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:: Corporations & Foundations 

Sponsorships

In sponsoring UMass Boston for an event or program, you join many local and national corporations, foundations, and other institutions practicing good citizenship by investing in Boston’s public university.

Sponsorship offers the chance to see our mission of teaching and research first-hand and to become acquainted with our faculty and students.  It also provides significant community visibility for your organization. We invite your sponsorship of the following university events: 

Ongoing Opportunities

  • Athletics Sponsorship for our 16 varsity teams, intramurals, and recreation activitiesfor students, faculty and staff.
  • WUMB Radio Corporate sponsors support the station's unique programming and reach 75,000+ listeners, including affluent, well-educated community and business leaders, educators, scientists, healthcare providers, and legal professionals.  Corporate partners of WUMB receive on-air informational announcements in recognition of their support. 
  • GoKids Boston Sponsorship of scholarships for urban youth to participate and to learn healthy living to combat obesity.
  • Give Us Your Poor: The Campaign to End Homelessness brings together the latest research, multimedia, celebrities, non-celebrities, homeless people, and partner organizations to help end homelessness.

Spring 2008

  • Big Read   WUMB is one of 127 organizations across the country to be awarded a National Endowment for the Arts grant to engage the public in reading To Kill a Mockingbird. Various sponsorship opportunities are available. 

Summer 2008

  • Women, Wages and Work, a conference for Massachusetts Women will be sponsored by the Center for Women in Politics & Public Policy on June 9, 2008. It will bring together women from diverse racial and socio-economic levels, elected officials, union officials/members, community organizations, advocates, and academics to tackle challenges that continue to exist for women in the workforce. Sponsorships are available from $10,000 (Visionary) to $150 (Friend). Contact Carol Hardy-Fanta at 617.287.5546.
  • Camp Shriver, a unique summer camping experience for children both with and without intellectual disabilities, which is a model for inclusive summer campus around the world.

Fall 2008

Spring 2009

  • 25 Years, 1,500 Lives – Poverty to Promise, a Celebration of the Urban Scholars Program. This 25th Anniversary event will gather national leaders to dialogue about urban achievement and share the remarkable success of this program which prepares Boston youth for college.

To learn more about these activities, and how your involvement can make a difference, contact Darrell C. Byers, vice chancellor for university advancement, at 617.287.5323.