1. art and entertainment
2. music
3. musical instruments
4. guitars

GI B S O N Sket
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Public Ma
Coast, BC
Sunshine| 2013
EST
sponsorship invitation
BUiLDinG FoR THE FUTURE
Gala 2015
saturday june 27, 2015
at the Gibsons PUblic Market
“It is only through the
contributions of people like
you that the Market will
become a reality for the
Sunshine Coast.
It takes the community
to make it real.”
Nicholas Sonntag President - Gibsons Community Building Society (GCBS)
Join Us
Saturday June 27th, 2015
at the Gibsons Public
Market for an
Unforgettable Evening
The Gala Committee and Boards of Directors and Governors are hosting
an extraordinary evening of gourmet food and drink with exciting
entertainment, spirited live and silent auctions and many surprises for our
guests including a virtual journey to the Future Gibsons Public Market.
Ticket sales will be limited to 250 people. Last year’s event sold out
quickly – purchase your tickets early!
Gala Planning Committee:
Andrea Aleong • Di Ashworth • Charmaine Bayntun • George
Bayntun Karen Blunderfield • Fabienne Bonnici • Carmen Daigle
Erica Gatz • Katie Hopson • Sharon Kelley • Linda Sonntag
Nancy Zipursky
President – Nick Sonntag
Executive Director – Gerry Zipursky
Executive Assistant – Dana Sauer
Gibsons Public Market
Our goal is to foster, promote and preserve
agricultural sustainability along the Sunshine
Coast, recognize our coastal marine bounty,
engage the community in supporting a
social collection point for all things related to
water, food and art, and help build a stronger
and more sustainable community for us all
to enjoy. The Market will become a social
and cultural hub on the Coast that will also
help foster economic development through
community engagement and partnership
with government, business and citizens.
FRoM DREAM To REALiTY
The Gibsons Public Market will be our coastal community hub where residents
and visitors to the Sunshine Coast can enjoy food, fresh produce, art, music and
entertainment. It will offer community activities, educational forums, a restaurant/
bakery, a Community Kitchen, Marine Education Centre and an artist-in-residence.
Our objective is to establish a destination for locals and tourists to frequent which
will support an economically viable enterprise.
WHY A GALA EVEnT?
December 17, 2013 Gibsons Public Market became a registered
non-profit society. In the early part of 2014 a Board of Directors
was established to govern the operation of the Market. A
decision was made to open the modestly renovated
building to the public during the transition period
April-June 2015
- not only offering the Coast a venue for rentals
Completion of Design
for community and private organizations,
and Program Assessment
but also creating a full-fledged Farmers’
Market from May to October giving
June 2015
the Coast a taste of things to come. In
Launch $2.5 Million
addition to these activities the Gibsons
Capital Campaign
Community Building Society will
assume responsibility of carrying
July–December 2015
out the final design, planning and
Finalize Drawings, obtain
permitting of the project prior to
Permits and Tender
December 31st. During this time we
are pleased to announce the launch
Construction Contracts
of our Capital Campaign raising
January 2016
$2.5 Million to expand the current
Market building to 3 floors totaling
Renovation and
11,000 sq.ft. of vendor and community
Expansion of
amenity space. As you can imagine, in
new Facility
addition to the vast amount of pro bono
and volunteer services provided, funds are
summer 2016
required to assist in executing our business
Grand opening
plan. Your Gala Sponsorship will enable us to carry
out the important role of planning and building for
the future.
Why will businesses
and corporations
want to support the
Gibsons Public Market?
Being associated with the GPM
will offer opportunities to:
1. Help you reach your target
audiences- The GPM is a coastal project
that embraces and involves the total
spectrum of residents along the Sunshine
Coast from children and young families
to the retired senior population.
2. Direct Sales- The public market will
provide you with a venue to show and
or sell your wares as well as provide
an opportunity to network with the
thousands of coastal residents and the
thousands of tourists who will be coming
to the Market each year.
3. ‘Giving Back’ to your CommunityThe Market’s vast array of services and
features such as the Marine Education
Centre, the Community Kitchen, etc.
provide you, your associates and
employees the opportunity to support
worthy programs happening at the GPM.
More and more corporations include
in their mission statement a need for
their organization and employees “to
become directly involved and give back
to community”. The GPM offers just such
an opportunity. There are a growing
number of businesses that maintain and
dedicate significant resources (human
and financial) to social responsibility.
4. Having Fun- Inasmuch our sponsors
want to invest their dollars in a nonprofit
organization that achieves positive and
impressive outcomes, the GPM will also
offer our business and corporate partners
an opportunity to have “good ol’ fun”.
Be it meeting celebrities who support
the Market and are involved with our
organization or dropping in and just
seeing happy faces on children, families
and seniors who are spending time at the
GPM community hub.
sPonsoRsHiP LEVELs
GIBSONS
Public Market
Platinum sponsor- $15,000
• Recognition and award of distinction as a Platinum Sponsor of the Gala
• Recognition of support in entry of building during 2015
• One Gala table of 10 guests
• Full Page ad in Coast Reporter for your own marketing use
• Emcee recognition during the evening
• Corporate logo on video screens during the evening
• Company logo on printed material, table and event signage
• Full page ad in Event Souvenir Programme
• Company logo on www.gibsonspublicmarket.com
• Tax receipt for the portion of the charitable gift
Gold sponsor- $10,000
• Recognition as a Gold Sponsor of the Gala
• One Gala table of 10 guests
• 3/4 Page ad in Coast Reporter for your own marketing use
• Emcee recognition during the evening
• Corporate logo on video screens during the evening
• Company logo on printed material, table and event signage
• 3/4 page ad in Event Souvenir Programme
• Company logo on www.gibsonspublicmarket.com
• Tax receipt for the portion of the charitable gift
silver sponsor- $5,000
• Recognition as a Silver Sponsor of the Gala
• One Gala table of 8 guests
• 1/2 Page ad in Coast Reporter for your own marketing use
• Emcee recognition during the evening
• Company logo on printed material, table and event signage
• 1/2 page ad in Event Souvenir Programme
• Company logo on www.gibsonspublicmarket.com
• Tax receipt for the portion of the charitable gift
Bronze sponsor- $2,500
• Recognition as a Bronze Sponsor of the Gala
• 4 tickets to Gala
• 1/4 Page ad in Coast Reporter for your own marketing use
• Emcee recognition during the evening
• Company logo on printed material, table and event signage
• 1/4 page ad in Event Souvenir Programme
• Company logo on www.gibsonspublicmarket.com
• Tax receipt for the portion of the charitable gift
Sponsorship Enquiries - please call Gerry Zipursky
at 604-886-8814 or gzipursky@gmail.com
Sunshine Coast, BC
EST | 2013
GoVERnAnCE
GCBs Board of Directors
Executive Committee
• President - Nicholas Sonntag
• Vice President - Brian Smith
• Treasurer - Errol Lipschitz
• Secretary - Linda Sonntag
• Member at Large - Nancy Zipursky
GCBs Board Members
• Amanda Amaral
• Unni Claridge
• Linda Fogarty
• Gail Hunt
• Sharon Kelley
• Aleria Ladwig
• Fran Miller
• Anne Niklewicz
• Yvonne Paulson
• Julie Reeves
• Jonah Spiegelman
GCBs Board of Governors
• Honorary Chair - Darren Entwistle
• Chair- Bill Humphries
• Joann Hetherington
• Patricia Hetherington
• Peter Kvarnstrom
• Grant Marshall
• Pam Robertson
• Doug Rogers
• Nicholas Sonntag
• Anne Titcomb
Executive Director - Gerry Zipursky
Executive Assistant - Dana Sauer
GIBSONS
Public Market
Sunshine Coast, BC
EST | 2013
Gibsons Community Building Society
473 Gower Point Road, Gibsons, BC
Mail: PO Box 191, Gibsons, BC V0N 1V0
604 886 8814
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