Team:UFSCar-Brasil/fundraising.html
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Fundraising
How UFSCar-Brasil managed to raise funds
Fundraising
How UFSCar-Brasil managed to raise funds
Participate in iGEM demand structure, organization and support. Since the assembly of the teams to the registration and participation in the Giant Jamboree, obtaining financial resources is one of the factors that enable the success of a project. Our team made great efforts over the year in the search for sponsors and donors to our project. Below we show different forms of fundraising.
In January and February, the team's efforts were intended to raise the amount required to pay the Team registration. We prepared a list of 245 companies of various sizes and areas and made contact via email with these potential partners by sending a portfolio that explained our achievements in 2014 and our goals in 2015.
Among the contacts, we received few replies. Some companies have helped us with the supply of reactants and equipment. In some meetings, it became clear the impact that competition has in the world, as well as the grandeur of the iGEM projects. It was demonstrated by the interest of a company to meet synthetic biology. Even so, the fact we did not have a prototype of the repellent difficult obtaining support.
The team tried to present the project to a large manufacturer of repellents, but there was no interest. Finally, a few weeks before the deadline for registration of participants for the Giant Jamboree, Libbs pharmaceutical company offered us support, making possible to send three of our students to Boston..
Our amazing sponsors!
