Benefits (excluding Annual Events): 

• Sponsor receives recognition on pre-event and promotional emails.
• Sponsor receives recognition in the weekly newsletter, relevant sub-group mailing lists, and social media.
• Sponsor receives recognition on the event webpage.
• Sponsor receives recognition in the signage at an in-person event. For virtual events, SID-W will include your organization name and logo on a slide and post a short message and link to your website in the chat box.
• Sponsor will be acknowledged at the beginning and end of the event.
• Sponsors will have a one-minute speaking opportunity during the event. Sponsors can provide a pre-recorded video in lieu of speaking.
• Sponsors can receive an MP4 file of the event recording for their own marketing purposes. Sponsors must credit SID-W for the recording.   

Required Catering for In-Person Events 

For in-person events, sponsors are responsible for all food and beverage expenses in addition to the sponsorship cost. Sponsors can manage catering arrangements themselves or pay a flat rate for SID-W to organize food and beverage. Food and beverage selection and quantity must be approved by SID-W staff no later than 48 hours before the event. SID-W can provide staff to help set up and clean up.

If you would like SID-W to manage all catering for you at an additional cost, see below for pricing: 

• Workgroup/Network/Special Events: $200 for breakfast, $250 for lunch, $300 for reception 
• Chapter Events: $300 for breakfast, $350 for lunch, $400 for reception 
• Institutional Member Events: $400 for breakfast, $500 for lunch, $600 for reception 
• Event Series: TBD 

Prohibited Content 

Inappropriate Content: any sponsor that, in the sole opinion of SID-W:  

• encourages dishonest behavior.
• contains profanity.
• depicts nudity (except for breastfeeding), or the objectification of genders.
• encourages illegal activity, products, or enterprises.
• encourages violence.
• encourages any type of discrimination.
• is unauthorized to use copyrighted content.  

Deceptive Content: any sponsor, that in the sole opinion of SID-W, provides content that: 

• is false, including deceptive claims, offers, or business practices. 
• includes information deemed to be false or claims discredited by third-party fact checkers. 

Hateful or Discriminatory Content: any sponsor, that in the sole opinion of SID-W: 

• degrades, discriminates, or shows hate toward a race, ethnicity, culture, country, belief, age, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, disability, or condition.  

Biased or Prejudiced Content: any sponsor, that in the sole opinion of SID-W: 

• is biased, partial, prejudiced, or that could be considered propaganda.  

Prohibited Practices: any sponsor, that in the sole opinion of SID-W: 

• deceives users by excluding relevant product information or providing misleading information about products, services, or businesses. 

Disclosures 

• Institutional members and non-members can sponsor, but all institutional members sponsoring must be in good standing.
• Each organization can only sponsor up to three events per SID-W’s fiscal year (July-June) to ensure diversity of sponsors.
• All events (except annual events) are capped at three sponsors maximum.
• All sponsors are subject to our review and approval. SID-Washington reserves the right to reject or remove any sponsor at our sole discretion for any reason, including in response to audience feedback, or board-level feedback.
• SID-Washington reserves the right to request modifications to any sponsorship language.
• All sponsorship payments must be received within ten business days of the event. If payment is not received within ten business days, SID-Washington reserves the right to temporarily put the organization’s membership on hold until payment is received.