Fundraising

Added link to Annual Report on RAS homepage, don't look to closely at the attachments, just provide comments on style of Annual Report

General Sponsors

• For most of these companies, we need to make a 2 page letter describing our organization and goals on our own letterhead. We also need proof of non-profit tax id obtained from the College of Engineering. Company Sponsors - to be completed on ticket:27 by Andy and Richard,
  1. National Instruments
     • Corporate Giving Packet
  2. Freescale
     • Freescale Packet
  3. IBM
     • IBM Grant Application Process
  4. Motorola
     • Online Foundation Application
  5. Silicon Labs
     • Contact Information

• General Company Contacts and Parts - to be completed on ticket:27 by Andy and Richard,
  1. National Instruments - Hardware - DAQ
     • Corporate Giving Packet
  2. Via - Centaur - Mini-ITX or Notebook
     • VIA contacts
  3. Intel - Notebook or Embedded Processor
     • Intel Edu-Notebook

University Fundraising

• UtexasFunding is crucial link between our organization and the vaious UT entities
• This is something that must be done in person on a semester basis, check UtexasFunding for more details

== IEEE Region V & IGVC-AUVSI==

• Central Texas IEEE through IEEE main
• IEEE Robotics & Automation Society - Local Grant
• IGVC - Ground Vehicle
  • IGVC.org sponsors
  • Other Teams in AUVSI

FIRST Outreach Activities

• FundRaising Sources
  1. FIRST - Nasa Grants - Available in September !
  2. Toyota - Tapestry Grants
  3. MIT InventTeams Grant - May 5th, 2006 Deadline (check next year), look at 1696 News
• Useful Grant Resources

• FIRST_links and FRC at High Schools - more info to come

Discussion of Funding Packets

• IEEE wants to have tri-fold brochure, most other companies and CoE want 2 pages front and back of information (with centerfold)
• Look at the Office Student Life (OSL) Corporate Page for Tips and Examples