The TSC Alliance will enter into corporate relationships for the sole purpose of providing mission related benefits to its members and the TSC community. The TSC Alliance will not accept any corporate donation or enter into any corporate relationship that would create a conflict of interest, or even its appearance, with the TSC Alliance’s mission, sound science, or board-approved policies. All procedures and formal agreements with corporate donors will be designed to prevent any undue influence upon the TSC Alliance.
The TSC Alliance will perform appropriate and adequate due diligence, with respect to all corporate donors, to insure that the company’s activities, affiliations and business practices do not compromise the TSC Alliance’s mission.
In all relations with external organizations, the TSC Alliance will act in ways that will only enhance the credibility and professional recognition of the TSC Alliance. In order to insure that all corporate donations are in alignment with the TSC Alliance’s mission and are always for the sole benefit of the TSC community, the TSC Alliance’s Board of Directors has approved the following guidelines and principles in regard to corporate support.
Types of Corporate Support
- Financial and/or in-kind support in the form of grants and/or sponsorships for educational and communications vehicles (i.e., conferences, videos, podcasts, publications and Community Alliance initiatives).
- Financial and/or in-kind support in the form of grants and/or sponsorships for fundraising purposes.
- Strategic alliances that provide improved services for constituents.
- Cause-related marketing.
- Health message promotion.
- Financial grants and/or professional support for clinical trials and research.
Vested Corporate Interactions to Avoid
A vested corporation is one that either makes or offers products/services used by an individual with TSC.
- TSC Alliance will not endorse any other corporation’s product, service or program.
- TSC Alliance will not lend its name to license products, services or programs of other organizations.
- TSC Alliance will not recognize or certify the quality or standards of a particular company, including its products and services.
- TSC Alliance’s name and logo should not be associated with a specific branded product of an external company. References to the TSC Alliance website, phone number and address for the purposes of referral information are an exception to the above.
General Principles
- TSC Alliance will not endorse any corporation or product nor will it allow a corporation’s interest to factor into its decision-making process. All unrestricted educational grants received by the TSC Alliance will acknowledge and recognize the contributing corporate donor, not the company’s product (i.e. specific drug).
- In exchange for contributions, the TSC Alliance will allow standard recognition to include, but not be limited to, items such as signage and acknowledgement in TSC Alliance publications. Additional types of recognition will be considered on a case by case basis, based on the type of funding or opportunity presented.
- TSC Alliance will not accept grants that may adversely affect its nonprofit status.
- Revenue generated through corporations will be used to advance the mission of the TSC Alliance in accordance with the strategic plan.
- The TSC Alliance will maintain complete control of the development and implementation of all content and materials related to educational conferences and materials and all research and clinical trials conducted by the TSC Alliance.
- Corporations providing sponsorships for advocacy and research conferences or symposia will not influence conference content or selection of speakers.
- TSC Alliance will maintain control and discretion over all corporate funds received and will ensure compliance with related grant agreements.