Sponsors

This section is the operational reference for how the Nano Collective sponsorship program is run. It is the canonical home for everything a contributor or core team member needs when adding, updating, or removing a sponsor across NC surfaces.

Sponsorship is not limited to cash. We are equally open to non-cash support such as cloud and API credits, compute, software licenses, hardware, and other resources that help our contributors build. In-kind support is recognised on the same basis as financial support, valued at its fair equivalent.

For the public-facing pitch, tiers, and how prospective sponsors get in touch, see nanocollective.org/sponsor . For the financial model behind sponsorship, where the money goes and how it reaches contributors, see the Economics Charter.

In this section

• Sponsorship Operations. Where sponsor logos go, what format they need to be in, and how new sponsorships are placed across NC surfaces.
• Sponsor onboarding. Step-by-step playbook for what the core team does when a new sponsorship is confirmed.
• Sponsor offboarding. What happens when a sponsorship ends, by lapse, by cancellation, or by NC declining to continue.

Principles this section follows

• Transparency over flattery. Sponsors fund the work; they do not direct it. We say so in writing and stick to it.
• Same rule across every surface. More dollars = more surfaces. No exclusivity, no slot caps, no hidden perks.
• Public process. How a sponsor is added or removed is documented in the open. Anyone, whether sponsor, contributor, or observer, can read exactly what we do.
• No retrospective changes. Terms a sponsor signs up under continue to apply for that sponsorship.