Collective Aid partners with organisations that care about outcomes, not optics.
We are supporting a humanitarian emergency that is severely under-funded and largely invisible to mainstream philanthropy, combining direct humanitarian assistance, investigative reporting, and local civil society strengthening to support people who are most vulnerable now and prevent harms in the long-term.
For our partners, we are offering something rare a credible, evidence-driven opportunity to create real impact in a space that most institutions do not currently support and where marginal funding matters most.
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Sponsorship Opportunities
We structure partnerships around clear outcomes, meaning each partnership includes defined outputs, clear reporting and transparent use of funds. Our strategic sponsorship packages are designed to maximise impact for displaced people and civil society overall, while allowing sponsors to identify opportunities that align with their values, objectives and expected outcomes.
Why This Matters
This is a neglected problem: Deaths and abuses on borders remains a chronically under-reported and under-resourced. Relative to the harms that exist, funding is disproportionately low
This is tractable: We deliver direct interventions in short term, investigative research in the mid term and local civil society support for long term change, all with measurable outputs: essential items, WASH support and emergency responses, investigative reporting that feeds legal, media, and policy processes, support for vetted local organisations.
This is cost-effective: We support over 50,000 people annually with lean operations, local partnerships, and strict standards.
This is high-leverage: Our investigative reporting and civil-society support amplify impact beyond immediate aid, shaping accountability at national and regional levels, major funding flows, and border policy discourse.
If Collective Aid did not exist, many of these harms would go undocumented and many people would go unsupported.
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Service Sponsorship enables you to directly underwrite frontline humanitarian assistance, sponsoring us with the essentials that people in the most vulnerable positions need today. From mobile clothing distributions in Sarajevo to free-shop services in Lesvos, your investment guarantees immediate, tangible results: water, warmth, dignity.
But the impact doesn’t stop there. Every euro invested in service delivery is doubled in value, because our infrastructure also collects testimonies, builds data for advocacy, and strengthens civil society. Sponsors have the option to be recognised across a range of materials, with clear reporting on how your support translated into real lives protected.
This is highly cost-efficient, high-leverage philanthropy and an investment in measurable relief where impact-per-euro is maximised.
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A more ambitious package for those particularly concerned about the human rights future of European borders. Advocacy Sponsorship positions your organisation at the forefront of systemic change by underwriting our investigative research and lobbying efforts, you help transform frontline evidence into EU- and UN-level policy action. This is where short-term assistance becomes long-term prevention: every testimony gathered, every investigation into a death or disappearance, every policy paper written, working to a future that reduces suffering not expands it.
As an Advocacy Sponsor, your brand is directly associated with highest level of impact, sponsoring vital reports, investigation efforts, and political briefings: meaning your support directly helps hold those responsible for human rights abuse accountable. This means your brand being visibly tied to evidence-driven advocacy that is credible, ethical, and future-focused, reinforcing your role as a leader in sustainable impact and human rights leadership.
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The Civil Society Building Sponsorship lets you invest in resilience, not just for displaced people but for the civil society actors around us more widely. Your support as a Civil Society Building Sponsor will strengthen local civil society groups, fund leadership roles for those with lived experience of displacement, and ensures a sector-wide precedent for inclusive, representative decision-making.
With this sponsorship every euro invested will build local capacity, sectoral standards, and overall advocacy infrastructure that will continue generating impact long after the initial funding is seeded. It is an unparalleled opportunity to be visibly associated with systemic resilience building, diversity in leadership, and sector innovation.
With your brand backing civil society, you will become part of the structural solution, not just alleviating urgent suffering today, but actively building the stronger, fairer humanitarian ecosystem of tomorrow.
Why do brands partner with us?
Credibility: We operate according to rigorous standards, professional governance, and clear ethical frameworks, and we are consistently accepting feedback on how we can improve those standards.
Transparency: Partners receive structured impact reporting aligned with ESG, philanthropy, or foundation requirements.
Integrity: We do not trade in performative charity or saviour narratives. We prioritise serious and credible partnerships that share our commitment to safeguarding, evidence, and responsibility.
Strategic Alignment: Our work particularly resonates with organisations focused on effective philanthropy, responsible impact investment, human rights and accountability support, democracy and civil society investment and long-term systems change investment.
If your organisation values rigour over rhetoric, we are likely a strong fit.
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What can you expect?
Depending on your chosen sponsorship package, and the partnership structure, you will receive:
Detailed impact reporting,
Briefings and insights from the field,
Exclusive early investigative research findings,
Opportunities for engagement with our teams,
Responsible brand association opportunities,
Optional visibility aligned with your needs.
With all of these opportunities, we understand reputational risk, governance requirements, and internal decision-making constraints and are therefore prepared to discuss what framework would be best for you.
To ensure our work remains needs, impact and standards driven, Collective Aid will always maintain full operational and editorial independence in any partnership. This means that, although we are prepared to be flexible in finding frameworks that suit you, it is not possible to buy influence over our advocacy, or field decisions, and we are specifically interested in working with sponsors that share our belief that this is fundamental for effective humanitarian action.
Let’s Talk
Ready to learn more? If you are exploring how your organisation can support high-impact, evidence-driven humanitarian work then we would welcome a conversation.