Ideas

Summary:

any more companies to seek sponsorship from or any fundraising ideas

Ideas

Diana Pham 31 Jan 2009 01:41

We have a basic template for sponsors so if you have any companies that you think we should ask to sponsor us, just post here or suggest it to any business team member… it'll be better to get the letters printed and ready then leave the preparations until right before we give it to the company,

so far we have -> sent letters to: OCE, Ministry of Education, RIM, CBET, David Carter, Accounting Firms (Descartes, Sandvine, MKS Inc., ComDev, and Dalsa), Pizza Pizza, Monacos, Delta, AquaServe, Princess Auto, RONA, Canadian Tire, Net Sentinel, Sayal Electronics, Best Buy, Future Shop, Scotia Bank, CIBC, Subway, Shopper's Drug Mart, and Sheet Metal Supermarket.
(Please let me know if i am missing any)

and Mr.Brown has -> letters ready for: The Sony Store (must go to head office in Toronto), M&M's Meatshop (Cambridge), BMO, Boston Pizza, Bingamens, TD Bank, Superstore, Home Depot, Fastenal, and Walmart.
(so if you have time and transportation you could be getting us sponsorship!)

also, we had a iPod raffle, which was relatively successful, but now we need to keep going.. any more ideas are appreciated, we can earn more money, gather more interest in FRC, and promote K-W's technology and engineering all in one.

Re: Ideas

Art Hare 31 Jan 2009 02:21

-Bake/boil/bbq sale during lunch. Get a grocery store to donate stuff (or buy cheap stuff) and sell it over lunch.

-Miovision: they do automated traffic counting, I did a computer-vision contest for them once: http://www.miovision.com/company/contact.php. You could play up the vision portion of the competition.

I looked through the university co-op job system and got a few local companies in related fields:
-ATS Automation: http://www.atsautomation.com/profile/worldwide/worldwide.asp. Automated tooling or something like that.
-In-house solutions: http://www.inhousesolutions.com/company/contact.php. They're all about CAD/CAM stuff.

If these are useful leads, I can get tons more. Brad could get more as well.

Re: Ideas

Diana Pham 31 Jan 2009 21:58

we can get on the bake/boil/bbq stuff if we have enough people doing it, honestly i dont think groceries stores will donate though, because we haven't received any sponsorship from grocery stores at all

those companies seem great! esp. because they fall within the field we're working within, however the two from the co-op jobs are in cambridge, and we're having trouble getting the letter out in kitchener,
so i'll make out the letters and print them tomorrow, and then give them to mr. brown, if you happen to pass by or go somewhere in cambridge you could maybe grab the letter and give it to them? thanks for the input!