Why Sponsor Our Annual Event?

High profile community event
Mass public appeal and participation
Media exposure
Positive impact on the community
An important asset in the fight against colorectal cancer

Associating your company with a positive, high profile civic event can be a very powerful communication tool.

See a list of our sponsors

Your company’s name will be seen throughout the community, amongst peers and in the press, enhancing your recognition as a corporate and civic leader.

Contact Bruce or Cindy to review the sponsorship levels:

bruce@bigrivergroup.com or dhrandolph@gmail.com
320-260-2612 320.267.3255

Sponsorship Benefits

Align your company’s name and image with a premier civic event with mass public appeal and media exposure, and the only benefit race for colorectal cancer.
Reach important market segments represented by the thousands of survivors and their teams, spectators, volunteers, runners and walkers including upscale, health conscious and ethnically diverse consumers.
Demonstrate your company’s commitment to the community.
Unify employees around a positive and worthy event. Foster and strengthen relationships with a variety of business and civic organizations.

Special Events Marketing

Special events marketing represents over $7 billion a year market in the United States.
Sixty-seven percent of American companies sponsor sporting events.
Funds invested in the correct event are much more effective than money spent on traditional forms of media advertising.
Seventy-two percent of all event sponsorships are sports sponsorships.

Health and Fitness

Health/fitness and running events present an outstanding opportunity to promote, sample and sell products and services. In the United States: There are 26 million runners/walkers They represent 14 percent of the entire adult population The demographics of these runners/walkers make them an attractive audience