Having enjoyed a meteoric rise, CompuBotics Incorporated prides itself on its commitment to employees who receive generous benefits and are steeped in a supportive corporate culture. This core value may have contributed to the company’s high ranking among Fortune magazine’s 50 Best Startups. The software company wants to be known for its community involvement and corporate social responsibility. This is why, like most successful companies, CompuBotics receives many requests for sponsorships of charity events and community projects. True to its innovative spirit, the software company has streamlined the application process by providing an online sponsorship request form on its website. You work in Corporate Affairs/Community Relations at CompuBotics and periodically help decide which nonprofits obtain support. Just yesterday you received an e-mail from Walk With Love, the largest fundraising vehicle of the Dr. Susan Love Foundation. Since 2008, Walk With Love has raised millions of dollars to support groundbreaking breast cancer research. Both Charity Navigator and Medical News Today ranked the Dr. Susan Love Foundation the top breast cancer research organization in the United States for its stewardship of resources and impact. The organization hosts annual fundraising walks in Pacific Palisades, Palm Springs, and Santa Barbara, California. The walk organizers would like CompuBotics to sponsor its fundraising walks in California taking place in less than a month, three events potentially drawing at least 6,000 participants. Your company is already funding several cancer charities and has a policy of sponsoring many causes. Naturally, no corporate giving program has infinite funds, nor can it green-light every request. The team judging the sponsorship entries wants to ensure that each proposal reaches audiences affiliated with CompuBotics. Most important, applicants must submit their requests at least six weeks before the event.

Your Task.

As a junior staff member in Corporate Affairs/Community Relations, write an e-mail to Walk With Love event director Michelle Chang (mchang@wwl.org) refusing her initial request and explaining the CompuBotics sponsorship philosophy and submission rules.