If you see as a pure-as the driven-snow place, where corporate sponsors are never, school sports, you take from your blinders. The major shoe companies are on even the smallest schools showers, and my oldest son as they, North Carolina and Duke were high school a basketball court with the name of the the mobile phone company has the alumnus Dwyane Wade on the payroll has.
Schools are like everyone else these days – take money, where it, before everything you get with budget cuts present a painful problem. However recently announced deal struck me as clearly, inasmuch as it is charitable at first glance seems a sponsorship deal - but is not really as a non-profit, it looks like.
Ray Skillman, who nine car dealership in Indianapolis area ("where we stack ' em Deep… and ' sell 'em cheap"), the payment is $1.1 million to cover the costs of the pay-to-play fees by in Center Grove School District in Greenwood, Indiana Center Grove, like many circles, established initiated fees for students play sports, to come the Athletic Department to its tax rounds. Skillman of donation covers $210,000 per year worth of sports fees over the next five years, just about the expectations of Center Grove to increase.
However, Ray Skillman, who lives in the school district, has only by the kindness of his heart. By the associated press:
In return, Skillman, advertising signs on several track schools, receives book scoreboards and concession areas.
It is wonderful that Skillman is offering to cover the pay for play fees. But not like Skillman life within testify, Center Grove just poor city. Skillman $ 1.1 million would have even greater impact in a more troubled or the money would have been limited to families below a specific income level, and gone back further.
But Skillman not grow up to several car dealers have not knowing, such as in customer favor. He now has a solid car buying demographic happy grateful for saves them money, which now, oh, may be a new Kia or Mustang Cobra Jet. As for the school district no wonder that it is trying to find more sponsors to cover the costs of the school. The Center Grove School District is perhaps a little bit of Ray Skillman about ''em deep stacks and apply learn 'em cheap.
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