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5 important things to remember in writing your sponsorshipproposal letter1. Address your written sponsorship proposal letter to theappropriate person.2. Call your potential sponsor's organization and find out thename of the person who deals with charitable giving andsponsorships.3. FInd out if the company has guidelines for charitable giving/sponsorships and if so, request a copy. Only appeal to thecompany for a sponsorship if your organization falls within thegiving guidelines.4, Follow up your sponsorship proposal letter with a phone call toassess interest and to seek an appointment to discuss thesponsorship. Getting a face-to-face meeting with your potentialsponsor makes a huge difference in whether or not you getyour sponsorship!5. Be prepared for that call with sponsorship levels to offer. Hereis a sample sponsorship levels template to help you.[MMDDYY][RECIPIENT NAME][RECIPIENT TITLE][RECIPIENT FIRM][RECIPIENT ADDRESS][RECIPIENT CITY ,STATE, ZIP]Dear [INSERT SPONSOR NAME HERE],[INSERT YOUR ORGANIZATION NAME] invites you to become asponsor for our annual [INSERT EVENT NAME] to benefit [INSERTBENEFICIARIES HERE].The primary source of funding for [INSERT EVENT NAME] is fromcorporate sponsors, such as yourself. The [INSERT EVENT NAME]receives no governmental funds.This exciting event will be held [INSERT DATE, TIME, PLACE]. It isa [INSERT EVENT DESCRIPTION HERE].As you may be aware, [INSERT YOUR ORGANIZATION NAME] hasprovided [LIST SERVICES] to [NAME AREA] citizens for the past[INSERT NUMBER OF YEARS]. The funds provided by this event willbe used for [LIST BENEFITS].Your sponsorship will help assure the success of [INSERT EVENTNAME]. Enclosed please find more information on this excitingevent and its sponsorship levels. Please do not hesitate to contactme with any questions or concerns. I look forward to speakingwith you at your earliest convenience.Sincerely,[INSERT YOUR ORGANIZATION REPRESENTATIVE NAME][INSERT PHONE AND EMAIL]Enclosures: Sponsorship InformationEvent Fact SheetDon't forget to include the above. Remember: You are trying togive them every reason to help you. Omitting essentialinformation about your event gives them another reason to sayno. Use an event checklist. And provide a fact sheet.

This was a really long time ago, before probably half of Quora's users were born! So I'm honored that anyone is interested.TL;DR some cool stuffI was one of the first two hires in the MLB executive development program. The idea was to take a couple of recent college graduates and put them into a rotation among all the MLB offices in NYC, exposing them to all the various aspects of the work. There was no formal career path laid out; the idea was that if we were good, we'd meet so many people that someone would hire us at some point.There were five different MLB offices in New York at the time, located in five different buildings, in addition to the Yankees and the Mets:Commissioner's Office, 75 Rockefeller PlazaAmerican League, 280 Park AvenueNational League, 1 Rockefeller PlazaMLB Player Relations Committee, 1270 6th AvenueMLB Promotion Corporation, 1212 6th AvenueThe offices all consolidated into two floors at 350 Park Avenue in about 1983, and have since moved to several floors at 245 Park. (This was a big deal, considering the history. The American League was headquartered in Boston when Joe Cronin was league president, then moved to NYC in 1974 when Lee MacPhail was hired away from the Yankees to succeed him. Before Cronin the league was headquartered in Chicago. The National League was headquartered in San Francisco until about 1976 when it moved kicking and screaming to NYC. Previously it was headquartered in Cincinnati.)I showed up on the first day and met my new colleague, the other hire, Drew Sheinman. We spent the morning together in the Commissioner's Office, doing paperwork and being introduced to people. We were taken out to lunch and after lunch I was taken around the corner to 1270 6th Avenue, where for the next 15 months I worked on MLB's labor issues from the owners' side, while Drew did some different assignments relating to marketing stuff.My new boss was a guy named Ray Grebey. The owners had hired Ray away from General Electric because they felt the Players Association was getting the best of them and Ray had a reputation as a hardass. He was, as far as I can tell, a real hardliner in negotiations, but he was generally good to me, although very demanding. The PRC's longtime lawyer was a guy named Barry Rona. Barry was profane and hilarious and brilliant and taught me a huge amount about collective bargaining. My first assignment was to create a kind of spreadsheet of all of the Major League clubs' guaranteed salary obligations, including all guaranteed deferred compensation, out into the future (the timeline ran from 1979 to about 2030, if I recall correctly). So, beginning with the Atlanta Braves, I read through every major league contract, broke down its guaranteed components, and record them on my spreadsheets. This was before Excel, of course, so I did it all on ledger paper and by hand, adding the columns with a printing calculator and erasing and recalculating every time I got additional information.I also assisted with research for various salary arbitrations and with preparations for the 1980 collective bargaining cycle, where a strike was looming because the owners felt they should be entitled to receive some kind of professional player compensation (not just draft picks or cash) when they lost a player to free agency. Although the 1980 strike was averted by the stratagem of empaneling a clubs-players "study committee" to address the issue of professional player compensation, the strike did occur in 1981 when (unsurprisingly) the committee failed to come up with any kind of useful solution.After 15 months in one place I was ready for some of that broader exposure that had been promised to me. I had a brief stint in the Commissioner's Office but I was soon sent out to Shea Stadium to work in the Mets' promotions department for a few weeks. The Mets really sucked in those days and one of their gimmicks to get fannies in the seats was that they always had a live National Anthem performer. It was my job to wrangle these people from the moment of their arrival until I saw them to a box seat after their performance. During this time I heard some very unusual performances of the anthem. The Mets' Old Timers' Day also fell during my tenure at Shea, and I was assigned to carry out a plan that involved putting Duke Snider into a sedan chair and carrying him out onto the field. Of course the Mets did not own a sedan chair, so I was told to go around to all the antiques galleries in Manhattan until I could find one and persuade the gallery owner to lend it to the Mets for free. I was also to do this without a business card, as MLB had not seen fit to give them to us. When I reflect on this I'm still a little amazed that I found an antique sedan chair at a gallery in the east 50s that agreed to let the Mets send a truck to pick the thing up. My job then was - without using pins or any tape on the gilt wood trim - to cover the upholstered front, sides, and back of the chair with Mets blue crepe paper (using double sided tape sticking only to the upholstery, not the gilt wood). Enormous Mets logo stickers were then affixed to the crepe paper on the sides of the chair. I only wish I had a picture of it to show you. I later found out that nobody had told Duke Snider in advance what the plan was and he thought it was bullshit, but after a few minutes they got him calmed down and he did go through with it.Greatest moment at the Mets: I was sitting in the press room eating dinner with a couple of club officials and with Lou Brock, who had participated in some kind of pre-game ceremony, watching the game on closed circuit TV. In the first inning of the game Lee Mazzilli reached base, then was thrown out trying to steal second. We all looked at Lou. He leaned toward the TV monitor and watched closely as the TV feed showed us three or four angles on the attempted steal. Finally after a few seconds he leaned back in his chair. We all looked at each other and waited for Lou to speak. The greatest base stealer of all time was going to give us his analysis. Finally he spoke. "He got a bad jump."My next gig was at the Promotion Corporation. It was late in the season and we were preparing for the World Series. The Expos were still in contention and so we had to prepare bilingual copy for the WS program. We sent out all the articles to be professionally translated but my five+ years of French came in handy for the copy-editing. (Fun fact: French translates 20% longer than the original English.)During this time I realized I needed to get serious about a permanent job and luckily the American League wanted to hire me. Their Manager of Waivers and Player Records was leaving permanently to have a baby and so I was hired to replace her.For just over five years I kept all the rosters in the AL. I published the daily waiver bulletin, tracked waiver requests, optional and outright assignments, disabled list placements, contract signings, designations for assignment, all that stuff. I interpreted and enforced the Major League Rules. I talked to most of the general managers in the league at least once or twice a week, and gave advice on how to structure their transactions. This was a really fun job. I just don't have words for how much fun it was. I reported directly to the league president and kept him abreast of whatever pending transactions rose to the level of something he needed to know about. The tech underpinning this job was a TWX machine and a timeshare dialup account on a Honeywell mainframe computer somewhere in Minnesota, accessed via an IBM Mag Card 1 Selectric terminal. Every day I would dial in at 2 pm to pick up waiver requests and claims, then at 2:30 to advise the clubs of the outcome of their waiver requests, then before 4:30 to publish the day's waiver bulletin listing waiver requests, transactions, and any announcements. I would format it on a mag card (or more than one - the mag cards had 50 lines apiece), or, if it wasn't too long, I'd just dial in and type it live. The clubs knew that they could dial in starting at 4:30 to pick the bulletin up. During spring training the clubs unhooked their TWX machines, packed them up, and took them to Florida or Arizona, and I published the daily waiver bulletins via TWX. I learned how to read, cut, and edit the paper tapes the TWX machine used.During this period I went to law school at night over at Fordham, in the Lincoln Center area of Manhattan. I started class at 6 pm, typically four nights per week, and got out at 8:45 (occasionally at 9:30). Every night I would go home, eat something, get in bed with the reading for the next evening's classes, and then crash. During my lunch hour I'd eat while looking over that day's reading again, then leave at about 5:15 and head over to class. During this time I also gained about 40 pounds I never managed to lose.After I got out of law school I sat and passed the NY Bar and then I got a huge break.MLB had a new commissioner, Peter Ueberroth, and Peter decided to create a second Assistant General Counsel position for me in his office. So for the next three and a half years I read and gave advice on stadium leases, concessions agreements, and broadcasting agreements, but mainly I drafted and negotiated a huge number of licensing/merchandising and sponsorship agreements. I actually lawyered Nike's first MLB license agreement from the MLB side, back in 1987 (then I lawyered the next one perhaps twelve years later from the Nike side).This was a lot of fun because the licensing and merchandising work was a blast. I loved working with the licensees to bring their products to reality. And I loved the sample sales more than I can ever say. I also did anticounterfeiting work. I sent C&D letters and hung out in unmarked vans in the Shea Stadium parking lot with an armload of John Doe seizure orders to pick up counterfeit t-shirts. I went on a raid with the FBI. Stephanie V's answer to How does the FBI decide what to investigate?There's an interview with me in this book, published just before I left MLB... and it was excerpted in this issue of Sports Illustrated:One other thing I did that was worth mentioning: I represented MLB to a committee called the Joint Sports Claimants. The Joint Sports Claimants were parties to a multilateral multiyear settlement with MPAA and some other parties to allocate distant signal royalties awarded by the Copyright Royalty Tribunal, i.e. copyright royalties paid by cable systems that picked up distant over-the-air stations who had especially interesting programming, the vast majority of which was movies or sports. The Joint Sports Claimants were MLB, NBA, NHL, NCAA, and for a few years a professional soccer league. (The NFL was not a part of it because unlike the rest of us their games were all on network TV and so their copyright royalties were all already accounted for.) It would have cost so much to litigate the percentages every year that we just agreed among ourselves how we would allocate the monies the CRT spat out. The CRT would send the single largest claimant, the MPAA, a check and the MPAA would keep their share and dole out the rest of our shares. The Joint Sports Claimants meetings were occasionally very interesting and often challenging because of the internal politics of our group. From time to time I was called upon to engage in shuttle diplomacy when Party X would threaten to leave because they thought Party Y was getting too much money, but Party Z could not be persuaded.Overall my time in baseball was mostly a lot of fun. I'd be happy to answer additional questions in the comments (if anyone is still reading)... %^>

Financial Documents Required for Study Abroad ApplicationsStudying Abroad is a dream that requires extensive planning, various steps of application and a long meticulous documentation. Starting from collecting the transcripts, the score cards to writing and submitting admission essays/ statement of purpose/ Letter of Recommendation to the long application forms. The process does not stop there and with admissions begin a completely different set of paperwork – for student visas. An important component of the same are the financial documents. And while the specifics might change from country to country and university to university, every document essentially follows a format. This is a guide of the many documents students would require, samples of formats for financial documents specific to study abroad and basic good to know facts. We start by explaining some of the terms commonly used by Universities/ Consulates for Confirmation of Admission/ Student Visa Applications respectively.Proof of Funds or Financial Capacity: MeaningOne of the basics of Student Visa Applications is the requirement of Proof of Funds or Financial Capacity. For almost all countries (barring very few), students are required to provide evidentiary proof that they are able to not only pay for the fee but also normal living expenses for the duration of the stay. While some universities might ask for the same as well, it is often done after the admission offers are sent out and are taken to further assist in processing the visas. Irrespective who asks for the same, the fact remains that Proof of Funds refer to the proof positive that the student would be able to bear the cost of studying abroad. The costs include two chief components:1. Fees and other University chargesStudents are often required to make payment of this component in advance to confirm admission offer. Since the payments are made up front, the proof of this component comprises of receipt of payments made.Usually universities do not require a student to provide proof of future payments. Also, since more often than not the fees are revised and hence there is no fixed amount. Even then, Universities might request proof of income to ensure that you would be able to pay the fee in future as well. This might at times require sponsorship letters or Affidavit of Support. Some universities require proof of funds available in terms of a minimum balance requirement in special accounts (ex. Germany, Netherlands, Canada, etc.)2. Living ExpensesMost of the countries have a basic minimum living expense requirement which is specified. The students are in turn requested to provide proof that they have access to the same. Most of the European Countries require liquid funds in the amount specified available with the student called the statutory fund requirements. In USA, while there is no statutory amount specified in terms of minimum monthly expense, students would be required to provide proof of financial support and/ or capacity to make the payments. Students would have to provide documentary proof that they have access to that amount for the tenure specified. Again, a country might request proof of funds for one year while some might ask for fund availability for the entire tenure of the course’s normal duration. Here is a list of some of the countries and the minimum fund requirements (living expenses) specified.Name of the CountryStatutory Fund Requirements for Living ExpensesCanadaCAD $10,000 for every year of your intended stayUnited Kingdom£11,385 per annum (£1265 per month) for University situated in London or £9,135 (£1,015 per month) for anywhere other than LondonAustraliaAUD $ 19,830 per yearGermany€ 670/month of stay or € 8,040/ annumFrance€ 615 for each month of stayNetherlands€ 862, 50 per month for the period of staySwedenSEK 7,974 for each month of your stay in Sweden, computed for a the intended stay with a minimum of 10 months for every year of stay in SwedenIreland€ 7000 as living expenses for every year of stayNote: For admissions to Universities in USA, the Financial Proofs are requested at the time of confirmation of admission by the universities. It is only when the proofs are provided that the I-20s are issued by the university. Also, as mentioned, there is no minimum requirement but the University would provide a basic cost which the student would have to provide proof of capacity for.Still have questions related to Financial documents required? Get help from Shiksha Expert Counsellors - Sign Up NowTypes of Documents accepted under Proof of FundsThere is no standard list of documents that would be required by countries abroad. As the application process for the countries vary so does the student visa requirements and accordingly the list of documents that are required as proof of funds. Every country’s Student Visa/ University requirements list a separate set of acceptable documents. Here is a list of what all they can be, along with samples wherever necessary. Also, often more than one proof (unless a specific account/ deposit is requested) can be combined with another.1. Bank Account StatementsSimple enough, the universities/ Visa Consulates might require you to submit your/ your sponsors’ bank account statements for a specific period. Again, the formats are plain and simple. Students should remember thata. The statements should be of the person specifically required. For instance, in case university accepts support of parent/ guardian or spouse, then the statement should be of the person’s savings account. Some countries, like Sweden, require the funds to be in student’s personal account and accordingly the student should keep a check on the same. (Note: Current Account Statements are generally not accepted and hence it is always best to confirm before submitting the same.)b. It should be a scanned copy of statements in original and not e-mail statements, duly stamped and signed by the bank. With Net-banking, often getting a statement is a click away. However, for the purpose of proving financial capacity, the bank statement must be original, on bank’s letterhead, stamped and signed by the bank.c. Should clearly specify the tenures required. Often, universities/ visa consulates specifically ask for 6 months’ bank statements (the tenure may vary though).2. Loan Approval/ Disbursement LetterStudents can also provide a Loan Approval Letter as proof of funds. This is easy enough to get from the bank you have applied a loan from. While the banks might have a set format, the letter essentially conveys the approval of the bank of loaning the specific amount to the student for his higher education abroad. Here are a few things a student should keep in mind:The letter should be on bank’s letterhead, duly signed and stampedThe letter should clearly specify the amount of loan and the student’s nameShould include a promise to disburse the amount as and when specifiedShould mention “The Loan of Rs. _____________ has been fully sanctioned and all terms and conditions are completed except disbursement.”Download the guide on this page for sample formats of Loan Approval Letter.3. Scholarship LettersIn case you have been given a scholarship, the student can also attach the scholarship letter as evidence of financial capacity. This letter is often provided by the University/ Institution that grants the scholarship. In case you have received a Governmental Grant, you are required to attach the copy of the same as well.You might also like to readHow to write a Resume for UG Applications Abroad4. Affidavit of Support/ SponsorshipStrictly speaking, an Affidavit of Support is not a Financial Document but rather a validation of financial support being provided to the student. Since, the document is often asked for by Universities in USA and Australia along with Financial Proofs, we have included the same in the list.An Affidavit of Support or Sponsorship is a notarized document on a Stamp Paper (often of INR 10 or INR 20 denomination), which clearly mentions that another person (parents/ spouse/ relative) would be sponsoring your education and paying for (or can afford) your fees and living expenses. The signed document directly binds the person to accept all financial responsibility of the cost of studying for the student. Often, the Affidavit of Support is supplemented with Proof of Income and/or Bank Letters. Things to keep in mindAffidavit of Support cannot be provided by a distant relative. Often direct blood relations are required which include parents, maternal/ paternal uncles/ aunts, grand-parent. Spouse is also acceptable.It should be a notarized and on the stamp paper. This is available at the local courts.In case it is from an uncle/ aunt, the document should clearly mention the reason for their sponsorship + claim that they have enough funds to bear their own/ family unit expenses even after providing the sponsorship/ support to the student. Student should always check that this would be acceptable from the University.Note:Students applying to European Universities should note that for European Countries the Sponsorships are quite different in nature. Most of the countries do not accept support documents. They, however, accept Sponsorships from people who are residing in that country. For instance, if you are applying to Universities in France and an uncle is staying in France and is willing to take care of your expenses, then the student would be required to provide a “Letter of Sponsorship”. These are standard formats often available to students by the Visa issuing authority for that country.Download the guide on this page for sample format for Affidavit of Support.5. Bank LettersSimply put these are letters that clearly mention the nature of accounts held by the student/ sponsor in the banks as well as the balance in the account. As suggestive, these are provided by the bank and should be accordingly on Bank’s official letterhead, duly signed and stamped. Here is what all the bank letter should includea. Name of the person/ persons who hold the account with the bankb. The kind of account (savings/ current/ joint) and the tenure of relationship (years for which the person has held the account in that bank)c. Balance in the account/s with its converted amount along with the rate of conversion used. Ex. Savings Bank (Balance as on 31st October 2016) INR 800,000, equivalent to US$ 11,928 at conversion rate of US $1 = INR 67.07Note: A Bank Letter can also state the Fixed Deposits (if any) held by the sponsor. Not all countries accept FD amounts and hence students must check the individual financial documents acceptable for proof of funds for respective countries.Download the guide on this page for sample format for Bank Letter.6. Loan Capability CertificateThis is a bit different from a Loan Approval Letter and is often asked by Universities in USA at the time of admission, without which they would not issue I-20s (in case you have suggested you would be requiring loan to fulfil the fund requisites.) This document, as the name suggests, is a “Capability Certificate”, given by banks / financial institutions which suggests that they would be willing to provide loan to the student should he get admitted in the University Abroad. Here is an example template of the same:Again, things the Loan Capability Certificate should include the following things clearly,Name of the studentWillingness and prima facie promise of the bank to grant a loanAmount of the loan eligibilityAgain, it should be on the bank’s letterhead, duly signed and stamped.Download the guide on this page for sample format for Loan Capability Certificate.7. CA CertificateSome countries also require what is commonly referred to as a CA Certificate. Prepared by a certified CA, the document specifies the actual assets held by the student/ sponsor as well as the liabilities. This essentially includes both the current assets (like bank balance, fixed deposits, shares, bonds, etc.) as well as fixed assets (land, property, gold, etc. with an estimated value of the same). The document must be signed and stamped by the CA. Again, there is no fixed format and usually the CAs have their own formats.Download the guide on this page for sample format CA Certificate.8. Property Evaluation ReportThis is more common for Australia and New Zealand Visas. In case a student has applied for a Student Loan and the same was procured against property, the student is also required to attach a Property Evaluation Report alongside the Loan Approval Letter. This is a comprehensive report prepared by competent authority (the bank/ financial institution in case of a student loan). Here is what all the Property Evaluation Report usually includesa. Property picturesb. Size of the property and specificationsc. Ownership proof of the property being evaluatedBanks have their own formats and you need not worry about the same. Simple mention of the same to the lending institution would suffice. At times, the same can be prepared by CAs as well.9. GPF/ EPF Statement confirming ability to withdrawMany countries also accept the funds available in your/ parent/guardian’s Provident Fund Account. These are official statement issued by the Provident Fund Disbursing Authority clearly stating the amount of funds available in the account along with the ability to withdraw. In case there is a variation in the amount the person can withdraw, the letter should clearly mention the amount that can be withdrawn. Here are the things you should keep in mindThe statement should be on the Provident Fund Disbursing Authority’s Official Letterhead.It should clearly specify the name of the employee/ account holder along with the name of the student. Since the document is only valid if it is a parent, the relationship should be clearly mentioned as well.It should specify the total amount available along with the withdrawable limits.The letter should clearly state that the withdrawals are “non-refundable/ permanent” in nature.Name, contact details of the signing authority along with the stamp should be clearly mentioned as well.Download the guide on this page for sample format for PF Letter.Also ReadStudent Visa for USAStudent Visa for CanadaStudent Visa for UKStudent Visa for AustraliaStudent Visa for GermanyStudent Visa for SingaporeStudent Visa for FranceStudent Visa for New ZealandNeed help in editing your SOP/LOR/Essays ?Get help from expert Shiksha editors to create a winning applicationFind out moreLearn more about application processSOPStatement of purposeLORLetter of recommendationAdmission EssayEssay writingStudent CVCurriculum vitaeThis article was written by: Kanika Khurana, 17 May'18 | 11:39 AMBrowse Universities AbroadUniversities in USA859 UniversitiesUniversities in Canada114 UniversitiesUniversities in Australia112 UniversitiesUniversities in UK159 UniversitiesUniversities in New Zealand70 UniversitiesUniversities in Ireland21 UniversitiesArticles related to Student VisaCanada Student Visa Guide 7953 comments | 437858 viewsStudent Visas for Study Abroad 232 comments | 95616 viewsInterview Guide for F1 Student Visa for USA 16 comments | 78811 viewsPost Study Work Permits for Indian Students in France 11 comments | 30808 views19 CommentsParticipate in discussion, write your comment.SubmitSusanne HozaPG AspirantBuy Real And Fake Passports,Drivers License,ID Cards,100% UNDETECTABLE COUNTERFEIT MONEY ,IELTS: Contacts via Whatsapp...... +44 7984803365email address:::[email protected] Apr'18, 06:26 PMReply to Susanne HozaSourabh SainiUG AspirantCan i show funds to Australian University by selling some of our land31 Jan'18, 04:03 PMReply to Sourabh SainiAmbrose ClintPhD AspirantDear Applicant,We give loan to private company and individuals. 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