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Where Do We Get It?

Budgets are tight for everyone right now. Yet, you want to continue providing quality programming for your library, school, museum, festival, or chautauqua.

Continue seeking grant funding, but also consider approaching the following businesses, industries, and organizations to sponsor or co-sponsor Sharon's visit, reminding potential sponsors that you will see that their names appear or are mentioned in advertising and on programs, adding that they will be thanked publicly at the event, thus justifying their spending of some advertising dollars for your event.

(Remember, too, that Sharon's programs are essentially a field trip delivered to your door.)

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Program: "Jack's Mama" (See descriptions of programs and workshops on "Program Information" page of this website.)

Possible sponsors: Wal-Mart, Target, area bookstores, music stores; Bluegrass, folk, or country music radio stations; antique shops, local Toastmasters group (Sharon is a member of Toastmasters International), stores that specialize in rustic or country decor, local restaurants that specialize in "down-home cooking," historical society, museum, public library, etc.

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Program: "Sarah Farley Remembers Johnny Appleseed"

Possible sponsors: All of the above plus local apple orchards, gardening societies, greenhouses and nurseries, landscape businesses, grocery markets and green grocers, etc.

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Program: "Abigail Gray: Living Under the Drinking Gourd" (Available after November 6, 2004)

Possible sponsors: Most of the afore-mentioned plus businesses and organizations that support equal rights issues.

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Program: "Tales from East of the Equator and South of the Sun"

Possible sponsors: Most of the afore-mentioned plus ethnic businesses and cultural groups in your community. (Let Sharon know, so that she may be sure to include stories from the countries of the supporting groups.)

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Program: "A Very, Merry Literary Christmas"

Possible sponsors: Most of the afore-mentioned, especially the major bookstores, plus your local public radio station, newspapers, retailers who specialize in Christmas goods (gifts, decorations, wrapping materials, etc.), including card shops and home improvement centers.

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Workshop or Residency: "Tell-Tale K!ds"

Possible sponsors: Local Toastmasters group, toy stores, office and stationery supply store, Wal-Mart or Target, local public radio station and other radio stations, newspapers, bookstores, local theater guild, etc.

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As you've read these suggestions, you probably have thought of many more possibilities. Most of these concerns would be eager to help you bring in quality programming such as Sharon Kirk Clifton presents, considering it an honor to be asked. And of course, the good public relations such sponsorship would generate is priceless.

In times such as these, we just have to be a little more creative in finding resources. Now..

Let the telling begin!

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