Stories in Flight. Connecting bird lovers worldwide through the path of migration and meaning.

Sponsor Opportunities

Bird Migration Gathering | March 13-15, 2026 and October 2-4, 2026

Stand with Care
As a Sponsor of Follow the Birds

The Bird Migration Gathering is a curated online convergence where birders, researchers, artists, and conservation-minded organizations notice migration together—in season, across places.

Sponsors are acknowledged within live sessions, registration flows, and replay environments as part of a migration-timed gathering attended by birders across multiple continents.

Sponsorship with Follow the Birds is not promotional placement.
It is visible alignment within a field of shared attention.

How Sponsorship Works

Small number of aligned organizations
Clear placement (not open-ended “support”)
Seasonal timing, not year-round noise

Recognition framed as contribution, not advertising

Why Partner With Us?

As a sponsor, you participate in a globally oriented gathering model built around migration, seasonality, and shared attention.
Each sponsorship is integrated into a seasonally repeating gathering model that brings birders together across continents through live and replayed sessions.

Our reach (2025 inaugural event):

Participants from 15 countries across 6 continents
Highly engaged, story-driven audience of bird lovers, travelers, and nature creatives
Expanding global visibility through our recurring rhythm of online gatherings and encore releases
This is not a high-volume audience — it is a field-oriented, repeat-attendance community.

Global Visibility, Local Impact

Your brand reaches an engaged worldwide audience of birders, conservation allies, travelers, and creatives—people who care deeply about the natural world and invest in experiences that make a difference.

Story-Driven Connection

Rather than traditional advertising, sponsorship with Follow the Birds weaves your organization directly into a movement.
You’ll be featured through storytelling—showing how your work helps hold space for connection, conservation, or culture.

Authentic Alignment

Our sponsorships are purpose-first. We collaborate only with brands and organizations that share our values of curiosity, compassion, and community.

Sponsorship Levels

What All Sponsors Share

Recognition within a global, values-aligned birding community

Placement framed through story, care, and seasonal context

Association with a gathering that privileges:

Attention over performance
Practice over promotion

Completion without pressure

Sponsors are recognized as helping hold the space, not funding an event.

Featured Session Sponsor — 2026

A sponsored contribution that becomes part of the Gathering itself.

Designed for organizations whose work meaningfully intersects with migration, field practice, conservation, travel, optics, or creative ecology—and who want to contribute depth, not ads.

Only a small number of Featured Sessions are offered per Gathering.

Investment: $5,000

Includes everything below, plus:

One organization-led educational or story-based session
Session framed as a sponsored contribution, not promotion
Included in:
- Live Gathering schedule
- Full replay library
Verbal acknowledgment during the session

Distinct visual treatment identifying the session as Featured

The session appears within the core Gathering schedule and remains accessible through the replay library.

Schedule a Sponsorship Conversation

A brief 15-minute alignment call

Seasonal Sponsor — 2026

This offering continues the Annual Sponsorship invitations shared earlier this season.

Designed for values-aligned organizations offering meaningful presence — without promotional overload.

Investment: $2,500

This sponsorship invites a small number of organizations to make their existing commitment to care, attention, and responsibility toward the living world visible alongside a global gathering of birders, artists, researchers, and conservation-minded travelers during the March 13–15 Bird Migration Gathering.

Follow the Birds exists to deepen how people observe, understand, and care for the living world — through birds, migration, and shared stories across cultures and continents. The Gathering is the moment when that global community comes together.

As a sponsor, your organization is recognized at this gathering for helping hold a space where curiosity, care, and attention are actively practiced, not just discussed.

What this sponsorship includes (details)

As a Seasonal Sponsor, your partnership includes:

Verbal acknowledgment during live opening or closing sessions, with inclusion in replay recordings
Logo and link placement on Gathering registration and sponsor pages
Inclusion in sponsor acknowledgments across key Gathering communications
Brand Presence within the Follow the Birds community in connection with the Gathering

This level is ideal for organizations seeking consistent recognition within a migration-timed gathering without leading a session.

Participating Sponsor — 2026

Designed for organizations that want credible, contextual presence during a migration-timed gathering without hosting a session or committing to a larger sponsorship.

Investment: $1,250

Includes:

Placement within the Gathering registration experience
Acknowledgment in core Gathering communications
Visibility as the March program locks and production advances

This is a sponsorship placement, not a donation.
The Participating Sponsor group is intentionally small.

In-Kind Partner

Designed for organizations whose products naturally belong within birding or observation practice — and whose credibility comes from use, not promotion.

In-Kind partnerships are considered when the resource meaningfully shapes participant experience.

Product or Resource Contribution

Present through materials that are genuinely used within birding, observation, or creative practice.

In-Kind Partners contribute tools or resources that align with how participants and contributors engage with birds — in the field, at home, or through creative attention.

Examples may include:

Field journals or art materials
Optics, audio, or observation tools
Educational or creative resources

Recognition includes:

Acknowledgment alongside other contributing organizations
Contextual mention where relevant (not promotional placement)

In-Kind partnerships are selective and reviewed for fit with the Gathering’s field-oriented ethos.

Year-Long Partnership

Global Partner — Expanded Collaboration

12-Month Collaborative Partnership · $10,000
A year-long collaboration shaping how migration is explored, shared, and carried across seasons.

Global Partners do not sponsor a single event.
They co-create continuity across the Follow the Birds ecosystem.

This partnership is designed for organizations whose work naturally unfolds over time — across places, seasons, and lived practice — and who want to participate in shaping how bird migration is understood and experienced globally.

What this partnership includes

One Featured Contribution
A collaboratively designed session or experience within either the March or October Bird Migration Gathering.
Framed as a contribution to the field, not promotion.
Seasonal Continuity
Your contribution is carried forward through a subsequent Encore experience, extending its life across the year rather than concentrating attention into a single moment.
Shared Stewardship Presence
Recognition across Follow the Birds touchpoints during the partnership period, signaling long-term alignment rather than campaign-based visibility.
Thoughtful Distribution
Permission to share the co-created contribution through your own channels, with shared credit and context.

What this is — and is not

This is:

Co-authorship, not placement
Relationship, not reach
Contribution, not sponsorship as advertising

This is not:

A logo-driven package
A volume or impressions play
A promotional takeover

Who this is for

Global Partnership is best suited to organizations who:

Work at the intersection of birds, place, care, and culture
Value depth, context, and ethical storytelling
See migration as an ongoing relationship — not a moment to capitalize on

Global Partnerships are limited and developed through direct conversation to ensure fit on both sides.

Next step:
A short alignment conversation to explore whether a year-long collaboration makes sense.

Why it works

Features & Benefits

Live + Encore integration — Extend reach from one presentation across the global community

Story-driven experiences — Builds authentic trust with photo and nature audiences

International reach — Participants from 15 countries across six continents (inaugural 2025 event)

Ethical alignment — Practice and field ethics before promotion

Timeline

February 2026 — March Gathering – Promotion period

March 2026 — March 13-15 Gathering – Featured Presentation window

May 2026 — Encore re-air of the March presentation

September 2026 — October Gathering – Promotion period

October 2026 — October Gathering – Featured Presentation window

November 2026 — Encore re-air of the October presentation

Frequently Asked Questions

General Sponsor Acknowledgment (Live or Replay)

This gathering is made possible through the support of our sponsors — organizations who believe that birds can help us see the world, and one another, more clearly. We’re grateful to partner with those helping make space for curiosity, care, and global connection through migration.

Founding Sponsor Acknowledgment

We’d like to thank our Annual Founding Sponsors — early partners whose support helps sustain these global gatherings and the ongoing community around them. Their commitment makes it possible for stories, cultures, and flyways to meet here.

Global Partner Acknowledgment (Featured)

This session is presented in collaboration with a Global Partner — an organization working alongside Follow the Birds to shape meaningful storytelling and learning across cultures and flyways. We’re grateful for their role in helping this work take flight.

Next Step

Partnership conversations begin with a short exploratory call.

A brief 15-minute alignment call to confirm fit, timing, and available placements.

Partnerships are reviewed personally to ensure clarity and mutual alignment.