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Question: How can we get sponsored airfare to Haiti or the Dominican Republic to deliver hydration bottles to victims and volunteers?
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Easy! Send query letters, emails, or make phone-calls to as many local businesses as possible, pitching the idea as a beneficial and unique sponsorship opportunity. Without a doubt, the effort itself offers our community a certain local pride in terms of what we are willing to contribute to the tragedy abroad. Or, get out and knock on doors (after a plan is set up, of course)! Set a goal and raise the money for the tickets and other expenses. Generate a link to your website highlighting your plan, periodically updating the progress of the effort. Once the tickets are funded and the plan is rolling, notify as many local news agencies as possible and see if you can get a reporter or two interested in making a story out of it. Routinely and publicly go waaay out of your way to thank the generosity of your sponsors via this medium and as many other outlets as you can think of. For without your sponsors, of course, nothing would be possible. A potential sponsor will be able to see the value of sponsoring this effort on so many levels other than the obvious ‘public exposure’. But a plan must be in place before it is presented to any potential sponsor.
Contact a charity by the name of World Wide Village. They are already on the ground there and have frequent flights in there. Good luck!
Cheri