After Dark Sponsor - Nature Forward

Event Sponsorship Opportunities

After Dark is a popular gala event that welcomes guests to our beautiful Woodend Nature Sanctuary in the evening light, after regular visiting hours. As an After Dark sponsor, we will showcase your organization’s community leadership to more than 40,000 members, supporters, and visitors from across the DMV. Sponsorship aligns your brand directly with positive, powerful, and popular environmental conservation and education programs that engage youth, families, veterans, and a diverse audience of nature enthusiasts, including our top individual donors.

After Dark features fun, engaging programming including select hors d’oeuvres and a gourmet dinner, meeting and mingling with Nature Forward leadership, and a silent auction. We invite your organization to become a beacon bearer for our vision of building a larger, more diverse community of people who treasure the natural world and work to preserve it.

Click the image to see highlights from our successful
2024 Woodend After Dark gala.

PREMIER SPONSOR: $25,000

($24,500 tax-deductible)

1 Exclusive Opportunity Available

Event naming rights, “After Dark, Presented by _____________ (Your company name)”
Headline listing as presenting sponsor on event webpage, e-invitations and registration materials
Opportunity to make welcoming remarks at the event
Reserved table for ten at the fundraising dinner (10 tickets @ $175 each value)
Showcase recognition in Nature Forward e-news (circulation 5,000+); in five Facebook, Instagram, and X (Twitter) posts (25,000+ reach); and full page in our Nature Forward Quarterly publication (12,000 readership)
Banner name inclusion in press releases, mentions in news interviews about the event
Top-line recognition as presenting sponsor on event e-invitations and registration information
Prominent recognition in Nature Forward Annual Report
One-on-one meeting with Nature Forward leadership
Meaningful, tailored volunteer opportunities for your company’s team

LEADING SPONSOR: $10,000

($9,750 tax-deductible)

Prominent listing as participating sponsor on event webpage
Support recognized in Executive Director’s dinner remarks
Five transferable tickets to fundraising dinner (5 tickets @ $175 each value)
Name inclusion in press releases, mentions in news interviews about the event
Brand placement on website, event e-invitations and registration information; recognition in Nature Forward e-news (circulation 5000+); in two Facebook, Twitter and Instagram posts (potential 10,000+ reach); and half-page recognition in our Nature Forward Quarterly publication (12,000 readership)
Recognition in Nature Forward Annual Report
Meaningful volunteer opportunities for your company’s team

COMMUNITY SPONSOR: $5,000

($4,850 tax-deductible)

Listing as participating sponsor on event webpage
Three transferable tickets to fundraising dinner (3 tickets @ $175 each value)
Recognition on website, event e-invitations and registration information; in Nature Forward e-news (circulation 5000+); in one Facebook, Twitter and Instagram posts (potential 5,000+ reach); and logo placement in our Nature Forward Quarterly publication (12,000 readership)
Sponsor Listing in Nature Forward Annual Report
Meaningful volunteer opportunities for your company’s team

SUPPORTING SPONSOR: $2,500

($2,400 tax-deductible)

Listing as participating sponsor on event webpage for the duration of event registration
Two non-transferable tickets to fundraising dinner (2 tickets @ $175 each value)
Recognition on website, event e-invitations and registration information; in Nature Forward e-news and in our Annual Report; logo inclusion in our Nature Forward Quarterly (12,000 readership)

CONTRIBUTING SPONSOR: $1,000

($950 tax-deductible)

Listing as participating sponsor on event webpage for the duration of event registration
One non-transferable ticket to fundraising dinner (1 ticket @ $175 each value)
Recognition on event e-invitations, and registration information, and in the Nature Forward Annual Report

Click here to become an After Dark Sponsor!

Questions?

Contact Talissa Bavaresco, Special Event and Sponsorship Manager
at (301) 450-1381 or [email protected]