SPONSORSHIP
OPPORTUNITIES
By supporting CIP-PSTF, you are investing in the next generation of planning professionals while gaining national recognition and building lasting connections with future leaders in the field. Your support helps reduce financial barriers for planning students across Canada while enhancing your organization’s visibility and long-term relationships within the planning community.
Benefits to you, the sponsor
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Public recognition on CIP-PSTF’s website, annual report, AGM, and at CIP’s annual conference
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Charitable receipt for tax purposes
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CIP-PSTF’s management of the promotion, evaluation, and awarding of your scholarship/bursary on an annual basis
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Ability to shape the focus of the scholarship/bursary (e.g. research area or student background)
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Notification of the identity of each year’s selected recipient
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If interested in leveraging this program for employment, ability to receive each year’s recipient’s contact information and CV (upon their consent)
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Ability to meet each year’s recipient at CIP’s annual conference (their attendance allowing)
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Invitation to the Presidents’ VIP Reception at CIP’s annual conference
Benefits to the students you'll be impacting
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Critical financial support
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Potential employment opportunity, should you, the sponsor, be interested in extending one
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Eligibility for CIP-PSTF’s Ages Foundation Travel Awards, which covers all of their expenses to attend the next CIP conference in person (a highly-valued “bonus” by students)
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Public recognition on CIP-PSTF’s website, annual report, AGM, Plan Canada magazine, and CIP’s annual conference
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A certificate and digital badge to enhance their professional profiles
SCHOLARSHIPS & BURSARIES
CIP-PSTF is always interested in establishing new scholarships and bursaries that will support future planners in their education and research.
Sponsoring an annual scholarship or bursary is an effective way to demonstrate your organization’s commitment to the planning profession and your support for those in need. It is also an excellent opportunity to honour your organization’s founder(s) with an impactful legacy benefitting both Canada and its future planners.
As a sponsor, you may shape a sponsorship or bursary with your own criteria beyond the basic eligibility requirements of all CIP-PSTF offerings. Options include specifications for areas and levels of study, as well as those that promote equity, diversity, and inclusion.
CIP-PSTF will manage the promotion, evaluation, and awarding of the scholarship or bursary, and ensure the prudent management of the donated funds. Your organization will receive a charitable receipt in the full amount of your annual funding contribution.
To discuss scholarship or bursary sponsorships opportunities, please contact us.
EVENTS & FUNDRAISING
CIP-PSTF is always exploring opportunities to raise awareness and funds. This includes in-person and online events, as well as raffles, draws, and auctions. Donors of gifts-in-kind (property other than cash) for these purposes will receive a charitable receipt equal to the fair market value of the gift.
Should you or your organization wish to donate to or sponsor an awareness-raising or fundraising initiative, please contact us.
MAJOR SUPPORTERS
CIP-PSTF is thankful to the following for their ongoing support:
Each year, CIP makes a donation to CIP-PSTF to cover administrative expenses, the CIP Diversity Impact Bursary, and the Outstanding Graduating Student Award program.
Starting in 2019, Fotenn is the proud supporter of the Ted Fobert and Robert Tennant Planning Merit Bursary.
CIP’s College of Fellows makes an appeal each year to its members to raise funds for the bursary program. This funding supports the College of Fellows Undergraduate Bursary.
Starting in 2019, Bousfields Inc. is pleased to support the John Bousfield Bursary.
Subsidies for scholarship recipients’ attendance at CIP’s national conference are made available through the generous support of the Ages Foundation.
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Since 2022, SOAR Professional Services has generously funded the SOAR Professional Services Indigenous Student Bursary
