¶ … Advocate Outline Recruit corporate partners to donate for every member who "like" the website or facebook site.

Identify potential businesses for solicitation.

Search for gay and lesbian friendly businesses who advertise online.

Develop a prospect list

Develop an oral spiel for presentation

Include mission statement

Include benefits to the prospect's business

Include specific request

Contact all prospects via telephone

Present oral spiel

Ask for commitment

Keep a log of all prospects that were not available via telephone

Keep a log of all contributors

Develop a written spiel for presentation

Send a mailout to all prospects that were not available via telephone.

Maintain a log of those businesses targeted by mailout

Follow up on all attempted and completed contacts

Send thank you letters with confirmation of the business' commitment

Make additional phone calls to all businesses whom have yet to respond to either written or oral attempts to contact.

Begin to Advocate

Note: The cultivation of corporate sponsorship will be a continuous project. The following is designed as an initial "push" to capture as many donations as possible with the least expense. All of the potential donors have been targeted because they have self identified as gay and lesbian friendly and would benefit from the additional exposure,

List of gay and lesbian friendly businesses and phone numbers identified online:

Business Name

Proprietor

Phone Number or Address

same
250-381-9626 Canada

Dfmi Designs

unknown

614-370-3202 Canada

Flersdirect.com unknown

800-836-2993 USA

Garden Valley Ranch unknown

707-792-0377 USA

GayImmigration.ca unknown

888-922-9495 Canada

Globally Boundless unknown

800-665-1321 Canada

Localadlink.com unknown

480-720-2069 Canada

Toronto Women's Bookstore unknown

416-922-8744 Canada

Oral Presentation

Hello. My name is ____. Because your company self identified as gay and lesbian friendly we decided to contact you about an interesting initiative that we are undertaking. As we are sure you are aware, it is difficult to reach all persons who may be interested in gay and lesbian businesses and issues. This is because the various forums and media outlets are not interconnected. This is a major impediment in the socio/political sphere as well as the business spectrum. Intuitively, we sensed that what is needed to surmount this obstacle is a means to unite all the individual groups, businesses, and persons who have an interest in the goings on in the gay and lesbian community. Therefore, we developed an online clearinghouse whereby all interested…