DoublePenniesOnline LLC × America’s Drum & Bugle Corps
Welcome. Whether You’re a Corps, a Member, or a Family — You’re in the Right Place.
A research partnership designed to stand alongside the discipline and stewardship the drum corps community has always practiced. Take a moment to learn who we are, then choose the path that fits you.
↓ Start with the intro below
First — Who Is DPO?
DoublePenniesOnline LLC (DPO) is a U.S.-registered research and development company classified under NAICS 541720 (Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities). We study how households maintain steady, stewardship-oriented consumer spending through the financial pressures life puts on families.
We’re not a financial advisor. We’re not an investment, a loan, a money-doubling scheme, or a multi-level program. We’re a research company. Participants voluntarily contribute a small $10 research fee to enroll, and when their turn comes in a transparent First-Come-First-Served queue, they receive a $500 Consumer Research Spending Card (CRSC) for use in approved spending categories — up to 10 cycles per participant in Phase 1.
How does a research company have the resources to issue these Consumer Research Spending Cards? Through a structured research model conceptually grounded in the mathematical principle of exponential growth that gives our company its name: double pennies. The classic thought experiment — a single penny doubled every day reaches over $5 million by day 30 — illustrates how small, steady amounts can compound into something remarkable when applied with discipline. That same principle is the conceptual foundation of how DPO funds participant spending. You can read more about it on our Double Pennies Theory page.
Behind that mechanic is a simple conviction: stable household spending, even when life sends unexpected pressures, is one of the most valuable things to support and study in modern economics. Everything DPO does is built around that conviction.
Why Drum & Bugle Corps?
A Stewardship Cohort is a designated community within the DPO research program — a group of individuals who share a common organizational affiliation and who voluntarily participate as a recognizable cohort. Cohorts strengthen the research by giving us a defined community to observe over time, with findings shared back to the organization’s leadership to support their stewardship and education work.
We’ve chosen Drum & Bugle Corps as our inaugural Stewardship Cohort because few communities embody the values DPO researches more clearly. Year-round, members and families plan, save, and steward resources so that a performer’s season is possible. The discipline of touring life. The financial sacrifice of being part of the activity. The multi-generational tradition of standing behind something larger than oneself. That is stewardship in motion.
Now — Choose Your Path
Three roles, three perspectives, three ways into this community. Pick the one that fits you.
I lead a Drum & Bugle Corps
Directors, staff, and board members exploring whether the Stewardship Cohort partnership fits your Corps’s mission and protects your 501(c)(3) status.
A message to your Corps → MemberI march in a Drum & Bugle Corps
Current, returning, or alumni members ready to understand what voluntary research participation could mean for the everyday costs of tour life.
A message to you, member → FamilyI’m a Drum Corps Family
Parents, siblings, and supporters who travel with the activity, cheer from the stands, and want a little extra to make the experience enjoyable for the whole family.
A message for your family →What This Is Not
The Stewardship Cohort program is not a fundraising arrangement, not an income opportunity, and not a flow of money between a Corps and DPO. Corps do not collect or transmit funds. There are no commissions, no referral fees, and no special treatment in the queue. DPO is a consumer behavior research initiative classified under NAICS 541720 — not an investment, securities offering, or revenue-producing arrangement. Every member’s participation is strictly voluntary and is never a condition of Corps membership.
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