BALIF Annual Gala Sponsorship & Tickets

We invite your Firm/Company to sponsor BALIF, the oldest and largest LGBT Bar Association. Your sponsorship of BALIF will fund law student scholarships and mentor programs, CLE, Amicus briefs on LGBT issues, LGBT recruiting, social events for LGBT lawyers and more. In exchange for your sponsorship, you will receive the benefits listed below, including complimentary tickets to BALIF’s 33rd Annual Dinner and Awards Gala––Simply Fabulous on Friday, March 15, 2013, at the Bently Reserve, 301 Battery Street, San Francisco. The Gala is BALIF’s largest annual event with more than 600 attendees, including lawyers, judges, lawmakers, legal professionals, students, and in-house counsel.

This year’s levels and benefits for sponsorship are as follows:

Partner Level: $5,000

• Priority recognition as a Partner-level sponsor through the end of calendar year 2013 on BALIF website, in BALIF newsletter, and at all BALIF sponsored functions, including firm logo displayed at Gala event, BALIF MCLE events, monthly networking receptions and law student functions.
• Admission for ten people to 33nd Annual Dinner and Awards Gala.
• Admission to VIP reception at Gala with in-house counsel, judges, BALIF Board of Directors and National LGBT Bar Association Board members.
• Custom, full-page Gala program advertisement.

Advocate Level: $2,500

• Priority recognition as Advocate-level sponsor through end of calendar year 2013 on BALIF website, in BALIF newsletter, and in all printed and online 2013 Gala materials.
• Admission for ten people to 33rd Annual Dinner and Awards Gala. 
• Custom, half-page Gala program advertisement.

Benefactor Level: $1,500

• Priority recognition as Benefactor-level sponsor through end of calendar year 2013 on BALIF website, in BALIF newsletter, and in all printed and online 2013 Gala materials.
• Admission for five people to 33rd Annual Dinner and Awards Gala.
• Custom, quarter-page Gala program advertisement.

Individual Sponsorship: $500

• Priority recognition as Individual sponsor through end of calendar year 2013 on BALIF website, in BALIF newsletter, and in all printed and online 2013 Gala materials.
• Admission for one person to 33rd Annual Dinner and Awards Gala.

We request that you respond as soon as possible to be listed on the electronic invitations and in all other publicity for the Gala. You must respond, and your payment must be RECEIVED, by February 22, 2013 for your sponsorship and advertisement to appear in the Gala program. We hope that you will join us as a BALIF sponsor and look forward to seeing you at the Gala!