Corporate · Civic · Foundation · Veteran
We're a small workshop with one wagon on the floor and a long road ahead. We don't need partnerships to look big. We need partnerships to last. The right corporate sponsor, rodeo association, foundation, civic group, or veterans' organization can carry a single build, fund a season of community rides, or anchor an annual accessibility commitment. What we're looking for — and what we're politely not — is below.
The wagon is a heritage object, a piece of accessibility infrastructure, and a piece of Texas civic life. Partnerships that touch any of those three honestly are the partnerships that tend to last.
Oil & gas service companies, agricultural co-ops, ranch supply, regional banks, hospitals and health systems with a rehab line, mobility-equipment manufacturers, tractor and trailer brands, construction trades, and the working trades generally. The wagon is built of materials your companies still trade in.
The Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo trail-ride associations — all thirteen routes into Memorial Park — and the wider Texas rodeo ecosystem. We work in your shadow and we're grateful for it. A formal seat at the table is something we're ready for.
American Legion posts, VFW halls, Wounded Warrior chapters, veterans' trail-ride groups, post-9/11 and Vietnam-era veteran organizations. Veterans were a founding audience for what Kelly is building. The Veteran wagon design has three tie-downs for a reason.
Foundations focused on disability inclusion, heritage trades, rural Texas, veterans' mobility, and youth apprenticeship. Hospitals, rehab centers, spinal-cord-injury programs, and adaptive-sports organizations — the first riders we hope to seat are people you already serve. Multi-year commitments welcome.
We're a non-profit and we need the help. We're also accountable to the people we want to seat. There are a small number of categories the workshop won't take a partnership from. Saying so out front saves everyone an awkward call later.
These aren't price tags — they're working ranges the workshop has found make sense given how the build calendar and the events calendar interlock. Every actual agreement is written one-off.
One season of community rides at a defined set of Texas events. Partner card on the wagon at those rides. Logo and story on the partners page. A real letter at the start and end of the season, photographs included.
A full wagon, materials to finish, six months of master labor. Name hand-burnt on the rear spar, invitation to the first ride, a photograph from the day a wheelchair-using rider boards the wagon for the first time. See Sponsor a Build for the detail.
A three- to five-year commitment that lets the workshop plan more than one wagon ahead. Anchors get a seat in the annual planning conversation, advance notice on event calendar, and a named partnership on the workshop letterhead. Best for foundations and larger corporates.
Open a conversation
Call Kelly or email Kristy. The first conversation is twenty minutes, no slide deck, no “deck for review.” If we're a fit, we'll write it up. If we're not, we'll say so kindly.
