[Osta-board] Happy Earth Day, Happy Fatherhood to Chris,

Mon Apr 22 09:31:35 PDT 2013

Happy Earth Day everyone,

    I hope that you and your students are enjoying an Earth Day activity 
and continuing to help our society live in this wonderful Oregon 
landscape.

    Lori Lancaster has sent you an excellent way to help bring in 
sponsors for the OSTA/WSTA Awards Banquet!  If instead of deleting all 
of the email advertising that you get, respond to those marketeers with 
her SponsorLetter and SponsorLevel pdfs.  Reply to their email address 
by asking them for sponsorships the same way that they are asking you 
for your support of their products!!!

    Congratulations, Chris!  A new chapter has begun! ! !  Enjoy, enjoy, 
enjoy!

        Thank you for all that you do!   Peace and friendship,  Bernie

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Subject: Re: [Osta-board] Sponsors needed for the Awards Banquet
Date: 2013-04-20 21:15
 From: Lori Lancaster <lancaster.ld at gmail.com>
To: Lela Thieme <lela.thieme at gmail.com>
Cc: Midge Yergen <yergenm at wvsd208.org>, osta-board 
<osta-board at maillist.peak.org>

Colleagues:

I have attached three documents:

1.  The sponsor letter that describes what we are doing.
2.  The sponsor Levels that describe what they get in return for their
donation along with a submission form.

Intel and Xerox already have already declined.  They stated that they
are supporting their local STEM partnership efforts instead.

Since Vernier will not be holding the event at OMSI (due to 
difficulties
with NSTA), Christine has said they would help out.  I have not heard
back from her about how much they are willing to donate.

I have a couple more of these requests out that I have not heard back
from at Boeing and CH2M Hill.  I also attended an IEEE meeting a couple
of weeks ago and passed these out to the board members to take back to
their engineering businesses.

I appreciate your suggestions for sponsors. However, I cannot do
anything with them without names of people at those companies to 
contact
along with an e-mail or snail mail address.  If you know people to
contact, then please, by all means do so.  Use the forms I have
provided if it will help.  These kinds of requests are better coming
from a known quantity than an unknown.

I am hoping to raise $5000 to offset the costs of the event.  I am
still planning on charging $30 for non-awardees to attend.  We have a
keynote speaker, Dr. Kent Thornburg from OHSU.  The third document is
the _DRAFT_ of the advertisement for the event, which includes the
information about the keynote speaker.

Please use these with any potential sponsors you have.  NSTA will need
the advertising for the event in in mid-May. I am not inclined to move
forward with this unless $2500 can be raised by the time NSTA needs the
information for their website and pre-conference advertisements in May.

I have sent the same information on to our colleagues in the WSTA.  I
am hoping they can help out with the fundraising as well.

Thanks for your help,
Lori

On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 8:12 PM, Lela Thieme <lela.thieme at gmail.com
[10]> wrote:

> I have some ideas...a script would be great...I know the one I would
> like to ask will require a 45 day before I receive a response....they
> just gave $1000 to our chamber and gave $15000 to my playgroup 
> project
> a couple years ago!  They are great supporters of
> local and beyond...
>
> On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 6:16 PM, Allan Bruner
> <brunera at colton.k12.or.us [7]> wrote:
>
>> Dear Colleagues:
>> You might consider talking with your local reps for California
>> Casualty, ING, Security Benefit Life (TSA company for teachers), NEA
>> Benefits folks, OEA, your local banks (or US Bank Corp, the parent),
>> Les Schwab, and a host of engineering firms in the Metro Area.
>>
>> I'll pursue my face-to-face contact with Horace Mann; she has been a
>> very generous sponsor.
>>
>> Bernie, is there a target amount for numbers and sponsorships to
>> drive the price down to "reasonableness?"  I remember my Pres-Elect
>> year when Terry Tucker was Conference Chair at the last NSTA
>> Regional in Portland... and the choices I had to make and the costs
>> were not cool!
>>
>> Let's make the "ask," colleagues... if you need a script, let me
>> know... I can help with a script.
>>
>> Thanks for your collective care and leadership in OSTA.
>>
>> Allan Bruner
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Bernie Carlsen <bcarlsen at reed.edu
>> [4]> wrote:
>>
>>> Good morning, Board members,
>>>
>>>     We are searching for some sponsors to help cover the costs
>>> of the OSTA Awards Banquet at next October's NSTA Western Regional
>>> Conference.  If you know of any person, company, or friends who
>>> might be able to help us, please send their names to Lori
>>> Lancaster, <lancaster.ld at gmail.com [1]>, or me.
>>>
>>>    The awards breakfast that WSTA hosted at the NSTA Seattle
>>> Conference cost $45 per plate, an outrageous amount for any
>>> teacher to pay (or for OSTA to cover the comp'ed awardees!)
>>>
>>>    Please talk to reps from any companies who you might deal
>>> with.  Science supply people, science book salesmen, Insurance,
>>> car dealers, real estate agents, Les Schwab, US Bank, etc.  Lori
>>> would like to get this event funded by the end of this month or
>>> else she may cancel it.
>>>
>>>    Partial sponsorships are possible.  $5000, $2000, $1000,
>>> $500, $250. The Celebration of Excellence in Science Teaching in
>>> Oregon and Washington is scheduled for Thursday evening, October
>>> 24th, at the Loyd Center DoubleTree Hotel.
>>>
>>>    Your efforts are appreciated!  The sponsors will be well
>>> recognized at the conference as this is one of the highlights of
>>> OSTA's participation in this Portland showcase.
>>>
>>>     Thank you for all that you do!    Peace and friendship,
>>>  Bernie
>>>
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>>
>> --
>> D. ALLAN BRUNER, NATIONAL BOARD CERTIFIED TEACHER
>> Science Chair
>> 2006 Oregon Teacher of the Year
>> Past-President, Oregon Science Teachers Association
>>
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