Local businesses, alumni, and small nonprofits
Supporting Sponsor
$1,000/year
- Logo on the Our Sponsors wall
- Quarterly impact email
- First notice of student showcases
Sponsors
Sponsor the community that prepares students for work.
Students can't develop experience, proof, relationships, and visibility on potential alone. They need opportunities to practice, contribute, and demonstrate what they can do.
Communities cannot rely primarily on attracting talent.
They must become better at developing talent from within.
GradPlanHQ is a professional-development community where students build experience, complete meaningful projects, and turn their work into proof employers can find.
Sponsorship helps make those opportunities more accessible.
Why this matters
A degree still matters. The challenge is helping students demonstrate what they can do with it.
Students invest years in education, but many still graduate without enough experience, proof, relationships, references, or professional visibility.
Service, leadership, community projects, experiential learning, and other forms of applied work can help close that gap.
GradPlanHQ helps students connect those experiences, complete meaningful work, capture proof, and build career momentum.
What sponsors are really supporting
Communities already contain valuable opportunities through volunteer work, Service-Learning, student organizations, community projects, faculty partnerships, local nonprofits, and employer engagement.
Too often, those opportunities remain disconnected, invisible, or underused.
GradPlanHQ helps students find those opportunities, learn from them, complete meaningful work, document their contributions, and turn the experience into proof.
Sponsors help strengthen a community-based talent-development ecosystem by making that process accessible to more students.
What sponsorship supports
Your sponsorship helps lower participation barriers and strengthen the tools and infrastructure that support students.
Sponsorship helps:
- Keep participation affordable
- Maintain the community app, event calendar, and member tools
- Support the free tool library used by students, families, faculty, and community partners
- Expand need-based and sponsored-access opportunities
- Help more students build experience and proof
Student membership revenue supports the people who facilitate the community and Action & Momentum Meetups. Sponsor support helps cover the technology and infrastructure that make broader access possible.
What sponsors get back
Sponsors aren't buying access to students.
They're investing in a stronger talent-development ecosystem.
Students are never required to engage with sponsors.
- No student data is shared
- Sponsors receive aggregated impact reporting
- Sponsors may receive appropriate public recognition
- Sponsorship doesn't purchase recruiting access
- Sponsorship doesn't influence hiring decisions
Students gain more opportunities to build experience and proof.
Communities strengthen their talent pipelines.
Employers benefit from graduates who can show clearer proof of what they can do.
Sponsor tiers
Pick the level that fits your organization.
Employers and community partners with hiring needs
Lead Sponsor
$3,000/year
- Everything in Supporting Sponsor
- A co-branded project prompt
- A named monthly meetup theme
Organizations that want to cover the full technology cost
Talent Development Partner
$10,000/year
- Covers the full annual technology contracts
- Annual impact report
- Early notice of public student projects that invite collaboration
Research context
Research has documented the growth of organizations that use ordinary technology, virtual meetings, and matching to help students gain experience and professional connections.
The larger challenge remains access. Many students are still expected to connect education, experience, and employment on their own.
Source: Richard Garrett, "Virtual Connection: The Rise of Experiential Learning Companies," Encoura Eduventures Research, 2020. Read the article.
Other ways to help
Advisory Board
For people who'd rather contribute expertise, relationships, or strategic guidance.
Learn About the Advisory Board →Sponsored Chapters
Sponsors may also help make a GradPlanHQ campus chapter accessible to more students. A chapter is a dedicated community within the broader GradPlanHQ network, not a separate app.
Explore Sponsored Chapters →Ready to Back Student Talent?
Students need opportunities to build experience, proof, relationships, and visibility before graduation. Your sponsorship helps make those opportunities more accessible while strengthening a talent-development ecosystem that benefits students, employers, and communities alike.