[AR] Re: Funding for projects
- From: "Monroe L. King Jr." <monroe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2013 10:00:11 -0700
Funding
Knock on a lot of doors. Get organized and hit the bricks. Have
patience because nothing worth doing is ever easy! Don't forget to look
other places for funding! Dress up in a space suit and stand on the
street corner if you have too! Do a car wash! Lot's of little things add
up. Go to your local Ham (amateur radio) Group and solicit help! (and
get your license while your at it) Ask for help at a local rocket club.
Make friends with marketing and management students! Go to your local
TV station, Newspaper ect... It's going to take energy to make funds
there is NO SECRET to getting funding! It takes work and you have to ask
for help! And most of all you can't give up! No matter what! If your not
going to follow threw with the energy to raise the funds don't even
START!
Now get out there and make your goal and don't let anyone tell you you
can't BECAUSE YOU CAN! It's about you it's not about anything else but
what you are willing to do to achieve your goal. The only way to fail is
to not try.
Ask your parents indeed ask your teachers ask ask ask everyone for
ideas and help, you have to ask for help! And most of all you have to do
what the people you ask for help tell you to do. Keep doing that and you
will succeed.
Don't close any doors by not doing what you are asked to do when you
ask for help. The more you do the more help you will get.
Go for it! Your already off to a great start. Now do it!
How can I help? I have some experience some stuff and a machine shop. I
don't have money because all mine goes into Team Prometheus but I'll do
what I can.
Monroe
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [AR] Re: Funding for projects
> From: doug knight <dougchar001@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, October 09, 2013 8:01 am
> To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
> I agree with James. For the rocket/payload projects we do for the students
> at my community college, we typically raise ~$2k per year from people
> donations, team selling stuff on ebay/amazon, people giving us stuff to
> sell, fundraisers, etc. We just sold elephant ear plants from someone that
> had way too many. Made ~$200 from that. Gotta get creative. And go where
> the money is and that normally is not students. My experience anyway.
>
> Doug Knight
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 8:21 AM, James G <d0ch011iday@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I guess you aren't an advertizing and marketing major...
> >
> > $10 ~ $100 isn't that much. You can spend that much on dinner or night
> > out. People like to give to charities and activities they are interested
> > in. And little donations add up to quite a bit. Crowdfunding has provided
> > ridiculous funding for the most obscure and useless (IMO) projects. You
> > don't have to understand it or see the appeal, you just need to know how to
> > access it if you want to pursue your goal.
> >
> > As as already been mentioned you can find conventional sponsors for your
> > project as well. Your model is racing sponsorships. Think outside of the
> > box. It does not have to be rocketry related (ie: Redbull does not make
> > balloons or space suits). Don't let "no" deter you. You will hear it a lot.
> >
> > Good luck,
> > -James
> >
> > From: Aidan Sojourner <aidan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: [AR] Funding for projects
> >
> > How do you guys get funding for your projects? My team has a wonderful
> > design that will probably never see the light of day due to lack of
> > funds. We are expecting upwards of $7.5k for the project, something that
> > none of us can manage.
> >
> > We have thought about kickstarter, but I personally don't see the
> > appeal.
> >
> >
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