Partner

Become a Gamechanger

Businesses, foundations, and community partners play an important role in expanding HJTEP’s reach and strengthening its long-term sustainability. We welcome corporate sponsorships, program underwriting, event partnerships, employee engagement, and meaningful in-kind contributions. Our team works to develop opportunities that align organizational priorities with measurable community impact.

Sponsorship Opportunities

For companies and organizations that seek more targeted impact for their charitable giving, we offer multi-level partnership opportunities that leverage your corporate brand through on-site and tournament promotions, product placement, sampling, signage, and digital company highlight opportunities to HJTEP’s network of supporters. Packages can include:

$500,000 Tennis Program Sponsor - 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, ACT/SAT Prep, College/Career Counseling

Executive Functioning, SEL, Student Agency, HJTEP Alumni Mentorship

Wellness Program

Tennis Against Obesity (TAO)

Fitness regiment

Nutritious snacks and nutrition counseling, meditation & mindfulness

Financial Literacy

$100,000 General Operations Support

$50,000 Competitive Summer Camp at Fordham University

Facility, transportation & lunch subsidy

$25,000 Beginners Summer Camp at Howard Bennett Playground on 135th St.

$20,000 Sponsor One (1) Competitive Player, Year-Round

All HJTEP tennis training, education, & wellness programs

Summer Camp

Tournament Equipment & Travel Support

Junior Team Tennis

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

All HJTEP tennis training, education, & wellness programs

Summer Camp

Junior Team Tennis

We look forward to working with any potential partner to customize the perfect sponsorship package that aligns with your company’s affinity for our mission and directly connects your brand to our mission, 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, more vibrant communications that celebrate the gifts our partners share with us. For more information, please contact Katrina Adams @ 212.491.3738.

Fundraising Events

HJTEP holds various fundraising events throughout the year, including a Tennis Pro-Am in August each year and our 55th Annual Gala on June 14, 2027. Multiple free community tennis clinics take place across Harlem throughout the year. Please consider becoming an event sponsor to help us successfully bring our programming to more deserving youth. Contact lhamilton@hjtep.org to learn more. 

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; fund additional court rentals, purchase tournament-level equipment, and pay tournament entry fees and travel costs; cover academic tutoring and wellness workshop modules, mindfulness, SEL support, and technology in the Learning Resource Center, to name a few designated funding goals. 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

Gatorade

DYCD

Hearst Foundation

Junior Tennis Foundation

Laureus Sport for Good USA

Morgan Stanley

National Junior Tennis & Learning

NFL Foundation

New York Urban League/CCNSF

Orrick

Office of Children and Family Services

Parkway

Peter Millar

Pinkerton Foundation

PWC Foundation

Ralph Pucci

RIA Eyewear

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Taylor

USTA

USTA Eastern Section

USTA Foundation

West Harlem Development Corporation

Wilson

Our Impact

For more than five decades, HJTEP has been a trusted community institution, using the power of tennis to open doors to opportunity and develop generations of young leaders. Today, HJTEP is a comprehensive sports-based youth development organization where tennis, education, and wellness work together to shape the whole child. Tennis is the engine that engages and challenges our young people, while our Learning Resource Classroom provides the essential academic, social-emotional, and wellness support that helps them succeed on the court, in school, and throughout life.

Our impact is reflected in more than 30,000 young people served since 1972 and an average of seven years retention per child. Our outcomes reflect the power of consistent mentorship, high expectations, and a community that invests in its youth over time.

Rooted in Harlem and committed to its future, HJTEP is building more than accomplished athletes and successful students. We are developing confident, resilient, capable young people equipped to lead, contribute to their communities, and shape powerful impactful futures:

Serve nearly 1300 +/- student-athletes annually

On average, HJTEP students maintain a 3.1 GPA

97% of our participants have graduated from high school since inception

90% matriculate to exceptional college and universities across the USA each year

        - 65% receive academic scholarships and financial aid

        - 25% earn tennis scholarships