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Sponsor a program

Your business on the back of the card

A season sponsorship puts your mark and a QR offer on every card in a program’s set — cards families keep, trade and pin to refrigerators for years. It is a school-sanctioned fundraiser, not an ad buy, and it reports back numbers you can act on.

$250–750
Per season
1
Season invoice
70%
Students + Programs

One card, two faces: the student’s season on the front, your mark and offer on the back.

The positioning

A fundraiser, not an ad buy

That distinction is not marketing language. It is the reason this is allowed to exist at a school at all, and it sets the rules for what a sponsorship can and cannot include.

What you are buying

A fundraiser you can expense

You are buying a season sponsorship from a school program under a district agreement, with an invoice and a receipt to match.

A mark on a kept object

Trading cards do not get thrown away. Your name sits on the back of something a family keeps in a drawer for a decade.

A measurable offer

The QR coupon reports opens, redemptions and a redemption rate — the number that tells you whether to renew.

What you are not buying

Not an influencer deal

You are not buying a student's endorsement. Students do not post for you, tag you or promote you.

Not a data purchase

No student contact details, no family mailing list, no buyer identities. Ever, at any tier.

Not a message channel

There is no way for a sponsor to contact a student through the platform. Everything routes through the program.

Season packages

Three tiers, one season each

Priced per program, per season. Nothing renews on its own — at the end of a season you get the numbers and decide.

Bronze

A name on the set, for the business that just wants to be there.

$250per season, per program

  • Your mark on the back of every card in one program's set
  • Listed on the program's storefront page
  • Season impression and scan reporting

Follows the same split as every card · 70% to students + programs

Sponsor at Bronze
Most sponsors

Silver

The mark plus a QR offer families can actually redeem.

$500per season, per program

  • Everything in Bronze
  • A QR coupon on the card back, redeemable all season
  • Coupon opens, redemptions and redemption rate reported
  • Placement at the program's game-day table

Follows the same split as every card · 70% to students + programs

Sponsor at Silver

Gold

Top placement, and first refusal on next season.

$750per season, per program

  • Everything in Silver
  • Premium position on the card back and storefront
  • Named on senior-night bundles
  • First refusal on the same slot next season

Follows the same split as every card · 70% to students + programs

Sponsor at Gold
Placement

Four places your mark travels

A season sponsorship is not one placement. The same mark is carried on the printed card, on every student profile the QR opens, at the program’s game-day table, and on the season paperwork you file.

  • Card backEvery card in the program's set, printed for keeps
  • Digital profileThe page each QR scan opens, all season
  • Game-day tableSignage where the program sells in person
  • Season invoiceItemised, downloadable, expensable
Fig. A — Mark placement
A sponsor’s mark appears on the printed card back, the digital profile a QR scan opens, game-day signage and the season invoice.
What comes back

A number you can renew on

Most local sponsorship is bought on goodwill and measured on nothing. This one reports a funnel, and the last step in it — redemption rate — is the only figure that answers whether it worked.

Fig. B — Season funnel
Shape, not promise: the bars show how a season funnel narrows, and your dashboard fills them with your own numbers. Nobody can quote you a redemption rate before your offer exists.
Reported every season
Card impressions
Cards in circulation carrying your mark
QR scans
Scans that opened your offer
Coupon opens
Offers viewed in full
Redemptions
Offers actually used in your business
Redemption rate
The renewal number — redemptions over opens
Students supported
How many members your season contribution reached

Plus the invoice and receipt for the season, downloadable whenever your bookkeeper asks for them.

Where your money goes

The same split as every card

A sponsorship is not a separate pot of money with its own rules. It runs through the same ledger as a $10.00 card: the largest share to the program, a share to the students whose cards carry your mark, and the platform’s share covering design, printing and compliance. The program director, the parents and you are all reading the same figures.

Rounding is absorbed by the platform, never taken out of a student’s share.

70%to students
+ programs
  • $4.00Program
  • $3.00Student
  • $3.00Platform

70% to Students + Programs

Getting started

Four steps, then a season

  1. Pick a program and a tier

    Choose the program you want to back and the level that fits. One season, one invoice, no monthly billing.

  2. Send your mark and your offer

    A logo file and one line of offer copy. We set it on the card back and send you a proof before anything prints.

  3. The season runs

    Cards print and circulate, the QR opens your offer, and families redeem it locally through the whole season.

  4. Read the numbers, renew or don't

    Your dashboard reports scans, opens, redemptions and redemption rate, with the invoice to download. Renewal is a decision, not a rollover.

The rules you sponsor under

Written for the students first

These constraints are the reason a district signs, which makes them the reason your mark is allowed on a school card at all. Worth reading before you buy, not after.

No student contact information

Sponsors never receive names, addresses, phone numbers or email addresses. Anything a sponsor needs to raise goes platform → program → parent.

Privacy-first names

Cards carry first name and last initial unless a parent has chosen otherwise. Your mark sits beside a student, never on top of their details.

Every creative is reviewed

Marks and offers are reviewed against school standards before print. A program can decline a sponsor, and the school's marks stay licensed.

One-tap issue reporting

Wrong logo, misprint or a creative you want pulled — report it and it routes straight to platform admin, not into a support queue.

Questions

Before you commit

Ask anything that is not here — a person answers, usually the same day.

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What do I actually get for the money?

Your mark on the back of every card in a program's set for the season, a QR offer at Silver and above, placement on the program's storefront, and a season report. The card is a physical object families keep — the impression does not expire when a campaign budget does.

Where does my sponsorship go?

Into the same split as everything else on the platform: the largest share to the program, a share to the students, and the platform's share covers design, printing and compliance. The numbers are identical on every screen.

Can I sponsor more than one program?

Yes. Most local businesses start with one program they already have a connection to — a family member in the band, a team they have supported for years — and add others the following season.

Do I get to approve how my logo looks?

Yes. Nothing prints without a proof going back to you, and if a printed card ever carries a wrong or misplaced mark, report it and we reprint.

Is this tax deductible?

That depends on your business and the program's status, and we are not the right people to advise on it. You will receive an itemized invoice and receipt to give to whoever is.

One season, one invoice

Back the program down the road

Pick the program, pick a tier, send your mark. Your name rides on every card a family keeps from that season.