Invitations to Sponsors
Team leaders,
Displaying your FIRST team Sponsors and Donors (not just the ones who give through ClassWish) on your ClassWish fundraising page, as seen on this sample FIRST team fundraising page, has several benefits:
- they get recognition for their generosity, which will reward them and will encourage potential supporters to contribute
- they feel more engaged in the team's fundraising process and more likely to send others to your page
- people who know and recognize them will be more likely to contribute (the bandwagon effect is a powerful force)
- the page we let them create on ClassWish encourages their employees, customers, and friends to get involved.
Sponsors and Donors
- Sponsors: We refer to Sponsors as those contributors whose logo you display. However, they get far more than just the customary logo on your page. They also get an entire page of their own, where they can present their company and the nature of their engagement in FIRST. Here is a sample sponsor page, to which the sponsor logo on a team page links. Scroll down for an email you can use to invite their participation on your ClassWish page.
- Donors: We refer to Donors as those contributors whose logo you do not display (that will likely include individuals or others who do not have a logo). They appear below the sponsors on your fundraising page. You can display them with or without links to their own ClassWish pages (the latter is better). Read more here about recognizing donors without logos and for an email you can use to invite their participation on your ClassWish page.
Here is an email you can send to your sponsors to invite their participation on your page:
If you are looking for the email to send donors without logos, here it is.
Hello
[start by thanking them again for their sponsorship of your team]
A nonprofit website, ClassWish.org, has built custom fundraising tools specifically for FIRST teams. We would like to display you as a sponsor on our page so everybody knows of your generous support. Your logo on our page will link to a page all about you, such as this sample sponsor page.
It is quick and easy. Here is what you do:
- Whoever is going to manage your sponsor page should join visit and join http://ClassWish.org
- They will then go to the Groups tab and click the green button to 'Create a Group.'
- There, they should be sure to click the box indicating, "Yes, we are a FIRST sponsor."
- It should just take a few minutes to complete the form, and you can always revise it later.
- Please send me the URL of your ClassWish group page so I can enter it into our team admin panel. That will cause your logo to appear as a sponsor on our team page (linked to your page) and for our team to appear on your sponsor page.
- If you sponsor other teams, please let them know about ClassWish fundraising tools and provide them the URL to that same group page you create so you will get recognition for that sponsorship, as well.
- Once our team page is finished and the sponsors appear, I will let you know so you can share it and be recognized for your generosity.
Thank you very much for your support. We could not be more appreciative.
Best wishes,