Sponsorship is an exchange of money for visibility. Sponsors have money. The Capital PC User Group (CPCUG) can provide visibility. Instead of money, some CPCUG sponsors and partners provide use of facilities and trainers, discounts, or valuable door prizes. Thoughtfully crafted sponsorship and partnership agreements are mutually beneficial.
 

Benefits for CPCUG and Its Members

• Income, enabling CPCUG to keep membership dues modest
• Distribution of meetings throughout the Washington, DC, region, enabling wider participation in and contribution to CPCUG's community of computer users
• Audiovisual resources for meetings and special events, increasing information sharing and networking
• More seminars, workshops, and other special events
• More member discounts
• More door prizes of value
• Refreshments
• Credibility through sponsor associations
• Outreach to sponsor partner, customer, and media communities

Supporting CPCUG, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, is tax deductible.

Several levels of corporate sponsorship are available to support and enhance monthly and special events of CPCUG. Specific benefits to sponsors, depending on sponsorship level selected, include--

• Reaching nearly 2,000 CPCUG members, including computer professionals with corporate purchasing responsibilities, with advertisements in CPCUG's print magazine, the Monitor
• Increasing online visibility with logo placement on CPCUG's Web pages linked to sponsor Web site
• Listing as a sponsor in meeting e-mail announcements sent to an appropriate CPCUG e-mail distribution list, whose subscribers include members and interested nonmembers
• Distributing information at meetings about sponsor products and services
• Being recognized as a sponsor by event host

For more information about sponsoring CPCUG events, including costs, or to discuss sponsorship alternatives and partnering options (such as providing meeting facilities, conducting workshops for CPCUG members, and donating door prizes), contact President Dennis Courtney or another member of the CPCUG Board of Directors, which includes all SIG Chairs. (See page 2 of the Monitor for contact information.)
 

Barbara Conn is CPCUG Director of Corporate Communications and Chair, CPCUG Entrepreneurs and Consultants SIG. In real life she is a publishing strategist and technical communicator. She may be reached via e-mail.
 

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