How Your Company Can Play a Part
From networking with leading decision-makers and entertaining key clients to increasing brand awareness, for 80 years The Bushnell, a not-for-profit performing arts center, has been our region’s premier sponsorship stage.
Your company will play a starring role and will be directly identified with our mission and extend vital support that will help us:
- Present the highest quality entertainment and provide a home for the finest not-for-profit performing arts groups
- Create community partnerships that support outreach and audience development efforts
- Inspire diverse, economically disadvantaged students to imagine brighter futures by using arts strategies to teach core curriculum
- Share information about our exciting arts-based economic development activities
Make a Wise Investment
We are proud to once again receive a four-star rating from Charity Navigator, America’s premier independent not-for-profit charity rating organization. The four-star rating is the highest that Charity Navigator assigns to the not-for-profit groups they assess, and it illustrates our ability to effectively manage and grow our finances, indicating that we execute our mission in a fiscally responsible way. The Bushnell was the only performing arts organization in Connecticut to receive this prestigious four-star rating.
View a list of our current corporate and foundation supporters to see which organizations are already gaining value through their association with The Bushnell brand, and then explore the following Corporate Sponsorship and Corporate Membership opportunities to learn how your company can support one of our region’s most treasured cultural assets. For detailed information about how companies of any size can maximize their visibility at our Center, please email Elizabeth Ray, Vice President of Development, or reach her at (860) 987-6018.
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Corporate Sponsorship
All sponsorship packages can be tailored to meet your company’s business objectives. Our sponsors enjoy many significant and exclusive benefits including:
- Guaranteed visibility in The Bushnell’s marketing program
- Exclusive brand-building promotions
- Unique hospitality and entertainment opportunities
- Access to Donor Concierge Services for premium seats
- Full promotional rights to use The Bushnell’s logo
- Membership for your employees in our Employee Benefits Program, which includes advance ticket offers
- Corporate recognition provided in all Bushnell publications and on our website
Corporate Membership
Corporate Membership at The Bushnell will provide your company with unparalleled opportunities to entertain clients and recognize employees at Connecticut’s premier not-for-profit performing arts center (download a copy of the 2009-2010 Corporate Membership Brochure here: 2011-2012 Corporate Membership Brochure ).
Membership benefits include:
- Access to Donor Concierge Services for premium tickets
- Membership in the exclusive Horace Bushnell Suite for convenient pre-show dining
- Opportunities to use The Bushnell’s reception spaces for your entertainment needs
- Membership for your employees in our Employee Benefits Program, which includes advance ticket offers
- Corporate recognition provided in select Bushnell publications and on our website
Trade Partnerships and In-Kind Donations
Sixteen years ago, The Bushnell launched our Trade Partner program as a way to market and promote the goods and services of small businesses, restaurants, hotels, merchants, and other companies to our Bushnell patrons in exchange for those goods and/or services integral to our day-to-day operation. From florists to limousine services our Trade Partners are as diverse as the commodities they exchange.
A Trade Partnership with The Bushnell offers small businesses a comprehensive array of marketing opportunities including:
- The opportunity to place inserts into The Prompter, The Bushnell's playbill
- Recognition in the Performer, our biannual newsletter and our Annual Message, logo placement on our ticket backs, envelope stock and other printed media, and website visibility including hot links
Unique, program-specific marketing opportunities can also be created. To find out how your company can participate in a Trade Partner Program, or make an in-kind donation, please email Joan Zieky, Corporate Trade Coordinator, or call her at (860) 987-6058.