Advance your mission area through cost-effective investment.
Your organization was founded with a world-changing idea. That idea is your core, and innovation in your field is essential to keeping your effort relevant and vibrant.
Sponsor a PresenTense Fellow
PresenTense, through its sponsored Summer Institute Chairs, offers a unique philanthropic opportunity to help you advance your organization and your field. The Chair affords a seat in PresenTense’s summer entrepreneur bootcamp for a socially-minded innovator in the field or demographic of your choice. During an intensive six-week period, PresenTense equips that entrepreneur with the tools and ideas they need to realize the success of his or her to success. This entrepreneur leaves PresenTense poised to actualize your shared values, supported by PresenTense’s Venture Development team, and trained in the following areas: vision clarification, strategic assessment and planning, business model development, budgeting, board development, transmedia presentation and project planning, fundraising, and public speaking.
A Sponsor provides that chair’s highly publicized title, and becomes a partner in advancing social entrepreneurship in general, as well as their field in specific. Sponsors get a chance to increase their return on investment in research and development in their field through developing a relationship with a new venture – increasing impact and gaining access to innovators, entrepreneurs and future leaders.
How the Chair Works:
1. Sponsor designates field or demographic of interest, naming the chair.
2. PresenTense and Sponsor work to identify entrepreneurs whose ideas have the potential to disrupt and change the field.
3. PresenTense sorts applications and determines three finalists, presented for consideration of Sponsor. PresenTense and Sponsor agree on Finalist.
4. Fellow admitted to Institute, providing regular updates to Sponsor during course of program on progress of project and lessons learned.
5. Upon program completion, Sponsor can consider three offers to fellow:
a. Merge: If fellow and project is of interest, and fellow is interested, adopt.
b. Recruit: If fellow is of interest, but project is not, hire fellow.
c. Adapt: If project is of interest, but fellow not, adopt project lessons.
6. Sponsor receives access to exclusive internal Institute assessment, reviewing progress made in methodologies and lessons learned.
7. Sponsorship is highlighted in Instituted materials and high-profile showcase.
Why the Chair Works:
1. Enable dollars to go further: Get higher returns to your organization and the field through reduced cost of program development.
2. Try before you buy: By seeing an individual and a project in action, make strategically sound decisions at a comfortable distance.
3. Elite training: Potential partners or employees can receive the highest caliber of training, and are given access to an invaluable, far-reaching network.
Cost of Chair: $15,000USD.
Payment breakdown: $5,000USD at designation of chair; $10,000USD at determination of fellow filling the chair.
To sponsor, contact us at fellowship@presentense.org