Chris Babcock Art Prep: Sponsorship Levels
Support creative confidence, emotional safety, and joyful learning. Your sponsorship lets kids pick their own imagery to use as reference, learn drawing and painting, build portfolios, and feel seen and steady. Below are clear giving levels and what each funds.
Toxin-Free Paint Sponsorship—$1000
What you’re buying: Natural Acrylik Paints so the students can paint without breathing in formaldehyde and lead fumes. This kind of paint is the world's first plant-based, completely non-toxic alternative to acrylic paint that avoids ALL toxic additives and petroleum-based resins.
Pays for 10 sets of Natural Earth Acrylik paints, (95.00 each). Chris Babcock Art Prep offers their students the opportunity to work with the only brand of paints that have zero toxins. All other acrylic paints claiming to be toxic free still have 10% harmful formaldehyde and lead in each tube due to a loop-hole the law that allows for The "Trace Amount" Exception
Under Federal Trade Commission (FTC) guidelines, companies can claim a product is "VOC-free" or "emission-free" even if it contains hazardous substances, provided they are at "trace levels".
Formaldehyde: It is often a byproduct of preservatives used to prevent spoilage in water-based paints. Because it isn't "intentionally added" as a primary ingredient, it may not be listed.
Lead Thresholds: Federal law (16 CFR Part 1303) bans paint containing more than 0.009% (90 ppm) lead. Any amount below this 90 ppm limit is legally considered negligible, allowing products with "trace" lead to be sold without warning labels.
After School Scholarship Sponsor — $2,500
Funds 1 scholarship for a 1 year‑once a week after‑school art lesson for 10 months for 1 talented under resourced student with outstanding potential in the visual arts.
Summer Art Camp Scholarship Sponsor — $4,000
Funds 5 week summer camp scholarship for 1 talented under resourced student with outstanding potential in the visual arts.
Outreach Sponsor — $5,000
Funds support community outreach work to recruit underserved students in San Francisco’s middle schools with great potential in the visual arts, ages 7 to 17.
Portfolio Building Sponsor — $10,000
Funds 3 months of a part time teacher to instruct in the Portfolio Building Programs that helps students gain acceptance at their number 1 choice of Private High Schools in The Bay Area, and Ruth Asawa School of The Arts, ( SOTA) a public high school with rigorous academics, 3 hours a day art classes, and a rigorous audition process that accepts only the teen artists whose number 1 dream school is SOTA and have created the best audition assignments.
Art Instruction Sponsor — $25,000
Funds the salary of one California College of the Arts Graduate with four years experience teaching weaving and painting techniques to children and adults.
Prefer a targeted gift?
Options include:
Scholarship fund for a cohort of students
Teacher training endowment (trauma‑informed, inclusive pedagogy)
Provides teacher stipends so class stays small and personalized.
Exhibition & portfolio night sponsorships to celebrate student work
How we measure impact
Attendance and retention rates
Progress in technical skills and portfolio development
Student self‑reports on confidence and emotional safety
Stories and artwork shared in annual reports and donor impact summaries
Next steps
Choose a level or tell us your interest and we’ll build a custom package with recognition and reporting that fits your goals.
We’ll send an impact proposal with timelines, expected outcomes, and sample student work from programs your gift will support.
Thank you for investing in the next generation of creative leaders in San Francisco!
Photo above is CA State Treasurer Fiona Ma, founder and head teacher Chris Babcock and Tulip the Pug at Fiona’s first fundraiser to support Chris Babcock Art Prep. To read all the details, click on mission and vision statement.
Below is Chris Babcock’s speech she gave at the Paint and Sip fundraiser.