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You can also help, by donating or becoming a Sidewalk Talk DC sponsor. Sidewalk Talk is a nonprofit entity, fiscally sponsored by SocialGood Fund, a 501(c)(3) organization (EIN: 46-1323531). Your donation is 100% tax deductible.
DONATE
We welcome financial contributions in any amount. Wondering how we use your funds? Here are a few ways your donation can support the growth of Sidewalk Talk DC…
$15 Buys One “FREE Listening Here” Laminated Sign
$20 Buys One Listener Their Shirt
$30 Buys 75 “Someone Listened to Me Today” stickers
$35 Buys 100 Informational Postcards With Emergency & Low Cost Mental Health Services
$40 Provides 4 Volunteer Listener Folding Chairs
$200 Provides a complete Listening Location Set –up {chairs, Volunteer shirts, Printed Materals)
$300 Buys Lunch for 15 Volunteers after a City Wide Event
Make a tax deductible donation today via PayPal (a PayPal account is not required).
please be sure to indicate your donation is for Sidewalk Talk DC in the ‘special notes’ when donating via PayPal.
BECOME A SPONSOR
Sponsorship is vital to making Sidewalk Talk an ongoing service to the community and to expand this offering across the DC metro area because what we offer is free to the community and staffed by volunteers. Sponsors help us promote our message, purchase supplies, and train our volunteers.
We’re interested in partnering with organizations and companies that share our values and want to promote our message of listening and community connection. We consider sponsorship a very special relationship with mutual benefit. Not only do we work together to make communities across the DC/MD/VA region better but we will promote your role and your donation is 100% Tax Deductible as Sidewalk Talk is a nonprofit entity fiscally sponsored by SocialGood Fund, a 501(c)(3) organization.
What does my sponsorship pay for?
Sidewalk Talk’s simplicity and bang for the buck is its beauty. We have three costs and the rest is 100% volunteer. High impact for low cost.
- Supplies: Shirts, Chairs, Mental Health Resource Postcards, Signs, Graphics.
- Training: In person and online delivery of listening skills straining at companies, on school campuses and online.
- Administrative Support: All listeners and producers of Sidewalk Talk are volunteers. We have one paid administrative employee mails shirts, keeps our listener database and liability releases in order, manages sponsor relationships and helps keep listening sites in cities staffed.
What are our sponsorship levels?
Traditional Sponsorship Opportunities
$5000 Platinum Sponsorship
- Your logo will be on all Sidewalk Talk DC marketing materials (postcards, signs, website and email).
- Your Logo incorporated into the main Sidewalk Talk logo for one year.
- We craft and disperse a national press release announcing your support.
- We will mention your name in all PR interviews nationwide.
- You will be listed, with your logo, as a platinum sponsor on Sidewalk Talk DC and national Sidewalk Talk website.
$2000 Gold Sponsorship
- Your Logo will be on all Sidewalk Talk DC Materials (postcards, signs, website and email).
- We will craft and disperse a press release announcing your support.
- We will mention your name in all PR interviews in the DC metro area.
- You will be listed, with your logo, as a gold sponsor on our Sidewalk Talk DC and national Sidewalk Talk website.
$1000 Silver Sponsor
- Your Logo will be on all Sidewalk Talk DC “FREE Listening” signs.
- We will craft and disperse a local press release announcing your support.
- You will be listed, with your logo, as a silver sponsor on the Sidewalk Talk DC national Sidewalk Talk website..
$500 Bronze Sponsor
- Your Logo will be on all Sidewalk Talk “FREE Listening” signs in DC.
- We will craft and disperse a press release announcing your support.
- You will be listed, with your logo, as a bronze sponsor on the Sidewalk Talk DC national Sidewalk Talk website.
Creative / Local / In-Kind Sponsorship Opportunities
T-Shirt Sponsor
{$275 for 10 Volunteer t-shirts; in-kind material donations accepted}
- We will include your logo on the back or sleeve of each batch of 10 Volunteer t-shirts you sponsor. {shirts are sponsored in batches of 10, you may provide as many batches as you like}
- You will be listed as a sponsor on the Sidewalk Talk DC website
Listening Event Sponsor
{$200 for a complete Listening set up including: 4 chairs, 3 volunteer t-shirts, postcards, stickers, 3 signs}
- We will include your logo on all resource materials and signage for the Listening Event you sponsor.
- We will announce your support via social media and include your logo on the Listening Event page.
- You will be listed as a sponsor on the Sidewalk Talk DC website.
Print Sponsor
{$100 for 200 postcards, 150 stickers, and 3 signs – in-kind material donations accepted}
- We will include your logo on the batch of postcards and signs you sponsor. {printed materials are sponsored in batches of 10}
- We will announce your support via social media and include your logo on the Listening Event page.
- You will be listed as a location sponsor on the Sidewalk Talk DC website
Promotional Sponsor
{In-Kind Donation to provide print, digital, radio, and/or television promotion or Sidewalk Talk DC}
- We will announce your support via social media and include your logo on the Sidewalk Talk DC website and Facebook page.
- Additional sponsor benefits negotiable based on scope of promotional / PR support and reach of your audience or platform.
Location Sponsor
{In-Kind Donation to provide access to a Listening event venue and promote a Sidewalk Talk DC Listening Event}
- We will craft and disperse a press release announcing your support.
- We will announce your support via social media and include your logo on the Listening Event page.
- You will be listed as a sponsor on the Sidewalk Talk DC website.
What form can my sponsorship donation take?
Sponsors can get involved through a financial donation as listed above and through in-kind donation of goods and/or services. In-kind donations should be focused on our most needed items such as t-shirts for volunteers, printed marketing materials, chairs for listening location set ups, and PR or marketing services.
You may send checks, make stock donations or donate via paypal. All donations go to our fiscal sponsor SocialGood Fund, a 501(c)(3) organization (EIN: 46-1323531).
Send checks to:
SocialGoodFund
PO Box 5473
Richmond, CA 94805
Please be sure to include Sidewalk Talk DC in the check memo
or make your sponsorship donation via credit card using PayPal by clicking the button below.
please be sure to indicate your donation is for Sidewalk Talk DC in the ‘special notes’ when donating via PayPal.
If you prefer to make an in-kind donation of goods or service (e.g. t-shirts, marketing materials, PR services) please
Want to get involved with Sidewalk Talk DC? We need volunteers to become listeners. Someone is waiting to be heard by you.
{We also need volunteers to help with social media, marketing, fundraising, and admin support. If you can help in any of these areas, please come share your talents with us!}

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