Derby Day - Sponsorship Information

Sponsorship Information

Why Sponsor Derby Day?

Your support is greatly needed.

Being involved in meaningful leisure activities is one of the best ways to adjust to lifestyle changes caused by a disability. Therapeutic recreation programs have a profound and lasting effect on the quality of life of people with disabilities, yet they are not covered under individual insurance policies, and are often not available through other sources, like community recreation programs. By sponsoring Derby Day, you and your company are helping people with catastrophic injuries or diseases lead active, healthy lives. Your support funds Shepherd's Therapeutic Recreation activities like the Wheelchair Division of the Peachtree Road Race and the Adventure Skills Workshop.

It's a great way to get your company involved in the Atlanta community.

More than 1,000 of Atlanta's current and future leaders attend Derby Day. In the past 27 years, the Junior Committee has raised more than $3.5 million for the patients of Shepherd Center. All corporate sponsors receive special recognition on Derby Day and are acknowledged in Spinal Column, Shepherd Center's periodic magazine with a circulation of 27,000.

It's a great way for employees and company guests to have fun, meet other Atlantans, and learn about Shepherd Center and its therapeutic recreation programs.

Derby Day offers a fun day in the sun where you, your company's guests and employees can socialize with other active community members. There are also many opportunities to meet members of the Shepherd Center staff, and learn more about the hospital's Therapeutic Recreation programs.

How To Become A Derby Day Sponsor/Patron

New this year, we are introducing two new “Patron” levels. At the Junior Patron level of $150, you will receive two General Admission tickets, and recognition in Spinal Column magazine and on the Derby Day Web site. At the Patron level of $250, you will receive two General Admission tickets, two event t-shirts, six drawing tickets, and recognition in Spinal Column magazine and on the Derby Day Web site.

If you are interested in sponsoring Derby Day at the Silver Cup ($500), Gold Cup ($1,000), Blue Ribbon ($2,500), Platinum ($5,000), Triple Crown ($10,000), Winner’s Circle ($15,000) or Presenting ($20,000) Sponsor levels, click here to make your donation by credit card.

If you are interested in sponsoring at a higher level, you may print and fill out a Sponsorship Commitment Form and send it in with your pledge amount or payment.

If you have any questions, please email Anne Pearce or call 404-350-7302.

Click here to view the Sponsor benefits for Derby Day 2010.

If are unable to support Derby Day at a Sponsorship level, please consider making a gift of any amount. Click here to donate by credit card.

Sponsor List for Derby Day 2010

Junior Patron Sponsors

Clare J. Anderson
Lana & Lamar Ball
Elsie Brumby
Ron Burch
Matt Calvert
Darlene & John Kozarek
Kanda & Vernon Martin
Susan & Roger Pitt
Nancy Bea Staley
Christine & Mike Vinson
Ann Marie & Joe Ziegler

Patron Sponsors

Charlotte P. Ellithorp
William Espy
Thomas F. Farrell
Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Finnigan
The Family of Alexandra Futch
Healthcare Georgia Foundation
David Hegg
Richard Hemingway
Ann Shipley
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph R. Sivewright
Jim Staley

Silver Cup Sponsors

Jane & David Apple

Atlanta Kick/Operation Bootcamp

Vivian DuBose

CrossFit North Atlanta
Framers on Peachtree

Patty and Bob Fryer

The Gables Antiques

The Leonard & Jerry Greenbaum Family Foundation
Mr. & Mrs. Geoffrey P. Hall
Treva Jackson

Dr. John Lin

Dickey Netherland

Linda and John O'Hara

Pittman Construction Company
Sandra Ramsey
The Ritz-Carlton, Amelia Island

River Street Inn

Seabrook Family Trust

Valerie and Scott Sikes

Charles Smithgall III
That Garrison Girl

Tibi

Tootsies

Gold Cup Sponsors

Amelia Island Plantation
AmWINS Brokerage of Georgia, Tom Tio

Joan and Robert Berto

Brainjogging, Inc.
Melissa Thomas Durand, DMD, PC
Angi & Michael Evert
Lora & Geoff Fishman/Credit Suisse
Genuine Parts Company
Judy & Mike Harhai
Hooters of America
Mainly Baskets
Elizabeth R. Pearce
Piedmont Center
ProFloors, LLC
Stacey & Brad Ray
Nancy & Pete Selleck
Shaw Industries Group, Inc.
Alana & Harold Shepherd
Urban Body Studios
Adelaide C. Ward
Alison & Scott Ward
Mr. & Mrs. Leonard Wood

Blue Ribbon Sponsors

Palmetto Bluff
Libby & Gene Pearce
Caeser Pruett/Home Depot
Schreeder, Wheeler & Flint, LLP
Speaker Law Firm
SunTrust Bank, Atlanta

Platinum Sponsors

Bear Claw Condominiums
Bell Capital Mgt.
Janyce and Mark Dawkins
www.annelattimore.com

Triple Crown Sponsors

Choate Construction Company