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Sponsors | Surge Pathways Mentorship

Sponsors

Support Surge Pathways Mentorship by funding student access, closing scholarship gaps, and helping schools and families connect young men to a structured 90-day mentorship cycle built around discipline, leadership, and personal growth.

Surge Pathways Mentorship Sponsor Opportunities

Fund Student Access and Scholarship Support

Surge Pathways Mentorship uses a shared funding model to keep the program accessible for families while preserving clear participation pathways for schools, courts, and community partners. Sponsorship helps close the scholarship gap for parent-referred and school-referred students, making it possible for more young men to participate in a structured 12-week mentorship cycle without placing heavy financial pressure on households.

Why sponsorship matters

Sponsorship directly expands access to mentorship. Every sponsored dollar helps close the gap between what families or schools can contribute and the full $750 value of one 90-day participant placement. This allows Surge Pathways Mentorship to remain mission-driven, accessible, and structured for long-term impact.

$750 Full participant value for one 90-day mentorship cycle
$150 Parent entry contribution for a family-referred participant
$300 School partnership contribution for a school-referred participant

What sponsor support can help fund

  • Scholarship gap support for parent-referred participants needing donor-backed access
  • Scholarship gap support for school-referred students after the school contribution is applied
  • Expansion of student access across multiple 90-day mentorship cohorts each year
  • Reliable delivery of a structured virtual mentorship cycle built around leadership, accountability, and growth
Sponsorship Levels

Close the Scholarship Gap

Sponsorship levels are built around real participation gaps in the Surge Pathways Mentorship model. Donors, churches, businesses, and community partners can sponsor one student, multiple students, or full cohorts depending on the access pathway they want to support.

Parent Access Sponsor

One Family-Referred Student

Supports the scholarship gap for one participant whose family enters the program directly at the $150 family contribution level.

  • Closes the remaining $600 gap for one parent-referred participant
  • Strong fit for individual sponsors and small donors
  • Directly supports access for a family needing affordable entry

School Cohort Sponsor

15-Student School Cohort

Designed for partners who want to help fund an entire school-referred mentorship cohort by closing the scholarship gap after school contributions are applied.

  • Supports a full 15-student school-referred cohort
  • Closes the $6,750 scholarship gap for that cohort
  • Strong fit for foundations, businesses, and church partnerships

Annual Access Partner

Full-Year Scholarship Support

Built for major donors and strategic partners who want to fund scholarship access across a full year of school-referred participation cycles.

  • Supports four 15-student school-referred cycles annually
  • Closes the full-year $27,000 scholarship gap
  • Ideal for long-term and high-impact partnership support

How sponsorship works

The sponsor process is built to be simple, clear, and aligned with the program funding model. Once a sponsor expresses interest, we identify whether the support will be directed toward parent access, school scholarship gaps, cohort sponsorship, or annual partnership support.

1

Choose a pathway

Select the sponsorship level or student access pathway that best fits your goals and giving capacity.

2

Confirm the gap

We identify whether your support is funding one participant, a school-referred student, or a full cohort gap.

3

Activate support

Your contribution is assigned to approved student access and scholarship support priorities.

4

Expand access

Your sponsorship helps more young men enter and complete a structured 90-day mentorship cycle.

Frequently asked questions

Can I sponsor one school-referred student? Yes. One of the clearest options is closing the $450 scholarship gap for a single school-referred participant.
Can I support a family-referred student instead? Yes. A parent access sponsorship closes the $600 gap for a participant whose family contributes the $150 entry amount.
Can businesses and churches sponsor full cohorts? Yes. Cohort-level sponsorship is available for organizations that want to fund access for multiple students at once.
Can support be directed to general scholarship capacity? Yes. Sponsorship can be allocated to the general scholarship pool used to expand access where the need is greatest.

Invest in access. Strengthen the cycle.

Surge Pathways Mentorship is building a structured environment where young men can grow through guidance, discipline, leadership, life skills, and opportunity. Sponsors make that access more realistic for families, more practical for schools, and more sustainable for a mission-driven program built around real community need.