Strengthening the Dallas Arboretum & Botanical Garden
Proposal Summary
Your sponsorship of the Dallas Arboretum Plant Trials Program will help us offset the annual costs of the following key areas:
- Plant Trials Field Day
- Upgrading and maintaining trial grounds
- Funding to visit CAST, OFA and other business trips
- Internship program
- Website, software, computer, camera, and other technology
- Maintenance of our greenhouse and growing areas
*If you have specific area you would like to sponsor please contact me directly.
Benefits & Sponsorship Levels
As a Trials Program Sponsor of any amount you will be listed as a sponsor of the Dallas Arboretum Plant Trials Program on our website, as a Field Day Sponsor and on our donor sign in our Main Trial Garden. As our sponsor you are licensed to list your advertising as a sponsor of the Dallas Arboretum Plant Trials Program for 1 year. Additional benefits are free memberships, advertising in newsletters, and free rentals (dependent on the amount given).
Please see donor levels below:
$550 – Copper Sponsor
- 6 complimentary Arboretum admission passes
- 2 complimentary Field Day admission passes
- Employee volunteer opportunities
- Donor recognition in Arboretum newsletter, quarterly entertainment guide and website
$1,100 – Bronze Sponsor
- 10 complimentary Arboretum admission passes
- 4 complimentary Field Day admission passes
- Employee volunteer opportunities
- Donor recognition in Arboretum newsletter, quarterly entertainment guide and website
$1,650 – Silver Sponsor
- 25 complimentary Arboretum admission passes
- 4 complimentary Field Day admission passes
- 4 one-year complimentary Family memberships, including year-round admission for up to 6 people per visit per membership and complimentary parking
- Employee volunteer opportunities
- Donor recognition in Arboretum newsletter, quarterly entertainment guide and website
$2,750 – Gold Sponsor
- 25 complimentary Arboretum admission passes
- 6 complimentary Field Day admission passes
- 4 one-year complimentary Family memberships, including year-round admission for up to 6 people per visit per membership and complimentary parking
- 5 minute talk at Field Day
- Employee volunteer opportunities
- Donor recognition in Arboretum newsletter, quarterly entertainment guide and website
$5,500 – Platinum Sponsor
- 50 complimentary Arboretum admission passes
- 10 complimentary Field Day admission passes
- 6 one-year complimentary Family memberships, including year-round admission for up to 6 people per visit per membership and complimentary parking
- 5 minute talk at Field Day
- Employee volunteer opportunities
- Donor recognition in Arboretum newsletter, quarterly entertainment guide and website
- Promotional sponsorship opportunities: in press releases for sponsored event, on promotional materials for sponsored event and corporate signage at the Arboretum plaza entrance (gift must be received by print deadline)
- Complimentary rental of the Camp House or Rosin Hall (Sunday through Thursday, as available) for up to 200 guests*
- 5 complimentary invitations to the annual Corporate Appreciation Dinner
Employee participation
Many of the Arboretum’s volunteers come from participating corporations, and we invite your employees to join in the year-round effort. Volunteers provide a wide variety of services – taking tickets, selling in the gift shop, assisting with children’s classes, recording research data and even planting. Naturally, Autumn at the Arboretum will provide enjoyable activities for employee participation. The Arboretum will be happy to work with your firm to arrange special employee volunteer options for these events.
Importance of Corporate Support
Incorporated in 1974 as a nonprofit organization, the mission of the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden is to build and maintain a public garden that promotes the art, enjoyment and knowledge of horticulture, while providing opportunities for earth sciences education and research. The Arboretum was established at Everette DeGolyer Estate in 1977 and expanded to the adjacent Alexander Camp Estate in 1980. The combined 66-acre garden, wholly owned by the City of Dallas and managed by the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Society, Inc., opened to the public in 1984.
It takes substantial private support, including gifts from generous corporate partners, to build and maintain the Dallas Arboretum as a valued asset for North Texas. The annual $24 million budget is funded by ticket sales and earned income (48 percent), philanthropy (40 percent), and the City of Dallas (less than two percent). Careful stewardship of financial resources has allowed the Arboretum to operate with a balanced budget for 19 consecutive years, but it takes substantial private support to offer the Plant Trial Program.
Summary
We are very grateful for the support. We share your love for our city, and value your help in providing a beautiful garden for those who live and visit here.