Sponsorship

Sponsors fund the prize pool that gets people to show up and deliberate seriously. Back a question, a tour, a topic, or a community, and draw attention to what you care about most. Get your sponsor name — or a pseudonym — in front of people's attention while they work toward consensus on hard problems.

What you can sponsor

Sponsoring happens where the thing lives. Find what you want to back, and sponsor it right there.

A question

Challenge people to address a specific lead question on a tour.

Browse questions →

A tour

Add to the prize pool of a scheduled tour and grow its turnout.

Browse tours →

A topic

Back a subject area so more tours get run on it.

Browse topics →

A community

Back a specific group and the questions they deliberate on.

Browse communities →

How it works

  1. 1

    Find the question, tour, topic, or community you want to back, and press Sponsor on it.

  2. 2

    Choose an amount — $1, $5, $10, $50, $100, or a custom figure.

  3. 3

    We follow up to confirm payment and activate the sponsorship. Your contribution goes into the prize pool.

Sponsorship amounts

Any amount helps. Pick a preset or enter your own.

$1
$5
$10
$50
$100

USD, CAD, and MNEE are accepted.

What sponsors get

  • • Your sponsor name on the tour listing, tour ticket and scoreboard, if selected (optional anonymity)
  • • Your sponsorship added to the tour prize pool
  • • Your lead question addressed to a target community based on a main topic, plus up to 3 sub-topics
  • • Your introductory video, if submitted, made available for display to all participants before tour start

Call out a community

Challenge a specific community to deliberate on a topic you care about, and back it with a prize pool.

Send a challenge →

Want to do more?

Ambassadors host tours and grow communities — not just fund them.

Apply to be an Ambassador →