Program Sponsorship
Become a PROGRAM SPONSOR and keep a CHILD SAFE and SHELTERED.
Program sponsors support one of three unique crisis programs which bring shelter and safety to women, children and low-income individuals. These core programs are SAFE, C.A.P.P. and HOME. Program sponsors impact our community by reducing violence, improving the quality of housing, and protecting children from abuse and neglect. Here is a brief description of each program and just a few of the things your program sponsorship will do for those in need.
SAFE – Safe at Home Project
SAFE prevents domestic violence by assisting battered women and their children to obtain protective orders from the court. These protective orders help victims secure their homes and protect their children from the batterer. This remedy can also give a victim access to money (child support) to buy food and necessities, access to health coverage through the batterer and even possession of a family vehicle to get children to school/work.
SAFE services are unique in this county. Unlike other social services, SAFE offers victims permanent solutions to safety, shelter and economic issues. An uncontroverted national domestic violence study concluded that legal services programs like SAFE are the ONLY social services that prevent domestic violence because they provide victims with permanent solutions to end the violence. SAFE serves over 600 women and 1,000 children annually.
Your Impact as a SAFE Sponsor
- You will protect 600 women and over 1,000 children from physical abuse
- You will help 300 women and 500 children preserve their homes
- You will give 100 women and 200 children access to food and medical care
C.A.P.P – Child Abuse Prevention Project
C.A.P.P. Protects abused and neglected children by helping them stabilize in loving homes with non-parental caregivers. C.A.P.P. helps caregivers obtain guardianships which give them the legal right to house the child, limit contact with an abusive parent, make legal decisions for the at risk child and obtain certain benefits on their behalf. Children assisted by Legal Aid's Child Abuse Prevention Project in 2007 escaped physical and emotional abuse, homelessness, parental abandonment, truancy, lack of medical care and exposure to drugs.
There are no other C.A.P.P. services in Sonoma County. C.A.P.P. has long term affects on our community as well as the children it assists. C.A.P.P. helps children stabilize outside of the Foster Care system. California's system is the worst and most overburdened system in the country. In 2002, it failed to pass all 6 Federal standards established to ensure children are kept safe. Every year, over 11,000 children are re-victimized after C.P.S. involvement and over 450 children are abused while in foster care. C.A.P.P. Serves 100 families and 150 abused children annually.
Your Impact as a C.A.P.P. Sponsor
- You will help 200 children escape physical, sexual, and emotional abuse
- You will prevent 200 children from being exposed to substance abuse and mental illness
- You will ensure that 100 children have sufficient food & medical care
- You will help 200 children avoid potential placement in Foster Care
HOME – Homeless Advocacy Project
HOME helps prevent hundreds of children and families from becoming homeless. It also ensures that low-income people have safe and habitable places to live. HOME helps tenants who are being unlawfully evicted assert defenses such as retaliation and discrimination. It helps families living with toxic mold, roach infestations, raw sewage and other conditions that threaten their health, assert their right to live in rental housing that does not make them sick. HOME aids over 200 families and over 400 individuals annually.
Your Impact as a HOME Sponsor
- You will help 250 families and individuals avoid homelessness
- You will protect 100 children from exposure to unsanitary housing
- You will improve the quality and safety of low-income housing in Sonoma County
Annual Sponsorship Amounts & Benefits
Gold Level
- Full-page thank you ad in Press Democrat with color photos.
- 10 x10 Appreciation Plaque for your office.
- Sponsorship signage at Legal Aid.
- Program “Ownership”: The sponsored program will be named after your organization and will carry this name in all Legal Aid written materials for the duration of the sponsorship. E.G.: “The Henry Winkler SAFE Program.”
- Sponsor name/logo on Legal Aid letterhead and all Legal Aid correspondence: Legal Aid has a donor database of over 1,200 local and legal professionals. Legal Aid regularly sends event announcements, donor solicitations, program updates and other correspondence to these businesses. Your logo and adopted program name will appear on all correspondence.
- Sponsor signage at all Legal Aid events.
- A free round of Golf for 4 and recognition at our annual Golf Tournament.
- Contribution: Sole Sponsorship of your adopted program: $20k
Silver Level
- 1/2-page thank you ad in Press Democrat with color photos.
- 10 x10 Appreciation Plaque for your office.
- Sponsorship signage at Legal Aid.
- Program “Co-Ownership”: The sponsored program will be named after you and your co-sponsor organization and will carry these names in all Legal Aid written materials for the duration of the sponsorship. E.G.: “The Henry Winkler and Jane Fonda SAFE Program.”
- Sponsor name/logo on Legal Aid letterhead and all Legal Aid correspondence: Legal Aid has a donor database of over 1,200 local business and legal professionals. Legal Aid regularly sends event announcements, donor solicitations, program updates and other correspondence to these businesses. Your logo and adopted program name will appear on all correspondence.
- Sponsor signage at all Legal Aid events.
- A free round of Golf for 4 and recognition at our annual Golf Tournament.
- Contribution: Shared Sponsorship with one other sponsor: $10k
Bronze Level
- 1/4-page thank you ad in Press Democrat with color photos.
- 10 x10 Appreciation Plaque for your office.
- Sponsorship signage at Legal Aid.
- Sponsor name/logo on Legal Aid letterhead and all Legal Aid correspondence: Legal Aid has a donor database of over 1,200 local business and legal professionals. Legal Aid regularly sends event announcements, donor solicitations, program updates and other correspondence to these businesses. Your logo and adopted program name will appear on all correspondence.
- Sponsor signage at all Legal Aid events.
- A free round of Golf for 4 and recognition at our annual Golf Tournament.
- Contribution: Shared Sponsorship with two other sponsors: $5k
All donations are 100% tax deductible. Sponsorship payments can be made in monthly installments.