Sponsorship

The Garden Grove Strawberry Festival Board is preparing for its 48th annual event to be held Memorial Day weekend, May 26-29, 2006. The theme will be “A Salute to Our Heritage: Celebrating the City's 50 th Anniversary,” Special events will be planned and film and TV celebrities would also be recruited, as in the past.

To help defray insurance and security costs which have tripled this year, the board is seeking sponsorships prior to February 15, 2006 to help underwrite the Garden Grove Strawberry Festival. The board is considering canceling the parade – an expensive part of the Festival requiring increased security and other services – if costs are not covered by underwriting. We are hopeful that 2006 will not be the first year in the last 46 that the Festival will not have a parade.

Security has risen from $5,000 to $20,000 and insurance premiums have gone from $17,000 to $48,000. This greatly reduces the profits we make, thus limiting the amounts we are able to contribute to local charities.

We are looking for businesses -- supportive of and by our community – who would consider becoming a sponsor for this special event. The Los Angeles Times is the Festival's official media sponsor, and the OC Register will again produce the program and insert it into their subscribers' papers. And as always, there will be television and radio coverage. Depending upon the category of sponsorship, sponsoring companies will have considerable media exposure, street, bus-stop and amphitheater signage, as well as parade and celebrity event participation, and prime location booth space.

If you have questions, please contact Judy Cooper at 949-640-8828 or by email at jcpr@pacbell.net. Or you may call board member Jerry Margolin at (714) 539-0558.