Everything you need, in the order you will ask
One page. What we do, who we reach, what it costs, what you get, and how to say yes. If you would rather have a conversation, the number is at the bottom.
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Open Ice Initiative is a Toronto nonprofit, run by seventeen students, that puts children who have never skated onto the ice for four days and sends them home with equipment they keep. Six camps a year across two arenas. Families pay nothing, ever. One thousand and sixty dollars covers one child completely.
It is the cost, and only the cost
We received more than one hundred applications for our last cycle. We had spots for sixty.
That is not a statistic about demand. It is roughly forty children whose families filled in a form, hoped, and were told no. We do not run first come first served, so the ones we turn away are not the least deserving. They are the ones we ran out of ice for.
Every one thousand and sixty dollars is one fewer of those.
What your name sits next to
Covered by CTV News, CP24, Beach Metro News and TorontoToday, with TSN and the PHPA as partners. Media day is day one of every camp, which is why coverage keeps happening rather than happening once.
Exactly what it buys
| Item | Each | Number | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Helmet with cage | $85 | 1 | $85 |
| Skates | $140 | 1 | $140 |
| Stick | $60 | 1 | $60 |
| Gloves | $55 | 1 | $55 |
| Shoulder pads | $45 | 1 | $45 |
| Elbow pads | $30 | 1 | $30 |
| Shin guards | $45 | 1 | $45 |
| Hockey pants | $55 | 1 | $55 |
| Jersey and socks | $35 | 1 | $35 |
| Equipment, after Hockey Stick Man | 1 | $380 | |
| Ice, and everything else the camp needs | $480 | 1 | $480 |
| Total | $860 |
That is one child on the ice for four days, with a full set of equipment that is theirs.
The list price above is what a family would pay in a shop, which is the number that keeps them out. It is not what we pay. Hockey Stick Man donates part of every set outright, and we buy the rest, which comes to $380 a child. Coaching is donated, so it costs nothing at all. The largest line is ice: between $300 and $450 an hour, three hours of it every day, which for a four day camp is $3,600 to $5,400 before a single child is fitted. All in, one camper costs $860.
Three, priced per camp
Pilot Sponsor
$1,000 per camp. Logo on participant materials and on this site, a named session, and photographs from the camp you funded.
Camp Sponsor
$1,500 per camp. Everything above plus a named day, on-ice photography with campers, and a written impact report after the cycle.
Platinum Partner
$2,000 and up per camp. Everything above plus named programme rights, year-round association, and your own page on this site.
To give more than $2,000 per camp, talk to us about extended terms.
page looks
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Not a logo in a row
Every partner gets a real page: who they are, what they do for us, photographs of that contribution in use, a link to their site, and a thank you note that is theirs alone.
name actually
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Six places, and you can see all of them
Sponsors are told about "exposure" and given no way to check it. Here is the exact list, and a preview of your own mark on the puck that every partner gets.
This is the puck. Every partner gets one, the same size, whatever they gave.
- The puck carouselEvery page on this site. Your mark rides the rolling strip at the foot of the page, the same size as everyone else, on a white puck.
- Your own pageA full page about your organisation, written by us, linked from the partners page and indexed by Google under your name.
- The rink boardsPrinted and hung at Leaside and Ted Reeve for the run of the camp, where the photographs get taken.
- The jerseyOn the sleeve of every jersey the children keep. Sixty of them go home in the city and stay there.
- The press releaseNamed in the release that goes to every outlet on our list, and in the thank you posts afterwards.
- The reportIn the season report that goes to every partner, with the numbers your money produced.
question
Answered before you ask
Open Ice Initiative is a Toronto registered nonprofit, not a registered charity, so we cannot issue charitable tax receipts.
Because corporate support delivers logo placement, named programme rights and media association, it can typically be recorded as a marketing or advertising expense. Please confirm the treatment with your finance team. This is not tax advice.
One email, and we will do the rest
Tell us roughly what you have in mind and which camp cycle. We will come back with a written proposal inside two days.
Or phone Andrew Adair directly on 437-775-6292.