Sponsorship

Sponsorship & Advertising at The Franke

Your sponsorship helps sustain our mission: To entertain, educate, and enrich through the arts… and connects your business with an engaged, appreciative audience who will value your support of the arts in our community!

2024-2025

Season Sponsorship

Benefits

The Franke Center for the Arts sponsorship offers businesses, organizations and individuals an excellent vehicle for reaching potential customers while supporting the arts. 

Become a Sponsor
Digital Program

Our season program reaches approximately 6000 patrons per year, and our new digital programs will allow the opportunity to link to your website!

Pre-Show Slideshows

Sponsors are featured on the screen before our mainstage shows.

Marquee

We take the time to acknowledge our larger sponsors on our marquee.

Social Media & Our Website

We thank each of our major sponsors on social media, with over 35,000 impressions annually in Calhoun County and beyond.

Sponsorship Levels

We have sponsorship levels to benefit businesses large and small. Take a look and choose the sponsorship level that’s right for you!

Become a Sponsor
  • Largest ad at the top of our digital program + hyperlink to your website
  • 16 complimentary tickets for Franke Center events (including fundraisers)
  • 4 complementary box seat tickets for Franke Center events (Each box seats 4. Subject to availability.)
  • Your name listed on our web page and pre-show slideshow
  • Your name displayed on our outdoor marquee during our concert season
  • Your logo on the physical program card handed out at each show
  • A “thank you” on our social media reaching 4,000+ Facebook followers
  • One FREE business rental in one of the following: Auditorium, Downstage Club Banquet Room or Executive Boardroom
  • Mention in the preshow speech before each show
  • Large ad at the top of our digital program (2nd tier) + hyperlink to your website
  • 14 complimentary tickets for Franke Center events (excluding fundraisers)
  • 2 complementary box seat tickets for Franke Center events (Each box seats 4. Subject to availability.)
  • Your name listed on our web page and pre-show slideshow
  • Your name displayed on our outdoor marquee during our concert season
  • A “thank you” on our social media reaching 4,000+ Facebook followers
  • One FREE business rental in one of the following: Downstage Club Banquet Room or Executive Boardroom
  • Mention in the preshow speech before each show
  • Large ad at the top of our digital program (2nd tier) + hyperlink to your website
  • 12 complimentary tickets for Franke Center events (excluding fundraisers)
  • 1 complementary box seat for Franke Center event (Each box seats 4. Subject to availability.)
  • Your name listed on our web page and pre-show slideshow
  • Your name displayed on our outdoor marquee during our concert season
  • A “thank you” on our social media reaching 4,000+ Facebook followers
  • One FREE business rental in one of the following: Downstage Club Banquet Room or Executive Boardroom
  • Large ad at the top of our digital program (2nd tier) + hyperlink to your website
  • 10 complimentary tickets for Franke Center events (excluding fundraisers)
  • Your name listed on our web page and pre-show slideshow
  • Your name displayed on our outdoor marquee during our concert season
  • A “thank you” on our social media reaching 4,000+ Facebook followers
  • One FREE business rental in one of the following: Downstage Club Banquet Room or Executive Boardroom
  • Large ad at the top of our digital program (3rd tier) + hyperlink to your website
  • 8 complimentary tickets for Franke Center events (excluding fundraisers)
  • Your name listed on our web page and pre-show slideshow
  • Your name displayed on our outdoor marquee during our concert season
  • A “thank you” on our social media reaching 4,000+ Facebook followers
  • One FREE business rental in one of the following: Downstage Club Banquet Room or Executive Boardroom
  • Medium ad in our digital program (4th tier) + hyperlink to your website
  • 6 Complimentary tickets for Franke Center events (excluding fundraisers)
  • Your name listed on our web page and pre-show slideshow
  • Your name displayed on our outdoor marquee during our concert season
  • A “thank you” on our social media reaching 4,000+ Facebook followers
  • One FREE business rental in one of the following: Downstage Club Banquet Room or Executive Boardroom
  • Medium ad in our digital program (5th tier) + hyperlink to your website
  • 4 Complimentary tickets for Franke Center events (excluding fundraisers)
  • Your name listed on our web page
  • Medium ad in our digital program (6th tier) + hyperlink to your website
  • 2 complimentary tickets for Franke Center events (excluding fundraisers)
  • Small ad in our digital program (7th tier) + hyperlink to your website
  • 2 complimentary tickets for Franke Center events (excluding fundraisers)
  • Your business name listed in our digital program + hyperlink to your website
  • 1 complimentary ticket for a Franke Center event (excluding fundraisers)
2023-2024

Event Sponsorship

Benefits

Become a title sponsor for a specific show to maximize your brand’s engagement with a specific audience and show everyone that your business supports the arts. Event sponsors receive prominent logo placement in each of the following locations…

As an added bonus, you’ll receive a complimentary box seat ticket to the show!

Sponsor An Event
Show Program

Our season program reaches approximately 6000 patrons per year, and our new digital programs will allow the opportunity to link to your website!

Event Posters

Your logo will appear prominently on the posters for the show, which are distributed throughout Marshall and in select locations in Battle Creek, Albion, and beyond.

Pre-show Slideshow

Sponsors are featured on the screen before our mainstage shows.

Show Webpage

Your logo will appear prominently on the show’s page on our website.

Email Blasts

We’ll give you credit as show sponsor in our email blasts which reach a list of over 5,000 people.

Social Media

We thank each of our major sponsors on social media, with over 35,000 impressions annually in Calhoun County and beyond.

Sponsorship Levels

Sponsor An Event
  • Logo placed prominently show on posters, on the pre-show slideshow, on the show’s page on TheFranke.org, in eblasts, and on social media
  • Your large ad placed at the top of the show’s digital program with a hyperlink to your website
  • Your logo on the physical program card handed out at each show
  • 1 complimentary box seat ticket to the sponsored show (seats 4 people)
  • Logo placed prominently show on posters, on the pre-show slideshow, on the show’s page on TheFranke.org, in eblasts, and on social media
  • Your large ad placed at the top of the show’s digital program with a hyperlink to your website
  • Your logo on the physical program card handed out at each show
  • 1 complimentary box seat ticket to the sponsored show (seats 4 people)

Opportunities

Events are subject to change.

Sponsor An Event
  • 9/14 – Chameleon & Jim Cummings (Blues Series)
  • 9/28 – Comedy night with Heywood Banks
  • 10/19 – Taylor Swift Experience – Kanin Wren
  • 11/16 – Jake Kershaw (Blues Series)
  • 1/11 – Irish Pub Night Blackthorn
  • 1/18 – Wolf Tree Film Festival
  • 1/25 – Main Street Dueling Pianos
  • 2/1 – Ice, Wine, Beer, and Blues featuring  Sharrie Williams (Blues Series)
  • 2/22 – The Insiders – Tom Petty tribute featuring Max Lockwood
  • 4/5 – Glen Phillips of Toad the Wet Sprocket
  • 4/12 – Art of Drag
  • 4/26 – Charlie Millard Band  (Michigan Stars Series)
  • 5/3 – Bluegrass night with Full Cord (Michigan Stars Series)
  • 5/31 – Tom Franke Gala featuring the Dave Bennett Quartet

Get started today!

For more information, please call our office at 269-789-9677 and ask for our executive director, Jacob Gates.

To become a sponsor, simply fill out the questionnaire available at the link below.

Become A Sponsor