Founding Heritage Sponsorship Opportunity
DAISY BATES: IN HER OWN WORDS
Little Rock Civil Rights History Tour
Presented by The Daisy Lee Gatson Bates Foundation
33 Historic Stops. 33 Stories.
One Founding Heritage Sponsor.
Become the Founding Heritage Sponsor. Your $7,500 sponsorship will help bring Arkansas' civil rights heritage to life across the entire tour app, told through Daisy Bates' experiences and documented words.
Some of the stories that changed America began right here in Arkansas. Preserving those stories—and inviting people to experience the places where they unfolded—is an opportunity to connect history, education, and tourism.
The Daisy Lee Gatson Bates Foundation invites you to become a Founding Heritage Sponsor of Daisy Bates: In Her Own Words, a civil rights history tour app launching November 11, 2026, on Daisy Bates' birthday.
As the nation approaches the 70th anniversary of the Little Rock Nine's integration of Central High School in September 2027, the app will offer a way for residents and visitors to explore this history through 33 historic stops, audio, video, archival material, and storytelling.
Although the tour's physical locations are in Little Rock, the stories belong to Arkansas, and their reach extends throughout the state and beyond its borders. They tell of Arkansans whose courage, leadership, and determination helped shape the nation. They also connect audiences with the communities, institutions, and experiences that shaped those individuals.
The Founding Heritage Sponsorship
One exclusive sponsorship
$7,500
There is only one Founding Heritage Sponsorship available. As the Founding Heritage Sponsor, you will be recognized for supporting the entire app and its 33 historic stops.
Your Founding Heritage Sponsorship includes:
- Exclusive Founding Heritage Sponsor recognition throughout the entire app, identifying you as the sponsor whose support made the tour possible, presented across all 33 historic stops.
- A dedicated sponsor recognition page within the app introducing your business, organization, family, or individual contribution, with a link to a website or other destination you choose.
- A custom QR code linking directly to the tour, for use at your business, online, or in promotional materials.
- Premier recognition in the app's sponsor directory and the Foundation's launch acknowledgments.
- An official digital sponsorship acknowledgment to share on your website and social media.
The Founding Heritage Sponsorship would support several opportunities for Arkansas
Strengthening heritage tourism.
The app can help attract travelers interested in civil rights, African American history, journalism, and American history. Connecting individual landmarks through a cohesive tour gives visitors more to discover and reasons to spend additional time exploring Arkansas.
Connecting a Little Rock visit with a broader Arkansas journey.
The tour can serve as a starting point for discovering related historical and cultural destinations across the state. Its stories provide opportunities to encourage further exploration of Arkansas communities, museums, historic sites, and local experiences.
Reaching audiences through virtual tourism.
Students, educators, families, and prospective travelers can engage with Arkansas history wherever they live. Virtual access can introduce the state to new audiences, support trip planning, and inspire future visits while making the experience available to those unable to travel.
Supporting local tourism economies.
Visitors exploring historic places also need meals, lodging, transportation, and other services. A compelling heritage experience can contribute to travel decisions that create opportunities for Arkansas businesses and communities.
Making Arkansas stories accessible statewide.
Residents do not have to travel to Little Rock to begin learning. The app can become a resource for classrooms, libraries, families, and community organizations throughout Arkansas, helping connect younger generations with the people and events that shaped their state.
Building value beyond the anniversary.
The 2027 commemoration offers a timely opportunity to introduce this resource. The app is intended to continue serving visitors, educators, and residents long after the anniversary, preserving stories and supporting discovery for years to come.
Your Founding Heritage Sponsorship would help bring these stories to a wider audience while demonstrating a commitment to the state's cultural heritage and the communities that sustain it.
We welcome a conversation about how the Founding Heritage Sponsorship can align with your company's heritage priorities. Together, we can invite people to discover Arkansas through the voices, places, and stories that helped change America.
Claim the Founding Heritage Sponsorship
One exclusive $7,500 Founding Heritage Sponsorship—once it is claimed, it is no longer available.
Founding Heritage Sponsor
$7,500
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Become the Founding Heritage Sponsor.
Help preserve the history where it happened—and share it with generations to come.
SO THEY'LL KNOW.