Become a Sponsor!
Our goal is to work with our Sponsors in cross promotion of both your company and the Communities in Bloom program. Your company profile will be highlighted to our judges who will promote the community benefits of your products and services as the opportunity arises. For sponsorship package, go here.
Benefits of Sponsorship
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Enhance your business or organization’s goodwill with customers, associates and neighbours.
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Provide an excellent vehicle to showcase products and promote your business against a very positive backdrop, at little cost
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Provide access to and visibility with a network of decision makers not only in your own community, but throughout Ontario – mayors, councillors, business leaders.
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Provide exposure to horticultural and municipal professionals at trade and association shows throughout the year such as: AMO (Association of Municipalities in Ontario), (OHA) Ontario Horticultural Association, etc.
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Affiliate your company with a positive initiative designed to promote and reward environmental awareness, tidiness, community involvement and civic pride.
Announcing LIN partnership
LIN is the leading provider, aggregator and supplier of information and knowledge in recreation, parks, sport and healthy living. LIN is the home of the National Recreation Database, a free resource of over 9,000 practical resources available free of charge to help you do your job more effectively. You can subscribe to the LINNEWS listserv to network with your colleagues and receive regular updates about new additions to the LIN web site.
MEET OUR 2010 SPONSORS & PARTNERS
TRILLIUM LEVEL:
Landscape Ontario (www.landscapeontario.com) has a mandate to be the leader in representing, promoting and fostering a favourable environment for the advancement of the horticultural industry in Ontario. The vision of its founding members, to find strength in numbers by serving the needs of all sectors of the lawn and garden industry, has allowed them to become one of the largest and certainly one of the most vital and active trade associations in North America.
FOUR BLOOM:
Association of Municipalities of Ontario (www.amo.on.ca) - Municipal associations in Ontario have a long history consisting of numerous amalgamations and mergers of separate organizations. The first meeting of an enduring municipal association was held in Hamilton on September 6, 1899. The association was created to enable both appointed and elected representatives of municipalities to discuss common concerns. A constitution for the organization was drawn up, officers elected and the mandate decided ‑ to establish regular meetings between the association and the government to speak to, and to influence legislation.
TWO BLOOM:
The International Society of Arboriculture – Ontario Chapter (www.isaontario.com) has served the tree care industry for over eighty years as a scientific and educational organization. ISA was founded in 1924 when a group of forty individuals, each engaged in a phase of tree work or research, were called together to discuss shade tree problems and their possible solutions. It was during this meeting that the group identified a need for gathering tree care information and for providing a means for its dissemination.
Ontario Small Urban Municipalities (www.amo.on.ca) is the small urban municipal voice of the Province. OSUM is an integral part of the Association of Municipalities of Ontario and has a number of its Board members which serve on the AMO Board of Directors. Policy and research activities are undertaken by OSUM through the staff at AMO.
Trystan Site Furnishings (www.trystanproducts.com) - has been a manufacturer of quality site furnishings for the past 20 years with 40 years of foundry experience. Their experience gives them the unique ability to provide an extensive line of attractive and durable site furnishings, including new and unique products customized to the customer’s specifications.
PARTNERS:
The Composting Council of Canada (www.compost.org) is a national non-profit, member-driven organization with a charter to advocate and advance composting and compost usage. It serves as the central resource and network for the composting industry in Canada and, through its members, contributes to the environmental sustainability of the communities in which they operate.
Master Gardeners of Ontario Inc. (www.mgoi.ca) is an organization dedicated to providing horticultural information to the public. It began in 1985 as a program of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) but it became an independent non-profit organization in February 1998. The Master Gardeners. of Ontario Inc.(MGOI), was formally incorporated. Currently there are 41 groups in Ontario.
Ontario Horticultural Association (www.gardenontario.org) Since 1906, the Ontario Horticultural Association (OHA) has led Ontarians in all things horticultural. Our organization is an integral part of this province’s cultural fabric. The OHA network is a well-rooted tree with many branches 19 Districts); twigs (277 autonomous local societies) and leaves (over 40,000 members).
Ontario Parks Association (www.opassoc.on.ca) is an organization is committed to civic beautification, the advancement, protection and conservation of parks, open space and the environment as we practice "Protecting Tomorrow Today"® in the province of Ontario.
Parks and Recreation Ontario (www.prontario.org) is an all-inclusive, not-for-profit corporation dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for people of Ontario. It fulfills this mandate by collaborating with stakeholders to influence decisions and policies that support the benefits of recreation through information, advocacy, and the research and development of innovative and relevant products and services.
Rural Ontario Municipal Association (www.amo.on.ca) is the rural municipal voice of the Province. They have, for decades, ensured that matters which affect rural communities are brought to the attention of the provincial and federal governments. Issues which are currently before ROMA include, intensive livestock operations, nutrient management, rural schools, commodity prices, farm taxation, economic development, roads, bridges and infrastructure, a new Municipal Act, and ambulance services in rural Ontario.
