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Make an investment in our collective future
Hope Starts Here is driving towards ensuring every Detroit family with young children has access to the programs and services they need to help their children thrive from birth to age 8, the most critical stage of a child’s development.
As a Detroit-based business, you can give back to the community, increase employee engagement, and foster meaningful partnerships by supporting the mission of Hope Starts Here.

Become a Corporate Sponsor
For an annual contribution, your organization becomes a Corporate Champion for Detroit’s Children.
Your tax-deductible donation to Hope Starts Here helps to fulfill our core mission of providing tools and resources to parents and caregivers to ensure our city’s children get a healthy start in life and lays a foundation for future success in school and life. It’s quick, easy and secure.
By becoming a sponsor of Hope Starts Here, you will join a group of Detroiters who are working to ensure our children get what they need. It will demonstrate your commitment to prioritizing early childhood development as you work to create the workforce of the future while ensuring a vital benefit for the one you employ today.
Corporate Sponsorship Levels
Corporate Champion
($5,000)
- Corporate logo/with link on Hope Starts Here webpage
- Recognition in boilerplate of press releases
- Specialized message in one email communication
- Acknowledgment on social media
- Opportunity to provide promotional information
- Advertisements in electronic communication
Supporting Champion
($2,500)
- Corporate logo/with link on Hope Starts Here webpage
- Acknowledgment on social media
- Recognition in boilerplate of press releases
Contributing Champion
($750)
- Specialized message in one email communication
- Advertisements in electronic communication
Benefactor Champion
($500)
- Specialized message in one email communication
- Opportunity to provide promotional information
Advocate
($250)
- Advertisements in electronic communication
Establish an Employee Matching Program
- An employee makes a contribution to Hope Starts Here
- Employee submits matching gift request to his/her employer
- Matching gift is disbursed
Become a Fundraiser
- Ask your employees to donate to Hope Starts Here in honor of an employee’s birthday, wedding, anniversary, birth of a child, graduation or a special life event.
- Create a Facebook Fundraiser Campaign
- Create a friendly employee/business competition between business units/departments within your company.
If you do, Hope Starts Here will showcase your employees in action on our social media platforms.
Become A Corporate Champion
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When you give to Hope Starts Here, your tax-deductible donation builds a healthier start for children from birth to age 8 laying a foundation for successful futures in both school and life.
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