Strategic partnerships
Partner with us for the year, not the night.
Our strategic partners fund the work that runs every month: the research, the grants, the camps, the clinics, the speaking and the community that carries a girl from her first season to her first leadership role. None of it depends on an event.
Choose your altitude, then choose your lane.
Two different things
One funds the year. One buys the night.
They are priced separately, sold separately and reported on separately. Plenty of organizations do both, and a few should. But they are not the same product and we would rather you knew which one you are looking at.
A strategic partnership · this page
An annual commitment to the infrastructure: the iWIN Play Index™, IX Grants, camps and clinics, the Changemakers Circuit, the Networking Collective, the Summit, the regional brunches and the LEAD Fellows. Your name sits on a program for the full term, with a powered-by lockup, a lane of the pipeline you own, and reporting on what your money actually funded.
It runs whether or not there is an event. No gala tables, VIP seats or on-stage roles are included at any level, which is deliberate.
A Change Make*Hers Gala sponsorship
One evening in February. Tables, VIP seats, named activations, award presentations, the printed program and the arrivals wall. Its own rate card, its own deadlines, its own conversation. The inaugural gala sold out at 308 guests and raised more than $250,000.
Ten levels, December 12 artwork deadline, sponsorship closes January 15.
Doing both is straightforward and common: partners who fund the year frequently take a table as well. We will keep the two agreements separate so that your acknowledgment letter, your fair market value and your reporting all stay clean.
What makes this different
Three things you cannot buy from most sponsorships.
Reporting you can forward
Our impact ledger is republished every quarter and includes the things we cannot yet claim alongside the things we can. Partners are named against specific components — a grant cohort, a camp cycle, a scholarship — not against a total.
Something your people can use
A Changemakers Circuit session delivered to your staff. Networking Collective memberships for your women’s employee resource group. An employee volunteer day built around a clinic. Benefits your employees actually consume, which is why this often sits in an engagement budget rather than competing with every other logo in marketing.
An asset that outlives the year
The iWIN Play Index™ is the first state-level measure of girls’ sport access in the country, county-scored and published annually. A founding underwriter is credited on every edition of it, permanently. That is a citable, durable thing with your name on it, which a logo on a banner is not.
Partnership levels
Choose your altitude.
Three levels, all annual, all with right of first refusal on renewal and multi-year terms available. What separates them is how much of the portfolio carries your name: all of it, two programs, or one. Then you choose a lane.
- Portfolio-wide presenting lockup across the website, program materials, IX Stories content, earned media and every program site
- Founding underwriter of the iWIN Play Index™, credited on every edition permanently, with first access to findings before publication
- Presenting partner of the iWIN Summit™ and named host of one regional Change Make*Hers Brunch, with a speaking role at each
- Category exclusivity across the portfolio, with any carve-outs named in writing before signature
- A co-produced IX Stories film, yours to use on your own channels for twelve months
- Networking Collective memberships, a mentor bench inside our circles, and a custom statewide employee activation
- Quarterly impact reporting and first right of refusal on renewal
- Two powered-by programs, held for the full term
- Named supporting presence across all remaining programs, the website and the newsletter
- Named partner of the iWIN Summit™ with a session or panel role, plus an invitation to both regional brunches
- Networking Collective memberships, mentor placements, and one employee volunteer day built around a clinic
- One co-created content piece and inclusion in the social campaign around it
- Twice-yearly reporting on both programs, and a partnership review before renewal
- First refusal on your two programs, and first look at Presenting if it comes open
- One powered-by program, held for the full term
- Named supporter lockup and mentions across all five programs, the website, the newsletter and social
- One custom community activation in your market: a clinic, a school assembly or a speaker appearance
- Invitation to both regional brunches and to the iWIN Summit™
- Annual impact summary, and a standing option to scale into a multi-year or higher level
In-kind partnerships and gifts of professional services are welcome and worth a conversation. If none of these structures fits what you had in mind, that is usually a sign we should be talking rather than that you should be scrolling. 208.477.1522.
Then choose your lane
Play, Stay, Lead, Measure.
The lane decides which programs you are pointed at, which audience you reach, and what we report back to you. Presenting Partners reach every lane. Signature and 365 Partners choose.
Cost is the first barrier and the cheapest to remove. Grants, gear, fees and camp scholarships.
iWIN IX Grants · Camps and ClinicsA natural fit for banks and credit unions, retail, utilities and grocers. Anyone whose story is affordability and access.
Between twelve and fourteen, girls leave sport at twice the rate of boys. These are the years belonging decides everything.
Camps and Clinics · The Changemakers CircuitA natural fit for health systems, insurers, sports medicine and nutrition. Anyone whose work is wellbeing.
What sport teaches compounds only if someone helps her use it. Mentorship and the athlete-to-leader transition.
The iWIN Networking Collective · The LEAD FellowsA natural fit for professional services, financial advisors, technology, and employers competing for women in leadership.
The research that tells Idaho the truth about the other three, county by county, published every year.
The iWIN Play Index™ · The iWIN Summit™A natural fit for thought-leadership buyers who want a durable, citable asset carrying their name.
Ninety-four percent of women in C-suite roles played organized sport. Among American children aged 6 to 17, 54.1 percent play a sport: 31.2 percent below the federal poverty level, and 70.2 percent above four times it. A thirty-nine point gap that opens before a girl has decided whether she is an athlete. The distance between a registration fee and a leadership position is shorter than it looks.
What your partnership carries your name on
Five signature statewide programs.
- The iWIN Play Index™The first state-level measure of girls’ sport access in the country, county-scored and published annually.
- iWIN IX GrantsFees, gear, travel and camp scholarships, awarded year-round.
- Camps and ClinicsGame On! Sports Camps 4 Girls and year-round clinics including Throw Like a Girl, aimed squarely at the ages 12 to 14 window.
- The Changemakers CircuitSpeaking and engagement for girls, parents, coaches, educators and corporate audiences.
- The iWIN Networking CollectiveA membership community carrying women from athlete identity into professional identity.
Convenings
The iWIN Summit™ is the annual convening where the Index is released. The Change Make*Hers Brunches are regional gatherings in Sun Valley and Coeur d’Alene.
Cohorts
The LEAD Fellows is our student advisory board: the young people who tell us what we are getting wrong, and the clearest view a partner gets of who this work is for.
Smaller, and not a partnership
Corporate & ERG Champion
Employee development, not philanthropyNeither a strategic partnership nor a gala sponsorship. This one buys your people seats in the iWIN Networking Collective, a membership community for women moving from athlete identity into professional leadership.
- Five to ten transferable memberships, reassignable as your staff changes
- Co-branding within the Collective
- Quarterly reporting on participation and outcomes
- A ready-made programming calendar for a women’s employee resource group
If your organization has a women’s ERG with a budget and a thin calendar, this is usually the easiest thing on this page to get approved. It is employee development rather than philanthropy, and it is priced accordingly.
The standard
What every partner gets, at every level.
Reporting you did not have to ask for
On what your money funded, by program, with counts. Quarterly at the Presenting level, twice yearly at Signature, annually at 365.
Youth protection without exception
Every adult in contact with a participant is background screened and SafeSport certified. There is no version of this we do partially.
Costed honesty
Every figure we publish ties to a real program cost. If we cannot source it, we do not claim it, and the impact ledger says so out loud.
One rule we hold to. Networking Collective members are not solicited for twelve months after joining. They join for community, and we protect that. It costs us a pipeline we could easily use, and it is the reason the community is worth joining in the first place.
We acknowledge every inquiry within 48 hours.
Taking it to your CFO
You are probably not the person who signs this off.
Most people who bring us in have to convince somebody else first. Here is the short version of the case, in the language that tends to work internally.
It is measurable. Reporting attributed to your organization, on specific funded programs rather than a general fund.
It is local. Idaho girls, Idaho schools, Idaho scholars. For a company with an Idaho workforce, that is a story employees recognize rather than one they read about.
It reaches your own people. ERG memberships, a Circuit session for staff, an employee volunteer day at a clinic. Employee engagement and community investment out of the same line.
It is not an event buy. A strategic partnership is year-round infrastructure, which is a different budget conversation from a table at a gala and usually an easier one.
It is a 501(c)(3). EIN 99-2465893. Tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
Start here
Tell us the altitude and the lane.
We will come back inside five business days with a one-page activation plan, a timeline, package pricing and a lean letter of agreement. If you have a number in mind we will tell you straight what it can fund and what it cannot. And if you have a stated commitment to women’s advancement and no obvious way to demonstrate it, that is a conversation worth having too. It does not have to start with a budget.
The Taylor LEAD Foundation · P.O. Box 8744, Boise, ID 83707 · 501(c)(3) · EIN 99-2465893 · hello@taylorleadscholarship.com · 208.477.1522