Sierra Ferrell
Social Impact Album Partnership
What is Propeller?

We Turn Fans Into Donors, Advocates & Activists at Scale

Propeller is the leading social impact platform connecting the world's most influential voices with causes that matter. Every entry to win requires an action that directly benefits your cause, turning superfans into committed long-term supporters.

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The Art

Four Test Press Sleeves. Four Artists. No Two Alike.

Four commissioned artists, four hand made sleeves, built in true medium rather than digital print. Each one is unrepeatable, and each one carries a test press of the new album inside it.

Three Ways to Run It

Same Four Pieces. Three Very Different Outcomes.

Auctions maximize a single headline number. Sweepstakes maximize the number of people who give, and the number who keep giving. Here is the honest trade between them.

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Option 01

One Sweepstakes, Four Winners

All four sleeves become prizes in one campaign. Four separate winners, each receiving one original piece.

  • What it maximizesTotal donors, recurring monthly donors, and first party fan data at the highest volume of the three
  • Why it worksFour winners means four times the reason to enter and four winner moments to promote across the campaign window
  • Trade offNo single headline sale number to point at in press
Option 02

Auction One, Sweep the Other Three

One sleeve goes to auction as the marquee piece. The remaining three run as sweepstakes prizes alongside it.

  • What it maximizesA press worthy sale figure plus most of the donor volume a full sweepstakes would deliver
  • Why it worksThe auction gives media a number to write about, and that coverage drives entries into the sweepstakes
  • Trade offTwo mechanics to explain, and one fewer piece in the entry pool
Option 03

Auction All Four, With a Reserve

Each sleeve is auctioned separately with a reserve price, so no piece sells below its floor.

  • What it maximizesGross dollars per piece, with a guaranteed minimum on each
  • Why it worksCollectors bid against each other, and four separate closes create four news moments
  • Trade offFour buyers instead of thousands of donors, almost no recurring giving, and very little fan data

Our recommendation: a sweepstakes, paired with her own fund.

The value of this art is not only what four collectors will pay for it. It is how many people it moves to give, and how many of them are still giving a year from now. A sweepstakes converts attention into a donor file. An auction converts it into a receipt. If the goal is to stand up something durable in Sierra's name, the sweepstakes mechanic is what fills it.

AMOE Required

Any sweepstakes path requires a free alternate method of entry, no purchase or donation necessary, with official rules, eligibility, and prize valuation for four one of one pieces. Propeller handles drafting, registration, and bonding where required. Auction paths do not require an AMOE but do carry their own fair market value and tax receipting implications, which the fund or foundation decision below affects directly.

A Second Campaign

Send Two Fans to a Sierra Ferrell Headline Show

A flyaway sweepstakes to a headline date of her choosing, running on the same cause and the same fund as the art campaign. It extends the window past the holidays, gives the campaign a second promotional peak, and puts a winner in the room rather than only a piece of art on a wall.

Headline ShowMarket TBDDate TBD
The Window

Album Release Through Giving Tuesday, Landing at the Show

November 13
Album Out, Campaign Live

The art campaign launches the day the record does, with photography of all four sleeves and Sierra's video explaining the fund.

December 1
Giving Tuesday Peak

The single biggest giving day of the year lands mid flight. We build the paid and organic push around it and around the monthly donor ask.

Early January
Campaign Closes

Winners drawn and notified with two weeks of runway for travel fulfillment and for the art to be packed and shipped properly.

Show Date TBD
The Winner Travels

The flyaway winner flies out to the headline date, and the campaign closes on a content moment rather than a quiet email.

What we would need from the art side

  • High resolution photography of all four finished sleeves, shot before launch
  • Artist names and a short line on each piece and its medium
  • A video of Sierra explaining the pieces and where the money goes
  • Final decision on fund versus foundation before launch, so receipting is right from day one
Everyone Wins

A turnkey way to promote your tour & do massive good.

Fans Get

  • A deeper connection with the artist they love
  • A chance to win a phenomenal VIP experience: meet & greet with Sierra Ferrell
  • The chance to support a cause they care about

The Cause Gets

  • New one-time and recurring donors
  • National visibility alongside Sierra Ferrell and a major paid social campaign
  • High-intent activist leads
The Cause

Give It to Causes She Loves, or Build Something That Carries Her Name.

Two workable paths. One is faster to stand up. The other is hers to keep, and it can still fund every organization on this page.

Path A

Established Partners

A slate of aligned partners for Sierra to choose between or combine. Conscious Alliance sits closest to the mechanic itself, since trading original art for food is the model they were built on.

Conscious Alliance

Built inside the music community, turning album art and artist partnerships into food for families across the country.

No Kid Hungry

Works to end childhood hunger in America by connecting kids to school breakfast, summer meals, and year round food programs.

Feeding America

The largest hunger relief organization in the country, supplying a national network of food banks and community pantries.

WhyHunger

Fights hunger at its root by funding grassroots food justice and food sovereignty work rather than emergency relief alone.

World Wildlife Fund

Protects wildlife and habitat in nearly 100 countries, from forests and oceans to the climate systems that connect them.

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Path B

Her Own Fund

Sierra names and stands up her own fund, then grants out of it to the causes she cares about, hunger and wildlife included. Donors give to her fund rather than to someone else's, which means the relationship, the donor file, and the story stay with her permanently. It is the more streamlined build for a campaign this size, and it turns a one time art moment into a platform she can run against every album cycle.

  • Name the fund before launch, it appears on every donation receipt
  • Confirm fund versus foundation with her business management and counsel, the tax treatment differs meaningfully
  • The fund can still grant to any of the partners above, so Path A is not lost
  • Propeller runs the campaign against whichever structure they land on

Roll it toward something good.

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