Sponsorship Benefits

Be a part of Cascadia’s first annual regional conference, Living Future 07.  This revolutionary event, being held April 25-27, 2007 at Seattle Center, will shape the future of how our built environment is designed, built and maintained!  Cascadia seeks to facilitate dialogue and a create a concrete action plan to guide our region towards meeting the 2030 and the Living Building Challenges.

Sound interesting?    
 
Conference keynotes include Ed Mazria of Architecture 2030, Jason F. McLennan, CEO of Cascadia and more!  The overarching theme is mitigating climate change with in-depth technical training for a diverse array of building design and construction professionals focused on the Living Building Challenge. The conference will also include a bookstore, a fellowship awards program, the Living Future design prize, speed networking, sustainable building tours, project and material displays and a variety of other exciting events.  A session called “15 Minutes of Brilliance” will highlight the best and brightest ideas for how we can move to address climate change in revolutionary rather than in incremental ways. There will be prizes, there will be celebrities, and there will be opportunities to create major change.

To put on an event of this magnitude requires resources, and we’d like to ask for your support.  There are several exciting opportunities to create visibility for your firm while assisting Cascadia with making huge changes in our built environment:

Blossom   donate $5,000 or more and provide conference promotion/media outreach*
 
Sponsor Benefits:           
·      Cocktails & hors d’oeuvres with Jason F. McLennan at a mutually agreed upon time
·      Promote your organization to a captive audience of 400+ in introducing the master speaker
·      Moving image festival – on screen credit showing multiple times per day
·      Logo and name on exclusive poster, event brochure** and full page program***
·      Logo and name on Cascadia’s website - your company logo and information when users log on
·      Table for display of literature
·      4 complimentary tickets to Ed Mazria’s keynote, WMIG and Living Building Challenge
·       
Bloom   donate over $2,500 and provide conference promotion/media outreach*
 
Sponsor Benefits:           
·      Special recognition during the event
·      Logo and name on event brochure** and program***
·      Logo and name on Cascadia’s website
·      Company recognition on display board at event
·      2 complimentary tickets to Ed Mazria’s keynote, WMIG and
       Living Building     
 
Bud   donate over $1,000 and provide conference promotion/media outreach*
 
Sponsor Benefits:
·      Name on event brochure**
·      Logo and name on event program***
·      Name on Cascadia’s website
·      Company recognition on display board at event
·      2 Complimentary tickets to Cascadia’s Living Building
       Challenge

Sprout   donate over $500 as well as conference promotion/media outreach*
            
Sponsor Benefits:
·      Name on event brochure**
·      Name on event program***
·      Name on Cascadia’s website

Seed   contribution up to $499 as well as conference promotion/media outreach*          
                                               
Sponsor Benefits:
·      Name on event program***
·      Name on Cascadia’s website
 
In-Kind (contribution of services in any amount)
Want to contribute your services?  Send us a proposal for services such as writing, marketing, catering, etc.  We’ll make sure you get the recognition relative to your donor level.
 
*      Promotion/media outreach:  All sponsors will promote the conference – suggestions include electronic conference flyer distribution, listserves, and posting the conference on your companys website and calendar.
**    The event brochure includes a poster side and an information side

***  The event program is a descriptive program hand-out available during the event

 
Would your company like to sponsor more than $5,000 or have you been a sponsor of both Cascadia and the AIA in the past? Contact Marni Kahn at (206) 223-2028 or e-mail marni@cascadiagbc.org for exciting sponsorship opportunities.
 
 
PS  We appreciate your support!

 
The Cascadia Region Green Building Council is the premier green building organization in the Pacific Northwest concerned with making change in the built environment for positive environmental impact. As a cross-border advocacy organization we bring a unique perspective to green building by taking a bioregional approach to problem solving.  We endeavor to make significant change out of all proportion to our size, by acting as a lever for organizations in both the private and public sectors through creative programs, events and tools.  Cascadia promotes the design, construction and operation of buildings in Oregon, Washington and British Columbia that are environmentally responsible, profitable and healthy places to live, work and learn.