Become a Corporate Sponsor

The SCORE Foundation, the philanthropic arm of SCORE, offers highly visible and impactful sponsorship opportunities for corporations, foundations and other institutions to support the SCORE mission and programs. Through your financial backing, sponsorship ensures that SCORE’s mentors and programs reach every community where entrepreneurs are at work in launching, operating and growing their business.

Your organization’s role as a sponsor delivers brand visibility and thought leadership to this important business sector driving our economy, while at the same time showcasing your company and products to small business owners everywhere.

For more information on how you can establish a one-time or multi-year gift, please contact Liz.Sara@SCOREfoundation.org

SCORE’s National Impact – 2022

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Extensive Reach Into the Small Business Sector

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Selected Sponsorship Packages:

Thought Leadership Package

This grant to the SCORE Foundation underscores our commitment to supporting and increasing the ability of diverse entrepreneurs to make an impact on our economy by starting and operating companies that serve communities everywhere.

Shellie Peters

Head of charitable giving at Global Atlantic

We are dedicated to advancing the overall financial success of small businesses, especially women-owned businesses. We are very pleased to engage as a SCORE Foundation sponsor for the first time to contribute our support.

Beth Wood

Chief Marketing Officer, Principal

Sponsor expert content and educational programs and resources serving thousands of small business owners and entrepreneurs in the SCORE network on specific subjects ranging from accounting and finance to social media marketing or through supporting overall programs targeting in these underserved entrepreneur communities:

  • Women Entrepreneurs Hub
  • Black Entrepreneurs Hub
  • Veteran Entrepreneurs Hub
  • Asian Entrepreneurs Hub
  • Hispanic Entrepreneur Hub

Your organization’s role in underwriting will be recognized through:

Selected Benefits Include:
  • attribution in SCORE eNews and other SCORE newsletters;
  • acknowledgement on SCORE and Foundation website sponsor pages;
  • with co-branding on sponsored white papers, eGuides and other expert content;
  • recognition and by invitations to attend small business roundtables and pitch contests;
  • acknowledgement in national and/or local SCORE webinars and on-demand courses;
  • a SCORE Foundation press release announcing your Sponsorship

Small Business Connection Package

Every day, SCORE’s network of entrepreneurs and small business owners opt-in to receive educational information from our sponsors about services and solutions that can help grow their business. They do this through the live webinars they watch, in the on-demand courses they access and in the local programs they attend.

Selected Benefits Include:
  • the opt-in list of small business owners participating in national or local webinars, or downloading pre-recorded webinars who want to hear about your products and services;
  • the opt-in list of small business owners attending local chapter events such as Roundtables or Pitch Competitions who want to learn more about your solutions that can drive their success;
  • opt-in E-News subscribers who are interested in your a co-branded and co-produced article, white paper or eGuide.

Supporting Main Street businesses constitutes a significant partof our bank’s focus and provides a perfect fit with the mission of the SCORE Foundation.

James Capolongo

Head of Deposits at Live Oak Bank

Brand and Product Alignment Package

If your company’s products and services align with the needs of helping small business owners operate and grow their company, your sponsorship adds value to the services delivered by SCORE to this growing sector.

You can choose a national sponsorship directed to all founders, choose to support programming for an underserved sector or select a specific subject matter focus which aligns with your company’s line of business. In addition, you can choose to concentrate your Sponsorship in a particular geographic region through any of the 250 SCORE chapters or to focus your Sponsorship nationwide.

Selected Benefits Include:
  • recognition in SCORE Foundation press release announcing your Sponsorship
  • acknowledgement through company profile and logo placed on SCORE and Foundation website pages
  • credit in SCORE annual report with profile and logo
  • appreciation on subject-specific webinars, on-demand courses and specialized content
  • recognition in SCORE digital publications such as ENews and the Volunteer e-publication

We are pleased to be able to educate small business owners on how to keep their digital information secure and the necessary steps to prevent cyber threats through our SCORE Foundation Sponsorship. Through the informative articles and webinars we sponsor, we help founders protect their business.

Mitchell Chang

VP Corporate Social Responsibility and Education , | Trend Micro

Mentor Matching Package

Corporations, foundations and non-profit organizations can support entrepreneurship and small business success within their constituencies through the Mentor Matching sponsor package. Organizations can directly refer customers, prospects, suppliers, partners and other constituents directly to SCORE to be matched with a volunteer expert mentor. Additionally, these sponsors then receive regular reports on thosementor matches and the number of completed mentor sessions.

The SCORE mentor network features 10,000 volunteer business executives who provide free advice and coaching to founders through all stages of their small business journey. Last year, more than 326,000 mentoring sessions took place across the country.

Selected Benefits Include:
  • online, dedicated mentor request form
  • special tagging to associate mentees to your organization for tracking
  • regular progress updates on mentor matches and completed sessions
  • recognition of sponsorship in SCORE Foundation press release and on website
  • inclusion in SCORE annual report and profile on score.org

Connecting former NFL players to a SCORE expert and mentor who can guide them along that path from vision to reality can mean the difference between setbacks or business success.

Kelly Mertens

Executive Director of The Trust (Powered by the NFL Players Association.)

Our partnership with the SCORE Foundation through ‘Let’s Get Started’ allows small business self-starters to take advantage of the highly-regarded free mentoring and programs available through SCORE.

Sharon Peters

Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer for Charter

For more information on sponsorships, send an email to
info@SCOREfoundation.org

285,014SCORE mentoring sessions in 2023

274,692attendees at local
SCORE workshops in 2023

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