Sponsor or sponsorship may refer to a person or organization with some role (especially one of responsibility) regarding another person or organisation: *

Sponsor (commercial) Sponsoring something (or someone) is the act of supporting an event, activity, person, or organization financially or through the provision of products or services. The individual or group that provides the support, similar to a benefactor, is k ...

, supporter of an event, activity, or person *

Sponsor (legislative) A sponsor or patron is a person, usually a legislator, who presents a bill or resolution to a legislature for consideration. Those who support it are known as cosponsors (sometimes co-sponsors) or copatrons. U.S. Congress A sponsor in the United ...

, a person who introduces a bill * ''Sponsor'' (genus), a genus of beetles *

Child sponsorship Child sponsorship is a type of fundraising in which a charitable organization associates a donor sponsor with a particular child beneficiary. The sponsor receives updates from the child, typically including photos and translated letters, which help ...

, form of charitable giving *

Ship sponsor A ship sponsor, by tradition, is a female civilian who is invited to "sponsor" a vessel, presumably to bestow good luck and divine protection over the seagoing vessel and all that sail aboard. In the United States Navy and the United States Coast ...

*Sponsor of baptism, see

godparent In infant baptism and denominations of Christianity, a godparent (also known as a sponsor, or '' gossiprede'') is someone who bears witness to a child's christening and later is willing to help in their catechesis, as well as their lifelon ...

*Sponsorship in a

twelve-step program Twelve-step programs are international mutual aid programs supporting recovery from substance addictions, behavioral addictions and compulsions. Developed in the 1930s, the first twelve-step program, Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), aided its members ...

* "Sponsor" (song), a song by Teairra Marí * ''Sponsor'' (TV series), a 2021 South Korean television series

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