Sponsorship Opportunities
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Missouri (BBSEMO) offers several event sponsorship opportunities. An event sponsorship provides positive exposure for your company or organization and helps support mentoring programs for children in our community. See below for available sponsorship opportunities:
Bowl For Kids' Sake
Bowl For Kids' Sake is the largest bowl-a-thon fundraiser in the region. More than 1,500 bowlers from over 100 organizations participate annually. Events are held in St. Louis County, St. Charles County, Jefferson County and Cape Girardeau County. Your sponsorship will leverage the funds necesarry to match over 200 children each year. Sponsorship Opportunities are available from the $1,000 to the $25,000 range. For more information please contact:
St. Louis Metropolitan Area: Jane Smith, (314) 361-5900
Executive Director - Southern Regional Office: Ashley Beggs, (573) 339-0184
Sponsor-A-Match
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Missouri aims to serve thousands of young people each year and relies on the generosity of individuals, trusts, foundations and businesses to support their efforts. The average annual cost of a match is $1,200. This cost includes costs associated with: volunteer recruitment, screening, and education; child identification and assessment; volunteer and child matching; supervision and support of mentoring relationships; wrap around services provided to child and family; and program evaluation. When you sponsor one or more matches, you can count on being appreciated and kept up to date on the difference YOU are making.
In appreciation of your Sponsor-a-Match gift, Big Brothers Big Sisters will:
- Create an opportunity for you to engage with our children and volunteers
- List your name in our annual report to the community
- Mail/E-mail you bi-annual updates on the state of the agency
- Send you an agency logo item and invitations to select events
For more information on Sponsor-A-Match please contact: April Wyatt at (314)-361-5900
Monthly Match Activities
Each month the agency plans activities for Bigs and Littles. It gives them an opportunity to have fun and meet other matches. Activities and sponsorship levels vary from the $250 to $10,000 and can be customized to meet your company's needs. Examples of sponsorship opportunities include our lock-in, camping trip, mystery events and fishing outings.
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