2024-2025 Recital Season Sponsorship Opportunities

We invite you to join fellow business leaders as a sponsor of Community Music School’s 2024-2025 student performances. Over the course of our 2023-2024 recital season, CMS students, ages 5 to 60+, presented 400 individual musical performances to a diverse and engaged audience of over 1,000 friends, family, and supporters in our beautiful Dorothy H. Baker Recital Hall.  Please consider showcasing your organization’s support for the arts, music, and education by supporting CMS students with a sponsorship or program advertisement for our 2024-2025 season.  Season Sponsors and Supporting Sponsors enjoy unique benefits, including an invitation to our Gala Recital & Reception on May 10, 2025.  All sponsors and program advertisers will be recognized at all six student recitals and across all CMS communication channels over the course of the season (October 2024 – June 2025). 

NEW   Community Music School is now an approved Educational Improvement Organization (EIO) in Pennsylvania’s Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) program.  If your business participates in the EITC program, you may now designate your sponsorship to support CMS EITC-eligible educational programs including private lessons, group classes, & access to our state-of-the-art recording studio.

Performing in front of a live audience is an important part of each CMS student’s growth and development. We encourage students of all ages and abilities to perform in recitals when they are ready, with the approval of their teachers. Thanks to our generous donors, all CMS recitals are free and open to the public; there is also no fee for students who perform.  CMS is a nonprofit, 501(c) (3) organization, and corporate sponsors like you help us provide all students with access to the life-long benefits of quality music education, regardless of their background, age, ability, or financial circumstances.  

In the 2023-2024 year, CMS experienced 23% enrollment growth with nearly 600 unique students attending in-person music lessons, group classes, bands, choirs, ensembles, and of course, recitals!  That also means we have a record demand for need-based financial aid that enables students from low-income families to enroll.  In 2024-25, we are funding over $105,000 in financial aid to 55% of our students under age 18.  Your sponsorship will directly support these students.

We encourage you to review the sponsorship and advertising opportunities below. Please reply via mail, email, or online form with the best option(s) for your organization. If you have any questions, please contact Lisa Kulp, Assistant Director, 610-435-7725 x402, or lisa@cmslv.org. 

$2,000   Full Season Sponsor Benefits

• Prominent logo on all recital-related promotional materials, including all recital webpages, emails, social media posts, posters, and recital programs (printed & digital)
• Full Page Print advertisement (5” wide x 8” tall, BW) in all six recital programs*
• Verbal recognition by Executive Director in opening remarks at each recital
• Mention with tag** on social media (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn)
• Text listing on community calendar listings, where permitted
• Text listing in scrolling credits and description of recital recording on YouTube
• Text listing on Our Supporters page of website
• Two premium seats at each recital, by reservation, with preferred parking; plus two VIP tickets to the Gala Reception on May 10, 2025

$1,000   Supporting Sponsor Benefits

• Logo on all recital-related promotional materials, including all recital webpages, emails, social media posts, posters, and recital programs (printed & digital)
• 2/3 Page Print advertisement (5” wide x 5.25” tall, BW) in all six recital programs*
• Verbal recognition by Executive Director in opening remarks at each recital
• Text listing on Our Supporters page of website
• Two premium seats at each recital, by reservation, with preferred parking; plus two VIP tickets to the Gala Reception on May 10, 2025

à la carte Program Advertising

Includes a display ad in all six spring season recital programs

$750 2/3 Page Black & white, 5” wide x 5.25” tall, no bleed

$500 Half Page Black & white, 5” wide x 3.875” tall, no bleed

$250 Third Page Black & white, 5” wide x 2.5” tall, no bleed

Email artwork to lisa@cmslv.org as grayscale PDF, TIF, PNG, or JPG.

Ad Copy Deadlines

One week prior to each recital

Monster Concert
Sunday, October 27, 2024
Ad Deadline Mon, Oct 21
RSVP Deadline Fri, Oct 25

Holiday Recital
Sunday, December 15, 2024
Ad Deadline Mon, Dec 9
RSVP Deadline Fri, Dec 13

Faculty-Student Recital
Sunday, March 2, 2025
Ad Deadline Mon, Feb 24
RSVP Deadline Fri, Feb 28

Spring Recital
Sunday, April 13, 2025
Ad Deadline Mon, Apr 7
RSVP Deadline Fri, Apr 11

Gala Recital Reception
& Scholarship Awards
Saturday, May 10, 2025
Ad Deadline Mon, May 5
RSVP Deadline Mon, May 5

Summer Recital
Sunday, June 1, 2025
Ad Deadline Fri, May 23
RSVP Deadline Fri, May 30

* Six recitals during the 2024-2025 season (Monster Concert, Holiday Recital, Faculty-Student Recital, Spring Recital, Gala Recital, & Year-End Recital)

** Please provide preferred website links and social media handles. As of 10/1/24: Facebook 1,494 followers, Instagram 535 followers, LinkedIn 187 followers, 202 YouTube subscribers.