“We’re obviously in the homestretch here,” Flotilla committee chairman Pres Davenport said during its Sept. 22 meeting.
With the North Carolina Holiday Flotilla two months away, Davenport said he has been working diligently to recruit more sponsors.
“We’ve had some success there,” he said. “I’ve been doing some outreach and the goal is to get an additional $2,000, $3,000 or maybe even $5,000 more, so we can lock up a prize. …We’ve still got some work to do but we’ve made up a good bit of ground.”
The committee is still searching for a grand sponsor for the event. Committee members discussed giving companies the option to co-sponsor the grand prize.
Davenport said he had several ideas for speeding up the process of recruiting sponsors, which he would like to implement during 2015.
Sean Ahlum, board member of the Cape Fear chapter of Surfrider Foundation, attended the meeting to share his thoughts and confirm Surfrider’s involvement in the cleanup process.
“They reassured that they are on board for helping to clean up and helping promote the flotilla through some Surfrider channels,” Davenport said.
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