Become a Sponsor for Dane Dances!
Get your brand noticed!

With about 25,000 attendees annually, Dane Dances! offers an array of sponsorship opportunities to businesses targeting the greater Madison area. Supporting this event demonstrates strong engagement and commitment to community in a highly visible way. Sponsorship maximizes your exposure to a large, diverse cross-section of the population and provides an opportunity to encourage relationship building and cooperation among people of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds.

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Sponsorship Levels:

$50,000+ Platinum Plus Sponsor

  • Enjoy exclusive naming rights for the year! The entire season will be advertised as “Insert your company’s name” Dane Dances! and the highest level of visibility and exposure throughout all dances

  • Company logo on front page of Dane Dances! website

  • Company logo displayed on all advertising and promotional material including banners, posters, and leaflets

  • Two complimentary corporate tables and dinner (reserved seating for 10) at each of the dances

  • Sponsorship token of appreciation presented at a pre-selected Friday evening of the dance

  • Promotional items of company on display at the event tables

  • Acknowledgment as major sponsor on all written and/or printed correspondence, media releases, advertising and promotional material

  • Verbal recognition each night during the Dane Dances! event

  • Recognition and company link on the Dane Dances! website

$10,000+ Platinum Sponsor

  • Company logo on front page of Dane Dances! website

  • Company logo displayed on all advertising and promotional material including banners, posters, and leaflets

  • Second highest level of visibility and exposure throughout all dances

  • Two complimentary corporate tables and dinner (reserved seating for 10) at each of the dances

  • Sponsorship token of appreciation presented at a pre-selected Friday evening of the dance

  • Promotional items of company on display at the event tables

  • Acknowledgment as major sponsor on all written and/or printed correspondence, media releases, advertising and promotional material

  • Verbal recognition each night during the Dane Dances! event

  • Recognition and company link on the Dane Dances! website

$5,000+ Gold Sponsor

  • Company logo displayed on all advertising and promotional material including banners, posters, and leaflets

  • Complimentary corporate table and dinner (reserved seating for 6) on one night of the event

  • Sponsorship token of appreciation presented at a pre-selected Friday evening

  • Promotional items of company on display at the event tables

  • Acknowledgment as major sponsor on all written and/or printed correspondence, media releases, advertising and promotional material

  • Verbal recognition at each Dane Dances! event

  • Recognition and company link on the Dane Dances! website

$2,500+ Silver Sponsor

  • Company logo displayed on advertising and promotional material including banners, posters, and leaflets

  • Acknowledgment as sponsor on all written and/or printed correspondence and media releases

  • Verbal recognition at each Dane Dances! event

  • Recognition and company link on the Dane Dances! website

$1000+ Bronze Sponsor

  • Company name displayed on annual promotional 4x6 season schedule leaflets

  • Verbal recognition at each Dane Dances! event

  • Recognition on the Dane Dances! website

$500+ Valued Sponsor

  • Verbal recognition at each Dane Dances! event

  • Recognition on the Dane Dances! website

Targeted In-Kind Contribution Supporting Sponsor

Listed below are services we hope to have contributed as in-kind donations. We appreciate your consideration of any of the following:

  • Printing services (brochures, flyers, signage)

  • Banner Advertising

  • Video production services (nightly)

  • Volunteers (nightly)

  • Small/medium gift items for door prizes

This project is supported by Dane Arts with additional funds from the Endres Mfg. Company Foundation, The Evjue Foundation, Inc., charitable arm of The Capital Times, the W. Jerome Frautschi Foundation, and the Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation. 

This project is supported in part by a grant from Terese Allen & Jim Block Fund as a component fund at Madison Community Foundation.

This project is supported in part by a grant from the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Our 2025 Sponsors:

Platinum

Logo of Madison Arts Commission with stylized curved lines and the text 'Madison Arts Commission'.
Logo featuring a bridge with arches, a red square, and a black circle with the words 'Monona Terrace' around the border.
Evjue Foundation logo with green text on a white background
TruStage logo with blue text and a design of blue and yellow bricks

Gold

Logo for Ho-Chunk Gaming Madison, featuring the text 'Ho-Chunk Gaming Madison' with a feather graphic.
MSE Foundation logo in black and white with stylized text.
Colorful logo of the Madison Community Foundation featuring an abstract floral design with a building or capitol dome in the center.

Silver

Logo for UnityPoint Health Meriter with text indicating it is a partner of UW Health.
The words "EXACT SCIENCES" written in bold black letters, with a purple curved line crossing the 'X' in 'EXACT'.
Logo of Wisconsin Mutual Insurance Company with stylized W's in red and blue and company name in red and blue text.
Logo for the Wisconsin Arts Board featuring a stylized eye design and the text "Wisconsin Arts Board" with the tagline "Creativity. Culture. Community. Commerce."
Dane Arts logo with a stylized bird and flowers in earthy colors.
Text reading 'Sharyl J. Kato' in black font on a white background.
A red circular icon with three horizontal lines inside, resembling a menu or list symbol.
Logo of WORT 89.9 FM Community Radio based in Madison, Wisconsin, featuring a stylized image of a government building and the station's name.
Black and white logo for Madison 3H5, featuring a circular design with the text 'Madison' at the top and '3H5' inside the circle.
Logo of Madison Black Chamber of Commerce with a black background, white text, and a bar chart with a dollar sign.
Logo of South Madison Partnership at University of Wisconsin-Madison, featuring a maroon shield with a white W and text.

Bronze

Logo for The Capital City Hues with the tagline 'The News for All of Madison' in black and teal text.
Text reading 'Teresa Allen & Jim Block Fund' in bold black letters.
Text-based advertisement for Macaroni Kid Madison WI promoting free family event calendar, with colorful abstract shapes, social media icons, a QR code, and a website link.
Zimbrick Chevrolet logo with stylized 'Z' and the company name.
SSM Health logo with a stylized infinity symbol above the company name.
Black and white outline of a person's face with short hair, looking to the right
UW Health logo with red and blue text
Official seal of County of Dane, Wisconsin, featuring a shield with various symbols and a rope border, next to a color bar with shades of blue, orange, and black, and text indicating it's from Tamara D. Grigsby Office for Equity & Inclusion.
Logo of Wisconsin TV, a blue globe with the initials T and W in white and black, and the words TELEVISON WISCONSIN underneath.

Valued

Red banner with white text reading 'ISTHMUS' and a downward pointing arrow.
Text logo that reads 'Umoja' in bold letters with colors red, black, and green, and an illustration of the African continent inside the letter 'O'.