Fundraising Information

Scope

This has been created to provide information on how to successfully organize a fundraising event. Fundraising is very important to our team in order to keep our trip costs down. Fundraising also allows us to stay active in the FIRST community.

Getting Started

Before the team can commit to a fundraising event and have it placed on the team schedule, it needs to be approved by the leadership team.

Fundraising Event Process

This is a overview of the process to organize a fundraising activity.

• Student identifies a fundraising opportunity.
• Student fills out demonstration approval form and submits it to the leadership team.
• The leadership team will review the request to determine if it is possible to commit the team to the event.
• The student event organizer must request approval to do a fundraiser with the school.
• If the event is approved by leadership and the school, then the event organizer must to make all arrangements needed to conduct the event.
• The event organizer contacts the leadership event coordinator on the leadership team to get the event added to the team calendar.
• Student organizer works with the leadership event coordinator to get sign up sheets generated for the next team meeting.
• Student organizer is responsible to make sure all the resources needed for the fundraising event are procured.  (ie. students, items to sell, equipment, etc)

Fundraising Forms

Use this form to request authorization for a demonstration from the leadership team.

Demonstration Approval Form

Once the form has been completed email it to the leadership team at: leadership@penfieldrobotics.com