Event Sponsorship Opportunities
Woodend 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.
Woodend 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, “Woodend After Dark, Presented by _____________”
- Headline listing as presenting sponsor on event webpage, e-invitations, and registration
- Opportunity to make remarks at the event
- Reserved table for ten at the fundraising dinner (10 tickets @ $175 each value)
- Banner name inclusion in press releases and mentions in news interviews about the event
- Prominent recognition in Nature Forward Annual Report and Nature Forward e-News
- Full-page recognition in our Nature Forward Quarterly publication (12,000 readership)
- Social Media: recognition in 3 individual Facebook, Instagram, and Bluesky posts (15K+ reach)
- 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 and mentions in news interviews about the event
- Recognition in Nature Forward Annual Report and e-News
- Half-page recognition in our Nature Forward Quarterly publication (12,000 readership)
- Social Media: recognition in 2 individual Facebook, Instagram, and Bluesky posts (10K+ reach)
- One-on-one meeting with Nature Forward leadership
- Meaningful volunteer opportunities for your company’s team
COMMUNITY SPONSOR: $5,000
($4,850 tax-deductible)
- Listing and logo as participating sponsor on event webpage and promotional materials
- Three transferable tickets to fundraising dinner (3 tickets @ $175 each value)
- Recognition on website, event e-invitations and registration information, Annual Report, and in Nature Forward e-News
- Logo placement in our Nature Forward Quarterly publication (12,000 readership)
- Social Media: recognition in 1 individual Facebook, Instagram, and Bluesky post (5K+ reach)
- Meaningful volunteer opportunities for your company’s team
SUPPORTING SPONSOR: $2,500
($2,400 tax-deductible)
- Listing and logo feature 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, e-invitations, registration information, Annual Report, and Nature Forward e-News
- Printed logo inclusion in our Nature Forward Quarterly publication (12,000 readership)
- Social Media: recognition in 1 group Facebook, Instagram, and Bluesky post (5K+ reach)
CONTRIBUTING SPONSOR: $1,000
($950 tax-deductible)
- Listing and logo feature 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 website, e-invitations, registration information, and in the Nature Forward Annual Report
- Social Media: recognition in 1 group Facebook, Instagram, and Bluesky posts (5K+ reach)
Questions?
Contact Talissa Bavaresco, Special Event and Sponsorship Manager
at (301) 450-1381 or [email protected]
Special thanks to our 2025 Woodend After Dark sponsors:
