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 SCA works with its corporate partners to advance its mission to build the next generation of conservation leaders. We accept donations, engage in cause-related marketing, and provide opportunities for employee involvement and program and event sponsorships.
Each of these partnerships benefits our country’s diverse youth and natural resources while providing added value to SCA and our partners.
Partnering with SCA is good business because SCA:
- Fields programs that can help companies achieve strategic objectives
- Offers companies positive connections to youth, the great outdoors, national parks, conservation service, community restoration, and diversity
- Has 50 years of experience mobilizing volunteers to conserve America’s natural resources
- Is visible in urban and rural communities nationwide
- Consistently earns Charity Navigator’s highest rating
- Is the oldest and largest youth/conservation nonprofit in the U.S.
- Trains young people to become environmental stewards and committed citizens
- Deploys thousands of conservation volunteers in all fifty states annually
- Provides 1.6 million hours of conservation service to America’s public lands annually
- Works in cooperation with the National Park Service, U.S.D.A. Forest Service and numerous other federal, state and local land management agencies
- Reaches high school and college students, their parents, baby boomers and environmentally conscious Americans
Current Sponsorship Opportunities
- National Conservation Crew Program: High School volunteers in national parks and forests
- Conservation Intern Program: College-age and older volunteers in touch with more than 1 million park visitors annually
- Conservation Leadership Corps: Programming for underrepresented youth in cities across America
- Customized Projects: SCA works with companies to create projects for their consumers and in their markets
SCA thanks our corporate partners for their help.For more information about corporate sponsorship opportunities, please contact: Richard Wizansky, Ed.D.
SCA's Current Corporate Sponsors Include
In 2006, Johnson Controls made a major financial commitment to launch SCA’s Conservation Leadership Corps (CLC) in Milwaukee. [View video clip.] Based on the success of this pilot project, SCA and Johnson Controls launched Baltimore's CLC in 2007. Additional sites are planned for the coming years.
An SCA partner since 1989, L.L. Bean has sponsored SCA high school conservation crews and played a key role in advancing SCA’s efforts in urban communities. L.L. Bean has also made SCA the beneficiary of the L.L. Bean VISA Card, in which cardholders earn coupons they can use to donate cash to SCA or to purchase L.L. Bean apparel and gear.
In cooperation with the Ford Motor Company, the National Park Foundation, and the National Park Service, dozens of Student Conservation Association members are serving as as Ford Proud Partner Transportation Interpreters in 16 parks across the country . Now in its sixth year, the Transportation Interpreter Program fields young people in parks to provide visitors with invaluable information about navigating their way through their favorite national park.
"The Ford Proud Partner Transportation Interpreter program is yet another example of the great work that can result from effective partnerships," said former NPS Director Fran Mainella. "Ford Motor Company is helping to advance the National Park Service commitment to visitor education and alternative transportation and we are delighted to have this latest class of young SCA interns in our parks."
Mazda sponsored SCA's Conservation in Action Multimedia Contest, providing a Mazda 3i four-door sport sedan for the Grand Prize. Other winners received $10,000 in cash awards, and a trip to the April 2008 EarthVision Summit in Washington, DC.
In addition, the Mazda Foundation supports the SCA/Mazda SOAR (Save Our American Resources) Program, which places an SCA conservation intern in each state. Since 1998, this signature project has deployed 450 interns on projects at more than 300 sites. SOAR volunteers have completed over ¼ million hours of conservation service for America’s public lands.
American Eagle was the Presenting Sponsor of SCA's 50th Anniversary and co-hosted numerous events and programs across the country.
In addition, the American Eagle Outfitters Foundation supports SCA’s Three Rivers Conservation Leadership Corps which provides opportunities for diverse Pittsburgh youth to participate in conservation education and service programs in their own neighborhoods, and in national parks across the country.
GE is the lead corporate sponsor of SCA's Conservation Leadership Corps for Stamford, CT. In partnership with the City of Stamford Mayor's Office, The Stamford Partnership, the Boys and Girls Club, and numerous local partners and supporters, this new program serves the diverse youth and natural resources of the City. It is a shining example of how SCA catalyzes local and national partners to collaborate and build the next generation of conservation leaders.
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