In the sponsor team of Lasekaitsepäev, every member, basically just chose the companies they themselves wanted to write to. Our main objective was to get gift cards and similar prizes to give to the volunteers, but we also needed for example food for catering on the day. To sum up, I wrote to 16 different companies from restaurants to theatres. Now that some weeks have passed, I have gotten positive results from 4 companies, who have been kind enough to support us with gift cards. Also, negotiations are still going on with one company.
I think one new thing I would not have expected and now know is that when people do not write you back, writing to them again really does help. When I bugged people for the second time after a couple of weeks, I got many new responses I would not otherwise have gotten and also sponsorships I would not otherwise have gotten! Also, I now just had time practicing writing formal emails, which has already helped me, because I also had to write some formal emails to get information for my extended essay.
