Corporate Sponsorships and Corporate Underwriting

We work closely with our partners to develop customized sponsorships that are tailored to corporate marketing, communications and community relations objectives.  The Arboretum offers a diverse range of sponsorship programs that enable your company to build brand loyalty, increase corporate visibility and image, and reach your target audience.

Benefits include presenting, title and supporting sponsor status, one-to-one access, branding opportunities, free-to-public accessibility to the gardens, a plethora of hospitality options, exclusive employee, executive and client benefits including free membership and access to private demonstrations, lectures, plus much more.

Corporate Sponsorship and Underwriting Opportunities Include: 

• Dirt-O-Rama: Mysterious Tales from Underground (summer exhibition 2012)
• Green Play Yard grand opening celebration and summer-long free programming (summer 2012)
• Clean Water Summit public policy program (September 2012)
• Healthy Food Summit public policy program (October 2012)
• Autumn Unplugged season (Mid-September through October)
• Ghouls & Goblins at the Maze family event, (October 2012)
• Making Spirits Bright season (Thanksgiving through December)
• Maple Syrup Tours & Sugarbush Pancake Brunch (last weekend in March)
• 5K BudBreak (May 6, 2012)
• Gala in the Gardens (June 13, 2012)
• Toast & Taste in the Gardens (July 26, 2012)
• Chanhassen/Carver County Day (August 3, 2012)
• Underwriting of Urban Gardens, the Urban School Program, scholarship for fields trips and the traveling Plant Mobile
• Free Family Weekends (year-round programming)
• Free Admission Thursdays
• Free Admission Family Day
• Photography School
• Cooking School
• Gardening School
• Pea Pods Nursery School
• Nature Based Therapeutics
• Woodland Performance Center - inaugural year 2013
  

Revenue from corporate membership and sponsorship is used for annual operating support, for specific exhibits and events, and contributions are directed where the need is greatest. The Minnesota Landscape Arboretum is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization and its Federal Identification Number is 23-7081057.

For more information on corporate programs at the Arboretum, please contact Frank J. Molek at 952-443-1433 or fmolek@umn.edu