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Internews Media Leadership Awards

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Support media’s role in transforming communities

Ted Leonsis and Mariane Pearl

Honoary Co-Chairs Ted Leonsis and Mariane Pearl

The 2009 Internews Media Leadership Awards (IMLAs) celebrate the importance of empowering local media around the world. With help from generous sponsors like you, we will honor trail-blazing journalists from Pakistan, Haiti, and Thailand.

You can join us at the one of these donation levels:

Internews is proud to offer the following opportunities for our sponsorship partners. We welcome the opportunity to discuss a package that meets your philanthropic objectives and welcome multi-year partnerships as well as in-kind donations.  

Past sponsors of the Internews Media Leadership Awards include Google, the Open Society Institute, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Leonsis Foundation, the United Nations Foundation, Glamour Magazine, WTOP/3WT, and the Case Foundation, among other generous partners.

Host Committee
$1,000

Donate Now

  • Invitation to pre-IMLA VIP reception with honorees, Internews board, and friends
  • 2 VIP tickets
  • Organization or individual name listed with Host Committee designation on on-site signage
  • Organization or individual name on Internews Network web site

Directors’ Circle
$5,000

Donate Now

  • Invitation to pre-IMLA VIP reception with honorees, Internews board, and friends
  • 4 VIP tickets
  • Organization or individual name listed with Directors Circle designation on on-site signage
  • Logo with URL link on Internews Network web site
  • Quarter-page advertisement in event program
  • Sponsorship acknowledgement in Internews e-newsletter and press release sent to 8,000+ subscribers

Producers’ Circle
$10,000

Donate Now

  • Invitation to pre-IMLA VIP reception with honorees, Internews board, and friends
  • 8 VIP tickets
  • Logo with Producers Circle designation on award stage and other on-site signage
  • Logo with URL link on Internews Network web site
  • Half-page advertisement in event program
  • Sponsorship acknowledgement in Internews e-newsletter and press release sent to 8,000+ subscribers

Visionaries’ Circle
$25,000

Donate Now

  • Co-sponsorship of pre-IMLA VIP reception with honorees, Internews board, and friends
  • 12 VIP tickets
  • Logo with Visionaries Circle designation on award stage and other on-site signage
  • Featured profile article and logo with URL link on Internews Network web site
  • Full page advertisement in event program
  • Sponsorship acknowledgement in Internews e-newsletter and press release sent to 8,000+ subscribers
  • Prominent recognition on front page of event program
  • Branded item or organization literature distributed with program

Would you like to donate by check or wire transfer? – Download the form. Contact Felicia Montgomery at fmontgomery (at) internews.org or 202-833-5740 ext. 218 to discuss customized packages or in-kind contributions.

Sponsors

Visionaries’ Circle

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation - Writing the story of transformation


Directors' Circle

DLA Piper

Open Society Institute


Host Committee (partial list)

  • American University’s Center for Social Media
  • Chris Boskin
  • Kathy Bushkin Calvin
  • Gregory C. Carr Foundation
  • Simone Coxe
  • DAI
  • Johanna Mendelson Forman
  • Anthony Garrett & Associates
  • Google
  • David Hoffman and Jane Rogers
  • Ray Jennings and Jeanne Bourgault
  • Sheila C. Johnson
  • K Street Kate.net
  • Annette Makino and Paul W. Blank
  • Melwood Global
  • David Michaelis
  • Potomac Companies LLC
  • Christopher Tavlarides
  • Transforming Philanthropy LLC