Thank you for considering becoming a TEDxAkron 2025 Partner for our upcoming Shaking The Rules event. Your sponsorship means the TEDxAkron team can put on a powerful and professional TEDx event to bring members of the Akron community together to discuss big ideas and philosophies that will inspire and impact the greater Akron community and the wider world!

SPECIAL AFTER-EVENT OFFER!

While the live event was astounding and is officially over, there are still several months before the TEDxAkron Speaker Videos are edited, shared with the TED Foundation, and then shared with the world. Which means, you still have a chance to have your name associated with this year's videos! To help close our modest fundraising efforts for our 2025 event, we are offering a unique opportunity to anyone who donates before October 20th, 2025: 

  • Community Partner - A gift of $200 will get you and/or your family’s name listed at the beginning and end of each 2025 Speaker Video.

  • Community Partner - A gift of $500 will get the name of your organization/business listed at the beginning and end of each 2025 Speaker Video.

  • GOLD Partner - A gift of $1000 will get your business or organization logo listed at the beginning and end of each 2025 Speaker Video.

In addition, you will be highlighted and celebrated on the TEDxAkron website and on our socials. Payment methods are below and for more information, please contact Ben Bisbee directly with questions or needs.

 
 
 
 

Checks or Cash

Please make checks payable to Rhinocorn Consulting or Ben Bisbee and put “TEDxAkron 2025” in the memo line

Contact Ben directly for a meeting to exchange the sponsorship funding or mail them to 40 N. Portage Path, Akron Ohio 44303 c/o Ben Bisbee

 

Venmo

For an immediate digital payment, please use this Venmo link or via the Venmo app @Rhinocorn and mention “TEDxAkron 2025” in the memo. Thank you.

 
 

Requiring 501c3 Status

If your gift requires a 501c3 status, TEDxAkron has partnered with Summit Art Space to support our fiscal agent needs as a nonprofit. Please make out the check or payment to Summit Art Space and put “TEDxAkron 2025” in the memo line. Address: 140 E Market St, Akron, OH 44308

Then please contact Ben directly to let him know you are sending the gift to Summit Art Space to alert their team.

 
 

Sponsorship support in 2025 for TEDxAkron helps to fund things like venue rental, professional videography, video editing, photography, speaker coaching, marketing, promotion, tech support, coordinating events, TED event education, and after-party needs. Checks or digital payments for sponsorships will be made to Rhinocorn Consulting, the fiscal agent for TEDxAkron by check, cash, or Venmo.

TEDxAkron events are planned and coordinated independently, under a free license granted by TED and The TED Foundation. Per TED and TEDx guidelines, all sponsorship funds or in-kind products raised or given through sponsorship must all go back into the organizing of the TEDx event. No members of the TEDxAkron team are paid for their roles or leadership. TEDxAkron is a license agreement with The TED Foundation, and not an independent organization with its own tax ID or EIN, therefore we are not able to distribute or offer any tax-related benefits.