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By the end of this module, you will:
- Understand how to create a usable budget.
- Understand the different kinds of sponsor and reasons they sponsor.
- Understand the importance of a sponsorship process and have an idea of how to create your own.
The content in this module is provided by Tim Fogarty.
Tim is a developer advocate at mLab. Previously, Tim was commissioner at Major League Hacking, where he supported hundreds of student hackathons across the world in running successful events, including raising vital funds. Tim is a curator of exquisite gifs.
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZDuPf2-vhA&index=7&list=PLIRjfNq867bdlTQcgcOGATPrVggvfLv1c
In this module, you'll hear from Tim Fogarty, former commissioner for Major League Hacking, now a developer advocate at mLab. Tim delivered a very comprehensive talk on fundraising to the Spring 2017 Campus Expert cohort. During this talk, Tim covers generating budgets, including knowing what you should budget for. He covers how to approach sponsors, and what they're looking for, and how to manage those relationships going forward. Finally, he covers sponsorship process, and some tips and tricks.
As this talk is so comprehensive, this is a long talk, and there's a lot of content below and in the transcript. Being able to take on money and fund your activities is important, so if this is too much for you to learn alone, consider involving someone else from your community to help build out your fundraising capacity.
You can read more about budgets, sponsor motivation, creating sponsorship documents and sponsorship process in the resources directory.
The exercise for this module is to create a sponsorship prospectus for an event or your club. That is going to involve defining what you're raising funds for, designing a budget, and creating tiers that form your final document. You can find a full description in the exercises directory.
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This module is complete when:
- You have created a sponsorship prospectus.
- You have followed the steps to submit.
- Your pull request is merge!
- You have completed the survey.
Every module completed allows a Campus Expert to access certain benefits. To become a Campus Expert, you must complete a minimum number of training modules and then complete an application. More instructions can be found in the application module.
Completing this module earns:
- The "Fundraising" badge.
- Access to the GitHub Grant for your event!