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Quoted Message enrico.n.manes.1 wrote:	A resource for grants might be http://www.techpointfoundation.org/ as they are also involved with FIRST and Purdue and have made donations to the Jefferson HS FIRST Program. Roger was involved with that grant. Ok gang, I spent about 3.5 hrs running all over the local area and hit up the following stores, Ace Hardware Walmart (all three of them) Menards (Laf. and W. Laf) Von Tobels The Home Depot Lowes and here's what I've learned, 1) The Home Depot, Menards, and Lowes take in written requests and take about a month for them to process as they go up to corporate for the final determination. 2) Ace and Von Tobels are able to respond in a few days to a week. 3) Walmart has many different ways to help out the local community and all require a written request, <ol><li>They can hand out gift cards pretty easily in smaller denominations and multiple stores can be asked.</li> <li> They have a matching grant program where they will match what you raise outside their store during some sort of fund drive (cookies, drinks, purchases, etc) and this is something that is easier for them to do but I believe it requires the ok from corporate.</li> <li> They have a donation grant that has to go to corporate and takes about a month or longer. </li> Anyhow, Walmart has many tiers of their donation program and it appears that we would be wise to ask for donations months in advance to have the funds ready for the program when we get to it.</ol> That said, I was able to raise $150 (3 x $50 gift cards) by going to each of the Walmarts with a letter explaining what we are doing with the program. I would encourage the teachers to keep the lines of communications open with the local businesses as they are definitely willing to help but requests need to be made well in advance as they have budgetary issues to consider. It appears that the stores have a budget to work with each quarter and so I'm sure that your chances of getting a program funded is better at the beginning of the quarter than at the end. While at each of the establishments it became apparent from the thank you notes that quite a few of the local schools and organizations contact these businesses. I'll be hearing back from all the stores except Walmart after the break. I'd like to have some volunteers for putting together a thank you letter for these stores with a photo of the robots and kids. Stores that have donated, Walmart - West Lafayette - $50 Walmart - Lafayette (on 26) - $50 Walmart - Lafayette (S side) - $50
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