- Make your CSR investment stand out with APOPO’s extraordinary approach to solving critical global challenges. By leveraging corporate sponsorships, you’ll support life-saving initiatives like landmine detection and tuberculosis screening—using highly trained detection animals. These innovative sponsorship opportunities offer your company a powerful story to captivate potential sponsors, stakeholders, and customers alike, showcasing your commitment to impactful solutions.
Want a corporate sponsorship package specifically tailored for your company? Contact APOPO at herorats@apopo.org.
Corporate Sponsorship Packages
Explore our tailored sponsorship opportunities below to find the level that best aligns with your company’s mission and goals.
- Mine Detection Rat Team Sponsorship
Support highly trained HeroRAT teams and their handlers working to clear landmines in countries like Cambodia, Angola, and Azerbaijan, restoring land for safe and productive use. - TB Detection Rat Team Sponsorship
Enable HeroRAT teams to screen for tuberculosis in high-need areas of Ethiopia and/or Tanzania, improving early diagnosis and treatment outcomes. - HeroDOG Team Sponsorship
Fund HeroDOG teams in Cambodia and/or Ukraine working alongside handlers to detect landmines in dangerous regions, ensuring the safety and recovery of affected communities. - RescueRat Research Program Sponsorship
Invest in APOPO’s innovative research to train rats for urban search and rescue missions, supporting cutting-edge solutions for disaster response. - Wildlife Detection Rat Research Program Sponsorship
Combat illegal wildlife trafficking by sponsoring APOPO’s research to train rats to detect smuggled wildlife products, contributing to conservation and biodiversity protection.
Get in Touch to Start Your Sponsorship Journey Today
Do you have questions? Please contact us directly at herorats@apopo.org
These sponsorship opportunities not only drive significant global impact but also provide measurable results and engaging stories to amplify your company’s CSR efforts.
Why Partner with APOPO?
Align Your Corporate Social Responsibility with Tangible Results
APOPO’s corporate sponsorship proposals align your company’s charitable donations with initiatives that deliver measurable outcomes. Whether through event sponsorships or a sponsorship package, supporting HeroRATs or HeroDOGs addresses pressing global challenges. This partnership contributes to your organization’s fundraising goals, fosters beneficial partnerships, and demonstrates your leadership in corporate sponsorship examples that matter.
Key Benefits of Corporate Sponsorship
- Measurable Impact: Sponsors receive detailed updates, showcasing the lives impacted, such as landmine-free communities or reduced tuberculosis rates, enhancing return on investment for stakeholders.
- Engaging Stories: Access captivating stories, photos, and videos that strengthen connections with employees, prospective sponsors, and customers.
Global Reach: Partner with a charitable organization operating across continents, demonstrating your role in advancing economic advancement and community resilience.
HeroRAT Sponsorship: Landmine Detection and Tuberculosis Screening
HeroRAT teams specialize in detecting landmines and diagnosing tuberculosis, addressing urgent humanitarian needs. Companies can select sponsorship tiers that align with their impact goals, from foundational corporate partnerships to transformational sponsorship benefits.
Mine Detection Rat Team Sponsorship
- Foundation Level: Detection Ally
Investment: Starting at $10,000 per year
As a Detection Ally, your company provides essential support for a mine detection team’s foundational needs, such as training, equipment, and basic operational costs. This tier, which is the most common type of corporate sponsorship, is perfect for companies starting their journey with APOPO while still making a meaningful impact.
Key Benefits:
- Recognition: Acknowledgment as a Detection Ally on APOPO’s website.
- Team Updates: Quarterly updates featuring the progress of the sponsored team, including statistics on land cleared and mines detected.
- Engagement Materials: Access to photos and highlights for use in internal or external CSR communications.
- Growth Level: Clearance Champion
Investment: Starting at $25,000 per year
The Clearance Champion sponsorship tier represents a deeper partnership, supporting the expansion of a mine detection team’s operations. This level ensures the team has the tools and resources needed to clear more land and save more lives.
Key Benefits:
- Recognition: Logo placement on APOPO’s website as a Clearance Champion, acknowledgment in newsletters, and a dedicated social media spotlight.
- Team Updates: Quarterly reports detailing land cleared, mines detected, and the team’s achievements, accompanied by field stories and photos.
- Interactive Content: Access to high-quality videos and digital assets showcasing the sponsored team’s work, suitable for CSR storytelling.
- Impact Level: Safe Land Visionary
Investment: Starting at $50,000 per year
As a Safe Land Visionary, your company provides comprehensive funding for an entire mine detection team, ensuring their ability to operate at full capacity. This tier reflects a transformational commitment to creating safe, mine-free land for communities.
Key Benefits:
- Recognition: Prominent acknowledgment as a Safe Land Visionary on APOPO’s website, annual reports, and promotional materials. Sponsors are featured in a press release or spotlight piece.
- Team Updates: Monthly detailed updates with statistics, photos, videos, and stories showcasing the team’s progress and impact.
- Exclusive Acknowledgment: Opportunity to name the sponsored team, including HeroRATs and handlers, for the duration of sponsorship.
- Custom Campaign Support: Co-branded digital assets and messaging tailored for the sponsor’s CSR campaigns, highlighting your role in saving lives.
Ready to Sponsor? Email us at: herorats@apopo.org
Tuberculosis Detection Rat Team Sponsorship
- Foundation Level: Diagnostic Ally
Investment: Starting at $10,000 per year
As a Diagnostic Ally, sponsors provide essential support for TB detection rat teams, ensuring access to training, equipment, and operational resources. This foundational tier is ideal for companies beginning their involvement with APOPO while making a meaningful contribution to public health.
Key Benefits:
- Recognition: Acknowledgment as a Diagnostic Ally on APOPO’s website and annual sponsor appreciation materials.
- Team Updates: Regular updates highlighting the progress of the sponsored team, including statistics on the number of TB cases identified and patients impacted.
- Engagement Materials: Access to photos and field highlights for use in internal or external CSR communications.
- Growth Level: Screening Partner
Investment: Starting at $25,000 per year
The Screening Partner tier supports expanded efforts in TB detection, funding critical operations to ensure more samples are processed and more cases are identified. This tier represents a deeper commitment to improving global health outcomes through early detection.
Key Benefits:
- Recognition: Logo placement on APOPO’s website as a Screening Partner, acknowledgment in newsletters, and a feature in a social media spotlight.
- Team Updates: Regular reports detailing samples screened, TB cases detected, and patient stories, accompanied by photos from the field.
- Interactive Content: Access to videos and digital assets showcasing the sponsored team’s work, ideal for CSR storytelling and engagement.
- Impact Level: Health Advocate
Investment: Starting at $50,000 per year
As a Health Advocate, sponsors provide comprehensive funding for a TB detection rat team, enabling full-scale operations that improve early diagnosis and treatment access for high-burden communities. This level reflects a transformative commitment to reducing TB transmission and mortality rates.
Key Benefits:
- Recognition: Prominent acknowledgment as a Health Advocate on APOPO’s website, annual reports, and promotional materials. Sponsors are featured in press releases or spotlight articles.
- Team Updates: Monthly detailed updates featuring statistics (e.g., samples processed, TB cases identified), impactful stories, photos, and videos of the team’s progress.
- Exclusive Acknowledgment: Opportunity to name the sponsored team, including the rats and their handlers, for the duration of sponsorship.
- Custom Campaign Support: Co-branded digital content for sponsor CSR campaigns, highlighting their vital role in advancing public health through TB detection.
Ready to Sponsor? Email us at: herorats@apopo.org
Sponsor a HeroDOG Team: Make a Life-Saving Impact
APOPO’s HeroDOG teams play a critical role in identifying and clearing landmines in some of the world’s most heavily contaminated regions. These highly trained dogs and their human handlers work tirelessly to restore safety and transform communities. By sponsoring a HeroDOG team, your company can directly contribute to this life-saving work, supporting teams as they clear land for farming, schools, and homes.
Through corporate sponsorships, APOPO offers businesses the opportunity to align their corporate social responsibility (CSR) goals with a mission that delivers measurable results and a meaningful global impact.
Why Sponsor a HeroDOG Team?
Landmine contamination remains a significant obstacle to safety and economic development in post-conflict areas. Sponsoring a HeroDOG team supports the specialized training, equipment, and deployment of these teams to high-risk regions like Cambodia and Ukraine.
Sponsorship Benefits Include:
- Transformational Impact: Each sponsorship helps restore land and improve livelihoods for affected communities.
- Engaging Updates: Sponsors receive regular reports with stories, photos, and statistics detailing the progress of their HeroDOG team.
- Corporate Visibility: Sponsorship aligns your brand with life-saving work, creating positive associations for customers, employees, and stakeholders.
Customizable Sponsorship Opportunities: Tailor the experience to align with your company’s goals and values.
HeroDOG Sponsorship Levels
APOPO offers two distinct sponsorship levels to suit your company’s goals and investment capacity.
Detection Partner Sponsorship
Investment: Starting at $35,000 per year
- What You Support: Foundational training, essential operational resources, and deployment costs for a HeroDOG team.
- Key Benefits:
- Recognition as a Detection Partner on APOPO’s website.
- Regular updates with photos and statistics about land cleared and mines detected.
- High-quality digital content to showcase your impact in CSR communications.
Safe Land Advocate Sponsorship
Investment: Starting at $50,000 per year
- What You Support: Comprehensive funding for a HeroDOG team’s full operational needs, including handler support and deployment logistics.
- Key Benefits:
- Prominent recognition as a Safe Land Advocate in APOPO’s reports and promotional materials.
- Detailed updates featuring field stories, videos, and measurable results.
Ready to Sponsor? Email us at: herorats@apopo.org
Supporting Research: RescueRats and Wildlife Detection Rats
RescueRat Research Program
The RescueRat Research Program is dedicated to training rats for urban search and rescue missions, offering groundbreaking solutions to challenges in disaster zones. These innovative approaches are especially appealing to tech-minded companies that value forward-thinking methods and life-saving applications of technology. Sponsoring this program provides an opportunity for prospective corporate sponsors to align their brand with beneficial partnerships that promote emergency preparedness and future-forward solutions.
Wildlife Detection Rat Research Program
The Wildlife Detection Rat Research Program focuses on combating illegal wildlife trafficking, a global threat to endangered species. By supporting this initiative, companies demonstrate a commitment to conservation and sustainability, creating impactful corporate sponsorship examples that resonate with environmentally-conscious stakeholders. This program is ideal for companies seeking to showcase their innovation in addressing global challenges through partnerships.
Tailored Sponsorship Opportunities
APOPO offers customizable sponsorship packages designed to align with your company’s CSR objectives and our research teams’ current needs. Whether supporting RescueRat or Wildlife Detection Rat programs, these opportunities are ideal for companies looking to make a meaningful impact in conservation, technology, or disaster response.
Ready to Sponsor? Contact us at herorats@apopo.org to discuss how we can create a sponsorship partnership that delivers value for your organization and supports APOPO’s mission.
How Your Sponsorship Supports APOPO’s Life-Saving Work
When your company sponsors a HeroRAT, HeroDOG, or supports one of our research programs, you are directly contributing to life-saving work. Whether your sponsorship helps clear landmines in post-conflict regions or allows for faster tuberculosis diagnosis in underserved areas, you will receive regular updates with key statistics and impact stories that show how your support is making a difference.
Take Action Today: Sponsor a HeroRAT or HeroDOG Team
By becoming an APOPO corporate partner and sponsoring our HeroRAT or HeroDOG teams, your company can make a lasting, measurable difference in the lives of people in some of the world’s most vulnerable regions. Whether you choose to support landmine detection, tuberculosis screening, or groundbreaking research programs, your sponsorship will help save lives, restore communities, and protect the environment. Your company will be directly connected to real-world outcomes, with detailed updates, statistics, and stories showing the tangible impact of your contribution.
Align your CSR strategy with a cause that delivers measurable results and builds a better future for communities around the world. Let’s work together to create a safer, healthier world.
Ready to Make a Difference? Get in Touch Today!
To learn more about your potential sponsorship of an APOPO HeroRAT or HeroDOG team and the available sponsorship packages, please fill out the form below. Our team will get back to you with more information and help tailor a sponsorship opportunity that aligns with your corporate social responsibility goals.
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Once you’ve filled out the form, a member of the APOPO team will reach out to provide more details on the corporate sponsorship levels, the impact your support will have, and how we can create a corporate partnership that aligns with your business objectives. We look forward to working with you to make a real difference!
Contact Us:
For any immediate questions about the sponsorship process, please contact us at:
Email: herorats@apopo.org
Phone: +1 (202) 335 7755
Your corporate partnership with APOPO can be part of global humanitarian efforts that truly save lives and restore hope. Together, we can build a better, safer world.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is APOPO, and what makes it a unique nonprofit organization?
APOPO is a charitable organization that trains HeroDOGs and HeroRATs to detect landmines and tuberculosis. Our innovative methods combine animal skills with cutting-edge technology to deliver life-saving results.
Why are HeroDOG/HeroRAT teams important for landmine detection?
HeroDOGs and HeroRATs are highly trained to detect explosives with precision and in safety. Alongside their handlers, they work in areas heavily affected by landmines, helping clear land faster and more efficiently than traditional methods. Because they use their noses to sniff out the explosives contained within landmines, they are not slowed down by scrap metal hidden in the ground, unlike human deminers who use metal detectors.
What are the sponsorship benefits for corporate sponsors?
Corporate sponsors receive regular updates showcasing the impact of their support, such as statistics on land cleared, mines detected, and communities impacted. Sponsors also benefit from increased visibility and alignment with a cause that resonates with business objectives and CSR goals.
How are sponsorship funds used?
Your sponsorship supports the HeroDOG or HeroRAT team’s training, operational needs, handler salaries, and deployment logistics. Funds are allocated flexibly to ensure teams have the resources they need to maximize impact.
Can sponsorship opportunities be customized to align with our company’s goals?
Yes! APOPO offers customizable sponsorship opportunities to align with your company’s mission, values, and marketing strategy. Please contact us if you have something specific in mind.
How do corporate partnerships with APOPO deliver a return on investment?
Corporate partnerships with APOPO create mutual benefits, such as enhanced brand reputation, meaningful engagement with stakeholders, and measurable contributions to global humanitarian efforts.
What reporting do sponsors receive?
Sponsors receive quarterly or monthly reports (depending on sponsorship level) that include:
- Land cleared and mines detected, or other measures of progress depending on the program sponsored.
- Photos, videos, and field stories showcasing the team’s progress.
- Updates on the impact of cleared land/TB treatment for local communities.
How does sponsoring a HeroDOG team align with corporate goals?
Sponsorship helps companies achieve CSR and business objectives by associating their brand with impactful, humanitarian work. It fosters long-term relationships with stakeholders and strengthens public perception through ethical partnerships.
Are sponsorship agreements flexible?
Yes, sponsorship agreements are tailored to suit the needs and goals of our corporate sponsors, ensuring a seamless partnership that delivers value for all parties.
How do we begin the sponsorship process?
To start the sponsorship process, contact APOPO or fill out the inquiry form on this page. Our team will work with you to create a tailored sponsorship package that aligns with your goals.
