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This summer, skateboarding toy brand Tech Deck took its line of fingerboards to Europe as a sponsor of the Tony Hawk and Friends tour. The sponsorship activation was designed to build brand equity and get kids excited about fingerboarding—a game where players use their fingers on a miniature toy skateboard to perform tricks similar to what professional skateboarders do in competition. To keep the worldwide momentum building, the brand is hitting the U.S. with eight stops from Sept.

Wouldn’t it be nice if your experiential program could pay for itself? Or at least, offset costs enough to save it from the chopping block when budgets get tight? Companies like Hasbro, Bounty and HP have created programs that despite not being entirely self-sufficient (yet), are offsetting costs by bringing in money to dump back into the program.

To raise awareness about Alzheimer’s disease and to collect signatures on a petition asking Congress to make the disease a national priority, 55 Alzheimer’s researchers are spinning their way across the country in a cycling relay. The 67-day, 4,500-mile ride, called the Alzheimer’s Breakthrough Ride, launched on July 17 in San Francisco after a ceremonial kick-off a week earlier at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in Hawaii. The relay has proven so successful the association has doubled its original goal of 50,000 signatures to 100,000.

As part of its efforts to promote health and wellness, insurance provider Aetna on Sept. 1 launched the Aetna Healthy Food Fight. The 10-city tour, developed with chefs from The Culinary Institute of America (CIA), kicked off with an employee event at Aetna’s corporate headquarters in Hartford, CT, that featured an appearance by celebrity chef Bobby Flay.

Summer concerts bring kids of all ages out to fairs and festivals, amphitheaters and arenas to rock with their favorite bands. And this year, as they piled into stadium parking lots and plied their way through the concourse crowds, they found all kinds of engaging experiences. Some, thanks to OfficeMax, got to create signs to wave to the performers on stage. Kia airbrushed attendees with temporary tattoos. KC Masterpiece and Kingsford fired up the grill for fans at backstage barbecues. And those are just a few of the on-site events.