+ Sponsorship opportunities for the Chinese Spring Festival Gala party on 2/12 Saturday

Dear All,

We welcome commercial sponsorships for the upcoming Spring Festival Gala. Based on previous experience, the Gala party is the greatest annual event organized by CSSA and usually more than 1000 people (mostly Chinese people from around Ann Arbor, but also local people of other nationalities friendly to China) gather together at the Michigan Union to celebrate our Chinese Festival in an array of entertainment/artistical activities.

We will have a well-designed, comprehensive booklet for the show. Inside the booklet, we will acknowledge our sponsors accordingly (forms and ad size to be discussed). We plan to publish at least 1500 copies of the booklet.

To be listed in the booklet and/or to put some advertisement posters/signs inside Michigan Union are good opportunities for businesses.

You are invited to join this mutually beneficial effort in several ways.
1. If you own a business and want to let more people know it, please contact our Fundraising Chair Zhong Jing for sponsorship opportunities. (Her email is [email protected] )
2. If you know business people/friends who might be interested in advertisement on this Gala party, please kindly forward this message to them. We appreciate your time.
3. If you are interested in help raising funds for CSSA, at the same time exercising your negotiation/communication skills with people, you can contact local businesses, such as car dealers, law firms, estate agencies, and talk with them for sponsorship opportunities. Better yet, to encourage fundraising effort, the current CSSA Financial Rules (revised and announced in December 2004 following our legislative procedures) grant commissions for people who successfully acquire funds for CSSA. Relevant items are quoted below.

"4 Sponsorship Commission Rule"

1) CSSA accepts gifts and donations from all sources under mutual agreement.

2) Any fundraiser who obtains sponsorships for CSSA from commercials and industry shall be rewarded a commission fee of 20% of the value of the sponsorship. For sponsorships over $800 at a time from a single party, a commission fee of 25% of the value of the donation will be rewarded."

We want to ensure that this commission rule will not add any burden to potential sponsors. It is just our way of encouraging fundraising, also a potential benefit to our members who can help with this effort.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or Zhong Jing.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Heng