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 and tournament promotions, product placement, and sampling opportunities, signage, and digital branded company highlight opportunities to HJTEP’s network of supporters. Packages can include:

$500,000 Tennis Program Sponsor

All Instruction Cohorts in the Tennis Program 

• 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 Classroom

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

$40,000 Competitive Summer Camp at Fordham University

• Facility, transportation & lunch subsidy

$15,000 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 working with potential partners to customize the perfect sponsorship package to meet your 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 forward into our next 50 years of service with elevated and more vibrant communications that celebrate the gifts our partners share with us. For more information, please contact lhamilton@hjtep.org.

Fundraising Events

HJTEP holds various fundraising events over the course of each year, including our upcoming 53rd Annual Gala on May 12, 2025, and 5th Annual HJTEP Golf Outing, which will take place in fall 2025 (date TBD).  HJTEP USTA-sanctioned tournaments, and additional community tennis events take place throughout each year. Please consider becoming an event sponsor to help us successfully bring our programming to more deserving youth.

Please contact lhamilton@hjtep.org to explore sponsorship opportunities and to learn more about why HJTEP is worthy of your support. Download our Case for Support.

Individual Donors

As with many grassroots, community-serving organizations, our financial support relies heavily on gifts from individual donors. Many of our supporters have been extremely loyal and closely connected to us, by attending our annual events year after year; providing critical year-end gifts; joining the Giving Tuesday movement; and automating monthly donations that help stabilize our operations and consistently cover big portions of our program costs over the course of each year. We are so grateful to each and every one of our individual donors and know that we would not have lasted our first 50 years without their steadfast advocacy and financial partnership in all that we do.

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 Classroom, 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
• Caro Home
• Clif Bar
• Estee Lauder
• Frito Lay
• Gatorade
• Harlem Children’s Zone
• Harlem Community Development Corporation
• Junior Tennis Foundation
• Laureus Sport for Good USA
• McLaughlin & Stern
• Meta
• Miranda Family Fund
• Morgan Stanley
• National Junior Tennis & Learning
• New York Urban League/CCNSF
• Peter Millar
• Pepsi
• Ralph Pucci
• Rhone
• RIA Eyewear
• Summer Discovery
• Taylor
• The Belle Group
• USTA
• USTA Eastern Section
• USTA Foundation
• West Harlem Development Corporation
• William C and Joyce C O'Neil Charitable Trust
• Wilson
• Women’s Sports Foundation
• X2 Performance

Our Impact

Much more than a tennis program, our blended sports, wellness, and education programs have taught, mentored, and shaped our young student athletes into tennis champions and leaders, ready for the next steps in their unique life journeys. We have been rooted in our Harlem community for over 50 years, holistically serving youth and families. 
 

• Our student athletes maintain a GPA of 3.1 on average
• 100% of our youth graduate from high school and 80% go on to attend college
• 65% receive academic financial aid and 25% earn tennis scholarships