Dr. Gaudiani also urges individuals to sponsor students at $1,600 a year and asks local businesses from the students' hometowns to join.

Businesses or individuals may sponsor one of eight dahlia rows in honor or memory of friends, family or events.

The first is that only individuals, not churches or institutions, can sponsor a class, in order to impress upon the youngsters that this is a personal commitment.

The Friends plan to get the irrigation system installed and persuade individuals and groups, like garden clubs, to sponsor flower beds.

Both men wanted to enable individuals to sponsor a piece of the rainforest and be engaged directly in the rainforest's preservation, helping to prevent climate change.

Private individuals, especially Hellenistic rulers, could also sponsor such buildings.

Any individual can sponsor a sea-tether site and give it a name, by pledging $150.

Recently Wildcare began a sponsorship program for injured owls and hawks; for $50, groups or individuals can sponsor an injured bird of prey.

To help support the breeding program, Piber offers an "adoption" program where individuals and corporations can sponsor an individual animal with an annual monetary donation.

"Now we may not have the ability financially to do more, but we could if we got some individuals or corporations" to sponsor each school, he said.