SponsorFORCE — The Force for Health®

Read this first — it decides everything else

Two Ways to Give, and the Trade Between Them

There is one real choice to make, and it isn't about money. It's about whether you want to pick the classroom or take the charitable deduction. You can't have both — not because of our policy, but because of how the IRS treats earmarked gifts.

You choose

Direct Sponsorship

A partnership under our standard Community Chamber of Health program. You name the teacher, the school or the district. We activate it and report back on what your money did.

Who it's forBusinesses, employers, local companies, chambers, civic clubs — anyone who wants their name on a specific school.

You chooseYes. Name the teacher, the school, the district. Sponsor the school you went to, the one your employees' kids attend, the one down the street.

Tax treatmentNot a charitable gift. For most businesses, sponsorship is ordinarily deductible as a marketing and community-relations expense — so you may keep a deduction and the right to choose. Confirm with your CPA.

RecognitionFull — your name and logo on the Command Center, on the student materials, and at the community event.

PaperworkA Chamber of Health partnership agreement and an invoice.

We allocate

Charitable Gift

Give through the Force for Health® Academy Foundation — a charitable project fiscally sponsored by Players Philanthropy Fund, a 501(c)(3) public charity (EIN 27-6601178).

Who it's forIndividuals, family foundations, donor-advised funds, estates — anyone who needs the charitable receipt.

You chooseProgram and region, not the classroom. "Teacher Access in Southern Arizona" — yes. "Ms. Rivera's fourth grade at Sunnyside" — no.

Tax treatmentTax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law. You receive a receipt from the fiscal sponsor. The deduction is exactly why the choice goes away — a charity has to keep full discretion over the funds for the gift to qualify.

RecognitionSame recognition, one step removed — your name goes on the schools your gift actually reaches, once they're assigned.

PaperworkA donation through the Foundation and a receipt from Players Philanthropy Fund.

The honest version, in one paragraph. Federal rules say a gift earmarked for a named individual isn't a deductible charitable contribution — the charity has to retain discretion and control over how the money is spent. That rule is enforced harder, not softer, for a fiscally sponsored project like ours, because the fiscal sponsor is the legal recipient. So if the deduction is what you need, you tell us the program and the region and the Foundation places the sponsorship. If choosing the school is what you need, take the direct route — and if you're a business, ask your CPA whether it's deductible as a marketing expense anyway, because it very often is.

None of this is tax or legal advice. Talk to your own CPA, and we'll confirm with Players Philanthropy Fund what level of designation they accept before anything is signed.

Pick a size

What You Can Sponsor

Every level below funds real access to the Force for Health® Academy — the challenges, the games, the trackers, the whole thing — for people who aren't going to buy it themselves. These are the same seats a school would otherwise pay for. You're just paying for someone else's.

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One teacher, fully equipped, for a school year.

Teachers1

Students reached~25

A full Group Leader seat for one teacher
Free Basics Academy for every student in the classroom
Group Leader Toolkit, eClassroom and reporting tools
Class challenges and LeaderBoards
Pre-created class codes — no student ever types a name

$99/teacher/year

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Most sponsored

A whole school on the platform, with its own Command Center.

Schools1

Students reached~500

Free Basics Academy for the entire student body
Its own branded Command Center at its own URL
Group Leader seats for the staff who run it
25-point POI Virtual Scavenger Hunt for the campus
Monthly rollup report — the school's, and yours
PHIT community data for the school's own zip code

$2,500/school/year

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Four schools, one district scoreboard, one name on all of it.

Schools4

Students reached~2,000

Everything in School Access, times four
District Command Center — each school sees itself, the district sees all four
One report to the school board instead of four
Cross-school leaderboards and inter-campus challenges
Your name on the district hub, not just the schools

$9,000 $10,000save $1,000

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A full district. The kind of number a funder puts in a press release.

Schools10

Students reached~5,000

Everything in the 4-school district package, times ten
District Command Center with superintendent-level rollup
Quarterly executive review with Coach Lucy and Dr. Rob
A Reality Health Games community activation event, district-wide
Named presenting sponsor of the district's activation year

$22,500 $25,000save $2,500

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You will never see a student's name — and neither will we. Sponsors read rollups only, never individual rows. Small-cell suppression at n<10 is enforced in the database, not the page. Class codes are pre-created by the school's admin and picked from a dropdown, so no student types identifying text. Anonymous engagement carries no name, email, date of birth, grade or IP address. COPPA and FERPA clean by design — which is what makes a district say yes.

What does my number actually do?

Size Your Impact

Most sponsors arrive with a budget, not a school count. Start from whichever end you like — move the sliders, or type your budget below — and see exactly how far it reaches.

Teachers to sponsor — one classroom each

0 teachers

Schools to sponsor — the whole student body each

1 school

How are you giving? — changes whether you pick the schools

Direct — I'll choose Charitable — you allocate

Or work backward from a budget

We'll fit the biggest reach your budget covers — schools first, then teachers with the remainder.

Your sponsorship

$2,500

one year of full access

~500 students and staff reached

Student reach is an estimate — about 25 per classroom and 500 per school. Your actual schools may be larger or smaller, and we'll confirm the real numbers before you sign anything.

This isn't a plaque in a hallway

What You Get Back

Four things, and every one of them is something a student, a teacher or a school board member actually sees.

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Your name on the Command Center

"Sponsored by [you]" on the school or district hub every teacher and student opens, plus your logo on the Chamber of Health landing page for that community.

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An impact report with real numbers

Quarterly: students reached, challenges completed, engagement over time. Rollups only, never individual rows. The kind of number that survives a board meeting.

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Your logo in students' hands

On the printed QR cards, the teacher materials and the scavenger-hunt collateral kids carry around campus. Not a website footer — physical things.

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Named at the activation event

Recognition at the Reality Health Games community event the school or district hosts — the day the whole thing goes loud and local press shows up.

A note on how we word your recognition. Sponsor recognition is deliberately limited to your name, logo, locations and a neutral description of what you do. We don't run pricing, product claims or calls to action on school-facing surfaces. That keeps the recognition clean for the Foundation, keeps the schools comfortable, and keeps your gift's tax treatment where you want it. If you want an advertising placement rather than sponsor recognition, say so — that's a different conversation and a different agreement.

Before you commit

Questions Sponsors Ask

Why can't I take the deduction AND pick the school?

Because a charitable deduction requires the charity to have real discretion over the money. If you control where it lands, the IRS treats it as a gift to that recipient rather than to the charity — and a gift to a specific individual isn't deductible at all. Our Foundation is a fiscally sponsored project of Players Philanthropy Fund, which makes PPF the legal recipient, so that discretion has to be genuine.

Here's the part most sponsors don't know: if you're a business, you may not need the charitable route. Sponsorship is commonly deductible as an ordinary marketing and community-relations expense, which means you keep the write-off and the right to choose. Ask your CPA which is better for you — for a lot of companies it's the direct route.

Can I designate a region without losing the deduction?

Generally yes. Restricting a charitable gift to a program or a class of beneficiaries — "Teacher Access in Pima County," "Title I schools in Pennsylvania" — is normally fine, because the charity still decides which specific classrooms. It's naming the individual teacher or the single named school that creates the problem. We'll confirm the exact line with Players Philanthropy Fund for your gift before you send anything.

What does the money actually pay for?

Access. A sponsored teacher gets a real Group Leader seat — the toolkit, the eClassroom, the reporting, the challenge builder — and every student in that classroom gets free Basics Academy access. A sponsored school gets that for its staff plus its own branded Command Center, the campus scavenger hunt, and PHIT community data for its zip code. It's the same product a school would buy; you're buying it for a school that wouldn't.

Can I sponsor my own employees' schools?

That's the most common direct sponsorship we do. Take the direct route, name the schools, and we'll set up a Command Center for each one with your name on it. Several employers run it as a benefit announcement — their people find out the company sponsored their kids' school, which lands differently than a newsletter.

What about Arizona's school tax credit?

Different mechanism, and worth knowing about. Arizona's public school tax credit is a dollar-for-dollar state credit, but it goes directly to a public school for qualifying activities — not through us or through a fiscal sponsor. If that's what you're after, we'll happily tell you how to do it and help the school put it to work, even though none of it comes to us. Ask your CPA; a credit beats a deduction almost every time.

How long does a sponsorship last?

One school year from activation. At the end of the term the school's hub doesn't go dark — it falls back to a free public library page that keeps the URL, the QR codes and the printed materials working, and keeps counting. Renewing turns the full Center back on with the history intact.

Can we sponsor anonymously?

Of course. Tell us on the form and your name appears nowhere — not on the hub, not on the materials, not at the event. You'll still get the impact report.

We want to sponsor more than 10 schools, or a whole state.

Then you're in Chamber of Health territory, which is a different and bigger conversation — a regional or state charter rather than a school list. See the Chamber of Health charters or just tell us the footprint on the form and we'll size it.