Note: Please refrain from holding community days in the Iowa City/Coralville area

<aside> 📢 Shorter email: Use this template if you know the owner or a manager at the business

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Hello (representative name) / To whom it may concern:

My name is (your name), and I am a student involved in the University of Iowa Dance Marathon. If you are not familiar with this organization, Dance Marathon raises money year-round to financially and emotionally support patients and families impacted by pediatric cancer being treated at the University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital. As a participant in this organization, I am personally fundraising to help Dance Marathon succeed in our goal of ensuring the wellbeing of these families who are going through what no family should have to go through.

I am reaching out to you today to see if you would be interested in supporting this mission by hosting a community day at your business. A community day is where a representative in our organization (such as myself) organizes a day with a business where a percentage of proceeds from a specified day and/or time frame goes towards Dance Marathon. If you are interested in giving to this cause, I would love to meet to talk in further detail about setting up a community day at (business). We can discuss dates, time frame, percentage of proceeds, where the money goes, and how we will advertise this community day.

Dance Marathon is a 501(c)3 organization. All donations are tax-deductible.

Please feel free to reply to this email or visit our website at dancemarathon.uiowa.edu with any questions. I look forward to hearing from you soon!

Sincerely,

(Your name)

(Your email)

(Your phone number)

**See the Email signature example page on how to make a good email signature.

<aside> 📢 Longer template: this is a more professional and more detailed email to send if you do not know someone who works there

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Dear (representative name) / To whom it may concern:

My name is (your name) and I am (your year in school) student at the University of Iowa. My time at Iowa has given me the opportunity to become involved with a non-profit student organization called Dance Marathon. Our mission is to provide financial and emotional support for the children fighting pediatric cancer and their families at the University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital. These families that fight cancer day after day continuously inspire me. I am contacting you today to ask you to join our fight and help me in supporting these families battling this terrible disease.