Event Sponsorships

The Portland Children’s Levy sponsors events from nonprofits serving children and families within the City of Portland boundaries related to Levy program areas: after school, child abuse prevention and intervention, early childhood, foster care, hunger relief and mentoring.

PCL will award 20 sponsorships of $500 each fiscal year to nonprofit organizations that are not current recipients of large or small grants. Sponsorships are awarded on a first-come, first-served basis to qualifying organizations and are often distributed within a few hours of the opening time. Please see below for requirements and instructions.

The next round of event sponsorships will open 9 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2027 for events Jan. 1 to June 30, 2027. Sponsorship request letters will not be accepted before 9 a.m. Jan. 12, 2027.

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Eligibility

Please review the following requirements before requesting a sponsorship:

• Organizations or their fiscal sponsors must be a tax-exempt nonprofit.
• Organizations must be a registered nonprofit with the Oregon Secretary of State. 
• Organizations must not be current PCL large or small grant recipients.
• Organizations must serve City of Portland youth and families, and sponsored events must relate to a PCL program area: after school, child abuse prevention and intervention, early childhood, foster care, hunger relief or mentoring.
• Organizations must use the PCL name/logo to promote PCL in electronic and/or print event material, collateral and notices.
• PCL funding shall not go toward any alcoholic beverages.
• Organizations must not discriminate based on race, gender, age, sexual orientation, religion or disability.
• Organizations must not benefit or promote any political ideology or religious doctrine.
• PCL sponsorships shall not exceed $500 per event.
• The sponsorship must be for a one-time event and not for programming.
• An organization may only receive one sponsorship every 12 months. 
• Organizations must accept credit cards for payment. (PCL cannot pay processing fees.)
• PCL reserves the final right to accept or reject any request.

While not required, the Levy requests:

• Photos of the sponsored event for use in Levy social media posts.
• Tag or mention PCL at least once when posting event information on social media.

How to apply

To request a sponsorship, you must:

• Submit the request letter electronically on organization letterhead.
• In your request letter, include:
  • name of your organization
  • date of the request
  • request the $500 amount
  • time, date, location, and purpose of the event
  • specifics on what the sponsorship money would will be used to support
  • specify 1 or more of PCL’s 6 program areas your organization qualifies under and briefly describe the services your organization provides in that program area.
  • include details regarding how you would use the PCL name and logo.

Please follow the instructions precisely and include all of the required information. (Applicants who do not include all the required information might be asked to submit a new sponsorship request letter.) Please submit requests or questions to info@portlandchildrenslevy.org