Corporate sponsorship
What a sponsor pays for, what they get, and what your finance department will ask for.
KARA is small, and its costs are mostly other people’s time. A sponsor is not buying a logo on a page. They are paying for the part of this work that cannot be volunteered.
What sponsorship pays for
- The toolkits. Free to read, and free to print and teach from, which only works because nobody is charged for them. Somebody has to be.
- The research platform. The cited library, the state records, and the methodology behind them. What the platform is.
- Getting volunteers to the courts. The CASA Google Ad Grant initiative puts search advertising behind local CASA programmes that are short of guardians ad litem.
- Financial literacy. The FinLit programme, for young people ageing out of care with no financial footing.
What a sponsor gets
Straight answers, and credit where it is due. Sponsors are named on partners and supporters and in the footer of every page on this site. Beyond that, what a sponsorship looks like is a conversation rather than a tier sheet: KARA is too small to pretend it has packages, and a company with a specific programme in mind is usually asking about something more particular than a banner.
In-kind counts. Search advertising, cloud infrastructure, video production and student research partnerships are all in the current mix, and each one replaced a cost KARA would otherwise be paying in cash.
What your finance department will want
Kids At Risk Action is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit, EIN 51-0570258, at 910 First Street So #4091, Hopkins, MN 55343. The Form 990 filings are public and linked from financials and accountability, along with what KARA spends and on what. Contributions are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
Start the conversation
Write to info@invisiblechildren.org with what your company does and what you are trying to fund. A named person answers; there is no intake queue. If you would rather see the numbers before you write, start with financials and impact.