Marketing and FundraisingThe Green Girls, Team 7190

09/12/15

10:20 - 10:45

Intro

• Reaching out to sponsors

• Grants and Go Fund Me

• Website

• Social media

• Branding

Business Plan

Business Plan

Business Plan

Reaching out to Sponsors

• Emails

• Letters

• Meetings

• Demos

Emails

•Introduce yourself

•Introduce your team

•What you need it for

•Links to team websites, etc.

•Thank them

Emails

Opportunities for Fundraising

• Restaurants

• Local Media

• Community Events

• Donor Meetings

Snail Mail

• Local contacts

• Send Business plan

• Team Bonding

• Limited responses

Grants

• Major companies

• Application process

• 501c3 status

Go Fund Me

• Thorough description

• Updates

• Rewards

• Get the word out

• Charges

Website

• Why?

• Free website format

• User friendly

• 1 or 2 fonts/colors

Pages

• Home

• About us

• What is FTC?

• Contact us

Social Media

• Platforms

• Updating

• Posts

Branding

• What is it?

• Be Unique

• Recognizable

• Our Brand

Resources

• http://www.greengirlsrobotics.com/• http://www.hightechkids.org/ftc-marketing-material• http://www.usfirst.org/sites/default/files/uploadedFiles/

Robotics_Programs/FTC/Team_Resources/2015-16_FTC_Sample_Team_Budget.pdf

• http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/ftc/grow• http://www.usfirst.org/sites/default/files/uploadedFiles/

Robotics_Programs/FTC/Team_Resources/FTC-Fundraising-Guide.pdf

• http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/first-fundraising-toolkit

Questions?