The first annual Susan Polgar National Open Championship for girls in January 2006 in Corpus Christi, Texas offers a laptop to the winner of each division beside the normal trophies and medals. Then there are other chess prizes such as $200 for 2nd, $150 for 3rd, $100 for 4th and $50 for 5th (in chess products) in each section.
Texas Tech University is offering three $1,000 scholarships!
World Chess Network offers a free one year Gold membership ($49.95) to each participant of the Susan Polgar National Open Championship for Girls and one $1,000 scholarship! This way, young players can continue to learn, play and improve every day online.
Other sponsors include USCF Sales, Polgar Chess, International Chess Marketing, Chess on DVDs, House of Staunton, Excalibur Electronics, World Chess Hall of Fame, ChessBase, Viva Media, Mon Roi, etc. All in all, we have sponsorship from 26 different companies to date!
What message does that give? It says that these companies believe in what we do with chess promotion for young people, especially girls.
http://www.uschess.org/tla/susanpolgarnationalopenforgirlsjan27-29-2006.pdf
http://www.uschess.org/news/press/spolgarprgnofgjan06.pdf 
This is awesome! Thanks!
What message does that give? It says that these companies believe in YOUNG people…
No it doesn’t. There’re many tournaments for young people without a single sponsor. It means that they believe in what Susan does to promote chess for young people. Keep up the good work Susan! We’re behind you all the way!