Financial support
Sustains Keymakers and WVF’s work with entrepreneurs.
Keymakers Partners
Your contribution supports Keymakers. Your connections help open doors.
A Keymakers Partner does more than support entrepreneurs financially. Partners bring their knowledge, relationships and networks to the community, helping create opportunities that entrepreneurs might not otherwise reach.
Start a conversationThree ways Partners support Keymakers
Knowledge sharing
Interactive expert forums and practical Resource Library briefs.
Opening doors
Meaningful introductions and connections—expected of every Partner.
Open a Door
Opening doors is part of every partnership
Opening doors is part of every Keymakers partnership. WVF works with each Partner to identify the kinds of doors it is best positioned to open—customers, expertise, networks and appropriate capital resources. Partners consider relevant requests and make meaningful connections when they are well placed to help. There are no introduction quotas, and no financing, contracts or sales are guaranteed.
Customer Doors
Buyers, procurement, markets
Expertise Doors
Professionals who have solved it
Network Doors
Associations and relationships
Capital Doors
WVF-coordinated financing introductions
Partner levels
Find your way to open doors
Community Partner
$5,000 a year
Financial support for Keymakers and participation in the Open a Door initiative. Recognition on the Keymakers Partners page and in selected campaign communications; acknowledgment at the Annual Keymakers Gathering; a year-end summary of Keymakers activities and outcomes; the opportunity to identify business connections or expertise that could benefit entrepreneurs.
Start a conversationPathway Partner
$10,000 a year
Everything in Community Partner, plus underwriting one interactive Keymakers expert forum during the annual partnership term, shaped by real questions entrepreneurs raise. WVF coordinates the timing and controls the questions, experts, moderation and content. The Partner helps identify knowledgeable experts and is acknowledged in the event listing and at the opening. The forum is a member conversation, not a corporate presentation.
Start a conversationLead Partner
$25,000 a year
The interactive forum benefit, plus collaboration with WVF on practical briefs for the Keymakers Resource Library—on questions from forums, economic change, business growth, leadership, emerging opportunities and growth mindset—and one featured conversation in The Keymakers Exchange during the annual partnership term. Year-round recognition: by name on the Keymakers Partners page, in selected Keymakers communications and at the Annual Keymakers Gathering, listed first among Partners. WVF selects topics, reviews content and retains editorial control. Public use of a Partner’s logo requires appropriate authorization.
Start a conversationForums are practical discussions built around entrepreneurs’ questions—not workshops, corporate presentations or promotional seminars.
Recognition
Door Opener recognition
Every Partner receives the recognition that comes with its contribution level. Door Opener recognition is earned through meaningful participation—a useful introduction, an expert who solves a real challenge, access to a new network—and may appear in entrepreneur stories, Partner features and at the Annual Gathering, with consent and WVF’s editorial approval.
Partnership inquiry
Start a conversation
Tell WVF how your organization might help open doors. You can also reach us at keymaker@wvf-ny.org.
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