Christian sponsorships help children all over the world receive the things they need through the funding and support of the many Christian organizations that are active. These organizations provide food, clean water, clean clothing and housing to children and their families, and also introduce them to the ways of the Christian religion.

Sponsorships of humanitarian aid are those that benefit persons living in sudden and extreme circumstances. These sponsorships are contracted with individuals or businesses for the benefit of persons affected with tragedy in their lives due to economic hardships, environmental circumstances such as natural disasters or famine, war torn countries where the population has been dessimated and the towns and villages where people once lived have been destroyed.

Environmental sponsors are sponsors that contribute funds to preserving the land, air, water and other aspects of the Earth. Quite a few organizations offer environmental sponsorships and take seriously the dilemma of pollution and the importance of maintaining a healthy planet.

Movie screen sponsorships are paid by corporations and other business entities to advertise the type business they own, product they produce, or service provided while patrons sit in movie theatres waiting for feature films to begin. These movie screen sponsors display their ad silently or with a voiceover announcement describing the movie screen sponsor's business or corporation, with the accompanying visual for all the movie goers to see.

Calendar sponsorships are purchased from sponsors to appear on traditional calendars created for 12 and 16 month scheduling. Calendars are often given out by small community sports teams and other community organizations for a small fee or as gifts for participating in certain community events, such as athletic events or musical events, or local theatre company performances, dance recitals or fundraisers. Calendar sponsors have their local ads with showing they have contributed to community events or to the specific event where the calendar is given out.

National Public Radio (NPR) is an independent radio network consisting of member radio stations. NPR is a not for profit organization that produces cultural arts programming and news broadcasts. Members of the NPR radio group are educational and non commercial radio stations that broadcast for at least 18 hours a day.

Asian American sponsors contribute to organizations that are founded to help Asian Americans achieve success and equality in United States as well as to contribute to other organizations that promote the same equality.

African American sponsorships support the endeavors of African Americans who have participated in or who wish to participate in academic, scientific, artistic and other activities, as well as organizations specific to African American culture and for the benefit of African Americans in general.

Scientific sponsors provide sponsorships for funding and equipment to further the research of the many different methods of scientific research anddevelop ment. Science is a giant factor in all progress and scientific sponsorship funding is necessary to continue to find new avenues for discovering information. Sponsorships for scientific experiments, research, as well as sponsors for scientific expeditions all contribute to the necessary exploration of information necessary to the progress of scientific endeavors.

Olympic sponsorships contribute more than 40% of Olympic income and help to fund competitions in many countries around the world. The televised Olympic coverage of competitions in different sports activities between different countries is broadcast worldwide and millions of people tune in to watch the coverage. Sponsorship of Olympic Games can be one of the most costly yet lucrative sponsorships a corporation may invest in. There are Winter Olympic Competitions and Summer Olympic competitions. Corporations sponsor individual athletes, and the Olympic Teams.