Here are some great websites that show us how we can do fundraising and getting grants for our robotics team:
http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/ftc/growThe first website has a load of fundraising ideas and grants that could benefit our club greatly. I think the National Science Foundation grant, and the Intel grant are good leads for us, considering we're a non-profit, private, independent robotics club. The second link goes to the various Lego grants, which is relevant to what we do. Lastly, there is a grant for "graduates" of the FLL program (Darren, Matthew, Nikhil, and others).