PARTNERSHIP O P P O R T U N I T I E S

Girls on the Run is celebrating its 20th birthday across the

nation, with the Wood River Valley chapter

empowering girls locally for 14 years!

Join us for a unique 5k experience!

We are looking for companies that would like to align themselves

with a quality youth development program.

Girls on the Run® - Who We Are

Our Mission

To inspire girls to be joyful, healthy and

confident using a fun experience-based curriculum that creatively integrates running

Our Vision We envision a world where every girl knows and activates her limitless potential and is

free to boldly pursue her dreams

Our Program

Girls on the Run® is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to creating a world where every girl knows and activates her limitless potential and is free to boldly pursue her dreams. Meeting twice a week in small teams of 8-20 girls, we teach life skills through dynamic, interactive lessons and running games. The 24-lesson curriculum is taught by certified Girls on the Run coaches and includes three parts: understanding ourselves, valuing relationships and teamwork and understanding how we connect with and shape the world at large. Running is used to inspire and motivate girls, encourage lifelong health and fitness, and build confidence through accomplishment. Important social, psychological, and physical skills and abilities are developed and reinforced throughout the program. At each season's conclusion, the girls and their running buddies complete a 5k running event which gives them a tangible sense of achievement as well as a framework for setting and achieving life goals. The result—making the seemingly impossible, possible, and teaching girls that they can.

Why Support for Girls on the Run is Critically Necessary

Some unfortunate facts about girls today: • Three million young Americans seriously considered suicide in 2000 and of those, over 1

million tried to kill themselves. • Idaho has the 4th highest suicide rate, 67% higher than the national average. • Girls were twice as likely as boys to report contemplating suicide. • Body dissatisfaction and dietary restraints are predictors of depression in girls. • Almost two-thirds of girls in 5th-12th grades are dissatisfied with their body shape and

want to lose weight. • Girls as young as 5 form negative self-images based on their weight.

If you want to help change that, here’s some good news:

• Girls who participate in physical activities are 40% less likely to smoke, have higher levels of self-esteem, better body images, and lower levels of depression.

• Girls who have experienced emotional trauma respond positively to physical fitness programs.

• Girls who participate in physical activities have higher self-esteem and therefore less likely to engage in risky sexual behavior during adolescence.

• Girls who participate in physical exercise have higher self-esteem and therefore have better relationships with adults, get better grades, are less likely to use drugs and are less depressed than girls who don’t.

And the best news, if she’s involved with Girls on the Run:

• She has higher self-esteem;** • She has improved eating attitudes;** • She has an improved body image;** • She has a positive peer group setting where important issues are addressed in a

productive and research based manner • She has positive role models in her mentor coaches.

**According to research conducted by Dr. Rita DeBate, Ph.D., MPH, CHES, assistant professor in the department of Health Behavior at UNC-Charlotte, the Girls on the Run Curricula improve girls self-esteem, body image and eating attitudes to a “statistically significant” extent.

Our Sponsorship Philosophy & Opportunities

Our commitment to you, the sponsor, is to host professional, high-quality events and youth programs to which your company can be associated. Through these events and programs, we strive to cultivate community spirit as well as generate interest, awareness and increased exposure for your products and services. Your sponsorship sends a powerful message of support for healthy living for the youth and families of our community. Sponsorship opportunities can include one or more of the following distinct areas of the entire Girls on the Run® program: Fall & Spring program, Girls on the Run Community 5k, and Lunafest Film Festival. Details about each of these areas are outline below and their associated benefits. Our sponsorship opportunities range from allowing you to focus your to a particular event to having exposure across all that GOTR does!

Where Does Your Money Go?

Sponsorship monies go to support our Girls on the Run® program in the Wood River Valley in the following ways:

• Scholarships - Girls on the Run® is offered to all girls regardless of their ability to pay. On average 50% of our fees are covered by scholarship in 2015. Your sponsorship helps us offer the funds necessary to insure all girls are able to participate.

• Curriculum - Girls on the Run® uses well-researched and proven curriculum that is implemented nationally across 220 different councils. Your sponsorship helps to supply and maintain the materials necessary to implement each of the 20 lessons in this curriculum.

• Overhead – Although Girls on the Run® is primarily volunteer-based, we have necessary overhead costs to keep our program running. These costs include t-shirts for each participant, liability insurance, licensing fees, individual site expenses, coach training and background checks, and administration. Your sponsorship helps to ensure these expenses can be met to keep our program running efficiently.

Girls on the Run® of the Wood River Valley is a non-profit, 501c3 organization. Your contributions are fully tax deductible. To learn more about this exciting and effective program giving girls the opportunity to laugh, run, and learn to address the issues girls face everyday, please contact Mary Fauth, Executive Director, at 208.788.7863, mary@girlsontherunwrv.org.

PARTNERSHIP O P P O R T U N I T I E S

JOIN US A PARTNER IN A UNIQUE 5K EXPERIENCE

Our girls experience joy crossing the finish line, and you can too! Saturday, June 4, 2016

Heagle Park, Draper Preserve, Della View Subdivision, Hailey, Idaho Race start time: 9:00 a.m.

The Girls on the Run Community 5K Fun Run has always been something more than your ordinary 5k race. Our non-competitive athletic event has it’s own dose of community spirit with our corporate teams vying for the “Best Spirit” award, our “Running Heroes” dotting the course to keep our participant’s spirits lifted high, and the joyous support of runners, walkers and people of all ages coming to complete the 5k race distance along side girls finishing the Girls on the Run program. And it’s just gotten better… New for the spring of 2016 the 5k will become a festive paint run! We’re excited to offer this sought out race experience to draw new participants to the event. This will be our 13th annual event and past

participants number between 300-400. We anticipate these numbers again this year. We feel we are meeting a community need as families and individuals come together to participate in a fun, healthy, activity-filled morning. Your sponsorship sends a powerful message of support for healthy living and for the youth and families of our community.

SUPERSTAR $2000+ SPRINTER $1250-$1999 RUNNER $750-$1000

WALKER $300-$500

• Listed as a sponsor in our video PSA that

will be used to promote the race across all of our GOTR networks, as well as in $5000 worth of airtime on Cox cable stations.

• Logo display on paid print advertising, and posters.

• Option of inserting company materials in race bag

• Opportunity for professional booth at race

• Company logo & link on GOTR website • Option of having banner displayed at

event • Company logo display on event printed

material • Company logo display on event t-shirts • Recognition in all press material • Recognition in all email marketing • Social media thank you opportunity

1 complimentary corporate team entry ($300 value)

• Logo display on paid print

advertising, and posters. • Option of inserting company

materials in race bag • Opportunity for professional

booth at race • Company logo & link on

GOTR website • Option of having banner

displayed at event • Company logo display on

event printed material • Company logo display on

event t-shirts • Recognition in all email

marketing • Social media thank you

opportunity 1 complimentary corporate team entry ($300 value)

• Option of inserting

company materials in race bag

• Opportunity for professional booth at race

• Company text recognition & link on GOTR website

• Option of having banner displayed at event

• Company logo display on event t-shirts

• Recognition in all email marketing

1 complimentary corporate team entry ($300 value)

• Company text

recognition & link on GOTR website

• Company logo display on event t-shirts

• Recognition in all email marketing

2 complimentary race entries ($40 value)

PAINT STATION SPONSOR -- $500 ONLY THREE SPOTS! At each mile during the 5k experience, participants will get covered in paint! Your company is invited not only to be the official sponsor of the station with signage at the station and recognition in our marketing, but you can bring a team of employees to be the paint throwers! Be prepared to have crazy, silly fun!

CORPORATE TEAM CHALLENGE -- $300 Encourage a healthy lifestyle by entering your company into the “Corporate Team Challenge!” You’ll receive 5 race entries, upgrade to a technical t-shirt, and a chance to win the “Best Spirit Award” and the prize of BCRD Fitworks membership.

PARTNERSHIP O P P O R T U N I T I E S

YES! I’d like to be a partner with Girls on the Run!

Company Name: _______________________________________________________________________________ Contact Name: _________________________________________________________________________________ Mailing Address: _____________________________ Phone: ________________________________________ Email: _______________________________________ Website: _______________________________________ I’m interested in the following sponsorship opportunity:

❏ Superstar ❏ Sprinter ❏ Runner ❏ Walker If you don’t intend to use your complementary team or race entries, would you consider donating it to

individuals that couldn’t participate otherwise? ❏ Yes

I’d like to reserve one of the three Paint Station Sponsorships. ❏ Yes Rather than sponsorship recognition, I’d like to create a unique experience for our company’s employees &

clients by participating in the Corporate Team Challenge! ❏ Sign us up!

I would like to pay for our sponsorship by:

❏ Enclosing a check paid in full

❏ Paying ½ now. Please bill me the remaining.

❏ I’m not able to commit right now, but please contact me closer to the event!

Girls on the Run of the Wood River Valley Contact: Mary Fauth, 788-7863, 720-4948 PO Box 7016, Ketchum, ID 83340 Mary@girlsontherunwrv.org