WORKFORCE CHAMPIONS

One Sponsorship. 365 Days a Year. Spark the Future & So Much More!

Workforce Champions gives industry partners a meaningful way to invest in and support the next generation of skilled talent, while building brand visibility and community goodwill through a sustained, high-profile partnership with CTE Foundation.

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One Shared Identity with Three Public Promises

Investment Impact

Workforce Champions offers industry partners a meaningful return on their investment: elevated visibility as a workforce leader, deeper connections to emerging talent, and measurable outcomes that show the real difference your support makes year over year. 

Student Success

Flexible, unrestricted support that meets students’ most urgent and evolving needs, year after year. Rather than funding a single fixed initiative, partners fuel a responsive resource that adapts to whatever challenges our schools and students face, ensuring help arrives exactly where and when it’s needed most. 

A Public Movement

Workforce Champions transforms individual sponsorships into a shared, public cause. Through branding, signature events, and storytelling that spotlights both students and partners, this pillar builds visible momentum around workforce development that Sonoma County can rally behind. 

Our Workforce Champions Map

Map of Sonoma County highlighting local businesses and organizations, including MCE, Linkenheimer LLP, Quattrocchi Kwok Architects, LaFranchi Construction, and others, with geographic features such as lakes, rivers, and neighboring counties.

Our Workforce Industry Leaders

Workforce Champions
Samantha Paull Planning & Consulting
Industry Leader
Samantha Paull Planning & Consulting
Industry Leader

Based in Windsor and serving Northern California, Samantha Paull Planning & Consulting brings more than 20 years of event management experience to nonprofit galas, corporate gatherings and life's milestone celebrations. Samantha plans, designs and produces events that connect people around a shared purpose, and also offers business and professional development consulting for leaders and growing organizations.

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Industry Leader

Our Workforce Advocates

Workforce Champions
MCE Civil Engineering & Land Surveying
Workforce Advocate
MCE Civil Engineering & Land Surveying
Workforce Advocate

Formerly Munselle Civil Engineering, MCE has provided civil engineering, land planning and surveying across Sonoma and Mendocino counties since 2007, with offices in Healdsburg and Ukiah. Their team supports everything from winery and vineyard sites to residential subdivisions, built on responsive service and long-term client relationships.

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Workforce Advocate
Quattrocchi Kwok Architects
Workforce Advocate
Quattrocchi Kwok Architects
Workforce Advocate

Founded in 1986 and headquartered in Santa Rosa, QKA designs schools that help students and teachers focus, learn and thrive. Their recent work includes the new Career Technical Education Center at Analy High School, giving students hands-on space for engineering, welding, culinary arts and agricultural science.

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Workforce Advocate

Our Workforce Supporters

Workforce Champions
Lafranchi Architecture & Development
Workforce Supporter
Lafranchi Architecture & Development
Workforce Supporter

Founded by Ken Lafranchi in 1992, this Santa Rosa firm handles architecture, construction management and development for Sonoma County commercial projects, from wineries to revitalized urban properties.

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Workforce Supporter
Linkenheimer LLP CPAs & Advisors
Workforce Supporter
Linkenheimer LLP CPAs & Advisors
Workforce Supporter

A North Bay accounting firm since 1932, Linkenheimer partners with privately held and family-owned businesses on audit, tax and long-range planning, and is a longtime North Bay "Best Place to Work."

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Workforce Supporter
Midstate Construction
Workforce Supporter
Midstate Construction
Workforce Supporter

Building relationships since 1935, Petaluma-based Midstate is a North Bay general contractor behind housing, schools, wineries and public works, including SRJC Petaluma's Welcome and Connect Center.

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Workforce Supporter

BECOME A WORKFORCE CHAMPION

Everything You Gain - 365 Days a Year.

CTE Foundation offers a range of benefits from digital exposure and brand visibility to experiential opportunities. Your brand reaches our engaged local community of 6,800+ supporters across email, social media, and more. 

Looking for Spark the Future! sponsorship benefits? Each sponsorship level includes benefits & opportunities for Spark the Future!

Questions about tiers? Contact Malloy Schaffner at mschaffner@ctesonomacounty.org. Multi-year partnerships are available.

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Benefits at a Glance

Workforce Ally

$1,499/yr
  • Visibility & Year-Round Marketing - Digital
  • Spark the Future! Recognition & Hospitality
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Workforce Supporter

$2,999/yr
  • Visibility & Year-Round Marketing - Digital
  • Spark the Future! Marketing & Branding
  • Spark the Future! Recognition & Hospitality
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Workforce Advocate

$5,999/yr
  • Visibility & Year-Round Marketing - Digital
  • Spark the Future! Marketing & Branding
  • Spark the Future! Recognition & Hospitality
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Workforce Industry Leader

$12,500/yr
  • Visibility & Year-Round Marketing - Digital
  • Visibility & Year-Round Marketing - Convenings & Workshops
  • Spark the Future! Marketing & Branding
  • Spark the Future! Recognition & Hospitality
  • Student Engagement & Storytelling
  • Executive Access, Leadership & Sector Engagement
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Workforce Premier Champion

$25,000/yr
  • Visibility & Year-Round Marketing - Digital
  • Visibility & Year-Round Marketing - Convenings & Workshops
  • Spark the Future! Marketing & Branding
  • Spark the Future! Recognition & Hospitality
  • Student Engagement & Storytelling
  • Executive Access, Leadership & Sector Engagement
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Workforce Visionary

$50,000/yr
  • Visibility & Year-Round Marketing - Digital
  • Visibility & Year-Round Marketing - Convenings & Workshops
  • Spark the Future! Marketing & Branding
  • Spark the Future! Recognition & Hospitality
  • Student Engagement & Storytelling
  • Executive Access, Leadership & Sector Engagement
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From Pledge to Partnership in Four Steps

Step 1: Pledge

Choose your tier and submit the pledge form. Takes about three minutes – no payment required at this stage. 

Timing: Today

Step 2: Confirm

You receive a tier-specific welcome email laying out everything included, plus an invoice and a request for your logo and brand assets. 

Timing: Within 1 Business Day

Step 3: Activate

Once payment is received, your benefits go live – starting with the Digital Champions Map, your directory listing, your badge and window decal, and your Brag Kit. 

Timing: Within 5 Business Days of Payment

Step 4: Champion

Your recognition rolls out across the full year: newsletters, National CTE Month, workshops, and Spark the Future on Thursday, May 6. 

Timing: All Year, 365 Days a Year

Frequently Asked Questions

  • No, but Workforce Champions includes Spark the Future sponsorship benefits and opportunities.

    Spark the Future and the Student Showcase remain our flagship celebration – the 10th Anniversary is Thursday, May 6. Workforce Champions wraps a full year of partnership around that night.

  • Your partnership year begins on the date your payment is received and runs twelve months from there. Event benefits attach to the next Spark the Future that falls inside that window.

  • Payment plans/installments are available for the $5,999 level and above. Please inquire if this is something of interest.

  • Workforce Champions support is intentionally flexible and unrestricted so it can meet the most urgent needs. 

  • Workforce Ally at $1,499/yr is built for exactly that – full recognition as a Workforce Champion, on the map, in the directory, and in the window.

  • Please reach out to Malloy Schaffner, mschaffner@ctesonomacounty.org.

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Start making a difference. Your annual support fuels student success today and after graduation. 

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