fund raising for mit sloan school dear vince , please find the following description of the program that i would like to raise additional funding for . i will follow up today with a phone call to answer any questions you may have . as always we appreciate your time and support . thanks , jozef the eastern european students at mit sloan school of management are preparing an eastern european week to be held in march 2001 . the one - week long program will familiarize our classmates with many of the countries that are going through the post communist transformation . as you well know , eastern europe has a great deal of opportunities for many companies . unfortunately , it also presents many obstacles that make most of the opportunities difficult to capture . because we believe that we can help to eliminate some of these obstacles , we want to bring the eastern european experience to mit sloan school of management . familiarizing the future business leaders with the countries is only one step toward reforming eastern europe , but we believe it is worth our time and effort . during the week , we plan to bring series of lectures addressing the business environment in eastern europe . we want to emphasize especially the success stories from eastern europe . such companies as enron , volkswagen , exxonmobil , gm , and ge have entered the eastern european market and show commitment to stay in it . in at least one panel discussion with academic experts and industry participants we hope to let everyone know that eastern europe is a real place for business . in addition to the educational activities , we are preparing number of cultural events that will introduce the culture of this area . the scope of our program depends greatly on the funds we will be able to raise from our sponsors . in return , we plan to advertise our sponsors in every activity we will do . we will make banners and any other appropriate advertising as desired by the sponsor . should a sponsor be willing to send a speaker for the panel discussion or to give a speech / lecture we would appreciate the enrichment to our program . the advertising will reach nearly 700 sloan students and faculty . in addition , the advertising will reach all newly admitted students , as they will visit our campus for the admit day ( an official program to sell our school to the admitted students ) .