Sponsorship Packet

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Reaching for the stars, one dream at a time!

• Sponsorship Packet

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About our Foundation

• Dream Makers Youth Foundation is a non-profit
  organization founded in 2004 that provides
  community-based educational, recreational, and
  therapeutic services to preschool through high
  school-aged children with special needs
  throughout metropolitan Atlanta.
• Our mission is to enable children with special
  needs to be as independent as their conditions
  allow, within their natural environments.

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About our Foundation

• We believe that children with special needs have
  the right to engage in all activities made
  available to typically developing children.
• They deserve to have an accessible environment
• They deserve to feel good about themselves
• They deserve to enjoy being kids, regardless of
  their condition
• We are committed to
• Promoting the overall well-being of children with
  special needs and their families
• Empowering children with special needs to be
  active, productive individuals
• Increasing community levels of awareness,
  empathy, respect, and comfort towards individuals
  with disabilities

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Our Annual Events

• Dream Makers Youth Foundation hosts the following
  events throughout the year to provide
  opportunities for children to engage in
  recreational activities, increase community
  exposure of our organization, improve community
  awareness about needs and ABILITIES those who are
  disabled, and to raise money for our programs and
  the general operation of our organization.
• Casino Night Auction
• Chasing the Dream 5k Road Race
• Family Movie Night
• Holiday Party
• Celebrity Wheelchair Basketball Jam

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Celebrity Wheelchair Basketball Jam

• Star-studded, fast-paced game of wheelchair
  basketball where celebrities, often using sports
  chairs for the first time, play with and against
  wheelchair athletes.
• Initiated in 2004
• Introduces our community to wheelchair basketball
• Encourages people to focus on the ABILITIES of
  this who are disabled
• Partnered with the Atlanta Dream and hosted at
  Philips Arena in 2013

Past participants include Gavin Cloy
(Paralympian - Team USA Basketball) ? Jessica
Galli (Paralympian Team USA Track Field) ?
Mario West (NBA/NBADL) ? Josh Childress (NBA) ?
Jerry Clark (Jerry Clark Foundation) ? Lil
Bankhead L-Breezy (V103 Radio Personality) ?
Big Will (95.5 The Beat Radio Personality) ? Mark
Selbee (World Champion Kickboxer) ? John Shibley
(Radio Personalilty) ? Alasia Ballard (Americas
Next Top Model) ? Anthony Allen (Georgia Tech
Football) ? Dominique Reese (Georgia Tech
Football) ? Terance Mathis (NFL) ? Dorsey Levens
(NFL) ? Nick Anderson (NBA) ? Jumpin Jackie
Jackson (Harlem Globetrotters) ? Stevie Baggs
(NFL/CFL)
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Celebrity Wheelchair Basketball Jam
Next Jam August 3, 2014 immediately
following Atlanta Dream vs. New York Liberty
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Celebrity Wheelchair Basketball Jam

• Dream Makers Youth Foundation is currently
  seeking sponsors with similar missions and
  objectives, who are interested in making a
  di?erence in the lives of children with special
  needs and their families.
• Become a sponsor of our 10th ANNUAL Celebrity
  Wheelchair Basketball Jamchoosing the
  sponsorship level which best meets your companys
  marketing needs.
• Becoming a sponsor will be an awesome marketing
  opportunity for businesses to introduce their
  companies and products during an event that
  averages 7,000 - 8,000 in attendance!! Tickets
  are also included in each packet that could be
  used as incentives or to show appreciation.
• ALL DONATIONS ARE TAX-DEDUCTIBLE!!!

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Sponsorship Opportunities
7-Star Sponsor - 15,000

• Company logo with backlink on DMYF website for 12
  months
• Company logo with backlink on monthly DMYF email
  newsletter for 12 months
• Donation-specific press release and inclusion in
  all CWBJ event-related media
• Full-page ad in CWBJ program
• Company logo on all marketing material
• Display table on the main concourse of Philips
  Arena during The Atlanta Dream game
  
  with the
  ability to solicit your product/service
• 150 Tickets to both The Atlanta Dream/New York
  Liberty game The JAM

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Sponsorship Opportunities
6-Star Sponsor - 10,000

• Company logo with backlink on DMYF website for 6
  months
• Donation-specific press release and inclusion in
  all CWBJ event-related media
• Half-page ad in CWBJ program
• Company logo on all marketing material
• Display table on the main concourse of Philips
  Arena during The Atlanta Dream
  
  game with the ability to
  solicit your product/service
• 75 Tickets to both the Atlanta Dream/New York
  Liberty game The JAM

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Sponsorship Opportunities
5-Star Sponsor - 7,000

• Company logo with backlink on DMYF website for 3
  months
• Donation-specific press release and inclusion in
  all CWBJ event-related media
• Quarter-page ad in CWBJ program
• Company logo on all marketing material
• 50 Tickets to both The Atlanta Dream/New York
  Liberty game The JAM

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Sponsorship Opportunities
4-Star Sponsor - 4,000

• Company logo with backlink on DMYF website for 3
  months
• Business card-sized ad in CWBJ program
• Company logo on all marketing material
  
  
  material
• 35 Tickets to both The Atlanta Dream/New York
  LIberty game The JAM

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Sponsorship Opportunities
3-Star Sponsor - 2,000

• Business card-sized ad in CWBJ program
• Company logo on all marketing material
• 25 Tickets to both The Atlanta Dream/New York
  Liberty game The JAM

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Sponsorship Opportunities
2-Star Sponsor - 1,000

• Business card-sized ad in CWBJ program
• 20 Tickets to both The Atlanta Dream/New York
  LIberth game The JAM

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Sponsorship Opportunities
1-Star Sponsor - 500

• Company logo placement in CWBJ program and 10
  tickets to both The Atlanta Dream/New York
  Liberty game The JAM

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Contact Dream Makers
DMYF Director of Marketing Sponsorships Eric
Lavette Email ericlavette_at_dmyf.info Phone 404-96
3-3400 Fax [phone]

• Dream Makers Youth Foundation
• Website www.dmyf.info
• Email info_at_dmyf.info
• Phone [phone]
• Fax [phone]

Public Relations 5 Star Relations Kasheyna
McDonald Email pr_at_5starrelations.com Phone 404-5
30-9394 Fax [phone]
For more information about becoming a sponsor,
contact Eric LaVette, Director or Marketing
Sales at the contact information listed above.
Stay connected with Dream Makers Youth
Foundation
twitter.com/dreammakersyf
youtube.com/dreammakersyf
facebook.com/dmyf.info
flickr.com/dmyf
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Thank You!!!

• On behalf of Dream Makers Youth Foundation and
  the children with special needs we serve, we
  THANK YOU for your support!