[PSF-Community] Sponsorship Sales, Fundraising for Community Orgs

[Don Sheu]

Thank you Mariatta.

Highlights of building a diverse team is the opportunity for all of us to
learn from each other.

On Mon, Feb 18, 2019, 12:12 PM Mariatta Wijaya <mariatta.wijaya at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The PyCascades team is very diverse and this year we have more women and
> trans people as staff members. Eloisa's expertise and experience have such
> big impact to our event.
>
> It would be great to not refer to the PyCascades team as "you guys" in the
> future.
>
> Thank you.
>
> On Mon, Feb 18, 2019, 10:32 AM Uche Ogbuji <uche at ogbuji.net wrote:
>
>> Hi Don,
>>
>> We're having a first regional Python Conference for the Rocky Mountains
>> region this year [1] and would love to learn anything we can from the
>> PyCascades experience, especially considering you guys seem to have knocked
>> it out of the park. Consider us interested, and I'm happy to be the contact
>> for now.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> --Uche
>>
>> [1] http://pycolorado.org (redirects to interest sign-up for now; proper
>> site imminent)
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 9:06 AM 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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>>> Don Sheu
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