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Boone Pride is a 100% volunteer-staffed non-profit civic league. All
of our donations go toward the pride events, this web site, and our
various community "give back" programs.
We'd like to thank all of our sponsors who make our organization and
activities possible. They are on the banner above. Please support these
businesses and organizations! Contact
us if you're interested in sponsoring an event, or need us to help
plan your pride event.
 
$1,000 donation
$800
donation
$600
donation
$400
donation
$200
donation
$100
donation
Thank you for your media coverage of our events!
Carolina Rainbow
News, Out
in Asheville, High
Country Press, SHOUT
Magazine, The Mountain
Times
And thank you to these web sites for offering reciprocal links!
Equality NC, The
Advocate, MattHillNC.com,
Salisbury
PFLAG, Romantic
Asheville,
Women in the
Woods, Carolina
Lesbian Forum, Plastic
Flamingo Productions, Email
us to be listed here!
Thank you for taking a look at our sponsorship levels for this year's
Boone Pride event. We are a smaller organization, but are serving a
very active community. We have been serving surrounding counties in
western North Carolina since 2005 through our community events and web
site, and we invite you to join us in this effort.
Your donation supports our mission to: UNITE a visible GLBTIQA
(Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersexed, Queer/Questioning)
community; CELEBRATE freedom and equality of all people; and SUPPORT
the well being and development of the local GLBTIQA community.
Your donation supports BoonePride.org
Boonepride.org is the High Country's leading online Web portal devoted
to uniting and representing the area’s GLBTIQA community. The free, donation-supported
service brings you local news and updates about everything from social
activities to activism. The site also promotes Boone’s annual gay pride
event. In addition, Boonepride.org offers links to other GLBTIQA sources
on the Internet aimed at helping area web surfers in their online explorations.
Readers can also browse through an online list of gay-friendly businesses
in the area.
Your donation supports our pride events.
Pride becomes more meaningful when shared and when enjoyed in the company
of others. Boone Pride seeks to create opportunities for our GLBTIQA
community to join together in a festive, celebratory space.
Acceptance and a sense of inclusion are the real gifts that we give
to one another when we participate. Through our participation, we share
a part of ourselves. As the spirit of cooperation reaches new heights
and as groups of individuals create an enormous "home team," where teamwork
truly takes center stage, it is important to remember the goal that
we pursue: the victory of human acceptance and understanding over the
boundaries of race, religion, gender, and sexual orientation. The intrinsic
value that we obtain as a result of being an active participant in this
celebration of community is priceless.
Your
donation supports our greater community
Each year we make a donation to an area organization to help them better
our community. We also started an award in 2008 to help a student of
the High Country pursue an education beyond high school. Proceeds in
the past have been used to purchase books and DVDs for the Appalachian
Regional Public Library, to help the local PFLAG chapter, and for legal
fees to incorporate Boone Pride, Inc.
Past Pride Events:
2008
June 13th-15th Boone Pride - "Live, Love, Be!"
Music Fest featuring Crys Matthews, Melinda Kingsley Band, and Melissa
Reaves
Community Workshops
Club Dance with DJOutstreet
Family Picnic sponsored by TBA
2008 Boone Pride Award Recipient: TBA
2007 June 8th/9th Boone Pride
- "Cultivate Pride"
VJ Dance w/ cash bar and table Vendors
Picnic sponsored by PFLAG and free market by TransAction
Community
workshops featuring guest speakers from NC Equality
Proceeds used for new books and DVDs for LGBT youth
at the Appalachian Regional Public Library, donated to
bring a guest performance to Boone (Scott Turner Schofield), and to
start the BPI Award.
2006 June 10th Boone Pride - "Out with the stars"
Family Picnic sponsored by PFLAG/CCU
NC Outings Karaoke
Pride DJ Dance and cash bar
Proceeds
used for new books for GLBTIQA youth at the Appalachian
Regional Public Library
2005 July 9th Boone Pride - "Coming Out"
Video DJ Dance and cash bar
Proceeds donated to PFLAG and used to start Boone Pride, Inc.
Boone Pride sponsorship levels
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$1000+ Includes: - Your name/logo at the event entrance, on the web
site, and on the tickets - Your name/logo (300x300 pixels) on the video
screensaver at the events - Mention of your sponsorship in press releases
and radio announcements - A space for your materials at an informational
table area - Web site linkage - Complimentary tickets to the events
- A letter of thanks noting your donation to our organization This sponsorship
is designated to help pay for the DJ dance.
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$800+ Includes: - Your name/logo
at the event entrance and on the web site - Your name/logo (200x200
pixels) on the video screensaver at the dance - A space for your materials
at an informational table area - Web site linkage - Complimentary tickets
to the events - A letter of thanks noting your donation to our organization
This sponsorship is designated to help pay for the security at events.
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$600+ Includes: - Your name/logo
at the event entrance and on the web site - Your name/logo (150x150
pixels) on the video screensaver at the dance - Web site linkage -
Complimentary tickets to the events - A
space for your materials at an informational table area - A letter of
thanks noting your donation to our organization This sponsorship is
designated to help pay for food and decorations.
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$400+ Includes: - Your name/logo
at the event entrance and on the web site - Your name/logo (100x100
pixels) on the video screensaver at the dance - Web site linkage -
Complimentary tickets to the events - A
space for your materials at an informational table area - A letter of
thanks noting your donation to our organization This sponsorship is
designated to help pay for advertising and event promotion.
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$200+ Includes: - Your name/logo
at the event entrance - Your name/logo (100x100 pixels) on the video
screen -
Complimentary tickets to the events - A
space for your materials at an informational table area - A letter of
thanks noting your donation to our organization This sponsorship is
designated to help pay for the family picnic.
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$100+ Includes: - Your name/organization
listed at the event entrance - A space for your materials at an informational
table area - A letter of thanks noting your donation to our organization
This sponsorship is designated to help pay for entertainment.
Our sponsorship levels are low because we want to be approachable and
affordable to smaller local businesses. Please don't let this dissuade
your decision; your support during our first few years is very important.
It reinforces our work and sends a much needed message to our community.
Thank you for reviewing our materials. Please contact us with questions.
Section 6113 of the Internal Revenue Code provides
that certain tax-exempt organizations that are not eligible to receive
tax deductible charitable contributions must disclose, in any fundraising
solicitation (see below), in "an express statement (in a conspicuous
and easily recognizable format)" that contributions to the organization
are not deductible for federal income tax purposes as charitable contributions.
This provision applies to organizations that are not eligible to receive
deductible charitable contributions and are described in either section
501(c), section 501(d), or section 527. The Service issued Notice 88-120
to provide safe harbors for meeting the requirements of section 6113.
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