Daybreak Rotary Wine Fest -- Call for Sponsors!

Daybreak Rotary Presents Wine and Blues Fest

When: Saturday, June 11, 2011, 7pm - 9:30pm
Where: Campbell River Maritime Heritage Center
What: Wine, Wine, Wine, Blues, and Appys!

Daybreak Rotary is looking for sponsors, small and large.

Why sponsor a Rotary event?

In a nutshell, sponsors give to Rotary not so much for the sales ability of the advertising but to support an organization that truly delivers to and cares for the community in which it operates. We are the largest service organization in the world with the largest amount of members supporting the cause.

More specifically:

1. Sponsorship donations go to helping cover the costs of putting the event (i.e. - musician, decorations, tickets, printing programs, etc.) on and what is leftover goes into our Community Service account to support local events that Rotary funds and supports throughout the year.
2. On the domestic front, Rotary provides funding to support local community initiatives such as the Seawalk, children's playgrounds, food bank, fixtures for old age homes, building and contents for the Head Injury Society, parks and recreation, hospital equipment, meals for single parents, student scholarships and many more initiatives that I am sure you will partake in as you become more familiar with the committees that we have. On the international front...the eradication of polio worldwide, clean water and sanitation, literacy, self sustaining micro credit support, public health, etc...check out the Rotary International site for a complete inventory of all the thousands of projects that Rotary is involved.  See CR Daybreak Rotary website for local projects.
3. Rotary is well known throughout our community as an organization that delivers with virtually no administrative overhead. You see our crests in every community on Vancouver Island be it parks, trails, playgrounds, pools. To support Rotary means that you want your funding to go the longest way possible to support local community initiatives. This Wine and Blues event will host approx 250 attendees and a variety of demographics from visitors to established businesses and professionals. All sponsor names are printed on our program which is handed out to all attendees.

(Thanks for that excellent explanation Jim Voth!)

~Dave Brown