SPONSORSHIP 2024
We gratefully acknowledge the support of our sponsors! Without your support, Akron Pride Festival would not be possible.
Sponsoring APF is an incredible opportunity to promote your business in front of a large audience and is an opportunity to let others know of your committed support of the LGBTQ+ and allied community.
By reviewing this packet, you’re one step closer to being part of Akron’s annual pride event! This is an important event for the LGBTQ+ community and allied supporters.
Between vendors, entertainment, children’s activities and a variety of food and beverage choices, this event caters to a diverse audience. In addition to the main event day, APF also hosts special events throughout the year.
We offer tailored sponsorship opportunities to help large and small businesses make a difference. All of the preset packages can be customized to fit your needs, and if you have something else in mind, we’d love to hear from you. No matter what you choose you’ll be showing your support for the mission of equality for all people.
***Help us use your dollars wisely. If you are donating $100 or more, please consider a check so that APF does not incur the fees associated with online credit card donations.***
For questions email info@akronpridefestival.org.
From all of us at Akron Pride Festival,
THANK YOU!
2024 AKRON PRIDE FESTIVAL SPONSORS & DONORS
PARTNERS
THE CITY OF AKRON
THE COUNTY OF SUMMIT
KNIGHT FOUNDATION
DOWNTOWN AKRON PARTNERSHIP
FEATURE PRESENTING SPONSOR
$15,000
PRESENTING SPONSOR $10,000
RED LEVEL $5000
ADM BOARD
AKRON CHILDRENS HOSPITAL
CANAPI
COUNTY FISCAL OFFICER KRISTIN SCALISE
DOWNTOWN AKRON PARTNERSHIP
EQUITAS HEALTH
GPD
KNIGHT FOUNDATION
PNC BANK
SUMMIT COUNTY EXECUTIVE ILENE SHAPIRO
SUMMIT COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH
TRAMONTE - MILLER LITE WHITE CLAW MODELO
US ARMY RECRUITMENT
ORANGE LEVEL $3000
AKRON COMMINITY FOUNDATION
AKRON SUMMIT COUNTY VISITORS BUREAU
CITIZENS BANK
CLEVELAND CLINIC AKRON GENERAL
HUNTINGTON
GOJO PURELL
METRO TRANSIT
SUMMIT DD
TARGET
WESTERN RESERVE DISTILLERY
YELLOW LEVEL $1000.
ACLU
AKRON CANTON REGIONAL FOOD BANK
AKRON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
AZALEA INSTITUTE
BRIDGESTONE
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
CONTINENTAL
CLEVELAND CLINIC AKRON GENERAL
CHAPEL HILL COMMUNITY
CHC ADDICTION SERVICES
COMMUNITY ACTION AKRON SUMMIT COUNTY
DAKOTA WEALTH MANAGEMENT
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF AKRON
GOODYEAR TIRE AND RUBBER
JOBS FOR OHIO GRADS
LOWES
COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES, INC
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF AKRON
IBH ADDICTION RECOVERY
INDEPENDENCE PET GROUP
GRAINGER
GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER CO.
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES
GUARANTEED RATE
KEY BANK
IBH ADDICTION SERVICES
INDEPENDENCE PET GROUP
INSTITUTE OF CREATIVE MINDFULLNESS
LEAF
LOWE’S
MARGIE’S HOPE
MEDVET
MERCEDES TAVERN
MOLINA HEALTHCARE
NOAS (Northeast Ohio Adoption Services)
NOPEC
NEW HORIZON
PFLAG
PLANNED PARENTHOOD
RAISING CANES
SHEETZ
SIGNET
SUMMIT COUNTY CHILD GUIDANCE
SUMMIT COUNTY CHILDREN’S SERVICES
SYNCHRONY FINANCIAL
SUMMIT COUNTY DD
UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST
US BANK
WESTFIELD BANK
GREEN $500
AKRON FAIR HOUSING
HI-HO BREWERY
MC HAIR SALONS
MISSING FALLS
SKOOPS ICE CREAM
SUMMIT COUNTY COURTS
TIKI-UNDERGROUND
RED OAK BEHAVIORAL HEALTH
MR ZUBS MATINEE
BLUE $250
FAITH LUTHERAN CHURCH
INTERLAKE MARITIME
SHERWIN WILLIAMS
PURPLE $100
AVANTOR, INC
GREAT CLIPS
DAVID HODGE - TAX KING
DONORS
NANCY FACCHIANO $500
2024 SPONSOR EVENT SETUP
DAY OF INFO
Thank you so much for sponsoring the Akron Pride Festival on August 26th! Here’s some helpful information to make our process smoother.
This pertains to sponsors that include a space with their sponsorship for the festival event. YELLOW / $1000 or more.
If you are entitled to a space with your sponsorship, and are not presenting on your organization's behalf, please let us know that information as well.
SATURDAY SET-UP
You may arrive for load-in on Saturday morning beginning at 6:30am. Note that all vehicles must be completely out of the festival footprint by no later than 9am so that we can secure the roads for marchers and festival attendees. YOU WILL BE ABLE TO DRIVE TO OR CLOSE TO YOUR SPACE TO UNLOAD.
EVENT TEAR-DOWN As you plan, please remember that no vehicles will be allowed back into LOCK3 entertainment space for load-out until approximately 10pm. (post fireworks) Complete load-in and load-out instructions (space assignments, access roads, check-in procedures, etc.) will be coming, as we finalize the festival footprint and assign sponsor spaces.
Parking in Cascade Deck through Lock 4 (sliding glass doors) level, and exiting through Lock 4 is recommended. Enter at Mill Street
Until then, thank you for helping to create the most inclusive, diverse, and powerful Akron Pride Festival yet!
*******NOTE*********
There can be limited Friday Load-In at Lock3 because the venue will be used for a concert.
***** If your set up has been specifically arranged in a different location, confirm, and go to those spaces. Please check in with Julie - info@akronpridefestival.org, before heading to your specified area. ****
As a reminder: No tents, tables or chairs are a part of a sponsorship. You are responsible for items needed in your space that day.
If you’ve rented through us, all will be set near or in your location upon arrival.
Sponsor MOVE IN AND OUT
We are excited to be within one week of the 2024 Akron Pride Festival, kicking off on Saturday, August 24 with the annual Equity March at 10 AM!
Please carefully review this email, because it contains essential information for your planning. As a confirmed sponsor at the Akron Pride Festival, you have two options on when you would like to set up your space at the Festival. You chose this on the form that you completed when registering.
FRIDAY EVENING (BETWEEN 3:30 PM and 5:30 PM).
SATURDAY MORNING (BETWEEN 7 AM and 9:00 AM).
You will enter the festival through the GREEN CHECK-IN, accessed from the intersection of High Street and Bowery St. (See map, attached.)
Please note that High Street is one way heading southbound; you will need to turn right onto Bowery and proceed down the hill to check-in.
Friday load-in is highly preferred and recommended; overnight security patrols the festival throughout the night.
If you choose to set-up Saturday morning, please note that we have a short window for set-up and a narrow festival footprint. Therefore, we require vendors to find their spot, unload their vehicles, remove their vehicles from the footprint and find parking for the day, then walk back to their space to complete set-up. This keeps the street clear for arriving vendors during this quite busy and condensed time.
Please note that no cars may enter on the festival footprint after 9AM,
In either case, please plan out your parking for the day. The attached map contains not only marked parking and important information for load-in, but for end-of-day tear down as well.
In general, no vehicles will be permitted back onto the festival footprint until 8 PM. You may tear down early, but will need to do so on foot. Wagons are helpful.
Note:A few sponsors have other locations on the footprint, if you have been contacted separately please follow those instructions, over the ones contained in this email.
Preferred parking for our Sponsors will be the Children's Hospital flat lot that is at the corner of Bowery and W. Center Street (W. Center St. entrance. The same flat lot our FOOD COURT is placed in. You may exit and park in any other decks, (follow the green) or park in the designated area shown in the mapping below.
At 9:15 AM the intersection of W.Center St. and Bowery will be CLOSED, and blocked by a Metro Bus.
Please note that road closures and traffic patterns are subject to change and as always, we’ll need to have a spirit of flexibility and unity to make this complex set-up process as smooth and joyful as possible. We are so appreciative of your support for the Akron Pride Festival, and if you have any questions between now and then, just reply to this email.
We ask for grace through this process. It is an amazing day. Patience and care are appreciated as we move over 300 vendors onto the footprint. Happy Pride!
See you soon!
APF Steering
