2023-08-27 Meeting notes

Bret (corporate and foundation relations)

• What we have

• Where we want to go

• How do we get there?

• Wants to form lasting partnerships with people

  • Clubs are probably not the highest part of that

  • Good advertisement tho

  • Provide him a value proposition for donors

• Prep

  • Sponsorship Packet (provide feedback, makes sure we’re good)

  • Short notes of what our goals are (where we want to be)

  • Short notes of our value proposition to sponsors and Rose

  • Short notes of what we’ve done, what’s going on with companies

  • Build confidence for smallsat

  • Short term goals

    • Capstones (min to max)

  • Long term goals

• Questions he can ask with answers

  • Timeline

  • Budget

  • What’s good for this year?

• Deadline setting and alternatives

  • Want to do it next year, but we can spread it out over a longer amount of time

  • Bare minimum and best case and an option in between

  • Why did you set those deadlines?

  • “most likely timeframe for success”

• Capstone teams

  • Community fundraising: https://fundraise.givesmart.com/vf/RHITCompTeams/team/Rocketry

  • Need sources other than institutional advancement

  • Maybe Noblitt

  • Maybe some professors (Dr. Zach Chambers)

  • Ask tons of people

  • Makes more successful project

• Who we are → what we’re working on → what our goal is → what we’ve done → what do you need from us → post-meeting materials

  • Write this all out in a doc

Other people

• Christian Shuck (after bret)

  • Works in institutional advancement

  • Runs Sawmill stuff

  • Alumni stuff

  • Might be good to ask for good entrepreneur students for help with admin

• Steve Brady