Recently: NPBid has recently gained a lot of traction with the project. We have gained connections with the Indiana Pacers, Dick's Sporting Goods, Team Image, and Guedel Apparel. Our items include items such as a Pacer's jersey, some amazing New Palestine athletic gear from Team Image, and many clothing items from Dick's Sporting Goods. We are also progressing in our talks with such UIndy (University of Indianapolis), Ball State, and Hanover University. We are still emailing athletic directors and university counselors, asking them to help us with this project. Guedel Apparel: Over the past week, my group and I received a unique opportunity to have a partnership with Guedel Apparel this week. I called Mr. Guedel last week to ask if he would be able to help donate to our cause, but instead, he gave us an even better deal. He said for the week of 10/15/18 - 10/22/18 we could receive 15% of the sales on his online store. This was an amazing opportunity for us and Guedel Apparel, because in the past three days the company has made over $1,000, so we would get around $150 for our project! He even made us a promotional ad for us to display to get the word out! By the end of the week, we are hoping to have made around $200 from Guedel Apparel. These are our sales as of 10/17/18: And this was the ad he created for us to promote: Dick's Sporting Goods: When we were brainstorming companies to try to call, we deiced to try to reach out to Dick's Sporting Goods, since there was a store close to us. We thought it would be a long shot for us to receive anything, but they actually helped us greatly. After going through the corporate office, we received a $100 grant from Dick's for us to use for the project. We went to the store and bought 9 items for our project! Below is a picture of our group (far left) holding our grant check. Pacers: Throughout the entirety of our NPBid project, I have been talking to Kyle Kroll, who works for the Indiana Pacers, and he has been helping us with our project. He told us about events that the Pacer's had and that we should go to them to try and receive donations. Matthew True and I went to the Pacer's Fan Jam, an event they have every year which is just a scrimmage, and we met up with Kyle there. He led us to a secret Pacer's garage sale, which had a lot of awesome gear. He ended up giving us 4 Pacers t-shirts, a book about the Pacer's History, and an old Roy Hibbert jersey. This was our first break in the project where we were able to get donations. He is still helping us currently with the project, and he has been a huge help.
Currently: We currently are still reaching out to colleges and organizations about donations, but we are currently at around 26 total items. We are still working on creating a website for the project, which has been our biggest challenge so far. We also activated the NPBid Twitter account, which has given us a lot of traffic and interest.
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