For schools, teams and booster clubs
Let the shirts pay for themselves
The reason a school does not order spirit wear is almost never that nobody wants it. It is that there is no line in the budget for it. Sponsorship removes that line entirely: local businesses buy a spot on the back of the shirt, and their money covers the whole run.
How it works
We build your sponsorship page
Your artwork, your tiers, your athletic director’s name on it. One link, which you send to local businesses by email or text. There is nothing for a sponsor to install and no account to make.
Businesses claim a slot
They pick a tier and put their details in. The page shows how many slots are left, which does more work than any amount of persuasion: a wall that is filling up sells the slots that remain.
You invoice them directly
The money is your fundraising and it goes to you. We never touch it, hold it, or take a cut of it. You see every commitment as it lands.
We print once the run is covered
We tell you what the run costs before you start selling, and the page tracks sponsorship against that number. Nothing goes to press on a hope.
Why businesses say yes
A banner hangs in one gym and is seen by the people already in that gym. A shirt is worn to school, to work, to the store and to every away game, by somebody who chose to put it on. Spread across a run of a thousand or two, a sponsorship costs a business well under a dollar a shirt, which is cheaper per impression than almost anything else a local advertiser can buy.
It also reads differently. A logo on the back of a school shirt is not an ad the community was sold; it is a business that paid for something the community wanted. That is worth more to a local trade than the placement is.
What you should know before you start
- Bigger runs are much cheaper per shirt. Screens stop being charged over a hundred pieces, and the per-piece price keeps falling from there. A school-wide run is often less than twice the cost of a team-sized one.
- Sell more slots than you need. A ladder that exactly covers the print leaves nothing for the program, and one sponsor changing their mind puts you underwater.
- Artwork has to hold the logos. If you are selling sixteen slots, the back of the shirt has to be drawn for sixteen. This is the thing most likely to hold a campaign up, so settle it first.
- Leave real time for the run. A large two-sided job is not a four-day turnaround. We will give you a date from the printer before you promise one to anybody.
Start a campaign
Tell us the program, roughly how many shirts, and what you would want on them. We will come back with what the run costs and a tier structure that covers it.