Partnerships

Partner with
Open Guild.

Sponsors fund the program. Cities host it. Universities extend it.

01
Cities & Arts Councils
Sponsor-funded. We need a venue introduction and your community channels.

You get economic development, equity programming, and civic branding for minimal lift. We bring the program, the curriculum, the facilitation, and the follow-up. Your city opens the door.

Cities partnership →
02
Corporate Partners
Founding Sponsors help design the inaugural program.

Toolkit co-design, co-branded content, panel presence, and documented outcomes. Packages are built around your objectives. Founding Sponsor status is limited to the inaugural cohort — later sponsors join a program that already exists.

Corporate partnership →
03
University Partners
Curricular co-development, student placement, and community engagement.

A working relationship between your institution and the city's creative workforce. Co-develop the local program, place students alongside artisans, and document impact suitable for accreditation narratives and grant applications.

University partnership →

One program.
Three entry points.

Each partner plays a different role in the same program:

  • Corporate sponsors underwrite the cost and bring their tools into the curriculum.
  • Cities provide the venue, the audience, and civic legitimacy.
  • Universities extend the curriculum academically and place students as participants, mentors, or researchers.

The program works because all three show up.

Sponsors
Fund & co-design
Cities
Host & convene
Universities
Extend & document
Cost to participants
Free
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