Special Olympics Athlete Sponsorship Form

Empower Special Olympics Athletes Through Your Sponsorship

Special Olympics athletes dedicate countless hours to training, competing, and building inclusive communities through unified sports. Your sponsorship can make a direct, meaningful impact on their journey—covering essential costs like training programs, competition fees, equipment, travel, and unified sports initiatives that bring athletes with and without intellectual disabilities together.

This Special Olympics Athlete Sponsorship Form is designed to make it easy for supporters, corporations, community groups, and individuals to sponsor athletes and programs. Whether you're looking to sponsor a single athlete for a season, support an entire team's competition fees, or fund unified sports programming, this streamlined form handles everything from donor information and sponsorship selection to secure payment processing and automated acknowledgment.

Why This Form Works for Special Olympics Organizations

Special Olympics chapters, state programs, and local clubs need efficient ways to manage sponsorships without adding administrative burden. This Paperform template lets you:

• Offer flexible sponsorship tiers: Present clear options for training support, competition fees, equipment, travel expenses, and unified sports programs with transparent pricing
• Accept secure donations: Connect Stripe, PayPal, or Square to process one-time sponsorships or recurring monthly commitments
• Collect sponsor details: Gather contact information, recognition preferences, and any dedication messages in a single, branded form
• Automate acknowledgment: Send instant confirmation emails with tax receipts, athlete stories, and next steps—no manual follow-up required
• Connect to your CRM: Use Stepper (stepper.io) or native integrations to automatically add sponsors to your donor database, trigger thank-you workflows, and keep your team informed via Slack or email

The form's conditional logic ensures sponsors only see relevant follow-up questions based on their sponsorship selection, while calculation fields can dynamically show totals if sponsors choose multiple programs or add optional donation amounts.

Perfect for Fundraising Teams and Development Directors

If you're a development director, fundraising coordinator, nonprofit manager, or volunteer coordinator working with Special Olympics or similar adaptive sports organizations, you know that every dollar raised directly impacts athlete experiences. Traditional paper forms, email pledges, and manual payment tracking create delays and limit your reach.

Paperform transforms this workflow into a professional, always-on sponsorship page that you can:

• Embed on your website or share via social media, email campaigns, and QR codes at events
• Customize with athlete photos, videos, and compelling stories that connect emotionally with donors
• Track in real-time with submission reports and AI Insights to understand which sponsorship levels resonate most
• Scale across chapters using Agency+ features if you manage multiple locations or programs

Because the form doubles as a beautiful landing page, you can drive traffic from Facebook ads, Google Ad Grants, email newsletters, and community partnerships—all while maintaining your brand's colors, fonts, and mission-forward messaging.

From Sponsorship to Action with Stepper Workflows

Once a sponsor submits their pledge, the real work begins: sending tax receipts, matching sponsors with athletes, updating donor records, and keeping supporters engaged with progress updates. Stepper (stepper.io), Paperform's AI-native workflow builder, automates these critical next steps:

• Instant tax receipts: Generate and send IRS-compliant donation receipts automatically
• Donor CRM updates: Push sponsor details, amounts, and preferences into Salesforce, DonorPerfect, Bloomerang, or your database
• Team notifications: Alert program coordinators when high-value sponsors come in, or when specific programs hit funding goals
• Personalized follow-up: Trigger email sequences with athlete updates, event invitations, and renewal reminders based on sponsorship type
• Multi-step approvals: Route corporate sponsorship requests through internal review before finalizing recognition benefits

By connecting Paperform + Stepper, your fundraising operations become faster, more personal, and infinitely more scalable—freeing your team to focus on athlete support rather than administrative tasks.

Built for the Nonprofit Sector

Paperform is trusted by nonprofit organizations, charities, and community programs worldwide because it balances professional functionality with ease of use. You don't need a developer to launch a high-converting sponsorship form, and you don't need to compromise on security or compliance. Paperform is SOC 2 Type II certified and GDPR compliant, with data residency controls and robust donor privacy protections.

For organizations managing multiple programs, chapters, or campaigns, Agency+ plans let you create and manage branded forms for each initiative while maintaining centralized billing, reporting, and oversight. You can also use roles and permissions to give regional coordinators access to their own forms without risking cross-contamination of data or branding.

Start Raising Funds for Athletes Today

Whether you're launching your first athlete sponsorship campaign or upgrading from outdated donation methods, this template gives you a complete, ready-to-publish solution. Customize the sponsorship tiers, add your athlete stories and imagery, connect your payment processor, and go live—all in the same afternoon.

Special Olympics athletes deserve every opportunity to train, compete, and shine. With Paperform, you can create a sponsorship experience that honors their dedication and makes it effortless for your community to rally behind them.

Ready to get started? Use this template as your foundation, tweak it to match your chapter's needs, and watch the support roll in. Your athletes—and your fundraising team—will thank you.