GIA ANNUAL CONFERENCE

SPONSORSHIP BROCHURE

OCTOBER 14-16 AUSTIN MARRIOTT DOWNTOWN

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As more of us live longer and healthier lives, our country and our communities have an exciting opportunity to reimagine aging in America. This means finding new ways of enabling more of us to contribute longer, as well as using innovation to meet the needs of the most frail and isolated among us. It also means championing issues that matter to older people and helping others understand that aging is a universal process with a wide range of relevant issues.

To accomplish this, we need to make our big tent even bigger. As this year’s GIA Annual Conference heads to Austin, Texas, we will highlight exciting programs and ideas relevant not only to traditional aging funders, but also to those who work on health and mental health; children, families, and intergenerational opportunities; arts, music, and culture; mobility and transportation; technology; employment and economic security; rural issues; and much more.

This bold perspective, combined with an interactive approach to our work, helps us bring an aging lens to more projects, identifying new partners and creating a broader philanthropic constituency. We hope you will join us in Austin!

GIA welcomes all organizations interested in aging and philanthropy — foundations, grantmaking organizations, and corporate giving programs — to attend the GIA Annual Conference. Over the years, it’s become the premier source of information and inspiration for any organization that wants to support aging-related programs. The conference is designed to be a stimulating and productive experience for people in all types of roles in your organization, including staff, trustees, directors, consultants, and donors. In short, it’s for anyone who cares about older adults and understands how aging issues affect the whole spectrum of philanthropic priorities, from health and education to community and intergenerational issues.

GIA’s Annual Conference features more than 200 top local and national funders in one of America’s great cities. For 2020, we’re excited to bring the meeting to Austin — a diverse city home to dynamic people, places, and points of view.

Austin is also home to numerous creative and innovative programs that benefit older adults, such as the St. David’s

Foundation, which is dedicated to creating healthier lives for all Central Texans. In a unique partnership with St. David’s Healthcare, the Foundation invests to solve the most pressing health challenges across the entire community, especially the underserved and uninsured.

St. David’s invests over $75 million each year back into Bastrop, Caldwell, Hays, Travis, and Williamson counties, making it one of the largest health foundations in the country. These investments have helped improve the health prospects of Central Texans, with the end goal of creating the healthiest community in the world.

Austin is a dynamic venue for GIA’s 2020 Annual Conference, which promises to be an invigorating forum to learn from and network with aging philanthropy colleagues who think and act beyond boundaries. We hope that you will join us, both in the conference rooms, and at local sites and attractions, such as Zilker Park, the State Capitol and Visitors Center, and many more.

Grantmakers In Aging — a national membership organization of philanthropies — acts as a relevant and responsive network, resource, and champion, amplifying the voices of older people and issues of aging. Believing a society which is better for older adults is better for people of all ages, GIA seeks a just and inclusive world where older people are fully valued, recognized, and engaged in ways that matter. GIA’s membership includes leading staff and trustees of private, family, community, public, operating, and corporate foundations that are involved directly or indirectly with philanthropy and aging. It also includes corporate giving programs, private and public charities, social venture capital groups, individual philanthropists, and bank trust departments or trust companies that administer charitable trusts or foundations making grants for charitable purposes.

ABOUT

ABOUT

THE CONFERENCE

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MARIA GONZALES JACKSONDirector of Member Services and Knowledge Management

703.413.0413 | mgonzalesjackson@giaging.org

JOHN FEATHERChief Executive Officer

703.413.0413 | jfeather@giaging.org

GIA’s roster of sponsors is diverse. Large or small, public or private, they support our annual conference because they know we bring together forward thinkers, seasoned experts, and innovative leaders and provide a great place to connect and collaborate in a variety of settings and learning environments. We’re sure it’s going to be one of our best conferences ever, but we need your help. Please consider joining us as a sponsor.

We offer a number of sponsorship opportunities, so it’s easy to get involved. See pages 6 and 7 for a complete breakdown of sponsorship levels and possible benefits of each one. Please note that opportunities to sponsor the plenary sessions and events are on a first-come, first-served basis.

GIA CONFERENCEMAKE AMEANINGFUL DIFFERENCE—BECOME A CONFERENCE SPONSOR

BY THE NUMBERS

65%

18%

10%

8%26%

4% 5%

15%34%

13% 8%

37% 19%

Senior Staff Member

Consultants

Board of Trustees

President/CEO/Executive Director

Who Attends

Family/Individual

Corporate Foundation

Private/Independent

Community Foundation

Public Charity

Foundation Type

800,000 to $5 Million

250,000 to $799,999

Over $5 Million

Less than $250,000

Levels of Grantmaking

• An introduction to dynamic programs, applicable tools, and relevant publications that promote effectiveness and excellence in aging-related philanthropy.

• Access to internationally renowned thought leaders in the aging field, from some of the most prestigious aging-related organizations and educational programs in the U.S.

• Meaningful opportunities for networking, development, intelligence sharing, and support, with more than 100 other philanthropic organizations of all sizes, types, and geographical focus.

• Access to technical assistance, resource sharing, and mentoring.

• A variety of platforms to support different learning styles and to facilitate sharing of information.

• “Best of the Region” session, which offers visibility for impressive local programs for older adults, such as projects you may be supporting to improve transportation, community design, older adult employment, or other related issues.

• Half-day site visits that introduce funders and experts from across the nation to successful programs in action in the host city.

Here Are Some of the Many Benefits GIA’s Annual Conference Offers Participants:

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Every sponsor will have their logo and organization featured on the sponsorship section of the conference mobile app.

For sponsorship contact information see, page 4.

✯ Opportunity to work with GIA staff on program content/presenters in a plenary session (Wednesday luncheon, Wednesday afternoon, Thursday luncheon, or Friday morning)

✯ Acknowledgment as PREMIER SPONSOR in conference materials, conference website, and on-site signage

✯ Promotion of your organization to GIA membership

✯ Two complimentary conference registrations

PREMIER$50,000 AND ABOVE

✯ Opportunity to work with GIA staff on an Evening with GIA CEO (by invitation for Trustees and CEOs only)

✯ Acknowledgment as PLEDGING SPONSOR in conference materials, conference website, and on-site signage

✯ Promotion of your organization to GIA membership

✯ Two complimentary conference registrations

PLEDGING$45,000 TO $49,999

✯ Opportunity to design Pre-Conference Intensive with GIA Staff (Wednesday morning)

✯ Acknowledgment as PRESENTING SPONSOR in conference materials, conference website, and on-site signage

✯ Promotion of your organization to GIA membership

✯ One complimentary conference registration

PRESENTING$35,000 TO $44,999✯ Opportunity to sponsor Welcome Reception or First

Time Attendee Reception

✯ Acknowledgment as PROMOTING SPONSOR in conference materials, conference website, and on-site signage

✯ Promotion of your organization to GIA membership

PROMOTING$30,000 TO $34,999

SPONSORSHIP LEVELS

✯ New Opportunity ✯ Networking Lounge (available to attendees throughout the conference) Note: New this year, we will hold Networking Breaks in the lounge to provide space for attendees to gather

✯ Acknowledgment as PARTICIPATING SPONSOR in conference materials, conference website, and on-site signage

✯ Promotion of your organization to GIA membership

PARTICIPATING$20,000 TO $24,999

✯ Opportunity to sponsor conference app, conference tote bag or flash drives containing conference presentations for all attendees

✯ Acknowledgment as PATRON SPONSOR in conference materials, conference website, and on-site signage

PATRON$15,000 TO $19,999

✯ Opportunity to distribute two resource materials from your organization to all attendees in conference tote bag

✯ Acknowledgment as PARTNER SPONSOR in conference materials, conference website, and on-site signage

PARTNER$10,000 TO $14,999

✯ Acknowledgment as PROMISING SPONSOR in conference materials, conference website, and on-site signage

PROMISINGBELOW $10,000

✯ New Opportunity ✯ Breakfast Roundtable Discussion workshop Note: New this year, we will hold 4 separate Breakfast Roundtable Discussion Workshops in 4 separate breakout rooms

✯ Acknowledgment as PERFORMING SPONSOR in conference materials, conference website, and on-site signage

✯ Promotion of your organization to GIA membership

PERFORMING$25,000 TO $29,999

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