Neutral acknowledgment
Sponsors are recognized for support without paid targeting claims.
Sponsor change where it matters most: your community.
Choose the causes you care about and share where your organization is based. Your sponsor dollars follow the community vote each cycle, funding the top strategy within your selected causes.
Sponsor-ready support model
Cause-aligned supportZIP to country profiles
Share how your organization is based
Tell us the factual home or profile location for your organization. This helps us review neutral acknowledgment; it is not a menu of paid placement products.
ZIP profile
Neighborhood businesses or local organizations
$100–$500
per cycle
- Choose one or more causes to sponsor
- Share the home ZIP for your sponsor profile
- Acknowledgment may appear on cause pages or the sponsor directory
City profile
City-based businesses or regional shops
$250–$1,000
per cycle
- Choose one or more causes to sponsor
- Share the home city for your sponsor profile
- Acknowledgment may appear on cause pages or the sponsor directory
Metro profile
Regional brands or multi-location services
Metro = a standard region like Seattle–Tacoma.
$500–$2,500
per cycle
- Choose one or more causes to sponsor
- Share the home metro for your sponsor profile
- Acknowledgment may appear on cause pages or in reporting
State profile
State-based campaigns or large retailers
$1,000–$5,000
per cycle
- Choose one or more causes to sponsor
- Share the home state for your sponsor profile
- Acknowledgment may appear on cause pages or in reporting
Country profile
National brands and foundations
$5,000–$25,000+
per cycle
- Choose one or more causes to sponsor
- Share the country for your sponsor profile
- Acknowledgment may appear on cause pages or in reporting
* Cycle is typically 4 weeks. Budgets shown are suggested support ranges, not recognition weights.
The Path to Support
Three simple steps to start sponsoring
1
Select Causes
Pick the community issues you care about most.
2
Share Location
Tell us where your organization is based and whether you want to support C3, C4, or both.
3
Go Live
After review, eligible support can be acknowledged with neutral sponsor language.
Sponsorship grounded
in your community.
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Share your profile location
Choose the causes you care about and provide the factual home or profile location used for neutral sponsor recognition.
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Be recognized for support
Local recognition is based on your listed home location when that capability is enabled. Sponsorship does not buy geographic delivery or extra rotation.
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Support follows the community vote
Your support funds the top-voted community strategy within the causes you choose. Recognition stays separate from paid reach, ranking, or targeting.
Profile Location
Home location guides
neutral acknowledgment.
State profile
Acknowledgment basis
ZIP profile
Acknowledgment basis
“Your listed profile location can inform acknowledgment. It does not buy delivery, reach, or ranking.”
“Our model keeps sponsor support and public recognition honest: sponsors back community-selected work without buying paid reach or ranking.”
How sponsor recognition works on CrowdFlow
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Current Sponsor
Fremont Brewing
$2,500
Display amount
Sponsors rotate equally in this preview. Display amounts do not change recognition frequency.
Sponsors can be acknowledged on cause pages and in the sponsor directory using neutral support language.
Every dollar you provide follows the community vote for your selected causes, funding the top-voted vetted strategy each cycle.
Recognition preview: Support amounts are display metadata only. They do not create paid targeting, impression guarantees, or higher-frequency rotation.
Sponsors support community choice
Powering your vote
When brands or foundations support a cause, their dollars follow the community vote while public acknowledgment stays separate from paid reach, ranking, or targeting.
Vote-led outcome
Community voting determines the leading strategy each cycle.
Verified sponsors
Sponsor support comes from verified brands and foundations with clear attribution.
Location basis
Local recognition uses a sponsor profile location when that capability is enabled.
Trusted by leading organizations
Frequently asked questions
Yes. You choose one cause or a set of causes. Your dollars then follow the community vote within those causes, with sponsor recognition kept separate from paid targeting.
You can split evenly across causes or allocate by cause. Within each selected cause, dollars follow the community vote each cycle.
Yes. You can support the C3 pool, the C4 pool, or both. The pools stay separate for payment, reporting, and acknowledgments. C4 support is not deductible as a charitable contribution, and sponsor support does not fund PAC activity.
Sponsor dollars go 100% to the top-voted strategy within your selected causes each cycle. We don't take a cut—funds go directly to vetted implementation partners.
Public sponsor recognition is based on the causes you support and approved neutral sponsor copy. Local recognition, when enabled, is based on your listed home or profile location, not paid targeting.
No. Sponsorship is support recognition, not an impressions product or paid audience delivery guarantee. Reporting will stay separate from sponsor ranking or targeting claims.
Fill out the form below. We'll confirm your causes, sponsor profile location, support amount, and billing before anything goes live.
Apply to sponsor
Tell us your business, the causes you want to support, and where your organization is based. We'll also confirm whether your support belongs in the C3 pool, C4 pool, or both before anything goes live.
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