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Corporate Sponsorship of MacPhail Center for Music
Savvy customers value corporate sponsorship of music and music education. This translates into increased visibility for your brand which shapes purchasing preferences and ultimately buying decisions. Consider the many benefits to your company of a sponsorship at MacPhail Center for Music.
MacPhail has a highly-loyal student base of 7,500 Twin Cities’ metropolitan residents. Our registration-based students are highly-educated, high income families who value excellence in music education and performance. With over 100 years of service to the Minneapolis/St. Paul community, MacPhail enjoys a level of prestige and awareness that is second to none.
MacPhail’s new flagship location in downtown Minneapolis, MN – at 5th Ave. & 2nd St. So. – in the historic Mills District of Minneapolis is one of the region’s crown jewels for arts and culture. MacPhail’s classrooms resonate with early childhood music classes, individual lessons, group classes, youth ensembles, and recitals. MacPhail presents over 400 performances of music each year to more than 28,000 audience members.
Benefits to Corporate Sponsors
- Aligns your company with MacPhail – the gold standard of music excellence.
- Allows your company networking opportunities with key target audiences.
- Provides incentives to your employees (via tickets, workshops, corporate sponsor discounts)
- Demonstrates your company’s arts and cultural commitment with an established music institution.
- Presents a unique client entertainment option.
- Positions your corporation favorably with key decision-makers and prominent community leaders who attend MacPhail.
- Makes your company a leader in an ocean of competitors.
- Provides an excellent rate of return through high-visibility brand awareness building.
Play with the Best
Corporate sponsors of MacPhail link arms with an organization that, since 1907, has been transforming lives and enriching our community through top-quality, completely accessible music education. Today, MacPhail stands as one of the most respected music education centers in the nation.
With the grand opening of the new building in January 2008, MacPhail Center for Music has enjoyed an unprecedented level of media coverage through print, radio, and television mediums – with a total of over 13 million impressions. Over twice as many people as expected toured the new MacPhail during grand opening week festivities, with 8,500+ visitors. Our enrollments are up, even in a tough economy. MacPhail is the place to study and hear music.
Loyalty is a hallmark of the students at MacPhail. Many current students have studied at MacPhail for 5-10 years or more. Many begin their music studies at 6 weeks old – through an early childhood music class with their parent – and continue with music at MacPhail, a decade or more later, through one of our performing ensembles or a summer camp program.
Week-after-week, month-after-month, and year-after-year our outstanding MacPhail faculty builds a relationship with the student and their family. This bond is deep and life-changing. Music in the life of one child often encourages siblings, even parents to engage or re-engage in music lessons.
Your company’s sponsorship of MacPhail positions you with one of the best, and for the long term.
Play it Your Way
Corporate sponsors connect with MacPhail for all kinds of reasons. Many combine their goals through a MacPhail sponsorship that acknowledges their corporate goodwill, rewards their top-performing employees, and connects their company with MacPhail’s steadfast student and audiences.
Your company can sponsor a Performance Series or a specific program – like MacPhail’s Jazz Program or our Suzuki Talent Education initiatives. Corporate sponsorships are available for special events and for MacPhail’s Financial Aid Fund which subsidizes studies with the scholarship assistance they need to pursue their music studies at MacPhail.
Let’s Play!
Whatever you chose, you’ll have a partner in crafting your company’s unique corporate sponsorship agreement with MacPhail Center for Music:
Joe Sullivan
Associate Director of Institutional Gifts
MacPhail Center for Music
Sullivan.joe@macphail.org
612-767-5326
MacPhail Center for Music has three convenient Twin Cities metro area locations:
MacPhail Minneapolis MacPhail Apple Valley MacPhail White Bear Lake
501 South Second Street Paideia Academy Birch Lake Elementary
Minneapolis MN 55401 7200 147th St. West 1616 Birch Lake Avenue
612-321-0100 Apple Valley MN 55124 White Bear Lake MN 55110
FAX: 612-321-9740 612-321-0100, ext. 275 612-321-0100, ext 277
CORPORATE SPONSORS – 2007-2008
MacPhail Center for Music recently celebrated 100 years of service to the Minneapolis/St. Paul region. Known nationally as a center of excellence in music education, MacPhail serves over 7,500 students each week, and has 46 community partnerships that provide weekly music opportunities for thousands of students. MacPhail’s success is, in no small way, due to the phenomenal support that we receive from our Corporate Sponsors. MacPhail greatly acknowledges the contributions of our many business partners:
PREMIER LEVEL SPONSORS
PLATINUM LEVEL SPONSORS
GOLD LEVEL SPONSORS
Ecolab
Lund’s & Byerly’s
Medtronic
Thrivent Financial for Lutherans
SILVER LEVEL SPONSORS
Ameriprise Financial
Faegre & Benson, LLP
Mortenson Construction
Travelers
BRONZE LEVEL SPONSORS
Dorsey & Whitney, LLP
Pentair
Piper Jaffray
ADDITIONAL CORPORATE SPONSORS:
ADC and ADC Foundation
Claire Givens Violin
Coldwell Banker Burnet
Comcast
CSM
Entegris Corporation
Ernst & Young
Fredrikson & Byron, LLP
H.B. Fuller Corporation
Heatseeker Technology
Keller Williams Integrity Realty/Cindy Froid
Leonard, Street, and Deinard
Lindquist & Vennum, P.L.L.P.
Marquette Financial Companies
Nelson, Tietz & Hoye
Peregrine Capital Management
PricewaterhouseCoopers
RBC Wealth Management
Redgrave, Daley, Ragan & Wagner, LLP
Robins, Kaplan, Miller, and Ciresi, LLP
Schmitt Music
Sevenhills Partners
Thomson West
Whitebox Advisors, LLC
Zelle, Hoffman, Voelbel, Mason & Co.
