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

[MaryBeth Okerson]

Hi Don and all,

IndyPy (as well as our other group, IndyAWS) would absolutely be interested in participating in these training sessions. We’d love to know how to grow our sponsorships and utilize our meetup members more effectively.

Thank you,

MaryBeth Okerson
Marketing & Event Coordinator
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From: Group-Organizers <group-organizers-bounces+calvin=sixfeetup.com at python.org> on behalf of Don Sheu <dinaldo at gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2019 13:00
To: Python Group Organizers
Subject: [group-organizers] Sponsorship Sales, Fundraising for Community Orgs

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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Don Sheu
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