Community Arts Partnership Awards
2009 Community Arts Partnership Sponsorship Opportunities
The arts give life to the city. Help us celebrate those who give life to the arts.
Strong partnerships between businesses, community members and the arts stimulate economic growth, promote the city’s revitalization, encourage tourism and enhance Columbus’ cultural image. The Greater Columbus Arts Council’s Community Arts Partnership awards, now in their 26th year, recognize the community’s crucial contributions to the arts including financial support, non-cash contributions, volunteer involvement and board participation.
Support GCAC’s educational programs for children and get noticed by civic, corporate and arts leaders.
On Friday, March 6 from noon to 1:30 p.m. at COSI Columbus, GCAC will host civic, corporate and arts leaders for a luncheon, keynote speaker and presentation of the 2009 Community Arts Partnership awards, which will recognize three business and three individuals for outstanding support of local arts in the past year. Award categories include: Small Business, Medium Business, Large Business, Arts Educator (NEW!), Emerging Arts Leader (NEW!) and Arts Partner (NEW!).
GCAC will also present the annual Artistic Excellence Award, which carries a $10,000 prize, to a local arts organization that has demonstrated risk, innovation and artistic excellence within the past year.
Proceeds from this event will benefit GCAC’s educational programming for children, including our Art in the House and Artists-in-Schools programs. To sponsor the 2009 Community Arts Partnership Awards, contact Emily Swartzlander at 614-221-8492 or eswartzlander@gcac.org. Tables and individual tickets will be on sale through GCAC's Web site soon.
New this year! Awards for Arts Educator, Emerging Arts Leader and Arts Partner of the Year.
Corporate support of the arts is invaluable. But we also want to recognize the important work that individual community members do to sustain the arts in our community. Therefore, we’re introducing three new awards this year – the Arts Educator Award, the Emerging Arts Leader Award and the Arts Partner Award. GCAC will solicit nominations from the public for each of these awards. Award winners, who will be honored at the luncheon event along with our business winners, will be chosen by the GCAC board.
There are five sponsorship opportunities for the 2009 Community Arts Partnership awards:
Presenting Sponsor: $10,000
- Logo on all event advertising and promotional materials, including Portfolio, a quarterly e-newsletter sent to 5,000 recipients.
- Priority seating at the event.
- Mention in all press releases as a Presenting Sponsor.
- Logo recognition on all event signage, including the stage.
- Logo and Web site link on gcac.org, which has an average of 12,000 users per month.
- Full-page advertisement in the official Community Arts Partnership program.
- Recognition in an event video.
- Opportunity to host a city official.
- Two corporate tables of 8.
Media Sponsor: In-kind value of $20,000
The media sponsor publicizes the awards luncheon prior to the event and highlights the winning businesses after the event. This in-kind sponsorship includes:
- Logo on all event advertising and promotional materials, including Portfolio, a quarterly e-newsletter sent to 5,000 recipients.
- Priority seating at the event.
- Mention in all press releases as an official media sponsor.
- Logo recognition on all event signage, including the stage.
- Logo and Web site link on gcac.org, which averages 12,000 users per month.
- Full-page advertisement in the official Community Arts Partnership program.
- Recognition in an event video.
- One corporate table of 8.
Awards Sponsor: $5,000
- One table of 8, which averages 12,000 users per month.
- Text mention as a sponsor in the official Community Arts Partnership program.
- Text mention in Portfolio, a quarterly e-newsletter sent to 5,000 recipients, as a table sponsor.
- Text mention on event signage.
- Text mention on gcac.org
Table Sponsor: $1,500 (Corporate) or $750 (Nonprofit)
- One table of 8.
- Text mention as a sponsor in the official Community Arts Partnership program.
Individual tickets:
