For sponsors

Your commitment becomes visits to local businesses and money for local causes.

A banner gets seen. A campaign gets joined. Residents visit the businesses in your market, choose which local causes your commitment supports, and see your organization behind both — and you receive a report of exactly what happened.

See the product on a phone How a pilot is structured

What a sponsorship usually buys

A check, a banner, a thank-you. Then nothing.

That is where most community sponsorships stop. A GivePass campaign is one people actively join: your commitment reaches participating businesses, local causes, and the residents moving between them.

Support local businesses.

Give people a reason to visit without asking merchants to fund discounts.

Fund local causes.

Participants choose where sponsor-funded contributions are directed.

Be present in the community.

Your organization appears at participating locations and throughout the campaign experience.

Receive a defensible report.

See verified visits, participation, business involvement, and dollars directed.

How funding works

Set the commitment before the campaign begins.

You establish the maximum amount the campaign can direct to local causes. Participants unlock portions of that commitment by reaching visit milestones. Any amount not unlocked by the end of the campaign is not owed.

GivePass never takes custody of these funds. At settlement, your organization pays each participating cause directly using the records GivePass provides.

What it costs

Campaigns start at $10,500 in total commitment — a $7,000 charitable pool and a $3,500 campaign fee, quoted separately and invoiced separately. At least two thirds of what you commit goes to local causes, at every campaign size.

The fee never reduces the pool. Larger pools carry a proportionally smaller fee; we quote each campaign on the pool and the community it covers.

Where your name appears

Real placements, not a logo in a footer

Your organization appears throughout the participant experience, not only on an event banner or sponsor page.

The participant passport

Named on every resident’s home screen throughout the campaign

The progress ladder

Credited as participants move toward the next milestone

The community total

Named beside the running total every cause is generating

Who sponsors a campaign

Build local business relationships by supporting the communities around them.

For a bank or credit union, GivePass is a credible reason to engage local merchants: your institution becomes the sponsor supporting visits to their businesses and funding causes in their community, across the markets you serve.

Health systems

Community benefit reporting needs evidence of spend in the towns you serve. A campaign produces verified activity, named local causes and a settlement record.

Universities and colleges

Town and gown runs on whether the surrounding business district feels invested in. This sends students and staff into it, and funds causes in it, with your name on the report.

Large local employers

Your workforce already lives in these towns. A campaign gives them a reason to spend time in local businesses, and gives you something measurable to show for it.

One organization runs the campaign. The pool behind it can be funded by several — a chamber can run a campaign that a local employer and a bank pay for together. The pool belongs to the campaign, not to any one funder, and GivePass never divides visits or dollars per sponsor.

Locally operated

The campaign is led by an organization the community already knows.

A chamber, Main Street organization, BID, or other community partner recruits participating businesses, coordinates local causes, and manages the campaign on the ground. GivePass provides the platform, campaign materials, integrity controls, and reporting.

The sponsor funds the program without asking its own team to recruit businesses or operate it day to day. Separating the sponsor from local campaign operations also gives the results greater credibility with participating businesses and community stakeholders.