WORKFORCE CHAMPIONS
One Sponsorship. 365 Days a Year. Spark the Future & So Much More!
Workforce Champions gives industry partners a meaningful way to invest in and support the next generation of skilled talent, while building brand visibility and community goodwill through a sustained, high-profile partnership with CTE Foundation.
One Shared Identity with Three Public Promises
Investment Impact
Workforce Champions offers industry partners a meaningful return on their investment: elevated visibility as a workforce leader, deeper connections to emerging talent, and measurable outcomes that show the real difference your support makes year over year.
Student Success
Flexible, unrestricted support that meets students’ most urgent and evolving needs, year after year. Rather than funding a single fixed initiative, partners fuel a responsive resource that adapts to whatever challenges our schools and students face, ensuring help arrives exactly where and when it’s needed most.
A Public Movement
Workforce Champions transforms individual sponsorships into a shared, public cause. Through branding, signature events, and storytelling that spotlights both students and partners, this pillar builds visible momentum around workforce development that Sonoma County can rally behind.
BECOME A WORKFORCE CHAMPION
Everything You Gain - 365 Days a Year.
CTE Foundation offers a range of benefits from digital exposure and brand visibility to experiential opportunities. Your brand reaches our engaged local community of 6,800+ supporters across email, social media, and more.
Looking for Spark the Future! sponsorship benefits? Each sponsorship level includes benefits & opportunities for Spark the Future!
Questions about tiers? Contact Malloy Schaffner at mschaffner@ctesonomacounty.org. Multi-year partnerships are available.
Questions about tiers? Contact Malloy Schaffner at mschaffner@ctesonomacounty.org. Custom and multi-year partnerships are available.
From Pledge to Partnership in Four Steps
Pledge
Choose your tier and submit the pledge form. Takes about three minutes – no payment required at this stage.
Timing: Today
Confirm
You receive a tier-specific welcome email laying out everything included, plus an invoice and a request for your logo and brand assets.
Timing: Within 1 Business Day
Activate
Once payment is received, your benefits go live – starting with the Digital Champions Map, your directory listing, your badge and window decal, and your Brag Kit.
Timing: Within 5 Business Days of Payment
Champion
Your recognition rolls out across the full year: newsletters, National CTE Month, workshops, and Spark the Future on Thursday, May 6.
Timing: All Year, 365 Days a Year
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
No, but Workforce Champions includes Spark the Future sponsorship benefits and opportunities.
Spark the Future and the Student Showcase remain our flagship celebration – the 10th Anniversary is Thursday, May 6. Workforce Champions wraps a full year of partnership around that night.
Your partnership year begins on the date your payment is received and runs twelve months from there. Event benefits attach to the next Spark the Future that falls inside that window.
Payment plans/installments are available for the $5,999 level and above. Please inquire if this is something of interest.
Workforce Champions support is intentionally flexible and unrestricted so it can meet the most urgent needs.
Workforce Ally at $1,499/yr is built for exactly that – full recognition as a Workforce Champion, on the map, in the directory, and in the window.
Malloy Schaffner, mschaffner@ctesonomacounty.org.
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BECOME A WORKFORCE CHAMPION TODAY.
Start making a difference. Your annual support fuels student success today and after graduation.