vowbabyWOW · Sponsor a story

Some stories need more hands than ours.

A person, a family or an organisation asks for a sponsor. We verify the story before it is listed. Sponsors fund the making of a specific gift, paper, song or book, never cash; the money is held until the gift is made, and if a story is withdrawn or proven untrue, every sponsor is told first and chooses a refund or another story.

See the stories Ask for a sponsor The agreement

vowbabyWOW is a company-funded giving initiative of vowbaby, not a charity. Sponsorships are not donations and are not tax-deductible.

the gift is the point · made the same way as paid work

How it works

Verified, held, made, told.

A request

The person, family or organisation tells the story in their own words, says what they are asking for, and signs the Sponsor Request Agreement.

Verification

A person checks it: identity, the circumstance, the people named. Nothing is listed until it holds up; what is listed is edited for privacy.

Sponsorship

Sponsors fund the gift toward a stated goal by a needed-by date. Every sponsorship moves the bar; the money is held by vowbaby, not paid out to anyone.

The making

When the goal is met the studio makes the gift exactly as it would for a paying customer, and delivers it privately. If the date arrives first, the requester's standing choice applies: a partial gift from what was raised, or the money moves to the vowbabyWOW fund.

Told

Sponsors hear when it is delivered. If a story is withdrawn or proven untrue, sponsors hear first and choose: refund, or move it to another story.

Ask for a sponsor

Tell us the story. Truthfully.

For yourself, for your family, or for an organisation that serves people in hard chapters: hospitals, churches, nonprofits, galas. Keep medical and financial detail out of the public story; the reviewer may ask you for it privately.

Requests open soon.We are finishing verification and the agreement first. Write to the studio to be told when they open.

Who is asking

A person or family An organisation

Your nameYour email

Phone (private, for verification)Organisation and website (if an organisation)

Program

Wishes · weddings & celebrations Opportunities · babies & families Wonder · memories & legacy

Who the gift is for · ageZIP code · sponsors look for stories near them

Circumstances that apply (sponsors can search by these)

Headline · the story in one line The story · a few honest paragraphs, written for the public (no diagnoses, no money figures) What you are asking for

What would it beGoal, in dollars (the cost of making it; $10 – $5,000)

State or regionNeeded by · the story closes on this date

If the date arrives before the goal

Make a partial gift from what was raised Move it to the vowbabyWOW fund

The vowbabyWOW fund is company-advised: vowbaby applies it to other listed stories and gifts as it sees best fit. Either way your sponsors are told.

A photograph · required unless the recipient is under 18 Of the person, family or place the story is about. It is seen by the reviewer; it appears on the listing only if you and the studio agree, and never when the recipient is under 18. You confirm you have the right to share it. What a small gift makes (optional, shown to sponsors) What you can show the reviewer, privately (optional) Everything in this request is true and not embellished. I understand that if it is later proven otherwise, the value of what was made is recovered from me, my sponsors are told, and the listing is removed. I have read and agree to the Sponsor Request Agreement, including that listing is not guaranteed, that the public story may be edited for privacy, that sponsorships fund a gift and are never paid to me in cash, and that vowbabyWOW is not a charity.