**Special Offer:  Sponsor STEPOLOGY at the "Hittin' the Groove" level or higher and receive a free gift of STEPOLOGY's 2008 Promotional DVD featuring Bay Area Tap Festival highlights from the LAST 5 YEARS and more!  (Offer good while supplies last -- see below for details). **

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STEPOLOGY is a nonprofit corporation with tax exempt status under section 501(a) of the Internal Revenue Code as an organization described in section 501(c)(3). Donations are deductible to the extent provided by law. Please consult a tax professional for details.

STEPOLOGY Sponsorship Benefits
(rev. 11.1.08; benefits remain in effect for one full year from the date of contribution.)

“Everything is Copasetic” ($10,000 +)

• Top sponsorship billing, with company logo on over 1,000+ brochures, 3,000+ postcards, all print ads, on the STEPOLOGY website, and all online marketing
• Acknowledgment of support from the stage at each performance 
• Acknowledgment of sponsorship and company logo in 1,500+ Festival programs
• Full Page ad in 1,500+ Festival programs
• VIP seating and tickets for 20
• Four passes to concert rehearsal
• In-lobby display promoting sponsorship and table for exclusive use of benefactor 
• Ten Festival t-shirts

“Laying Down Some Iron” ($5,000 – 9,999)

• Sponsorship billing on STEPOLOGY website; company logo on 1,000+ brochures, 3,000+ postcards, all print ads, and all online marketing
• Acknowledgment of sponsorship and company logo in 1,500+ Festival programs
• Full page ad in Festival program
• VIP seating and tickets for 16
• Two passes to concert rehearsal
• Eight Festival T-shirts

“Jamming” ($1,000 – 4,999)

• Sponsorship billing on STEPOLOGY website; company logo on over 1,000+ brochures, 3,000+ postcards, all print ads, and all online marketing 
• Acknowledgment of sponsorship and company logo in 1,500+ Festival programs
• Half page ad in Festival program
• VIP seating and tickets for 12
• Four Festival T-shirts

 “Hittin' the Groove” ($500 – 999)

• Acknowledgment of support on STEPOLOGY website and in Festival program
• Quarter page ad in Festival program
• VIP seating and tickets for 8
• Two Festival T-shirts

 “Feelin’ the Swing” ($250 – 499)

• Acknowledgment of support on STEPOLOGY website and in Festival program 
• VIP seating and tickets for 4
• One Festival T-shirt

 “Shufflin’ to the Beat” ($100 – 249)

• Acknowledgment of support on STEPOLOGY website and in Festival program
• VIP seating and tickets for 2

“Keepin’ Time” ($1 – 99)

• Acknowledgment of support on STEPOLOGY website and in Festival program

For each sponsor level, the amount of contribution that is tax deductible will be reduced by the market value of sponsor benefits.  The market values of sponsor benefits for the above sponsor levels are: “Keepin’ Time” -- $0; “Shufflin to the Beat” -- $30; “Feelin’ the Swing” -- $80; “Hittin’ the Groove” -- $160.  For additional information regarding tax deductibility and or other Sponsorship levels, please contact STEPOLOGY and/or a tax professional.

2009 Bay Area Tap Festival

This project was made possible in part by awards from the San Francisco Arts Commission; the Alliance for California Traditional Arts in partnership with the Walter and Elise Haas Fund, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the James Irvine Foundation; the Zellerbach Family Foundation; the Willaim and Flora Hewlett Foundation; and the support of generous individuals. 

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“Jamming”

Cameron Veterinary Hospital

 “Feelin’ the Swing”

Joe Depasqual, John Kloss, Barbara Newman, Patricia Palllas, TAP Plastics

 “Shufflin’ to the Beat”

Layla Amis, Anonymous, Kathe Burick, Capezio Dance Theater Shop, Dance Mode Studio, Dance with Sherry Studio, Laura Elaine Ellis, Nan Farrell & Kent Marshall, Kathleen Freeman, The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, Sheila & Grace Hitchens, In Memory of Stan Kahn, Patricia Kloss, Richard Kilker, Jr., The Losito Family, Dick Millet, Susan & Ted Oppenheimer, Robert Rubenstein, Elissa & Rocket Sloan Perry, Donna Sund-Caldwell

“Keepin’ Time”

Anonymous, Constance Brons, Marion Cardinal, Virginia Erck, In Honor & Memory of Leon Collins, Adam Jaffe, Jason Lopata, Multiple Contributions In Memory of Joyce Lozano, www.mysoncandance.wordpress.com

Sponsor Archive (2008-2006) 

Danielle Alexander, Anonymous, Anthony's Shoe Repair, Makiko Asano, Kris Bell, Linda and Anthony Bonino, Cameron Veterinary Hospital, Cherrylyn Bulosan, Kathe Burick, James & Lorene Coconas, Dominique Coote, Carol Dagostino, Dance With Sherry Studio,  Joe DePasqual, Michael Ellard and Michael Ingrassia, Joan Hill/Leon Collins West, Alex & Paige Hengl, Sheila and Grace Hitchens, Kathy Horan, Adam Jaffe, Caryn, Lianna, and Victor Kali, In Memory of Stan Kahn, Esther Ali Karpilow, John Kloss, Patricia Kloss, Lesley and Peter Lane, Jason Lopata, Theresa Lopez, In Honor of Susan Main, Steven and Grace Mariani, Karin McClune, Ed McJunkin, Richard Millet, Patricia Pallas, In Memory of Eleanor Powell, Jessica Rauscher, Robert Rubenstein, Donna Sund-Caldwell, Ai Tamanaha, Sara Templeton, Timothy Williams, Marina Yu, City Ballet School, San Francisco Dancewear, San Francisco Tap Dance Center,  Tap Explosion, Purple Spirit Productions, Danzahoy, The Pickwick Hotel San Francisco.  Also made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, San Francisco Foundation, the San Francisco Arts Commission, the Zellerbach Family Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation, and the Alliance for California Traditional Arts in partnership with the Walter & Elise Haas Fund, the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the James Irvine Foundation.