ABOUT US

WE KEPT COMING BACK TO SPORTS.

We're former athletes turned marketers, creatives, storytellers, and product builders. We've worked with the biggest brands in the world and the biggest changemakers in social impact.

But sports is the first place we learned about resilience, teamwork, and community. All of that good is still happening. We're here to make more of it sponsorable — and scalable — so that everyone in the ecosystem wins.

Volleyball team lined up together before a match

WHY WE EXIST

No one was connecting the dots.

Social impact is already happening across the corporate and sports worlds, it's just usually behind the scenes. In brand and agency rooms, it's real work often running on an underfunded, under-resourced budget line. In sports, it's real work too — but especially at the collegiate level, it's rarely sustained over time, and almost never celebrated the way the on-field product is.

We've spent our careers watching so many opportunities fall through that gap. Good work, good intent, and nobody fluent in contracts, compliance, rosters, and creative — all at the same time — to turn any of it into something a sponsor would be eager to fund.

We stopped waiting for someone to build it, and did it ourselves.

OUR WORK

Turning social impact into sponsorable inventory — built, activated, and measured with the teams, brands, athletes, and nonprofits it serves.

OUR VISION

A sports economy where doing good is the asset everyone competes for.

OUR ETHOS

Yes to collaboration. No to assholes.

WHO YOU'LL WORK WITH

The people who designed the model are the people doing the work.

Cody Damon

Founder

A former college baseball player who co-founded and led Media Cause, a premier social impact agency, growing it past $10M in annual revenue while helping hundreds of nonprofits grow reach and community.

Sports Envoy for World Boston, building the bridge between pro front offices, college athletic departments, sports brands, and the global diplomatic community
Former GM for Boston College Softball
Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Tufts, coaching the next generation of purpose-driven founders

Amy Small

Cofounder & Chief Creative Officer

Played women's ice hockey at Boston University. Now ex-VML and former EVP at Media Cause, where she built the agency's social impact creative and brand discipline from the ground up. Her work has won 60+ awards, including Webbys, Effies, Anthems, and a Cannes short list.

Built and led Wholebeing, a globally-recognized workplace wellbeing initiative, and the RiseUP Marketing Fellowship for emerging talent
Honored as 2023 Stevie Awards “Mentor of the Year” for company and industry leadership
Organizational consultant and executive leadership facilitator through ForumSpace and Empathy Lab

OUR ALL-STAR TEAM

Ben Bodipo-Memba

Sr. Director, Impact & Education

US National Volleyball team alum with 20+ years as a D1 volleyball coach, including Georgia Tech and UC Berkeley. Deep experience in student-athlete development, business strategy, and relationship management.

Carly Rohrer

Sr. Content Production Intern

Sports management grad student at Belmont, with an advertising degree and D1 football recruiting experience from the University of Georgia. Former water polo player.

Kodie (Koko) Lynn Kirsch

Analytics Intern

Stanford senior studying communications with an economics minor, competing as a D1 volleyball athlete while mentoring and coaching aspiring players.

WHY WORK WITH US

avg. years experience

Decades of senior leadership in marketing, advertising, media, social impact, college sports, and organizational leadership.

80+

awards earned

Effies, Emmys, Webbys, Anthems, and a Cannes short list — the work has been judged by people outside this room.

100%

hands-on service

No bait-and-switch. The cofounders and senior directors are personally in the work, day after day.

The first activations in this category are being built right now. One of them should be yours.

Reach either of us directly — cody@thatsthewinwin.com or amy@thatsthewinwin.com.

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