HOWTO Funding Your Event

INTRODUCTIONS Event Organization
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Here we are going to collect and share information about how to fund your event or open source project. If you have anything to contribute - pls. do.

##Finding Sponsors
A good way to approach sponsors is to make contact with a sponsorship brochure and continue the discussion with a follow up mail. You can download adaptable sponsorship brochures for OSCEdays events here.

##Donations
You can ask ppl. for donations. Paypal offers an easy way to do it - it is good for one time donations. If you have a longer project running Patreon is a very popular website. It allows people to support you on a regular basis. A similar website is Flattr.

##Sell Tickets
You can sell tickets. There are also good services that help you with that. In Germany Eventbrite is very popular in Germany. There will be probably similar websites popular in your region.

##Sell Products
You can use your events to sell products. At the event. Or in an online shop and use your event to point ppl. to it.

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I would add that to havee sponsors is good to have an estimation of budget, expected impact… Basically kind of a short pitch with a Value Proposition, and some basic costs calculations.

Can we provide a template, or something made in Excel?? Perhaps it can be good idea…

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Yes, we could provide an excel sheet - to download. Or as google docs link (not sure if you can fork documents on google docs).