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 helps remove that barrier and welcomes a young innovator into an entire season at Creative Innovators Project.
More Than A Membership
A CIP Membership is not simply admission into an after-school program. It gives a student months of hands-on learning, mentorship, teamwork, creative challenges, competition preparation, and the opportunity to build something entirely their own.
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
Help Build a Membership
Every contribution brings a student closer to joining a CIP team.
$50 helps remove a barrier to participation
$125 provides ¼ of a student’s membership
$250 provides ½ of a student’s membership
$500 provides one full-season CIP membership
$1,000 provides full-season memberships for two young innovators
$2,500 provides full-season memberships for five students
Several smaller gifts can be combined to provide one complete membership. Whether you fund part of a membership or an entire season, your support creates a really opportunity for a local student.
Invest in the Next Generation of Innovators
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 does more than support one family. 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 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
We would also be happy to discuss a larger or ongoing partnership designed around your business and its community-impact goals.
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 usual idea is not dismissed but met with: “Let’s see if we can make that work.”
That moment can change how a student sees themselves.
The child whose membership you provide ma 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.
