Care2.com's Race to Stop Violence Against Women is a unique, philanthropic online effort that allows visitors to help stop violence against women with a simple point and click. Supported by the generosity of advertising sponsors, each click of the "Free Click to Help" button generates a donation to Amnesty International's campaign to Stop Violence Against Women.

Being a Sponsor means:

  1. Excellent reach and visibility at low cost.

• Sponsor button click-through rates average 1%, well above the industry average of less than 0.5%.


• Sponsors appear on the Race page in a highly visible location.


• Sponsors benefit from the publicity surrounding the Races, like the Race for the Rain Forest, which was named a USA Today "Hot Site" and featured on CNET's TV.com.


• Cost of sponsorship is $2 per 1,000 unique visitors per day. The minimum contribution is $1000.
• To donate less than $1000, click here to give directly to Amnesty.

  2. A donation to a good cause. Violence against women is rooted in a global culture of discrimination which denies women equal rights with men and which legitimizes the appropriation of women's bodies for individual gratification or political ends. Every year, violence in the home and the community devastates the lives of millions of women.

In the US, a woman is raped every 6 minutes; a woman is battered every 15 seconds. In North Africa, 6,000 women are genitally mutilated each day. This year, more than 15,000 women will be sold into sexual slavery in China. 200 women in Bangladesh will be horribly disfigured when their spurned husbands or suitors burn them with acid. More than 7,000 women in India will be murdered by their families and in-laws in disputes over dowries.

Amnesty International's Stop Violence Against Women program strives to protect women in all of these areas and more.

  3. Generating tremendous goodwill among potential customers.

 
Your next steps towards sponsorship are:

• Contact us here.
• Send a non-animated 120 x 30 pixel banner with click URL, along with your advertising budget. We will run your banner up to the maximum number of impressions allowed per your specified advertising Race budget. (Please note: we will not run advertisements that Race participants, Care2, our other sponsors, or Amnesty would find objectionable.)

Thank you for supporting Care2.com's Race to Stop Violence Against Women!