The Sponsorship Solution for Charity Events

Accelerist’s custom software solution helps you connect corporate sponsors with your charitable events.

Download Event Evolution – Digital Integration & Performance in Sponsorship

Find out why hundreds of leading charitable events throughout the U.S. and Canada trust Accelerist to connect with corporate sponsors.​

Corporations Want More Out of Charity Event Sponsorships

Corporate Sponsorship contributes to 30% of a charity event’s overall revenue.With the changing landscape of corporate engagement with purpose, it’s important to have the right tools to help you provide the most value to your sponsors.

Employees Want New Ways to Engage with Purpose

  • Only 8% of employees want to participate in group volunteer activities

Companies Are Giving Smarter and More Integrated

  • 86% of companies are integrating their marketing, CSR, DEI and HR investments​

Companies Need to See a Return On Investment ​

  • 75% of companies sponsoring events expect more than 5:1 of event ROI

How Accelerist works…

Determine your parameters and fundraising goals, and the Accelerist platform will help you find, activate and delight your corporate sponsors​.

Target

Target sponsors by postal code, brand love and brand cause alignment​

Match

Match with right-fit sponsors & automate your communications to them​

Build

Create and value sponsorship assets, packages and matrices​

Engage

Launch event-specific and year-round corporate team micro-sites​

Report

Track, value & report on sponsorship placement and fulfillment​

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Target Your Audience and Sponsors

Know Your Audience:

  • Gather demographic, psychographic, geographic, brand affinity, cause affinity, influencer and media consumption and buying behavior data on your constituent​

  • Understand motivations, needs and opportunities for greater activation and ongoing stewardship throughout the year

Attract New Sponsors:

  • Identify which participants are ripe for acquisition and sponsorship, including their specific demographic, psychographic, geographic, brand affinity, cause affinity, influencer and media consumption and buying behaviors​

  • Understand the favorite brands of your participants and which brands love your mission ​

Match & Connect with Sponsors

Find shared-value prospects and right-fit decision makers

  • Score sponsorship opportunities based on customizable criteria and search functionality

  • Find sponsorship decision makers through Accelerist’s database of over 100K validated corporate contacts

  • Leverage best-in-class pitch templates to automate sponsorship outreach with performance tracking capabilities​

We had 25% fewer participants than last year and we raised 10% more in gross revenue – $1.59M compared to $1.44M.

Glen Deutscher , VP of Marketing and Fundraising
Cerebral Palsy Alliance Research Foundation

Convert More Prospects Into Sponsors

Leverage Tested Content and Automation to Move Sponsor Prospects Through Your Funnel

  • Build Sponsor Prospect Funnel

    • Input your sponsorship goals and identify prospect needs to support them
    • Manage your team’s prospecting against funnel goals for seamless execution​
  • Customized Outreach Content

    • Tested content templates ensure your outreach messages resonate with prospective sponsors
    • Edit and create your own content templates
    • Content flexibility to focus on different types of sponsor appeals
  • Scale Sponsor Outreach

    • Connect with sponsor prospects at scale with automated outreach campaigns
    • Multiple touch automation helps you move sponsors through your funnel and confirm more meetings
    • Schedule campaigns ahead of time so you can focus more time on building relationships
    • Track and retarget interested prospects to convert more sponsors​

Additional Modules

Expand and Measure Corporate Sponsorships

High Touch Lead Generation

With this feature, Accelerist will serve as an outsourced lead generation team to boost sponsor revenue and raise your brand awareness to ideal prospects.

Lead Generation

  • Access your target personas and analyze key markets​

  • Identify companies interested in your mission and events​

  • Search for required contacts (decision-makers)

  • Validate selected contacts​

Appointment Setting

  • Write outreach content​

  • Customized outreach masked as your organization​

  • Qualification and negotiation with each prospect

  • Arrange calls/meetings for your team​

Anti Spam

  • Domain clearance​

  • DNS checkout​

  • Blacklist overview and clearance​

  • Deliverability check and reporting​

  • Spam-filters overview

Expected Return

  • Up to 1,000 new validated and qualified contacts each month

  • 5 – 15 qualified meetings set/month

  • 30% conversion from meeting to official sponsor

  • 4x total return on your investment

Build Your Sponsor Package​

Many organizations are under valuing their sponsorship packages by up to 33%. Accelerist can help you quantify your event’s value to corporate sponsors​.

  • Place value on your brand and expertise as a nonprofit

  • Identify your minimum threshold, overall asset value, potential value and top areas for growth

  • Take the guesswork out of partnership pricing with precise and accurate valuation of any event type

  • Create asset matrices for multiple events and geographic locations.

Engage Corporate Teams

Turnkey Corporate Team Microsites:

  • Turnkey, user-friendly and customizable corporate team page​

  • Co-branded microsite, multiple calls-to-action, optimized fundraising, content blocks and customized omnichannel communications to drive adoption​

  • Seamless team fundraising, one-time or recurring giving and payroll deduction​

Omnichannel Toolkits and Sales Enablement:

  • Sales enablement materials and training sessions ensure your sponsorship team is targeting the right workforces and nails their unique value proposition​

  • Corporate Team and Employee engagement toolkits are custom branded to help your sponsors communicate and amplify fundraising​

Measure and Report Sponsorships

Our solutions offer turnkey sponsorship reporting to ensure high sponsor ROI​. Save 20 hours+ per month with more efficient stewardship and reporting​, and raise more for your cause and events!

Automate Sponsor Fulfillment

Track Sponsorship Activations​

Value Partner Return on Investment

Simplified Reporting​ Process

Our 90+ corporate sponsors are asking us to measure their investments and be able to report back to them as a form of stewardship. Through Accelerist, we measure social influences, how many people are talking about the sponsorship, and other meaningful data points. Our sponsors love it.

Clark Sweat , Chief Revenue Officer

Explore Our Packages to Find Your Perfect Fit

Starter

$249

per month, billed annually

Get Started
  • 3 Prospect Personas
  • 500 Contacts
  • Custom Content Templates
  • Unlimited Template Creation
  • 3 Primary Campaigns
  • 3 Retarget Campaigns
Plus

$499

per month, billed annually

Get Started
  • 5 Prospect Personas
  • 1000 Contacts
  • Custom Content Templates
  • Unlimited Template Creation
  • 5 Primary Campaigns
  • 5 Retarget Campaigns
  • 2 Prospect Research Seats
Pro

$999

per month, billed annually

Get Started
  • 5 Prospect Personas
  • 5000 Contacts
  • Custom Content Templates
  • Unlimited Template Creation
  • 10 Primary Campaigns
  • 10 Retarget Campaigns
  • Unlimited Prospect Research Seats
Enterprise

Contact us for custom pricing.

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Add-on modules and services Available
  • Training
  • CRM Integration
  • Audience Segment Analysis
  • Asset Valuation
  • Consumer Fundraising
  • Employee Fundraising
  • Impact Reporting
  • Additional Lead Channels

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