As the Director of Finance and Marketing of my college's orientation camp,

I was responsible in fundraising from various Singapore government

agencies and private sectors. The funding aimed to reduce the 400
participants' camp fee so that the camp will be an inclusive program
where all students, regardless of their economic background, can
participate. Moreover, I was in charge in marketing the orientation
program to potential partners from the private sectors to obtain
sponsorship in kind in order to increase the value of the orientation
program to college freshmen and to achieve cost efficiencies. After 6
months of many cold calls, applications, negotiations and program
adjustment to suit the various benefactors' interests, I was able to secure
a funding up to S$18000 from a Singapore government agency. Also, I
secured S$200000 sponsorship-in-kind from the private sector. The
government funding that I secured helped each participants to save S$40
in fee. On top of that, they received a welcome bag that was valued at
S$500 each. The program was a huge success and my team received a
request from an American high school to advise the school on revamping
its orientation program.
As the Vice President of Finance of NOC Alumni Association, my task was
to appropriate funds to various activities that are geared to foster
professional networks. NOC is NUS' premiere entrepreneurship program
with partners from various world-acclaimed universities such as Stanford
and New York University in the US, KTH Stockholm in Sweden, Tsinghua
and Fudan University in China. At the start of my term, my team planned a
lineup of events that will increase the visibility of the association and how
it can foster professional network amongst many young entrepreneurs in
Singapore. I was in charge of the biggest function, NOC networking
cocktail dinner, that was attended by 180 leading and budding Singapore
start-ups' founders with Charles Adler, the founder of Kick Starter as the
honored guest of the evening. The event went well and I received many
compliments from attendees. The event successfully linked up many start
up founders with one another so that they can refine their ideas and get
help in expanding their business. Moreover, many guests were able to
gain important knowledge about crowdfunding from Kick Starters founder
to help them in financing their business and ideas. The fund that the
association had was well spent and we received a one-time grant from
NUS because of the success of the dinner to encourage us to do more to
foster professional network amongst young entrepreneurs in Singapore.