Bringing Dreams & Projects to Life with Collaboration and Sponsorship
Amazing things happen when big dreams and ideas, a passion for impact, and collaboration partners come together! This is how dreams get raised.
Mission Statement
Raise a Dream helps entrepreneurs and mission-driven businesses bring projects & dreams to life, amplify their message, and make a bigger impact in the world through collaboration and sponsorship.
Knowledge & Sharing
Learn about collaboration and sponsorship as well as the industry's leading how-to's through our blog posts, online courses, products and social media communities. We want to share our knowledge and experience with you and help you grow with collaboration and sponsorships, amplify your message, and make a bigger impact.
Training & Mentoring
With more than 30 years of collaboration and sponsorship expertise to train you or your team personally, we'll share all of the tools we use so that you can build powerful collaborations and secure your own sponsors. Our mentoring is focused on customized strategies for your goals and the projects you want to bring to life.
Meet Charmaine Hammond
Charmaine Hammond, co-founder of Raise a Dream Training & Consulting Inc. and founder of Hammond International, is passionate about bringing projects to life, engaging partners and sponsors, and building collaboration into pretty much everything she does. And she LOVES helping people raise their dreams!
She knows first hand the power of collaboration and sponsorship. Over the past almost 30 years, Charmaine has worked on all sides of the sponsorship table. In addition to having more than 40 sponsors for her own projects, she has helped Raise a Dream clients find sponsorship for their books, movies, speaking tours, events, shows, podcasts, and more.
She has raised and helped her clients generate more than a million dollars in sponsorship and grants for different festivals, books, tours, film/book projects, and client projects. She generated $200,000 in sponsorship and just as much in-kind for a Community Expo in Alberta. Through Raise a Dream’s mentoring and programs with Charmaine, one service club that Charmaine helped tripled its sponsorship in a year by re-engaging past sponsors as well as securing new ones.
As a professional speaker, Charmaine earned the designation of CSP (Certified Speaking Professional), and she is currently 1 of only 65 in Canada and 1 of less than 1000 globally to hold this designation for speaking excellence. She has presented to more than 500,000 people at in-person events and just as many through virtual events. As an an international best-selling and award-winning author, Charmaine has 5 traditionally published books and is featured in 12 others.
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By Mail:
Raise a Dream Training & Consulting Inc.
Att: Charmaine Hammond
PO Box 71010, RPO Maplehurst
Burlington, ON
L7T 4J8
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Raise a Dream Beginnings
In 2017, Charmaine Hammond & Rebecca Kirstein Resch founded Raise a Dream. With over 30 years of combined experience in building collaborative relationships and partnerships in business to accelerate the growth of their own businesses and nonprofits (over 10 of them between them!) and the businesses and projects of 100’s of others through their mastermind, training and mentorship programs, they came together through their shared belief in lifting others as they climb.