Club Partner Program
The Club Partner Program presents an opportunity for sailing clubs and organizations to partner with the US Olympic and Paralympic Sailing Program and its athletes. Based on the success of US SAILING’s Medalist Donor Program, which raised more than $2 million from individual donors leading up to the 2008 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the Olympic Sailing Program’s new and expanded yacht club partnership is a valuable opportunity for the leading clubs in the United States to directly support the national sailing teams. The Olympic Sailing Program seeks to partner with clubs that can contribute resources needed to help athletes perform in 2012. The Olympic Sailing Program offers an exciting list of benefits for its partner clubs, which is detailed below.
Every Olympic and Paralympic story has the same opening chapter: the athlete learned to sail at a yacht club or sailing club somewhere in the world. That’s where every Olympic and Paralympic dream begins, and therefore, the Olympic Sailing Program wants to bring the leading clubs in the United States closer together for the final chapter of these athletes’ stories. The local clubs started aspiring Olympians and Paralympians down this path, and the athletes need the clubs’ support for the final steps of their journey.
Outlined below are the various levels of partnership. Please join us on our path towards Olympic and Paralympic Gold in Weymouth, England.
Gold Medal Partner Club Benefits
- Olympic Chair (Dean Brenner) will attend and support an annual club fundraiser, along with members of the US Sailing Team AlphaGraphics. In addition, team members will attend and participate as “special guests” at a club junior clinic.
- Signed Olympic photos and flags following 2012 Games.
- Invitations for six people to attend an Olympic Team cocktail party in 2012 at the team base in Weymouth, England.
- Official US Sailing Team AlphaGraphics apparel from Atlantis WeatherGear: six vests and six jackets.
- Quarterly Olympic online newsletter “The Medalist” available to link from club website.
- Rights to use exclusive new trademark for Gold Medal Partner Clubs on website, club stationery and official club brochures or marketing materials.
- At your club’s discretion, press release announcing Gold Medal gift.
- Annual recognition in Scuttlebutt and through USSTAG social networking sites.
- Club burgee will appear on USSTAG web site.
- Annual recognition in The Medalist online newsletter (approximately 40,000 subscribers).
- Annual recognition in US SAILING’s video podcasts.
Silver Medal Partner Club Benefits
- Team members will attend and participate as “special guests” at a club junior clinic.
- Signed Olympic photos and flags following 2012 Games.
- Invitations for four people to attend an Olympic cocktail party in 2012 at the team base in Weymouth, England.
- Official US Sailing Team AlphaGraphics apparel from Atlantis WeatherGear: four vests, four jackets.
- Quarterly Olympic online newsletter “The Medalist” available to link from club website.
- Rights to use exclusive new trademark for Silver Medal Partner Clubs on website, club stationery and official club brochures or marketing materials.
- At your club’s discretion, press release announcing Silver Medal gift.
- Annual recognition in Scuttlebutt and through USSTAG social networking sites.
- Club burgee will appear on USSTAG website.
- Annual recognition in Medalist online newsletter (approximately 40,000 subscribers).
- Annual recognition in US SAILING’s video podcasts.
Bronze Medal Partner Club Benefits
- A team member will attend and participate as a “special guest” at a club junior clinic.
- Signed Olympic photos and flags following 2012 Games.
- Quarterly Olympic online newsletter “The Medalist” available to link from club website.
- Rights to use exclusive new trademark for Bronze Medal Partner Clubs on website, club stationery and official club brochures or marketing materials.
- At your club’s discretion, press release announcing Bronze Medal gift.
- Annual recognition in Scuttlebutt and through USSTAG social networking sites.
- Club burgee will appear on USSTAG website.
- Annual recognition in Medalist online newsletter (approximately 40,000 subscribers).
- Annual recognition in US SAILING’s video podcasts.