Corporate Sponsors

As a corporate funder, your corporation can sponsor programs, events, and activities that align with your philanthropic priorities and conservation goals to meet strategic branding, imaging and visibility needs. Significant and measurable high–profile recognition and visibility can be gained via sponsorship opportunities with Discover Life in America.

Discover Life in America welcomes the opportunity to explore creative branding campaigns with your marketing department or communications partner. In partnership with Discover Life in America, your corporation can be positioned as a leader in supporting conservation and biodiversity initiatives. Your brand is seen by millions of current and potential customers as an agent of positive environmental change whose products, by association with Discover Life in America and its mission, are more desirable.

Interested in becoming a corporate sponsor for Discover Life in America? Contact Todd Witcher, Executive Director at (865) 430-4757 or todd@dlia.org to get started.

• Sponsorship opportunities
• Sponsor Levels

1. Branding (and co–branding) opportunities
2. National, regional, and local exposure in target markets
3. Enhanced image and positive identity messaging
4. Wider internal and external recognition by employees and customers
5. Exposure to a network of over 80 natural heritage programs and their constituents
6. Visibility through the creation of a year–round and/or multi–year program
7. Increased employee morale
8. Increased customer loyalty
9. Increased conservation change in communities where employees live and work
10. More productive and healthier workforce

If you are interested in funding our work and spreading your company’s name through a tax-deductible gift, contact todd@dlia.org for more information.

Sponsorship opportunities

All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory

• DLiA’s Flagship project to record every species in the park. Sponsorships help to fund
• Stipends for scientists and taxonomists to ID backlog of ATBI specimens
• DNA barcoding analysis of specimens
• Tools, resources and materials to conduct the ATBI.
• Updating technology to further research

iScience Middle School Program

• Students (grades 5-8) explore biodiversity living right on their school grounds
• Fosters environmental stewardship and interest in S.T.E.M. fields through experiential, nature-based learning
• Currently includes 31 participating middle schools from the region

Fireflies Event at Norton Creek

• Annual firefly-centered fundraising event
• Showcases the magic of the synchronous fireflies in an intimate setting
• Guests enjoy food, drink and guided firefly viewing
• ~200 guests per year

Summer Internships

• 12-week immersive summer internship program in the Smokies
• Provides undergraduate students with a unique hand-on experience working for a nonprofit
• Interns assist with scientific research, programming, public relations, and more
• We host 3-4 interns per summer

Smokies Most Wanted

• Community science program empowering park visitors to document organisms they encounter in the Smokies
• Using the iNaturalist app, volunteers contribute data for the Smokies ATBI
• Hundreds of visitors engaged each year

Sponsor Levels

Kingdom Level – $10,000

1. Name and logo on Discover Life in America website for 12 months with link to your organization’s website
2. Name and logo on DLiA brochure
3. Acknowledgement as Kingdom Level corporate sponsor on all DLiA materials including;  marketing materials, and pre- and post event promotional activities
4. Recognition at all events and presentations as a Kingdom Level Sponsor
5. Listed in each DLiA Quarterly Newsletter as Kingdom Level Sponsor.
6. Given ½ page ad in one DLiA Quarterly Newsletter
7. Given one Sponsor spotlight article in one DLiA Quarterly Newsletter
8. Special sponsor package

Phylum Level – $7,500

1. Name and logo on Discover Life in America website for 12 months with link to your organization’s website
2. Name and logo on DLiA brochure
3. Acknowledgement as the Phylum Level corporate sponsor on all DLiA materials including;  marketing materials, and pre- and post event promotional activities
4. Listed in each  DLiA Quarterly Newsletter as Phylum Level Sponsor
5. Given ½ page ad in one DLiA Quarterly Newsletter
6. Special sponsor package

Class Level – $5,000

1. Name and logo on Discover Life in America website for 12 months with link to your organization’s website
2. Acknowledgement as the Class Level corporate sponsor on all DLiA materials including;  marketing materials, and pre- and post event promotional activities
3. Given ¼ page ad in one DLiA Quarterly Newsletter
4. Special sponsor package

Order Level – $2,500

1. Name and logo on Discover Life in America website for 12 months with hyper-link to your organization’s website
2. Acknowledgement as an Order Level corporate sponsor on all DLiA materials including;  marketing materials, and pre- and post event promotional activities
3. Listed in the DLiA Quarterly Newsletter as Order Level Sponsor
4. Special sponsor package

Family Level – $1,000

1. Name and logo on Discover Life in America website for 12 months with hyper-link to your organization’s website
2. Acknowledgement as one of this year’s Family Level corporate sponsor on all DLiA materials including; marketing materials, and pre- and post event promotional activities
3. Listed in the DLiA Quarterly Newsletter as Family Level Sponsor
4. Special sponsor package

Genus Level – $500

1. Name and logo on Discover Life in America website for 12 months with hyper-link to your organization’s website
2. Acknowledgement as one of the Genus Level corporate sponsors on all DLiA materials including;  marketing materials, and pre- and post event promotional activities
3. Listed in the DLiA Quarterly Newsletter as Genus Level Sponsor
4. Special sponsor package

Interested in other ways to support DLiA? Find out more.