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Small Business Champions

When we help small businesses, everyone benefits. Your generous support helps self-sustaining small businesses that have systematically lacked access to capital. With your help, we’re creating opportunities for all. You can be a CSBDF Small Business Champion when you set up a monthly or annual recurring donation to support our ongoing work.

Small Business Champion levels:

  • $5.00 monthly donation (or annual gift of $50)

    • Name included in our annual report on a page dedicated to recognizing our individual donors
    • Receive a physical copy of our annual report
    • “Thank You” postcard from a local small business

  • $10.00 monthly donation (or annual gift of $100)

    • Name included in our annual report on a page dedicated to recognizing our individual donors
    • Receive a physical copy of our annual report
    • “Thank You” postcard from a local small business
    • CSBDF notebook
    • 2 complimentary tickets to Small Business Week Luncheon (if unable to attend you have the option of donating your tickets to students)
    • Name listed on our Small Business Champion’s page

  • $25.00 monthly donation (or annual gift of $250)

    • Name included in our annual report on a page dedicated to recognizing our individual donors
    • Receive a physical copy of our annual report
    • “Thank You” postcard from a local small business
    • CSBDF notebook
    • 4 complimentary tickets to Small Business Week Luncheon (if unable to attend you have the option of donating your tickets to students)
    • Name listed on our Small Business Champion’s page
    • Featured picture and quote in newsletter

  • $50.00 monthly donation (or annual gift of $500)

    • Name included in our annual report on a page dedicated to recognizing our individual donors
    • Receive a physical copy of our annual report
    • “Thank You” postcard from a local small business
    • CSBDF notebook
    • 4 complimentary tickets to Small Business Week Luncheon (if unable to attend you have the option of donating your tickets to students)
    • Name listed on our Small Business Champion’s page
    • Featured picture and quote in newsletter
    • Donor Spotlight via Social Media during Giving Tuesday Campaign (can opt-out if preferred)

Dream Catchers Circle

The generous support of donors makes it possible for Carolina Small Business to build stronger communities across our state through economic development that benefits all. So when your organization makes an annual contribution to support our ongoing work – enabling small businesses to grow to create and protect jobs – you are welcomed into the Dream Catchers Circle.

Special thank you to our Dream Catchers, who have supported our mission as we continue to help small businesses.

         

         

            

 

 

  

Thanks to our Small Business Champions in FY20 as of March 2020!

Garrett Taylor, Tony Hayes, Richard Moore, Nancy Stroud, Sharon Oxendine, Cheryl Diuguid, Jeff Roegge, Paulette Dillard, Mackenzie, Johnston, John Holdsclaw, Ted Archer

Dream Catchers Circle levels:

  • Lamp Lighter ($2,500 annual gift)

    • Be recognized twice annually for your support as a donor in the Dream Catchers Circle in e-news blasts to more than 6,700 recipients
    • Have organizational collateral and materials at one of our entrepreneurship centers across the state, such as the Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center in Raleigh, to reach a new generation of business leaders
    • Logo included in slide show at special events such as the Small Business Week Awards Luncheon
    • Organization logo featured in our annual report on a page dedicated to recognizing the Dream Catchers Circle, which is distributed to key stakeholders such as state government leaders
    • Featured quarterly in social media push of video recognizing the support of Dream Catchers Circle organizations, which reach more than 10,000 viewers
    • Logo displayed on Dream Catchers Circle webpage, to reach thousands of visitors

  • Advocate ($1,000 annual gift)

    • Logo included in slide show at special events such as the Small Business Week Awards Luncheon
    • Organization listed in our annual report on a page dedicated to recognizing the Dream Catchers Circle, which is distributed to key stakeholders such as state government leaders
    • Featured quarterly in social media push of video recognizing the support of Dream Catchers Circle organizations, which reach more than 10,000 viewers
    • Logo displayed on Dream Catchers Circle webpage, to reach thousands of visitors

  • Community/Nonprofit Partner ($500 annual gift)

    • Logo included in slide show at special events such as the Small Business Week Awards Luncheon
    • Organization listed in our annual report on a page dedicated to recognizing the Dream Catchers Circle, which is distributed to key stakeholders such as state government leaders

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