Financing the Dream
Manitou Mounds Interpretive Centre
Sponsorships and Partnerships
Gallery Partner $100,000 +
Tour Partner $50,000 - $99,999
Program Sponsor $10,000 - $49,999
Patron Sponsor up to $9,999
Manitou Mounds Interpretive Centre
Financing the Dream
The initial capital for development of the site and infrastructure for the Manitou Mounds Interpretive Centre has been generated through agreements with both the Canadian and Ontario Governments. The financing of the centre is the shared responsibility of Rainy River First Nations, Ontario, & Canada. To facilitate this, an organization called the Manitou Mounds Historical Foundation has been established. The mandate of this organization is firstly, to ensure that the cultural and education aspects set forth in the objectives of the Interpretive Centre are provided for and secondarily, it is charged with the responsibility of raising sufficient funds to ensure that the interpretive components of the centre are provided for. In this regard, The Manitou Mounds Historical Foundation is actively soliciting funding from private and public sources to finance these components.
As such, the Manitou Mounds Historical Foundation is seeking the support of corporate partners who also value the memory of this sacred place and want to preserve the culture and history of the Ojibway people. Corporate partnership packages have been developed to allow corporations, companies and organizations of any size to participate at their level of comfort. In return for their participation, sponsor benefit packages have been developed commensurate with the level of participation. Details of these various packages follow.
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Sponsorships and Partnerships
Levels of Participation
In an effort to provide the high quality of programming necessary to make the Manitou Mounds Historical Centre a world-class facility, the Manitou Mounds Historical Foundation is seeking the assistance of corporate, community and service organizations to provide financial and gifts in kind to support the Manitou Mounds Historical Centre. The corporate partnership program has been developed to allow participation by any company or organization. In return for an organization’s contribution, the Manitou Mounds Historical Foundation has developed benefit packages that will suitably acknowledge and promote your corporate involvement in one of Canada’s first-class aboriginal interpretive centres.
These benefits include:
- Exposure through media coverage of the Grand Opening of the Interpretive Centre and through the ongoing events and programs run at the Centre.
- Exclusivity in your product or service category (depending on your level of participation) .
- Your organization would have the right to use the Manitou Mounds Interpretive Centre name and logo and an appropriate designation, based on your level of patronage, in your advertising promotional and print related material.
- There would be an opportunity for your management and staff to use and visit the facilities throughout the year.
- Development of a strong association with the Rainy River First Nations people.
In addition to the general patron benefits outlined above, the Manitou Mounds Historical Foundation will provide your organization with several very specific and customized benefits that will recognize your contribution and commitment to the development of the Interpretive Centre. The following sections outline suggested levels of participation and the corresponding benefits packages for becoming a Corporate Partner of the Manitou Mounds Historical Centre.
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Gallery Partner $100,000 +
As a Gallery Partner of one of the seven interpretive galleries within the Manitou Mounds Interpretive Centre, your contribution of $100,000 or more will assist the Manitou Mounds Historical Foundation in providing interactive display materials, artifacts and props that will aid in telling the Manitou Mounds story. In return for you participation as a Gallery Sponsor, the Manitou Mounds Historical Foundation will publicly recognize your financial support and cooperation by providing your organization with a benefits package outlined below:
- Exclusivity in your product or service category
- The Gallery that you sponsor will be named after your organization. The majority of the galleries will have an Ojibway name, this will be followed by a line “Presented by ABC Corporation.”
- During all guided tours of the facility, tour guides will indicate the support your organization has provided in building the gallery.
- Interpretive Centre brochures will feature your corporate name and logo.
- A corporate patron’s board at the front of the facility will feature your name and logo and indicate your level of participation.
- A member of your organization will be given the opportunity to sit on the Advisory Board of the Manitou Mounds Interpretive Centre. This position will allow your corporation to provide insight and recommendations to the Management Committee of the Centre.
- Throughout the year, your organization will be given site privileges so that you can hold corporate, staff or management functions at the facility.
- Your corporate name and logo will be featured on all major site signage as well as on highway billboards, throughout North West Ontario.
- Your corporate name and logo will be featured on all advertising materials used to support the Manitou Mounds Historical Centre. This will include newspaper, radio and television in the immediate area as well as some selected media in other parts of Canada.
- Your corporate name and logo will be featured on any videos or info-mercials produced to promote the Centre. These promotional vehicles will be used in travel shows and in trade fairs, airports etc. to promote the Interpretive Centre.
- The promotion of any major events held at the Centre, such as Pow Wows, will feature your corporate name and logo.
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Tour Partner $50,000 - $99,999
One of the major interpretive components of the Manitou Mounds Historical Centre will be the series of tours which will be offered to visitors. These interpretive tours would be led by “storytellers” who will take visitors from the Interpretive Centre to a tour staging area where they will transfer to traditional forms of transportation (ie; horse, horse-drawn carriage, water, trail, etc.). Each of these tours will be organized according to themes of interest and include:
- The Land and the Ojibway people.
- The History of Manitou Mounds.
- The River Tour.
- The Archaeological Tour.
- The Ojibway Encampment.
In return for you participation as a Tour Sponsor, the Manitou Mounds Historical Foundation will publicly recognize your financial support and cooperation by providing your organization with the benefits package outlined below:
- Tour guide maps and brochures will feature your corporate name and logo.
- The “storytellers” will mention, in their presentations, that this tour has been provided by your organization.
- Your corporate name and logo will be featured on the patron’s board at the front of the Interpretive Centre.
- All signage along the tour route would feature your corporate name and logo.
- All tour sponsor’s corporate names and logos will be featured on a sponsorship board erected in the tour staging area.
- Your corporate name and logo will be featured on any videos or info-mercials produced to promote the Centre. These promotional vehicles will be used in travel shows and in trade fairs, airports and car rental agencies to promote the Interpretive centre.
- The promotion of any major events held at the Centre, such as Pow Wows, will feature your name and logo.
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Program Sponsor $10,000 - $49,999
As a Program Sponsor, your organization will provide a contribution of $25,000 to the Manitou Mounds Historical Foundation. Your contribution would be used to provide materials and staff support to the various programs that will be run at the Interpretive Centre throughout the year. These programs include:
- Elders Story Room.
- Theatre.
- Arts & Crafts Program.
- Archaeological Digs and.
- Research Program.
In return for your participation as a Program Sponsor, the Manitou Mounds Historical Foundation would recognize your participation by providing your organization with the following benefits package:
- The program or facility would be named after your organization.
- All promotional materials associated with administration of the program would feature your corporate name and logo.
- Your company name would be featured on the sponsor’s board at the front of the Interpretive Centre.
- A corporate patron’s board at the front of the facility with your name and logo and indicate your level of participation.
- Your corporate name and logo will be featured on any videos or info-mercials produced to promote the centre. These promotional vehicles will be used in travel shows and in trade fairs, airports and car rental agencies to promote the Interpretive Centre.
- The promotion of any major events held at the centre, such as Pow Wows, will feature your corporate name and logo.
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Patron Sponsor up to $9,999
A Patron’s Program has been developed that will allow cash or in kind contributions to the facility at various levels. The Patron’s Program is tiered starting at the bottom level of $250 with subsequent levels being $500, $1000, $5,000 and $10,000. Contributions to the Patron’s Program will be used to complete the display components of the Interpretive Centre.
As a patron member of the Manitou Mounds Historical Foundation you would have your name featured on the Partner Recognition Board situated at the front of the building. Each of the levels of participation would be given an Ojibway name, and would have a designation based on the wild life from the area (ie. the lowest level could have the designation of a Bluejay member with the highest level being an Eagle member etc.).
The major benefits to becoming a Patron would be the recognition on the “Wall of Fame”, however, in addition, Partners would also be given free memberships to the facilities. At the lowest level, it could be a one year family admission. All contributors would be named in the annual report of the facility, and would be provided with copies of any newsletters and receive invitations to various events.
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