We encourage your corporation or foundation to make a financial contribution to SAGE. Your contribution can be used to:
- Sponsor or co-sponsor a tournament
- Make SAGE startup grants to high school teams
- Sponsor a special competition
- Defray operating costs
- Provide SAGE scholarships for high school students or their university mentors
To see various donor-giving levels, click here.
Individuals can also contribute by joining the SAGE Circle of $1,000. Funds contributed to the SAGE Circle are used to defray the costs the 2009 SAGE USA tournament.
As mentioned above, one way to support SAGE is to sponsor a Special Competition. For example, in California, we will award prize money for the following optional Special Competitions:
- Best New Commercial Entrepreneurship Venture
- Best Continuing Commercial Entrepreneurship Venture
- Best New Social Entrepreneurship Venture
- Best Continuing Social Entrepreneurship Venture
- Best Global Component/Venture
- Best Civic Engagement Activity
- Best Environmental Venture or Activity
- Best SAGE Web Site
As three examples of special competition sponsorships, please follow the following links:
- The Arthur Boschee and Evelyn Ball International Award for Social Enterprise
- The Grossman Family Award for Environmental Stewardship
- The SAGE International Awards for Best Social Enterprises Addressing the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) (also sponsored by the Grossman family)
