Event Sponsorship Opportunities

After Dark is a popular gala event at our beautiful Woodend Nature Sanctuary in the evening light, when we welcome guests 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 buffet dinner, a unique opportunity to get up close and personal with wildlife in our region; meeting and mingling with Nature Forward leadership, great photo ops, 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.

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

($2,500 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

($1,000 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? 

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