Give an innovator the opportunity to begin
Because potential should never be limited by a family's ability to pay.
Every young person deserves a place where their ideas are taken seriously — a place to experiment, create, collaborate, and discover what they are capable of doing. For some families, the cost of membership can make that opportunity difficult to access. Your gift removes that barrier and welcomes a young innovator into an entire season at Creative Innovators Project.
More than a membership
Months of hands-on learning, mentorship, and the chance to build something entirely their own.
A CIP membership is not simply admission into an after-school program. At CIP, students learn to:
- Turn ideas into real solutions
- Work through setbacks without giving up
- Communicate and collaborate with a team
- Build confidence in their individual strengths
- Use tools, materials, technology, art, storytelling, and performance
- See themselves as creators, leaders, and problem-solvers
Your contribution gives a child a place to belong — a reason to believe that their ideas can go somewhere.
What your gift can provide
Every contribution brings a student closer to joining a CIP team. Several smaller gifts can be combined to provide one complete membership.
- $50helps remove a barrier to participation
- $125provides ¼ of a student's membership
- $250provides ½ of a student's membership
- $500provides one full-season CIP membership
- $1,000provides full-season memberships for two young innovators
- $2,500provides full-season memberships for five students
For businesses
Invest in the young innovators in your community
The students participating in CIP today will become the builders, artists, engineers, entrepreneurs, educators, and community leaders of tomorrow. When a business sponsors a student membership, it invests in creativity, confidence, teamwork, and the future of the community it serves. Businesses may choose to:
- · Sponsor one student for a full season
- · Provide memberships for multiple students
- · Invite employees to contribute toward a shared membership fund
- · Match employee donations
- · Fund memberships in honor of a customer, employee, or company milestone
- · Make membership sponsorship part of an annual community-giving program
Give in honor of someone special
A membership gift can be made in honor or memory of someone who believed in young people.
This is a meaningful way to celebrate:
- · A birthday or anniversary
- · A graduating student
- · A teacher, mentor, or coach
- · An employee or business milestone
- · Someone whose life was shaped by creativity and learning
One opportunity can change a student's direction
Not every child immediately sees themselves as creative, capable, or confident. Sometimes it takes the right challenge. The right team. A mentor who notices their strengths. A place where an unusual idea is not dismissed but met with: “Let's see if we can make that work.”
The child whose membership you provide may arrive unsure of what they have to offer. They may finish the season knowing they can lead a team, solve a difficult problem, speak in front of an audience, build something that works, or recover when it does not. You are not choosing their future for them. You are giving them the opportunity to discover it.
How membership gifts are awarded
Membership support is provided to students whose families have requested financial assistance through CIP's membership application process. Applications are reviewed privately and thoughtfully by the Creative Innovators Project leadership team. To protect the dignity and privacy of every family, donors will not receive a student's personal or financial information. Donors may receive general updates about the impact of the membership program and the experiences their support helps make possible.
Give an innovator a seat at the table.
A child's future rarely changes because of one perfect answer. It changes when they are given the confidence to ask questions, test possibilities, learn from failure, and keep creating. Your gift can provide that beginning.