kids.now

You want to make a tangible difference where you live, work and play. What better way than to champion a charity that supports local youth and schools? Make meaningful connections. Be recognized as a community builder. Play an active role in creating, inspiring, and motivating tomorrow's leaders. It's all part of being a kids.now sponsor.

Your Community Needs kids.now

• Resource-Poor Neighbourhoods: Many schools and communities lack the financial support and infrastructure required to offer programs like ours that help youth navigate a challenging period in their lives.  Your support makes a real and meaningful difference by funding much-needed programs in underserved communities.
• Peer Pressure: Youth are heavily influenced by peers and media when making choices.  They often fall prey to the lure of gangs, drugs and crime.  Your support allows kids to access caring role models and practical tools that help them make positive choices.
• Leadership Potential: Today’s disenfranchised youth is tomorrow’s employee, citizen and success story. Your support bridges the gap between “lost” and “leader.”
• Program Gaps: The middle childhood years (ages 6-12) are known as the “forgotten years of childhood,” seldom receiving the benefits of public policy and  funding that are offered to early childhood or the teen years.  Your support shines a spotlight on this issue and addresses critical funding shortfalls for youth development programs.

Six Sponsor Selling Points

1. Give Where You Live: Make a difference in your own backyard by supporting a program that positively impacts local youth, families, and schools.  You’ll even contribute to the development of your own employees, who will reap the proven benefits of improved communications skills and leadership abilities, if they volunteer as kids.now coach-mentors.
2. Be A Big Fish: We’re selective in our partnerships, preferring  quality, long-term partnerships over quantity.  Here’s your chance to take a leadership position in an emerging issue – youth development - rather than just being one of “a cast of thousand” sponsors.  You’ll also be able to measure in a very tangible way the difference your specific contribution makes. 
3. Grab More Eyeballs: Our audience is your demographic.  Get your name, logo and product in the hands of key targets – Moms, youth,  families, schools - through sampling and recognition in our print collateral, advertising and website.
4. Community Connections: If you have local branches or satellite offices, a partnership with kids.now allows your team in the field to take ownership by supporting a local kids.now program in their community, so your charitable partnership is not just perceived as a “head office initiative.”
5. Be The Launchpad: For many kids.now students, our program is the jumping off point to bigger things - be it exploring higher education, taking a calculated risk, or just trying something new.  Your financial support can be the launchpad to help kids in your community achieve their full potential.
6. Think Ink: Your sponsorship of kids.now has all the makings of a good news story: Corporate leader contributes to enhancing local schools through a program that helps transform today’s youth into tomorrow’s leaders.  Youth development issues are very media-friendly.  We can help you communicate your support of this important issue in a way that results in positive media coverage.  

Ready to make a difference? Drop Alex a line or give her a call at 416.236.2368.