philanthropy shirt sponsorships

[BTPfrat]

i've noticed at other schools, fraternities and sororities have sponsors on the back of their philanthropy shirts. we'd like to do this for our philanthropy. does anyone have any experience with this? such as:

- how much to charge
- what to write on the sponsorship form
- what companies to target that will usually pay for a sponsorship
- anything else i may have overlooked

if anyone actually has a form that they give to companies asking for sponsorships, i'd really appreciate seeing it. thanks for the help!

[pearlbubbles]

Sponsorship for a philanthropy isn't usually a "charge" and is, rather, a voluntary donation, be it monetary or in the form of goods.

The best way to go about obtaining sponsors is to come up with some sort of form letter (or a basic letter that you can then tailor to each potential sponsor) outlining your philanthropy, what you're doing for them locally, how this benefits the philanthropy, possible services you need, and what this will do for the business(es) you are asking for sponsorship (or what you can do to help with their business endeavors). You also need to think about what it is that you need from these businesses. Is it just money or do you need food donation, as an example.

The best companies to ask for sponsorships from are ones that you all (or the Greek comunity as a whole) tend to have positive interactions with, such as local restaurants you've previously used for event catering or businesses where Greeks are frequent customers. Some chains can be harder to approach because you may have to go through their corporate, rather than the local entity. In general, though, most businesses are more than willing to help sponsor philanthropies.

EE-BO also gave you great advice when you asked a similar question while helping out with AOPi's philanthropy, so I'd definitely go back through that answer as well.