Become a Sponsor
First Responders’ Bridge runs three-day, expense-free retreats for First Responders, dispatchers and their family members or caregivers. Lodging, every meal, the speakers, the clinicians and the materials: none of it is charged to the people who come.
That’s paid for by sponsors, individual donors and grants. There are three ways to be a sponsor.
Become a Pillar SponsorSponsor the Bridge
Support the organization across the year rather than one event: the retreats, and everything that has to happen between them. Three levels, each with recognition at the retreats and year round.
See the levels →Become a Span SponsorSponsor a Single Retreat
Pay for one specific weekend, or one part of it: lodging, food, speakers, supplies or AV. Open to families and individuals, and can be given in honor or in memory.
Retreat sponsorship →Become a Golf SponsorSponsor the Annual Golf Outing
Hole sponsorships, carts, lunch and the levels that put your name on the course at the annual outing.
Golf sponsorship →What sponsors receive
Every sponsorship level carries the same core recognition, and the higher levels add to it:
- Your logo on the First Responders’ Bridge website
- Your name on the sponsor t-shirt, worn at every event
- Acknowledgments on social media
- The First Responders’ Bridge challenge coin
- Your logo on display at the retreats
- An invitation to the sponsor luncheon, from Gold up
See every level and what it includes →
Why it matters
From 2016 to 2022, an average of 184 law enforcement and corrections officers died by suicide each year, and that's likely an undercount.
Source: CNA and First H.E.L.P., 2024.
First Responders’ Bridge was built by people who know that from the inside: First Responders who have lived through duty-related crisis, licensed clinicians who have counseled them, and business and community leaders who wanted to do something about it. The retreats exist to support any active or retired First Responder, dispatcher, or family member living through a traumatic or life-altering event, and to help them hold onto the relationships that event puts at risk.
It’s clinician-led peer support, not therapy. People who have carried the same weight say so out loud to each other, and someone who walked in certain they were the only one finds out they never were.
“Thank you all so much for literally changing our lives.”
Retired law enforcement lieutenant and spouse, Georgia
“In only two full days, I realized that I was not alone and that there was help out there.”
Patrol officer, Pennsylvania
Who the retreats serve
- Law enforcement officers
- Corrections officers
- Firefighters
- Paramedics, EMS and EMTs
- Dispatchers, 911 operators and call takers
And the family members and caregivers who carry it with them.
How to start
Sponsorships are arranged directly rather than paid online, because card processing takes a real bite out of a five-figure gift. Get in touch and we’ll send an invoice or set up a transfer.
If you’d rather mail a check, the address and tax ID are on the give by check page. Write the sponsorship on the memo line so it’s credited correctly.
Other ways to give
Not a sponsorship? Become a Bridge Builder with a gift from you or your company, once or monthly.
Stock, QCDs and donor-advised funds.
Workplace giving through Community Shares of Mid Ohio.
First Responders’ Bridge is the operating name of The Bridge Corp, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. EIN 82-5475103.