[group-organizers] Sponsorship Sales, Fundraising for Community Orgs

[Don Sheu]

Awesome. Goal will be to keep the curriculum on actionable tactics.

Like how I learned Y Combinator founders were using Streak CRM in Gmail for
their investor fundraising.
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On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 8:59 AM Jakub Vysoky <jakub at borka.cz> wrote:

> I am in as well. That is pretty awesome, congratulations!
>
> Cheers on behalf of pycon.cz ;)))
>
> On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 11:25 PM Frank Valcarcel <frank at cuttlesoft.com>
> wrote:
>
>> SIGN ME UP!
>>
>> Eager for help with PyColorado right now. We just started raising and its
>> um not going so well :(
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>> On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 12:00 PM Don Sheu <dinaldo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Hey all, I've learned a lot with sponsorship sales for PyCascades last
>> > year, and now with Eloisa Tran chairing our sponsorship sales this year.
>> >
>> > Wondering if there'd be interest in participating in training for groups
>> > around the Python community?
>> >
>> > For PyCascades, we were profitable as an org our first year. Eloisa
>> joining
>> > as our leader of sponsorship sales, we doubled, we may triple our gross
>> > revenue.
>> >
>> > One example tactic I can share –
>> >
>> >
>> >    1. Eight days before the conference meets on February 23, I sent out
>> >    reminder emails to past supporters of PuPPy, my group in Seattle
>> >    2. The email copy was targeted to remind past supporters of PuPPy, we
>> >    are hosting PyCascades in Seattle this year
>> >    3. Please alert their staff that we are approaching sell out
>> >    4. Got 15 new registrations that totals in about $2000 in additional
>> >    revenue
>> >    5. A silver level sponsor for $8000
>> >
>> > My goal would be to include as many concrete examples like this in the
>> > training. Eloisa was trained by the Anita Borg Institute to lead
>> > sponsorship sales for Grace Hopper Conference. She donated $250k to
>> > numFOCUS running sponsorship sales for PyData Seattle 2017, with about
>> 800
>> > attendees.
>> >
>> > Let me know. I'll collaborate with Eloisa to create curriculum to share
>> > with everybody.
>> >
>> > What does everybody think?
>> >
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