Support Bear Path Acres Animal Educational Center by becoming a Sponsor!

You will have the ability to expose your company to a significant market of families with children. A Zoo sponsorship allows your company to gain access to target members of the community loyal to one of the areas most popular family attractions!

OPPORTUNITIES

As a sponsor of Zoo events and programs or partner in a customized promotion at Bear Path Acres, you can take advantage of a variety of opportunities and benefits including:
• Cause related programs
• Building brand awareness
• The creation of customized on-site sampling, couponing and promotional displays
• On-site signage, including high visibility entrance, zoo plaza banners and mini-billboards seen daily by hundreds including passing motorist.
• On-site premium and literature distribution
• Dedicated press releases
• Corporate hospitality
• Presence on the zoo’s web site
• Coverage in news letters.
• Inclusion in print, radio, television advertising
• Merchandising and retail tie-ins
• On-site food and retail vending opportunities

Season-long sponsorship of educational programs and marketing promotions
are available in addition to unique exhibit or short-term promotional partnerships.

WHY PARTNER WITH THE ZOO?

The Zoo invites you to become a partner in supporting Zoo conservation, education and environmental initiatives through a corporate sponsorship / strategic partnership. The non-profit Zoo is a premier event marketing property that can help you deliver your message to your target audience in an uncluttered environment through a number of cause-related marketing opportunities. Becoming a sponsor at Bear Path Acres can help you reach consumers in a way traditional advertising does not—by reaching them through their daily life experience.
Events touch customers. Events can impact brand. Events drive brand equity. Zoo sponsorship can create heightened corporate image and brand awareness while demonstrating social responsibility and community involvement, a seamless package designed to directly influence consumer behavior.

WHAT ARE YOUR BENEFITS?

You establish or reaffirm your image as an individual or business that cares about the preservation of Wildlife and important Community Values.

COMMERCIAL SPONSORSHIPS PROGRAMS
Bear Path Acres receives no funding from any government agency. All income comes directly from community support, private donations, sponsorships and individual animal adoptions. For those businesses who want to help support Bear Path Acres through their generous donations, we have initiated a yearly Commercial Sponsor Program. Choose from a range of support levels to

PROMOTE YOUR BUSINESS

Chinchilla Path $200 - $500: Receive certificate of adoption, corporate hospitality, honorable mention on website and two special Adoption day passes.

Emus Path $500 - $999: Receive certificate of adoption, corporate hospitality, honorable mention on website, two special Adoption day passes plus company name on sponsor board at the zoo.

Kinkajou Path $1,000 - $2,499: Receive certificate of adoption, corporate hospitality, honorable mention on website, four special Adoption day passes, company name on sponsor board at the zoo, plus your company’s literature distribution on site.*

Wallaby Path $2,500 - $4,999: Receive certificate of adoption, corporate hospitality, honorable mention on website, four special Adoption day passes, company name on sponsor board, your company’s literature distribution on site plus high visibility placement of your company banner on site at the zoo.*

Watusi Path $5,000 - $9,999: Receive certificate of adoption, corporate hospitality, website advertisement, six special Adoption day passes, company name on sponsor board, your company’s literature distribution, premium placement of your company’s mini billboard on site at the zoo, coverage in all news letters, plus a behind the scenes private tour for six people.*

Bison Path $10,000 - +: Receive certificate of adoption, corporate hospitality, website advertisement, eight special Adoption day passes, company name on sponsor board, your company’s literature distribution, signage advertisement at our high visibility entrance, coverage in all news letters, a behind the scenes private tour for eight people, plus inclusion in all print, radio, and television advertising.*

*Companies must supply their own literature, banner, mini billboard, signage advertisements and logos. Size restrictions apply.

Naming Rights Opportunities:

Bear Path Acres has several Naming Rights Projects your can get involved in. Would you like to have a permanent impact in the community?

Children’s Play Area $1,000 - $4,000: Families are encouraged to make the Kids Area their home base. Kids can play in a sandbox, or just catch a quick nap on the grass as their parents take a breather.

Activities Area $1,000 - $2,000: A covered shaded area with two (2) picnic tables where the children can participate in activities, such as arts and crafts to make learning fun.

Learning Center $5,000 - $6,000: An entire area dedicated to green building, clean fuels, recycling, sustainable agriculture and many other environmentally friendly practices and processes. This sponsorship will offer an array of marketing and promotional benefits to the sponsor.

Entrance Area $5,000 +: Improvement is needed to accommodate school buses more efficiently.

Big Cat Path $8,000: A large cat habitat.

Papa Bear $10,000: A bear habitat.

757-516-8774

email: info@bearpathacres.com

USDA Class C Licensed Zoo Exhibitor & Licensed State Wildlife Educator