benefits of corporate sponsorship

By sponsoring the Exhibition "Backyards and Beyond: Mississippians and Their Stories" - The First Year After Hurricane Katrina, your organization will experience an innovative means of meeting its philanthropic, marketing, public relations, and community outreach goals. We are offering sponsorship opportunities for small and large corporations. Exhibition sponsors will receive prominent visibility among a large and diverse audience through print, radio, television, web advertising, news releases, publications, and signage. We will work with your company to assure a benefits package that meets your company's needs. This exciting, important Exhibition will garner attention on every level, local, regional, and national.

Why Sponsor?

Sponsorship is good for business ... Your Business!

• Tie your product and mission to one of the largest Visual Exhibitions representing Mississippians ever to be mounted
• Communicate a message of your community involvement by helping to create a venue through which Mississippians can tell their stories to the rest of the world for decades to come
• Position your organization as a devoted supporter of the arts
  
• Create a lasting impact -- this exhibition holds tremendous historical significance, both for Mississippi and our Nation
  
• Position your organization as an industry leader. This Exhibit will provide a long-term venue sustaining the awareness for ongoing fundraising and volunteerism needed to help rebuild Mississippi's Gulf Coast
  
• Provide a meaningful experience for your intended audience

Exclusive and Shared Sponsorship opportunities are available.

Here is a sample of the recognition your company will receive: *

1. Title wall credit on the entrance to the Exhibition
   
2. Logo recognition and sponsor statement in the Exhibition catalogue
   
3. Corporate acquisition of an original H.C. Porter painting featured in the Exhibition
   
4. Logo and link on the H.C. Porter "Backyards and Beyond" website
   
5. Logo and name recognition in direct mail and marketing materials
   
6. Logo and sponsor statement in press kits
   
7. Visibility on event invitations
   
8. Exclusive invitation and program participation at preshow opening events
   
9. VIP Exhibition passes
   
10. Recognition in 160 plus page Hardback Exhibition Art Book

* benefits vary depending on level of sponsorship

LEVELS OF CORPORATE SPONSORSHIP

* TITLE SPONSOR
* PREMIUM SPONSOR
* LEAD SPONSOR
* PREMIER SPONSOR
* MAJOR SPONSOR
* BACKYARD FRIENDS
* BEYOND FRIENDS

There are also opportunities for your corporation to provide valuable in-kind support by donating gifts or services.

For more information on Sponsorship opportunities and In-Kind Donations please contact Karole Sessums, Executive Director, at support@backyardsandbeyond.org or (601) 661-9444.

For a list of our current corporate and in-kind sponsors, click here.

601.661.9444
info@backyardsandbeyond.org

Karole Sessums, Executive Director
Glenn Sanford, Assistant Director

>> Watch online video & learn more.
(DVD available upon request)

individual sponsorship and donations

Just as sponsorships of the exhibition paintings by individuals throughout the U.S. are a crucial funding factor for the artist’s portion of this project, Backyards and Beyond also depends on Individual contributions to help make this all possible.

Backyards and Beyond (a 501(c)3 non profit organization) over-sees the overall project production and management and funds every part of the exhibition except for the paintings. Your contributions are tax deductible and reflect the continued spirit of community nation wide which occurred on an unprecedented scale after Hurricane Katrina. Please consider becoming a part of this important effort and helping us take this exhibition and its messages to the entire nation.

For more information on Sponsorship opportunities and In-Kind Donations please contact Karole Sessums, Executive Director, at support@backyardsandbeyond.org or (601) 661-9444.

For a list of our current corporate and in-kind sponsors, click here.

601.661.9444
info@backyardsandbeyond.org

Karole Sessums, Executive Director
Glenn Sanford, Assistant Director

>>Watch online video & learn more.
(DVD available upon request)