rush sponsorship
 

i read somewhere that a house got themselves sponsored by a beer company. my house is off campus so we have no IFC regulations, but how would one go about setting this up? is this really possible? would a company like Natty really be willing to sponsor a rush??

Even if you have no IFC regulations, your HQ might not allow it. I would check the rules with them first.

how about w just a regular company, like a pizzeria.. how would one go about setting that up? i can offer them putting their name all over our fliers and around our house, but what else? how much should i ask for? any help is much appreciated

I've never heard about rush being sponsored (do you mean a rush party/event or an entire rush week?), but my organization has gotten sponsors for our service events. Basically, you'd ask them to donate in exchange for getting their name out (could be on a banner, a flier, a program, etc). As far as price, it would depend on what you're giving them. If you have a program, for example, you could charge, say, $200 for a full page ad. Just make your prices reasonable. I haven't seen too many companies donate to non-philanthropic causes, so I'm not sure how this would work in your case.

Some chapters at UW (Washington) have sponsorships with energy drink companies. There was an article in the school newspaper here that may help give you some direction.

Rush at some schools is partly sponsored by pizza companies. In exchange for putting their name and logo at the bottom of your banner they (generally) pay for the banner and provide pizza as the snack one night of rush.

Really? Where is this common in the South?

Sometimes liqour stores will provide us with signs and a bunch of random shit, but not booze.

AEPi4Life, you and I both know we can't have a sponsorship with a liquor company.

With regard to food sponsorship, just go/call the place and ask to speak to the manager. Tell him that you'd like to work out some sort of sponsorship deal. Maybe it's free food for an event in exchange for putting his logo on your rush shirts, or maybe brothers poster ads for the place in exchange for a discount for wearing their letters. I can't tell you what to ask for, it all depends on the situation.

Don't do it, it would look really cheap to have logos all over your rush. Having a sponsored party would be acceptable though IMO.

I visited Florida during the week before rush one year and every house had a Domino's (I think, it may have been Hungry Howie's) logo at the bottom of their rush banner. I asked why and that was the explanation I got.

I wish that our rush was sponsered. That would have made things so much easier. Thankfully/luckily we had a couple of brothers that worked at a restaurant and got us some discounts on platters. I think we got one for free and two for half price in exchange for passing out menus in the packets on move in day or something like that. It was years ago.

For Pizza?

I mean, pizza's cheap you know. Alot of houses here serve sushi and steak for rushees. (Rush is structured differently)

They did have a lot better food for dinner, they just had some sort of food ordered in as snacks during their mixers (Outback, pizza, etc.)

We don't do the sponsorship thing here either, but it was every single house at UF, so I don't know if their IFC negotiated it or what.

One of our alum owns a pizza place, we have pizza all the damn time.

Indiana State Pikes are sponsored by Monster energy drink. We get about twenty cases a month (600 cans). It goes over very well for Rush and social events. Everyone is pretty jumpy and hopped up on Monster and it keeps everyone alive and well.

Stop living up to your organization's stereotype. Some groups have a stereotype that is charming, the nouveau-planter KA image for instance. The combination of the Jersey shore, Venice Beach and Miami which Pikes for some reason love to cultivate is quite the opposite.

Do you want me to apologize for talking about the subject? Last time I checked, this was to talk about sponsorships, not about fraternity stereotypes that other people build up. Thank you for calling me a rich and snobby fraternity guy, shows how much you know about me...

That's exactly the opposite of what I called you. I was more going for the gelled hair, meat head, club freak when I described Pike's reputation... The other would be much more acceptable.

Back to topic. Obviously this guy is GDI or has something against Pikes.

Sigma Chi and Sig Ep both throw Rock Star Energy Drink parties. They are two of the bigger parties that are thrown at ISU during the year.

Oh and CrackerBarrel, I'm around 280 lbs and a 3.6 cumulative GPA. I don't know one guy in my fraternity at Indiana State that has gelled hair or a meat head. Go watch some more Animal House.

Ok, so in this case the problem isn't Pike, it's ISU. Glad we cleared that up and can continue now.

I just think energy drink sponsorships seem pretty GDI, because, well, energy drinks alone and any alcoholic drink you can make using one are the epitome of GDI.

And you got me brah, I'm totally a GDI. Screw those shaggy haired, polo shirt, croakies and boat shoe wearing southern kids!

:rolleyes:

I just don't understand how having energy drinks as sponsors is a bad thing or in your case, a GDI thing?

Where do you get your sources that make your opinion so high and mighty?

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Oh, I don't know perhaps this video?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JMOh-cul6M

How many of these guys you got runnin round your chapter?

Energy drinks/Alcohol is the absolute antithesis of the wealthy fraternity man. Y'all probably also drink flavored vodka.

edit: Plus you're a pike, how stereotypical. although it's at a northern school so maybe southern pike=normal there.

We are a dry house. We don't have Monster parties, we just have them for people to drink at the house. Do people use the drinks we give them later for alcoholic drinks? Probably. But as a house, we don't throw parties or incorporate the sponsorship with drinking. A lot of guys use them to get themselves motivated to do stuff in the morning (community service, go to class, study, etc). We use most of our Monster when we get together on Saturday mornings for community service, nobody wants to be there and they are all tired and half hungover.

Pikes up here are nowhere near the stereotype that you guys seem to portray. We are a bunch of normal guys. Nowhere near the My New Haircut haha.

That's tolerable I guess. I think energy drinks on their own may be more disgusting than in drinks (which is a hard thing to do) and I still don't think there's anything cool about them, but what you do with them sounds much, much better than it could be. And while a dry house and a lot of community service early in the morning are certainly not my cup of tea, congratulations on not fitting in lock step with the reputation Pike seems to cultivate most places.

The most important thing to take from this.

Once again, CB, I think you wildly overestimate how many people are impressed by this or aspire to this.

Chi Psi at UNC threw a party last semester sponsored by an energy drink... Strong chapter at a Southern school.

Because UNC totally counts as a Southern school to begin with.

Chi Psi isn't even Big 4 there, Phi Delt, Deke, Beta and Phi Gam are.

Not a strong chapter. My sorority friends at UNC say you go Big 4 or don't go Greek at all. And yes, I'm pretty sure we've covered this before.

Even though UNC is not a SEC school, it still has the same southern atmosphere of born and bred southern belles and inherent "frattiness" that is so essential to the SEC schools (though obviously not as cutthroat & competitive as far as recruitment goes and the overwhelming focus on a GLO for any kind of social life). Obviously you've never been to Chapel Hill if you think otherwise. North Carolina sure as hell isn't anything but "South" in terms of geographically, historically, and its various traditions. Its flagship school reflects it.

haha & the big 4 IS big 4 merely because of tradition- nothing else, really, these days though they are very strong chapters. In terms of popularity with sorority girls, I can think of a handle of other fraternities outside the big four that are more frequent hang outs for the born and breed sorority girls. There are several chapters outside the Big 4 that are strong and there is a vibrant Greek social scene outside the big 4. Greek life doesn't revolve around the upper-tier fraternities at Carolina. Who would've thought? :rolleyes: