Gaining investment / Making the pitch

Creating Take A Break from scratch posed many financial challenges. Fortunately, being apart of a university, we were able to acquire our initial investment from them (despite serious resistance.) We gained additional sponsors to cover the rest. The process required many presentations, some around a table, others over the phone, another in front of an audience. Below are excerpts from two of the presentations we pitched for funding.

"Our first year was disastrous. I handled the money myself and we went over budget. It almost killed the organization. So after that, I created a CFO position and we created a plan that brought us in under budget in subsequent years."

2012 proposal (excerpt)

2011 proposal (excerpt)