[AR] Re: Funding for projects
- From: Thomas McNeill <thomas.mcneill@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2013 13:05:02 -0400
Marketing and Business students are a great help. Often they will want
some material for their resume.
Thomas
On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Monroe L. King Jr. <
monroe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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