In those days, chess was a Soviet obsession and the regime sponsored an elaborate network of chess academies; Garry started to train at one run by the former world champion Mikhail Botvinnik.
With a variety of sponsored stages (including the Charles St. stage sponsored by Johns Hopkins University), a network of participating concert venues, and an endless stretch of impromptu performance spaces, Artscape offers artists and musicians a chance to share their work with an eager audience of festival-goers.
Since 1993, Dulux has sponsored Community RePaint, a network of local paint reuse schemes that give leftover reusable paint to individuals, families, communities and charities in need.
Mr. Anand has used his fame to promote the game in India, sponsoring a nationwide network of chess clubs like the one at Ms. Karnani's high school, Sadhu Vaswani International School for Girls in southern Delhi.
Khopits, according to its members and sponsors, is a network of cells with dozens of activists in 60 cities and villages.
As an incentive for students to attend the forum, Mr. Wolfe Pereira said, one of the sponsors, InteractiveOne, a network of Web sites aimed at African-Americans, "is offering two paid summer internships for summer 2012 for two of the participants".
After all, over the last 20 years, it has been a leading sponsor of a network of think tanks, advocacy groups and trade associations that has been peddling lies about climate science, even after the company's own scientists warned decades ago that the consequences of global warming could be catastrophic.
The United Food and Commercial Workers helped catalyze the protest, sponsored by Our Walmart, a network of the big box store's employees.
But even with co-sponsor capabilities and a network of venues, a successful Rabbl campaign can require a fair amount of user effort.
