We greatly appreciate any and all of your work, wisdom and windfall that you can gift LEAP with.  As we weather through this difficult and challenging period, the following are additional ideas and ways for anyone who can help LEAP through sponsorship, donation, hosting or adopting, etc.

Please feel free to use this list as a guide to encourage and recruit friends, colleagues and family to support LEAP. The list is not in any priority order. Any and all will make a great difference to LEAP.

Sponsor or donate

1. Printing
   • Brochures
   • LEAP letterhead,
   • LEAP envelopes
   • Awards Dinner invitations
   • Banners
   • Awards Dinner Programs
   • Awards Dinner bio boards


2. Postage and mailing for:
   • Marketing mailings
   • Awards Dinner invitations


3. Program supplies
   • 3-ring binders
   • Legal size note pads
   • Wooden plaques
   • LEAP polo shirts
   • LEAP pens
   • LEAP tote bags
   • Flip chart/Easel paper pads
   • Easels
   • Masking tape
   • Various size post-it notes
   • Mr. Sketch water-based colored markers
   • Laminating supplies
   • Binder tabs
   • LEAP lanyards
   • Smaller note pads (with LEAP logo) for program binders


4. Office supplies
   • Boxes of photocopy paper
   • Writing pens
   • Various size post-it notes
   • 3-tab, colored file folders
   • Staples
   • Paper clips
   • Binder clips


5. Training materials
   • DISC personal profile assessment booklets
   • Eagles Flight simulation materials


6. Conference/meeting space for community programs – Community Leadership Conferences (CLCs), Executive Director’s Leadership Program (EDLP), Emerging Leaders Program (ELP)


7. Frequent flyer miles for EDLP & Leadership In Action Internship (LIA) participants


8. Donate an employee to volunteer at office
   • Bookkeeper
   • Website or database developer
   • Graphic design
   • IT architect who can develop platform for web-based or online content delivery
   • Green consultant – someone who can help take paper program materials and digitize and secure it for online access, help green LEAP office


9. Office equipment:
   • Flat bed dolly
   • Paper Shredder
   • Paper cutter
   • Easel pad carrier
   • Pelican cases for easels
   • Digital camera
   • PC laptop


10. Subscriptions:
    • Wall Street Journal – online
    • Chronicle of Philanthropy
    • Chronicle of Higher Education
    • Harvard Business Review – print & online
    • Foundation Directory Online
    • Stanford Social Innovation Review
    • MarketingProfs.com


11. Graphic design service for new brochure design, website and Awards Dinner invitation, programs, and bio board


12. LEAP dinner video & PSA filming and production


13. Basic cable-TV subscription or TV Converter box


14. Sponsor a CLC in any city


15. Send participants to the Leadership Development Program and/or Senior Manager Leadership Forum

Host (or sponsor)

1. Sponsor Leadership Development Program for Higher Education (LDPHE) activities, e.g. President’s Summit, LDPHE reception
2. Sponsor individual LIA activities
3. LEAP house party – ask friends and family to contribute
4. LEAP Board meeting – space and food

Adopt (or sponsor)

1. A LIA intern for the Leadership In Action Internship
2. An Executive Director for the EDLP
3. An up & coming future nonprofit leader for the ELP