2025 Dureke National iDEA Pitch Competition Live June 7th WETATi Academy Anne Reese Carswell Scholarship & Awards Gala; Live Grand Ballroom, University Maryland College Park June 14th

WETATi Academy CORPORATE SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITY

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Pay with Direct Deposit, Cash, Check, or Money Order For details, please send an email to Margaret@wetatiacademy.org

**For reporting and deduction purposes:
WETATi Academy is a non-profit organization with a 501(c)3 status**

Membership is open to all corporations, government agencies and nonprofit organizations that are interested in supporting and changing the economic narrative of the next generation through entrepreneurship education for the “low to moderate income youths” in our schools and communities.

WETATi Academy is a non-profit community based educational and economic empowerment organization. It is a center for creative thinking Leadership and Entrepreneurship located at, and in partnership with, Nyumburu Cultural Center, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland; and Bowie State University Entrepreneurship Academy and School of Science, Physics, Mathematics and Nursing.

WETATi Academy works with many partners across sectors in the entrepreneurial start-up and development space; the primary program focuses of WETATi Academy entrepreneurship education and training. WETATi Academy leverages public and private resources through collaboration/partnerships to implement and impact youth entrepreneurship. Therefore, WETATi Academy seeks the collaboration and partnership of socially conscious and responsible companies or organizations.

To achieve our mission of “changing the narrative, creating your own opportunity’, WETATi Academy provides entrepreneurship education; encourages innovative thinking; teaches business leadership skills; and equips and empowers the next generation and millennials to visualize and create their own financial freedom. This is achieved through practical experiential entrepreneurship education, competition and training.

As a WETATi Academy Corporate Member, your company will stand with WETATi Academy as a strategic partner in changing the economic narratives of the next generation through entrepreneurship education. WETATi Academy leverages Corporate Dues & Membership Benefits to accomplish this objective

Corporate Levels & Membership Benefits

Partnership Sponsorship Opportunities – Why We Work:

360° Foundation – $50,000+
STRATEGIC PARTNER

  • Opportunity to participate and facilitate in the year-round Practical Entrepreneurship Education Program
  • Recognition and participation in all 2024 programs
  • A company representative speaks at the Annual Convention and Scholarship & Awards Gala (5 minutes)
  • Scholarship & Awards Gala reserved table for 10 with the company logo on the event table
  • Opportunity to be a judge or coach at The Dureke iDEA Pitch Competition
  • Your company logo on Collegiate winners’ checks
  • Announce collegiate winners at the S&A Gala
  • 10 tickets to the Women Empowered Seminar and the opportunity to participate as a panelist
  • Participate in the Annual Community Open House
  • Internship opportunity with WETATi Academy’s students
  • Digital Magazine Ad (full-page)
  • Company logo on step-and-repeat
  • Recognition and company name/logo on the WETATi Academy website, media coverage, and releases


180° Elevation – $25,000+
FOUNDATION PARTNER

  • Opportunity to participate and facilitate in the year-round Practical Entrepreneurship
    Education Program.
  • Recognition and recognition participation in select 2024 programs
  • A company representative speaks at the Annual Convention and Scholarship &
    Awards Gala (3 minutes)
  • Scholarship & Awards Gala reserve table for 6 with the company logo on the
    event table.
  • Opportunity to be a judge or coach at The Dureke iDEA Pitch Competition.
  • Your company logo on the Next Gen winner’s check
  • Announce Next Gen winners at the S&A Gala
  • 6 tickets to the Women Empowered Seminar and the opportunity to participate as a panelist
  • Participate in the Annual Community Open House
  • Digital Magazine ad (half-page)
  • Recognition and company name/logo on the WETATi
  • Academy website, media coverage, and releases

 
90° Centration Sponsor – $15,000+

  • Opportunity to participate at the Virtual Entrepreneurship Convention & Durke iDEA Pitch Competition.
  • 4 Tickets to the Scholarship & Awards Gala
  • Opportunity to be a judge or coach at The Dureke iDEA Pitch Competition.
  • 4 tickets to the Women Empowered Seminar and the opportunity to participate as a panelist
  • Participate in the Annual Community Open House
  • Digital Magazine ad (quarter-page)
  • Recognition and company name/logo on the WETATi Academy website, media coverage, and releases

 
Convention Events – $10,000+

  • Opportunity to participate at the Virtual Entrepreneurship Convention & Durke iDEA
    Pitch Competition
  • 2 Tickets to the Scholarship & Awards Gala
  • Opportunity tobe a judge or coach at The Dureke iDEA Pitch Competition.
  • 2 tickets to the Women Empowered Seminar and the opportunity to participate as a
    panelist
  • Participate in the Annual Community Open House
  • Listed in Digital Magazine
  • Recognition and company name/logo on the WETATi Academy website, media coverage, and releases.

REFUNDS
We’re Empowered to Achieve the impossible and/or Women Empowered to Achieve The impossible (WETATi Academy) does not issue refunds under any circumstances. Any and all payments made to WETATi Academy are not refundable for any reason, including, without limitation, unforeseen circumstances, failure to use credentials due to illness, acts of God, travel-related problems, loss of employment and or duplicate purchases.

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RELEASE & IDEMNIFICATION

Please note that by attending this convention and Gala, or any other event hosted by WETATi, you give consent to WETATi, its agents and other associates and partners to photograph, film, videotape, and then reproduce and use on websites, in social media, publish in advertising, commercials and/or for any other purposes without further notification. WETATi reserves the right to use these photographs, films, and videotapes from these events in any legal manner as WETATi may see fit, with or without further communication with you or any other parties, and you release WETATi and its agents, successors, assignees and licensees from any liability pursuant to this subject matter in consideration for attending.

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