Reach 572 schools in all 50 states.

Student-Athlete Mental Health Week is the largest coordinated student-athlete mental health moment in the country. In 2026, more than 572 schools, teams and campuses took part across all 50 states, and we shipped 367 Boxes of Hope to 357 of them.

We are looking for partners who want their name on that.

Why this works for a brand

Most sponsorships buy you impressions. This one buys you presence in the room.

A Box of Hope arrives in a locker room and gets opened by a team. The helmet stickers, wristbands and ribbons inside get worn in competition. The coaching toolkit gets read for nearly four minutes on average, close to double our site average. Your logo sits on the box panel and on the page that ranks first in Google for this category.

That is 357 physical touchpoints in 50 states, plus the search result every athletic director finds when they look this up.

Partnership levels

Presenting Partner

  • Name in the week's title lockup

  • Logo on the Box of Hope panel

  • Named in all shipping communications

  • Top placement on the coaching toolkit page

  • Co-branded section in the coach toolkit

  • Social recognition

Presenting partnership covers roughly half the cost of getting a Box of Hope into every school that asks for one. We only take one presenting partner per year.

Underwriter

  • Logo on the Box of Hope panel

  • Named in all shipping communications

  • Placement on the coaching toolkit page

  • Social recognition

Supporting Partner

  • Placement on the coaching toolkit page

  • Social recognition

Program partnership

Not every partnership is a sponsorship. If your organization works with student-athletes directly, we also partner on program delivery: coach education, peer support and campus programming. Our Game Plan program was built with the NCAA Sport Science Institute and Prevention Strategies, and Athletes for Hope joined in 2026 as official Co-Presenting Partner of Student-Athlete Mental Health Week.

If that is the conversation you want to have, start it the same way.

Let's talk.

Email Ryan Hilinski, Director of Legacy & Impact, at info@hilinskishope.org and we'll send the full partnership deck.

2027 planning is underway now. Presenting partnership is confirmed by the spring.