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Dad + Child Game Day Experience

Creating meaningful, lasting memories by helping a deserving dad and child attend their first game together — or helping a dad experience his first game ever.

How the experience works

DFIO works with trusted nonprofit and community partners to identify deserving dads and children in a fair, thoughtful, and community-aligned way.

🏈 The Purpose

The goal is simple: strengthen the bond between fathers and their children through a shared experience they may not otherwise have access to.

👨‍👧 Who It Supports

  • A dad attending his first game ever
  • Or a dad attending his first game with his child
  • Selected with help from local nonprofit partners
💙 Even one game day experience can create a lifelong memory.

What the experience may include

Each experience may vary based on donated tickets, sponsorship support, and available in-kind contributions.

🎟️ Game Tickets

Tickets may be donated by fans, season ticket holders, local businesses, or purchased by DFIO when funds allow.

🚗 Parking

When possible, the experience may include parking support to reduce out-of-pocket costs for the family.

🍔 Food & Drinks

Support may also help cover basic food and beverages so the family can enjoy the full game day experience.

🎁 Keepsake Items

If available, the experience may include optional team or DFIO-branded keepsake items to help the family remember the day.

If donated tickets or available funds allow, the experience may include more than two tickets so additional children can attend.

Ways to support

This initiative is designed to grow through community support, local partnerships, and responsible sponsorship.

🎟️ Donate Tickets

Fans and season ticket holders can help by donating tickets for games they already know they cannot attend.

Donate Tickets

🏢 Sponsor an Experience

Local businesses and corporate partners can help sponsor tickets, parking, food, drinks, or a complete game day experience.

🤝 In-Kind Support

Partners may contribute parking passes, food vouchers, team merchandise, gift items, or other experience-related support.

💙 Make a Donation

Donations help DFIO cover experience-related costs when tickets or other items are not donated.

Responsible community impact

DFIO is committed to operating this initiative responsibly, fairly, and in alignment with its charitable mission.

✅ Compliance approach

  • No private benefit to donors or sponsors
  • Fair and documented participant selection process
  • Proper handling of donated goods and funds
  • Families identified through trusted nonprofit and community partners
Why it matters: This initiative creates emotional family experiences, strengthens community connection to fatherhood, and gives sponsors a meaningful way to support local families.

Help create a first-game memory

DFIO is starting with one meaningful experience and building responsibly through community support.