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 · paddles in kind from CAS Events, logo on every one
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.
Ten levels
What comes with each.
From $1,000 to $35,000. Every level through Sideline Supporter includes a table of ten. The four premium levels seat twelve: your ten plus two VIP guests placed alongside your people. Rising Star and above include your choice of a gala activation or an award presentation.
The four premium levels
Presenting rights across the evening and category exclusivity. Two activations, one of them marquee, plus an award presentation. Premium table for twelve, eight VIP passes, a full-page ad, year-round recognition and right of first refusal for 2028.
Title rights across the evening and a speaking moment during the program. Two activations, or one plus an award. Premium table for twelve, eight VIP passes, a full-page ad and right of first refusal for 2028.
Feature rights in the program, on screen and from the stage. One activation plus an award presentation, a premium table for twelve, six VIP passes and a half-page ad.
Underwrites the Change Make*Hers Hall of Fame, a permanent display launching this year and travelling with the Foundation afterwards. Every past honoree and their guest seated at your table, hosted by you, with your own premium table of ten alongside. Twenty-two seats, four VIP passes, recognition on the display and the Hall of Fame class photograph.
And six more
On stage, plus an activation or an award presentation. Half-page ad and six VIP passes.
An activation or an award presentation, a quarter-page ad and four VIP passes.
Where the choice of a gala activation or an award presentation starts. Quarter-page ad and four VIP passes.
Five young people seated with your people rather than somewhere else. One activation, an eighth-page ad and two VIP passes.
A table of ten and two VIP passes, with recognition on the night, in the program and in the coverage that follows.
Seats five student-athletes among the guests, with recognition from the stage. At $1,000 for five seats it is by some distance the cheapest transformative thing on this page.
Two dates decide what your sponsorship looks like. December 12 is the artwork deadline for the printed program: confirm by then and you are in print. January 15 is when sponsorship closes, or earlier if a level fills. Commitments after December 12 still receive full on-screen, stage, website and activation recognition, but printed placement cannot be guaranteed.
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.
Program advertising on its own
Send a logo and your text and we will lay it out at no charge.
- Full page$1,500Included with Hall of Fame and MVP
- Half page$850Included with All-Star and Team Captain
- Quarter page$500Included with Starter and Rising Star
- Eighth page$300Included with Impact Player
Looking for something that runs all year rather than one evening? A strategic partnership funds the infrastructure instead: the iWIN Play Index™, IX Grants, camps and clinics, the Changemakers Circuit and the Networking Collective, with your name on a program for the full term. Separate rate card, separate conversation, and plenty of organizations do both.
Getting started
Three ways, all of them short.
Nothing here is a commitment. Tell us roughly what you are considering and we will come back with what your number funds and which activations are still open, before anybody signs anything.
Online takes about two minutes. By email, put your organization and “2027” in the subject line. By phone, 208.477.1522, and fifteen minutes is usually enough.
Corporate budgets close in the autumn and the program goes to press in the new year, so earlier genuinely is better. Artwork for the printed program is due December 12; sponsorship closes January 15.
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.
The Change Make*Hers Gala powered by iWIN Sports · The Taylor LEAD Foundation · 501(c)(3) · EIN 99-2465893