Forty-two things to put your name on. Not one of them is a logo slide.
February 10, 2027 · Boise Centre West. Sponsorship for the second Change Make*Hers Gala is open now.
Before the pricing
Three hundred and eight guests, and forty student-athletes seated among them.
Three hundred and eight tickets sold out, and forty-plus student-athletes were seated among them as guests of the Foundation. Getting on for three hundred and fifty people in the room.
This is not a reach buy. It is a dense room of Idaho decision-makers — and it is the only evening in the state where that room and a group of high school athletes are at the same tables.
Your people meet the second group. That is the part sponsors describe afterwards, and it is not something a logo on a stadium sign can do.
Where the money actually goes, stated plainly. Gala proceeds fund iWIN Sports — IX Grants that pay a registration fee, camps, clinics, the Changemakers Circuit — and the operations that deliver them. At our size, “operations” means one salary and the cost of running a statewide program with forty unpaid people around it.
We are working toward the point where every gala dollar goes directly to grants, programs and scholarships. The endowed scholarship fund is how we get there: as it grows it carries more of the fixed cost, and the gala carries less. We would rather tell you that now than have you discover it in a Form 990.
And you will be able to say what it funded. We publish a quarterly impact ledger, and sponsors are named against the specific components they funded — a grant cohort, a camp cycle, a scholarship — rather than against a total. When somebody in your organization asks in June what the sponsorship bought, that is the answer.
Activations
Twelve of them, photographed.
Every gala has tiers. Very few can show you a room where a sponsor’s name is on something a guest touches, wears, stands in front of or takes home. These ten are the ones we have pictures of — four were unsponsored in 2026 and are open now.
Step & Repeat
Every guest photographed in front of your mark on the way in, and every one of those photographs posted that night. The highest-volume placement of the evening.
2026 · Saint Alphonsus
The Scoreboard
The evening runs on basketball time — tip-off, four quarters, halftime — and the scoreboard keeps the room in it. Named every time the clock moves.
2026 · Saint Alphonsus
Keynote Speaker Presenter
Introducing the person the room came to hear. In 2026 that was Tara VanDerveer, and the introduction is the sentence every reporter in the room writes down.
Unsponsored in 2026
Award presentation
Named from the stage as each award is given, and again in the coverage that follows. Twelve award and honor slots on the 2027 slate.
2026 · Six presenters in 2026
The paddle raise
Not numbered cards. Pickleball rackets, in three hundred hands, raised all evening. In 2026 guests handed them back at the door — the goal for 2027 is for every guest to take theirs home, which turns a bidding paddle into a gift three hundred people carry out of the building.
2026 · CAS Events
The Champagne Wall
A wall of glasses guests collect on the way in, and one of the most photographed things in the building. Your name sits where three hundred cameras are already pointing.
Unsponsored in 2026
Table centerpieces
On every table through dinner, then auctioned from the stage. Sponsored once, seen all night, and mentioned again when somebody wins one.
2026 · First Federal Bank
Heat on Your Feet™
Guests swap their shoes for something they can actually dance in. Branded, kept, and worn home — one of those small ideas that changes the shape of an evening.
2026 · KeyBank
The Spirit Tunnel
Guests arrive the way a team does, through a tunnel of noise. It sets the register for the whole night and it is the first thing people mention afterwards.
Unsponsored in 2026
The Pre-Game Reception
The first hour, with live music — where the room fills, the conversations start, and nobody is looking at a stage yet.
Unsponsored in 2026
The VIP Reception
The smaller room before the main one: honorees, keynote, board and the guests you most want your people standing next to.
Unsponsored in 2026
The youth tables
Forty student-athletes seated among the guests rather than watching from somewhere else. Fan Favorite covers five youth seats at $1,000, and this is the one that changes what the evening is — and in 2026 it is what put Ava Johnson in the room with Saint Alphonsus, who hired her five months later.
2026 · Fan Favorite tierThose twelve are the ones we have photographs of. There are forty-two in all — the full list is below, and any of them can be taken standalone or built into a package.
Everything available
Forty-two activations, grouped by where they sit in the night.
Standalone or built into a tier. Some are marquee, some are small and specific — and the small specific ones are often the best value, because a guest touches them without noticing they were sponsored at all.
The clock
The evening runs on basketball time. Eight segments, each with a presenting partner named as it begins.
- Tip-Off Presenting Partner
- 1st Quarter Presenting Partner
- 2nd Quarter Presenting Partner
- Halftime Presenting Partner
- 3rd Quarter Presenting Partner
- 4th Quarter Presenting Partner
- Overtime Presenting Partner
Arrival
Everything between the car park and the table — and every one of these is touched by all three hundred guests.
- Red Carpet
- Step & Repeat Photo Station
- Student-Athlete Spirit Tunnel
- Coat Check
- Parking
- iWIN Elevators
- Volunteer Attire
Receptions & hospitality
The hours where the room actually talks to each other.
- Cocktail Reception — open bar, signature cocktails and mocktails, appetizers
- VIP Reception Presenting Sponsor
- Champagne Wall
- Wine Wall
- Table Wine Provider — two bottles per table
- Table Centerpieces
The auction
Where the money is actually raised, and where a sponsor is named repeatedly.
- Paddle Raise — pickleball rackets
- Dessert Dash
Media & recognition
What travels beyond the room.
- Post-Game Press Conference — with Step & Repeat
- Thank You LED Wall
- Event Program Presenting Sponsor
- Change Make*Hers Live Fan Zone
- “Heat on Your Feet” Sneaker Cam
- Media Car Wash
- Swag Bags
- Live Music / DJ Presenter
Awards & stage
Named from the stage as the award is given, and again in the coverage that follows. Award categories vary year to year with the honorees selected.
- Change Make*Hers Hall of Fame
- The Legend Award
- The Courage to Lead Award
- The Trailblazer Award
- IX Stories Honor
- Team of Allies Award
- The Alice & Charles Taylor Scholar-Athlete of the Year Award
- iWIN Athlete of the Year
- Executive Game-Changer
- Corporate Champion
- Keynote Speaker Presenter
- Event Panel Presenter
None of this is a fixed menu. We build custom activations with sponsors around what their brand actually does — a few of the best things on the list above started as somebody’s idea rather than ours. If you can picture something that fits your company and fits this room, tell us and we will make it exist.
The clock is the one nobody else can offer. The evening genuinely runs on basketball time — tip-off, four quarters, halftime, overtime — so there are eight segments, each with a presenting partner named as it begins. That is eight moments where a company is announced to a full room, and it exists because the event was designed that way rather than themed that way afterwards.
Tiers
Nine levels, from $1,000 to $35,000. Every level includes a table of ten; the top three are premium tables.
MVP is the presenting partner — one a year, named alongside the gala itself. Rising Star and above include a custom activation or an award presentation. Fan Favorite puts five young people in the room and is recognized from the stage.
Named the way the evening is. Every tier includes recognition on the night, in the program and in the coverage that follows — and every one can carry an activation from the list above.
Named alongside the gala itself, with the Hall of Fame award and premier placement throughout.
Presenting-level recognition across the evening, a marquee activation and stage time.
Premier placement, an award presentation and a table.
A named activation, an award presentation and a table.
A named activation and a table, with recognition throughout.
An activation or award sponsorship, with recognition through the evening.
Activation sponsorship and recognition on the night and in the program.
Recognition on the night, in the program and in the coverage that follows.
Seats a group of student-athletes among the guests. The cheapest transformative thing on this page.
Award presentation
Every award is presented by a sponsor, named from the stage as it is given and again in the coverage that follows. Six were given in 2026 — presented by Saint Alphonsus, Trak Software, J.R. Simplot Company, TOK Commercial, Stoltz Marketing Group and You Are More. The 2027 slate runs to twelve, including the new Hall of Fame.
Award categories vary year to year with the honorees selected.
Youth tables — Fan Favorite, $1,000
Seats a group of student-athletes among the guests rather than watching from somewhere else. In 2026 these were taken by individuals and a clinic, not corporations — which is worth knowing, because at $1,000 for five seats it is by some distance the cheapest transformative thing on this page.
Getting started
Tell us roughly what you are considering.
Not a commitment. The form takes two minutes, and we come back with what your number would actually fund and which activations are still open — before anybody signs anything.
Corporate budgets close in the autumn, and printed materials go to press in the new year. Earlier genuinely is better — and the MVP position is a single slot.
Boise Centre West
Tip-off is February 10, 2027.
The first one sold out. Sponsorship is how the second one seats more student-athletes than the first — which is the only number any of us are actually trying to move.
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