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

[Derek Payton]

Please count me in! This would be great information to have for both
Fresno.py and a local hackerspace I co-founded. :)

Cheers,

*Derek Payton* | @dmpayton <https://twitter.com/dmpayton>


On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 1:56 PM MaryBeth Okerson <marybeth at sixfeetup.com>
wrote:

> 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?
>
> --
> Don Sheu
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