Donor-funded sponsorships let a partnered nonprofit gift a year of Lite, or a Starter pack, to one of their members — at no cost to them, and with our promise to never market to them.
Donate & Sponsor
This page exists ahead of the program because the most important thing we can do this year is build the right list. If you run a hospice, grief group, faith community, or care nonprofit — or if you'd like to sponsor one when it joins — write to us below. We'll start the program when we have three partners we trust.
The shape of the program is simple. The work is in choosing partners carefully, and protecting the recipient's privacy from start to finish.
step 01
Any of our four Starter packs ($19-$119) — or the annual Lite plan, sponsored for one person for a full year.
step 02
From our list of partnered organizations. Each partner has a small caseworker team that decides who receives a sponsorship.
step 03
Discreetly. The recipient gets a written note from the nonprofit, and never an ad from us. Your name is shared only if you want it to be.
step 04
The recipient records on their own time. No follow-up emails, no upsells. Once a year we send the partner a one-page anonymized impact letter.
what we'll look for in a partner
01 • trust
The partner has an existing, trusted relationship with the people who would receive a sponsorship — a hospice nurse, a grief counselor, a chaplain. We don't want to be the ones knocking on a door for the first time.
02 • discretion
The partner is willing to introduce a sponsorship in their own words, not ours. No press releases, no logos required, no obligation to publish anything we ever send them.
03 • match capacity
One staff member or volunteer who can spend twenty minutes a month deciding which member would benefit from the next sponsorship — and writing a short note when they hand it over.
Pick the side that matches you. Both get a reply within five business days.
For nonprofits
Yourself, or one you love. We'll write back within five business days, and if it feels like a fit, we'll send a short application.
For donors
Tell us roughly what you'd like to fund and we'll write to you the day we open the program — first cohort, Q3 2026.
05. faq
If you don't see what you're looking for, the full FAQ has more — or you can write to [email protected] and someone real will reply within 24 hours.
Not yet. Say Goodbye is a for-profit company. The sponsorship is a purchase, not a donation, even when the recipient is a member of a nonprofit. If we ever set up a 501(c)(3) arm, we'll say so plainly. For now, think of it as a gift, not a write-off.
No — and that's intentional. The partner nonprofit decides who receives a sponsorship, based on who in their care could most use a private account this season. It protects the recipient from feeling singled out and keeps you out of a position you probably don't want to be in.
Only if you ask. By default, sponsorships are anonymous — the recipient gets a note from the nonprofit, not from you. If you'd like your name shared, tell us and we'll ask the partner to pass it along.
A redemption code, a short letter from the partner, and a private account on Say Goodbye. They use it on their own time. We don't email them to "activate," "explore features," or include any other call to action. If they never use it, the partner can re-assign the sponsorship.
Because we'd rather start with three nonprofits we know well than thirty we don't. Adding partners is a slow, careful process — interviews, a small pilot, then a public listing. If you'd like to be one, the form above goes straight to Natalie.
Yes — that's a workplace partnership, which lives on our Partnerships page. The sponsorships above are for individual donors and small groups.
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