Sponsorship Opportunities - "An Investment In Yourself"
 
Did You Know?
The Chamber is a Non-Profit 501c-6 that must raise 100% of our funding through donations and dues.
Chamber dues make up only 34% of our budget. 
The Chamber must raise nearly $150,000 per year (of a quarter-million dollar budget) from event sponsorships, publications, advertising etc.  
Chamber Sponsorships Available and General Pricing


Business
After Hours

(usually booked a year out due to high demand)


FREE to host; Your business covers all food/beverage
(Members are accustomed to complimentary beer and wine, as well as appetizers either catered or purchased retail or prepared by  the business itself.  The Chamber simply promotes the event and incurs no additional cost beyond promotion before the event and publicity after the event. Large Business After Hours are usually encouraged to host each year to build a tradition.


Coffee Connections


FREE to host; business covers all food & coffee

Luncheons


$250 to sponsor
(
In Newsletter for 2 Months, E-newsletter (called Apple Slices for four issues), Logo, Speak for 3 minutes at any Chamber Luncheon and your brochures are the ONLY brochures allowed at each place setting). Display your booth or sign at the same luncheon for everyone's undivided attention for an hour as they listen to the speaker.



Golf Tournament


$1,800 for Platinum Sponsorship (6 available; includes 4 golfers FREE)

 

This year's Chamber Golf Classic will be held:

  • Sept. 9, 2010   Thursday (always 1st Thur. after Labor Day)
  • 11:00 a.m. Shotgun Start
  • Call us at 952-432-8422 to become a Platinum Sponsor
  • (Platinum includes 4 golfers)


Hole and Signage Sponsorships available early July 2010


Grand Cabaret


Five-Diamond Sponsor, Grand Sponsor,
Table Sponsorships, Auction Items (live and silent)


Home & Garden Expo


Home & Garden Sponsors (5 available)
Booths are available to members only with first right of refusal from last year going out in December. (Chamber reserves the right to jury industry mix in order to keep Home & Garden related businesses at over 80% or participants


Website


Ads, Links, Enhanced Listings

Business Directories


Annually in late spring. Ads available.

Maps


Ads available every two-three years when reprinted


Apple Valley Resident's

Quick Reference Guide Directory


(mailed every two years to 22,600 homes reaching 52,000 people)  Mid-winter to early Spring.
                           Only 15 Ads Available


Newsletters


Color 8 Page
Monthly;          $   75 for Business Card Size Ad
                           $ 150 quarter page
                                         


Visitor Guides


Printed Each Year; Tourism Related Coupons & Ads

E-News--Weekly "Apple Slices"

Sold as one live auction package at Grand Cabaret

Chamber Apple Pack Mailer


Quarterly; $75 half-page & $115 full-page

Trade Shows


With Other Chambers as annual Countywide Business After Hours & Trade Show; Call 952-432-8422 for booth

Relocation Guide


Ads, Next printing likely 2011

Regional Seminars


Annually; Several Levels of Sponsorships

Business Day at the Capitol


Will be announced early Winter

Live Auction Items

In addition to hundreds of Silent Auction items from $50+.
Live Auction-Must be at Least $1,000 except for a few selected items for everyone to bid on, regardless of income. In 2010 we will ad a new feature, an Online Auction for pre-bidding.
If you see a sponsorship that interests you, just give us a call at 952-432-8422 or e-mail edkearney@applevalleychamber.com (we will send you a confirmation) to reserve a chance to highlight your business, your staff and enhance your community image. Leave a legacy in your community..

 

General Policy: Whenever possible, the Chamber gives first right of refusal to those who sponsored the previous year.  We feel this rewards early risk takers and recognizes loyalty.