Partner with theFORGE
Businesses, churches, schools, and neighbors make this work possible. There's more than one way to stand with North County founders.
Sponsorship funds the walk, not a single founder
Sponsorship underwrites the structure that walks founders, rather than paying for one named founder — so every founder keeps real skin in the game.
Sponsorship, community relations, mentorship from your team, professional referrals — or something we haven't thought of yet.
- Sponsorship
- Underwrite cohort seats, coaching, and the reporting that shows what grew.
- Community relations
- Host an event, open your network, or stand with us publicly in North County.
- Mentorship from your team
- Lend your people's expertise in finance, marketing, operations, food and product, or leadership to founders who need it.
- Professional referral network
- Attorneys, accountants, bookkeepers, and specialists who'll welcome a warm referral from theFORGE.
- Something we haven't thought of yet
- Including organizations that want to bring this work to their own community. We'd love the conversation.
What partners see
Partners receive cohort-level reporting: what founders built, what moved, and where the gaps still are. We report what grew, not just what we did. Individual founder stories are shared only with that founder's permission — and a founder who says no still receives everything.