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Sponsor

Sponsor the National Albanian Registry.

Fund the community on the record.

NAR is funded by Albanian-owned businesses and individual donors — no federal money, no paid staff, no data sales. The cost of running this — server time, domain, email, regional ambassador stipends, an annual Impact Report — is real. If you want your community counted, this is how it gets backed.

Five amounts. Every sponsor on the same wall, same size, no tiers visible. The founding-year sponsorship is capped at 25 — when it's full, it's full.

Bashkë jemi më të fortë.

Become a sponsor → See the five amounts
6 On the wall businesses backing the count

What your sponsorship buys

Your customers vote without Albanian ballots.

Their grandmother brings her own translator to the ER. Their kids' school doesn't translate forms. Their college won't fund Albanian classes.

None of that changes while the Albanian-American community is invisible in the data systems institutions actually fund from. Recognition comes from sustained organizing on top of a credible count — the path the Civil Rights Act Title VI, Higher Education Act Title VI, and state and local laws modeled on the §203 threshold already use. The U.S. Census ACS stays essential; NAR is the community-led count alongside it.

Your sponsorship funds the operations that build the count. Regional ambassadors. Albanian-language registration. The annual Impact Report institutions can read.

Read the honest framing →

Current sponsors

Albanian-owned businesses backing the count.

A note from Ervin

Ervin Toro

Ervin Toro, MBA

Fier → New York at 13, 1997 · Founder, NAR · President, NY Chapter of AANO

If you own an Albanian business and you've made it this far down the page, hi. I want to keep this honest.

We don't sell ad space, run your logo through a press release, or promise traffic. What we do is put your name on a permanent page next to a number that, ten years from now, is going to mean something — because the community spent ten years building it.

Most of you got here because someone Albanian told you about us, and most of your customers and suppliers are Albanian too. This is the thing that makes you visible to all of them in one place — without LinkedIn, without Yelp, without Google deciding which of you ranks above the other.

Sponsorship runs $300 to $10,000. The $300 covers the table at a local event; the $10,000 covers a regional ambassador for a year. Pick what feels honest. We'll tell you what we spent it on, by name, in the annual report.

— Ervin

Who sponsors

Albanian American business owners — pizzerias, construction firms, real estate brokerages, healthcare practices, distribution and trucking, accounting firms, dental practices, restaurants. Plus individual donors and Albanian American families who want to be on the sponsor wall.

We do not accept sponsorship from political parties, foreign government entities, or businesses outside the United States.

Pick a number

Five amounts. What each one funds.

All sponsorships are tax-deductible upon IRS 501(c)(3) confirmation (filed; pending). Confirmation applies retroactively to filing date — your gift is deductible. We send a written acknowledgment within 7 days. Refund policy →

See the full year-one budget → — every line, total $50,000.

Every sponsor, same recognition

  • Your name or logo on the wall above — one wall, no tier labels, no size differentiation; every sponsor reads as equal
  • 501(c)(3) tax-deductible acknowledgment letter within 7 days — write it off on this year's return
  • Listed in NAR's annual transparency report — every dollar in, every dollar out, every name

Founding Sponsor

Capped at 25

$10,000+

Underwrites the year-one ambassador program across all ten target states — events, expense reimbursements, printed materials.

Apply →

Gold

$5,000

Funds one full quarter of the ambassador program plus the printed registration cards we hand out at community events.

Apply →

Silver

$2,500

Funds an Albanian-language print run plus a state's worth of community-event tables.

Apply →

Bronze

$1,000

Funds a year of core infrastructure (email, hosting, monitoring) plus the eagle banner and one Saturday booth at a major event.

Apply →

Community

$300

Funds a single community event — printed cards, the eagle banner, and the volunteer who hands them out.

Apply →

Can't reach $300 right now? Get in touch — we'll figure out a community-partner amount that works.

Larger commitments include private benefits — founder access, advisory channels, named seats at the annual NAR convening, input on Impact Report storytelling. We walk through the specifics during board confirmation, after we've confirmed fit. Nothing tier-specific appears on the public wall.

How it works

From application to sponsor wall.

  1. 01

    Apply

    Tell us your amount and a sentence about your business or motivation. We confirm fit within 48 hours.

  2. 02

    Pay (or schedule)

    $300–$2,500: pay online when our processor goes live, or mail a check to the org address. $5,000+: a board member calls you first to confirm, then sends an invoice — we want to thank larger sponsors personally.

  3. 03

    Receipt

    501(c)(3) tax-deductible acknowledgment letter within 7 days of payment. Includes EIN once IRS confirmation lands.

  4. 04

    On the wall

    Logo and name added to the wall above within one business day. Same logo size, same placement, no tier labels — every sponsor visible the same way.

Apply

Apply to sponsor.

Your business, your name, your community on the record — built once, owned forever. The board reviews every application personally.

Prefer to talk it through first? Book a call →

Hosting community events? List them at /events — free, indexed by Google.