Per the California Attorney General Vanguard is operating illegally as a non profit

[scheherazadesghost]

Naming rights is just one kind of corporate sponsorship. They can take any form really so long as the parties involved find the agreement mutually beneficial. Sky's the limit for the experienced and well supported development pro.

I think SoA was getting somewhere with Arby's honestly... just don't think the mission alignment was quite there. Unless SoA has some snarky thing going on idk.

SCV's fleet is an excellent asset that thousands of people drive by daily. Quantify that then market corporate sponsorship space to partners who are the most mission aligned. Same thing as program ads for the local ballet recital. This is straight from the np playbook.

[craiga]

Just this week, the Boston Crusaders released the list of their corporate sponsors on the FB page, so I suppose that there is no harm in mentioning them here.  I should note that I am not on the Inspire BOD, so I claim no credit for these sponsors.   This is a partial list:

Vattikuti Foundation 

Broadside

J P Morgan Chase 

SS & C

State Street Bank

CAE Corp

Fidelity Investments 

James & Cathlee Stone Foundation 

WrkFlws

Accenture

Eaton Vance Investment Mgrs

FiServe

Rockland Bank & Trust 

Aliter Investment Services 

Merrimack Valley Credit Union

Too many to get them all...but Boston has no bingo and contrary to urban myth, there has been no billionaire,  tech giant, or organized crime lord who left them money.  These are the results of the year around hard work bu the 50 member Inspire BOD.

[scheherazadesghost]

I'm impressed that it appears as though your volunteer board manages this relationships without a paid staffer overseeing it all. Unless they brought them all in themselves I suppose. Still, keeping names like Chase happy take a lot of work.

Kudos to Boston. I peeped their board a while back.

Formidable. Especially sans bingo.

Edited May 14, 2023 by scheherazadesghost

[BigW]

1 hour ago, craiga said:

Just this week, the Boston Crusaders released the list of their corporate sponsors on the FB page, so I suppose that there is no harm in mentioning them here.  I should note that I am not on the Inspire BOD, so I claim no credit for these sponsors.   This is a partial list:

Vattikuti Foundation 

Broadside

J P Morgan Chase 

SS & C

State Street Bank

CAE Corp

Fidelity Investments 

James & Cathlee Stone Foundation 

WrkFlws

Accenture

Eaton Vance Investment Mgrs

FiServe

Rockland Bank & Trust 

Aliter Investment Services 

Merrimack Valley Credit Union

Too many to get them all...but Boston has no bingo and contrary to urban myth, there has been no billionaire,  tech giant, or organized crime lord who left them money.  These are the results of the year around hard work bu the 50 member Inspire BOD.

It's excellent that they've been able to sell these groups on the value of what they do and to be able to keep them feeling their donations and support are well worth what they put in. It's obvious there's a lot of hard effort from many people to enable that success.

[Jeff Ream]

2 hours ago, craiga said:

Just this week, the Boston Crusaders released the list of their corporate sponsors on the FB page, so I suppose that there is no harm in mentioning them here.  I should note that I am not on the Inspire BOD, so I claim no credit for these sponsors.   This is a partial list:

Vattikuti Foundation 

Broadside

J P Morgan Chase 

SS & C

State Street Bank

CAE Corp

Fidelity Investments 

James & Cathlee Stone Foundation 

WrkFlws

Accenture

Eaton Vance Investment Mgrs

FiServe

Rockland Bank & Trust 

Aliter Investment Services 

Merrimack Valley Credit Union

Too many to get them all...but Boston has no bingo and contrary to urban myth, there has been no billionaire,  tech giant, or organized crime lord who left them money.  These are the results of the year around hard work bu the 50 member Inspire BOD.

 per the part i bolded, they don't really go public with that kind of thing LOL

[Jurassic Lancer]

9 hours ago, BigW said:

This was done 50 years ago with the "First Federal Blue Stars."

IIRC there was a kerfluffle back then from other competitors. Commercialism, crass, so on and so forth.

Circa 1980, there was a small corps in NJ called Fantasia III that competed in Garden State and DCE which had, if I remember a Burger King sponsorship and they had a BK flag in the Main Guard, which caused another kerfluffle from competitors. Needless to say, they folded after that mainly because they lost sponsorship over rules changes, pressure, and complaints from other competitors if I remember correctly.

 

Then we had Suncoast and the Circle K fiasco, biting the hand that feeds you monetarily is never smart.

 

There's been a real resistance to these kinds of things for literally decades. The situation now is that the spice must flow, the corps are looking at seven figure budgets. There's no scaling down or looking back. 

 

FYI... I'm finally healthy enough to try and post again. Been reading for several months when I felt up to it. When Jeff and his Dad saw me at Williamsport DCA... I was pretty ill. Been a long road to recovery. If not for the discipline I learned in this activity- If I was really, really, lucky, I'd be on dialysis. Not lucky, prolly gone from a stroke.... It takes a heckuva lot to kill a Baritone Player.

Welcome back, BigW! I hope your health continues to improve! 

[BigW]

3 hours ago, Jeff Ream said:

 per the part i bolded, they don't really go public with that kind of thing LOL

You mean the Vattikuti Foundation?

 

I was curious as to who they are, and it hit very close to home when I looked them up. While I did not, repeat not have cancer... the whole robotic thing was a serious option for me. I went for the laser. Less intrusive.

 

It appears that the Boston crew have many contacts in the finance and medical world and have worked on good relationships. All respect.

[Achilles]

9 hours ago, craiga said:

Just this week, the Boston Crusaders released the list of their corporate sponsors on the FB page [...]

That's quite some list. It would seem clear that Inspire/BC have a trained np professional on their staff, especially considering much of their corporate giving is, if I had to guess, one-time donations (made on an annual basis), and requiring recurring solicitations in order to sustain that giving year over year. Certainly there are skills there for the corps to learn; it's probably not easy to hire, or contract for, that kind of support. I have to ask if DCI in any way promotes the dissemination of this kind of knowledge amongst the corps?

[scheherazadesghost]

9 minutes ago, Achilles said:

That's quite some list. It would seem clear that Inspire/BC have a trained np professional on their staff, especially considering much of their corporate giving is, if I had to guess, one-time donations (made on an annual basis), and requiring recurring solicitations in order to sustain that giving year over year. Certainly there are skills there for the corps to learn; it's probably not easy to hire, or contract for, that kind of support. I have to ask if DCI in any way promotes the dissemination of this kind of knowledge amongst the corps?

Vanguard has more of an alumni cultivation problem than a talented/knowledgeable alum problem. Many of us have been trying to help... enough of us have given up after being intensely burned by our own people. For years.

DCI can promote this knowledge all they want, but if corps are possibly not receptive bc bingo is king-o, then it don't matter.

[Fred Windish]

That big corporate donation action comes mostly from personal networking among executives. It often happens over rounds of golf at the country club, tennis on the courts, cocktails with the boss, fraternity/sorority chums, etc., etc.  Once you get those avenues working in your favor they can last a long time.