIONAL!

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• Sponsorship packets
• Include, but not limited to
• Mission statement
• Brief history
• Budget
• Goals (present and future)
• Teams needs

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• Correspond with sponsors
• Thank-yous, Newsletters, etc.
• Helpful to create a data base
• Organizes sponsors (past, present, and potential)
• Power Point presentations
• Know the presentation
• Consistent, organized, professional, high tech.
• Media Material
• Media guides-brief explanation of the team
• Slide shows, video, pictures, posters, etc.

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Potential Sponsors

• Companies
• Mom and Pops to Corporate
• Organizations/Groups
• Service clubs (Kiwanis, Rotary, etc)
• Door-to-door
• Creates contacts
• Friends and family
• Increases involvement
• Grants
• Great supply of unclaimed money