Partner

Sponsorship Opportunities

For companies and organizations that seek more targeted impact for their charitable giving, we offer multi-level opportunities to partner with us that leverage your corporate brand with on-site event and tournament promotions, product placement and sampling opportunities, signage, and digital opportunities to highlight your branded to HJTEP’s networks. Packages can include:

$500,000 Tennis Program-Across all Instruction Cohorts 

• Grassroots I & II
• Futures
• Intermediate
• Tournament Team Pipeline
• High Performance I & II

$250,000 Tournament Team

• All HJTEP tennis training, education, & wellness programs
• Tournament entry fees for up to 24 tournaments per player
• Weekly private lessons
• Travel expenses for up to 12 tournaments per player
• Equipment Packages

$250,000 Learning Resource Center

Education Program

• Exact Path, Diagnostic Academic Assessments and Customized Learning Playlists
• Homework Help (K-8), Focus Sessions (9-12th grades), Private Tutoring
• Executive Functioning, SEL, Student Agency, HJTEP Alumni Mentorship
• ACT/SAT Prep, College & Career Counseling, College Campus tours

Wellness Program

• Tennis Against Obesity (TAO)
• Fitness regiment
• Nutritious snacks and nutrition counseling
• Mental health counseling & group workshops
• Meditation & mindfulness
• Financial Literacy

$250,000 General Operations Support

$100,000 Tournament Training Summer Camp at Fordham University

• Tennis instruction & fitness training, education, & wellness sessions
• Facility rental & lunch subsidy

$50,000 Beginners Summer Camp on 135th St

$10,000 Sponsor One (1) Competitive Player

• All HJTEP tennis training, education, & wellness programs
• Summer Camp
• Tournament Equipment & Travel Support
• Junior Team Tennis

$5,000 Sponsor One (1) Entry Level Player

• All HJTEP tennis training, education, & wellness programs
• Summer Camp
• Junior Team Tennis

We look forward to customizing the perfect sponsorship package to meet any potential partner goals or company’s affinity to our mission and directly connect your brand to serving Harlem’s youth and the broader New York City community.

Please consider partnering with HJTEP as we make strategic strides into our next 50 years of service with elevated communications and customized opportunities that celebrate the gifts our partners share with us. 

Fundraising Events

HJTEP holds various fundraising events over the course of each year, including our signature Annual Gala each May and an Annual Golf Outing each fall - taking place on September 29th in 2025, USTA-sanctioned tournaments, and various smaller community events that take place throughout each year. Please consider sponsoring or customizing a unique event to support our education, tennis, wellness, our community-building activities throughout Harlem. 

Individual Donors

As with many grassroots, community-serving organizations, our financial support relies heavily on gifts from individual donors. For 53 years, our loyal donors have invested in the promise of HJTEP by sustaining us through event attendance, year-end giving, monthly donations, and advocacy. Your steadfast commitment has kept our programs strong and impactful. As we look to the years ahead, we continue to rely on your partnership to ensure more of Harlem's youth thrive on and off the court.

Current Partners

The Organizations, Foundations, and Corporations that award grants to underwrite HJTEP's operating and program costs, make it possible for us to hire dedicated staff, talented coaches, counselors and nutritionists, keep the Learning Resource Center fully operational, fund additional court rentals, purchase tournament-level equipment, pay tournament entry fees and travel costs, to name a few designated funding needs. Some donors choose to directly sponsor-a-Student-Athlete.

We are thankful to every partner for their generous financial and in-kind support that helps us keep the doors open, programs running, and students thriving:

• Beyond Sport
• Caro Home
• Clif Bar
• Einstrof Astrof Foundation
• Estee Lauder
• Frito Lay
• Gatorade
• Harlem Children’s Zone
• Harlem Community Development Corporation
• Heart Foundation
• Junior Tennis Foundation
• Laureus Sport for Good USA
• McLaughlin & Stern
• Miranda Family Fund
• Morgan Stanley
• National Junior Tennis & Learning
• Parkway
• Orrick
• Peter Millar
• Pepsi
• Ralph Pucci
• Rhone
• RIA Eyewear
• Summer Discovery
• Taylor
• The Belle Group
• USTA Eastern Section
• USTA Foundation
• West Harlem Development Corporation
• Wilson
• Women’s Sports Foundation

Much more than a tennis program, HJTEP's blended sports, wellness, and education programs have taught, mentored, and shaped our young student athletes into academic winners, community leaders, and tennis champions, ready for the next steps in their unique life journeys. We have been centrally rooted in our community for 53 years in the holistic service to the needs of Harlem's youth and families. Please contact lhamilton@hjtep.org to explore customized funding opportunities and to discuss all the reasons HJTEP is worthy of your support.