Connect your brand to thousands of Orange County families that attend and support the

Sponsor Proposal 2014 Antique Tractor Pulls

PO Box 35 | 850 Route 17K | Montgomery, NY 12549 | (845) 457-2959 | www.ocfarmersmuseum.com

Orange County Farmers Museum - Sponsorship Proposal / Page 2

Your support will make a difference

The Orange County Farmers Museum has a prominent location on Route 17K in Montgomery, NY that provides opportunities for historical farming education and fun family events that are well attended by families from all over the region.

Connecting your brand to the Orange County Farmers Museum is a great way to get your advertising message to a variety of families that need your goods and services and show your commitment to our quality of life in a positive way.

As a sponsor, you will receive opportunities to promote your brand at all of our events, on the weight transfer sled operating during Tractor Pulls, our website, social media and blog. The Farmers Museum sponsor package is a great value and would provide consistent sponsor brand exposure over the year.

PO Box 35 | 850 Route 17K | Montgomery, NY 12549 | (845) 457-2959 | www.ocfarmersmuseum.com

Orange County Farmers Museum - Sponsorship Proposal / Page 3

About the Orange County Farmers Museum The Orange County Farmers' Museum is a private, non-profit organization solely supported by donations, events and programs held on the grounds. The Orange County Farmers' Museum is located within the historic Brick House Museum Park where we have 37.5 acres. In addition to our exhibits, the museum provides various educational activities for children and adults. The Orange County Farmers Museum has an extensive collection of farm implements from farms in Orange County that date back to the 1700’s. This collection is primarily contained at the Orange County Farmers Museum Montgomery, NY location, with an exhibit at our Annex location at Museum Village in Monroe, NY. The Orange County Farmers museum is proud to say that many of these older farm implements are in working condition, and offer insight to the history of agriculture in Orange County. The Orange County Farmers museum recently raised money to fund the building of a new education center, which is used by several organizations including the Orange County Farmers Museum 4-H club. This club is very active with over 30 members who attend the bi-weekly meetings with their parents. This 4-H club is one of the few clubs that allow children the opportunity to learn current farming skills and historical farming and living techniques. The Museum is chartered by the New York State Department of Education Board of Regents.

PO Box 35 | 850 Route 17K | Montgomery, NY 12549 | (845) 457-2959 | www.ocfarmersmuseum.com

Orange County Farmers Museum - Sponsorship Proposal / Page 4

In addition to club meetings, the Orange County Farmers Museum hosts a number of events that help to support the museum and provide entertainment opportunities for the community. The most popular event is the Antique Tractor Pulls. During the 2013 season, this series of events attracted more than 3642 (49% increase over 2012) visitors and is growing each year. The Farmers Museum in cooperation with Grand Hollow Old Time Power Association plans to host 7 Tractor Pulls during the 2014 season. In addition the museum host events that celebrate the history of Orange County Farming and provide attendees with quality family oriented entertainment and life-long learning experiences. These events would provide a quality opportunity for you to be seen by thousands of potential customers.

New Goals Include Broadening and expanding our reach into the community and promoting the connection of the importance of farming history and how it is important to today’s technology to our broader community. We plan to achieve this goal by attracting visitors through advertising for our events, so that they can experience living farming history first hand and learn to appreciate where their source of food comes from, its historical roots, and its future. Some more popular events include Garden Tractor Pull Competitions that features a variety of garden tractors. We also partner with other organization such as Grand Hollow Old Time Power Association, The American Veterans Historic Museum, 124th NYS Volunteers, American Truck Club of America and various Scholarship Funds. The Farmers Museum plans to increase partnerships with other nonprofit organizations, such as the Wallkill River School of Arts to increase the depth and attendance of our current events. These partnerships truly provide opportunities for participants and attendees to better understand the quality of life offered in Orange County and the variety of quality arts and entertainment available to families that visit Orange County. In addition, these partnerships would expand the marketing reach of your business to include the constituents of our non-profit partners as well as the ones of the Farmers Museum. We also plan to expand our blog this year to feature our farm implements and provide information about our sponsors and our events.

Mission Statement The Orange County Farmers Museum operates in the public trust as a museum of service and interpretation in connecting objects and ideas relevant to the farming history of Orange County, New York. We believe that our agricultural equipment collections have the power to educate, inspire and transform individuals of all ages and the local community we serve.

PO Box 35 | 850 Route 17K | Montgomery, NY 12549 | (845) 457-2959 | www.ocfarmersmuseum.com

Orange County Farmers Museum - Sponsorship Proposal / Page 5

Description of the Orange County Farmers Museum The Orange County Farmers Museum is a 501c(3) non-profit corporation, chartered through the New York State Department of Educations Board of Regents. All current programs and maintenance functions are operated with the help of our volunteers. The museum started with one barn, a small workshop, a small visitor’s center and a chicken coop. The museum has grown significantly, and now has a blacksmith shop, an enlarged workshop, a sawmill, a run-in shed and a memorial building to house a collection of antique farm equipment rarely seen in the Hudson Valley. The Farmers Museum recently added an Education Center with heated restroom facilities. In addition to events that are held, weekend activities include exhibits of farm machinery, the art of Blacksmithing, sawmill demonstrations, exhibits of life on the farm and hayrides. Our current board consists of: Frank Cass Jr. - President Heather Tancredi - Secretary Mark Vitek - Vice president Barbara Doolittle - Treasurer Riki Lent - Director The board of Trustees include: Sam Samson Rich Weishaar Susan Roth Jim Malloy Robert Reynolds Monthly membership/board meetings are well attended and offer the active membership an opportunity to vote on upcoming projects and programs. The Orange County Farmers Museum has a website, www.ocfarmersmuseum.com that received 353,000 hits and 55,800+ page views during the 2013 season. This has increased by 500% over the 2012 season after a site re-design and SEO improvement. The board plans to expand the museum blog this year to feature our farm implements and provide information about its sponsors and events.

PO Box 35 | 850 Route 17K | Montgomery, NY 12549 | (845) 457-2959 | www.ocfarmersmuseum.com

Orange County Farmers Museum - Sponsorship Proposal / Page 6

Present and Past Sponsors The Orange County Farmers Museum events and publications have been sponsored by many organizations, including but not limited to: Ace World Wide of New York Arkel Motors Bagel Cafe Chambers Sales Cherry Tire/Napa Chinese Buffet Congelosi Trailer Sales Daxxon Chinese Restaurant Devitt's Equipment Franko's Pizza Gateway Diner Heathers Child Place Hudson Valley Well Drilling Orange County Trust Grand Hollow Old Time Power Devitt’s Garden & Supply Orange County Trust Company American Petroleum

Ice Time King Buffet Landscape by Ricardo Leo’s Moodna Creek Ranch Nat's Clean Up Service Rapid Tire Showtime Cinema Thruway Market Wild Fire Grill Jorrey Excavating Montgomery Mart HV Sunless Tanning Orange County Parks & Recreation American Truck Clubs of America Messco Building Supply Superior Auto Alana Tadry Creative Scholarship Fund

PO Box 35 | 850 Route 17K | Montgomery, NY 12549 | (845) 457-2959 | www.ocfarmersmuseum.com

Orange County Farmers Museum - Sponsorship Proposal / Page 7

Farmers Museum Sponsorship: Year-Round Multi-Benefit Packages Available sponsor levels and a basic benefit package are outlined below. A customized program can be created for each sponsor, depending on your interest, or if you have a special program that they would like to support. Your donations will go directly to the support of our programs. The Orange County Farmers Museum is a 501©3 Organization making your donation tax deductible.

Sponsorship Level Title Sponsor Limited to 2 $1,000.00 ● ● ● ● ● ●

Exclusive rights to be the only sponsor in your business category during the 2014 event season. Sponsorship acknowledgement on all Museum printed materials and 2014 educational workshop events. Sponsored Business listing logo links to your website from our home pages Featured Supporter area. Links on all social media outlets and weekly mentions for one full year. Banner on Weight Transfer Sled, Premium location. (Sled Travels to County Fairs throughout NYS & PA). Sponsorship engraving on one weight class of trophies for all events.

Presenting Sponsor Limited to 5 $500.00 ● ● ● ● ●

Sponsorship acknowledgement in all 2014 Museum Events. Sponsorship acknowledgement on all printed materials and 2014 educational workshop events. Sponsored Business listing logo links to your website from our home page. Links on all social media outlets and bi-weekly mentions for one full year. Banner on weight transfer sled. (Sled Travels to County Fairs throughout NYS & PA).

Third Level Sponsor Limited to 7 $250.00 ● ● ● ● ●

Choice of sponsorship acknowledgement in three 2014 events. Sponsorship acknowledgement on printed material for all 2014 Tractor Pull events. Sponsored Business listing on our website with link to your website. Links on all social media outlets for 1 full year. Sponsorship engraving on all trophies for 1 event.

Second Level Sponsor Limited to 25 $50.00 ● ● ● ●

Choice of sponsorship acknowledgement in one 2014 event. Sponsorship acknowledgement on printed material for all 2014 Tractor Pull events. Sponsored Business listing on our website with link to your website and social media outlets. Sponsorship engraving on one weight class of trophies for 1 event.

First Level Sponsor Limited to 50 $25.00 ● Sponsorship acknowledgement on printed material for 2014 Tractor Pull events. ● Sponsored Business listing on our website with link to your website and social media outlets.

PO Box 35 | 850 Route 17K | Montgomery, NY 12549 | (845) 457-2959 | www.ocfarmersmuseum.com

Orange County Farmers Museum - Sponsorship Proposal / Page 8

As a Title Sponsor there will be opportunities for you to provide materials at events, and be acknowledged in promotional materials. This exclusive Title Sponsor opportunity can include distribution of a brochure listing services or products your company provides, or be a promotional item give away that you provide to the Farmers Museum event guests or the opportunity to set up a booth at events as part of a special promotion. A full description of the advertising opportunities can be customized, we are flexible! In addition, the museum will develop a short article that will be used to promote you on the Farmers Museum blog. A Museum Board Members will work with you to develop the article so that it can appeal to our large number of readers. Donations of lesser values described here will be acknowledged on the Orange County Museum website. Please tell us about yourself: Name: ______________________________________________________________________ Business Name: ______________________________________________________________ Address: ____________________________________________________________________ Phone: __________________________________ E-mail: _____________________________ Contact (if different from above): _________________________________________________ Select Sponsorship Level: Title Sponsor $1,000 Presenting Sponsor $500 Third Level Sponsor $250

Do you have a logo or media available for use: Y or N Who do we contact to obtain your collateral?

Second Level Sponsor $50 First Level Sponsor $25

_________________________________________

Please make checks payable to: Orange County Farmers Museum PO Box 35 Montgomery, NY 12549

Contact Us To become a sponsor, please contact Riki Lent with questions about the available sponsorships, and any special requests that you may have. Phone 845-926-2727 or by email at [email protected]. PO Box 35 | 850 Route 17K | Montgomery, NY 12549 | (845) 457-2959 | www.ocfarmersmuseum.com