Support AFF
Why Support the Albuquerque Folk Festival?
The Albuquerque Folk Festival Inc. is unusual in that it is educational as well as fun. It provides advocacy for the folk-arts community and opportunity for the general public to experience and participate in a diverse range of traditional folk arts activities including music, dance, storytelling, puppetry and more.
In 2020, we met the challenge of of fulfilling our mission by offering a FREE Stay-at-Home Virtual Folk Festival, in part through the help of donations and grant monies that allowed us to compensate our scheduled performers and move forward in this brave new world!
In years past we have kept ticket prices low to keep the festival accessible. Ticket revenues only covered about 25% of the cost of putting on the live festivals. Please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to the Albuquerque Folk Festival, a Not-for-Profit 501(c)(3) and 509(a)(2) Public Charity. We offer a variety of donor and sponsor opportunities at all levels of support for community-minded individuals and organizations.
To donate by credit card:
Just click this button. You'll be taken to Paypal to donate to the Festival:
To donate to the Festival by check:
Make check payable to: The Albuquerque Folk Festival
Mail your check to:
Albuquerque Folk Festival PO Box 4837 Albuquerque, NM 87196Donation and Sponsor Packages and Benefits
Your contribution to the Albuquerque Folk Festival is much more than a charitable gift. It funds a unique, participatory folk-arts festival with links to a large portion of the folk-arts community and its economy. It identifies you as a responsible corporate citizen and associates your product or service with a large, robust, dynamic base of potential customers.
The Festival provides recognition for your support through its website. For the live festival scheduled for 2024 at the National Hispanic Cultural Center, we expect to print 700 - 1500 Festival Programs and, depending upon your support level and the timing of your Sponsorship Commitment, 2,500 flyers, Festival print and media advertising, 2,000 - 3,000 festival participants, and many other benefits. Note: In-kind Donations at these levels accepted as well.
| Category | Amount | In-kind Donations at these levels accepted as well |
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| Supporter | $5-49 | Gift acknowledgement and donor listing on the Festival website |
| Friend | $50+ | Gift acknowledgement and donor listing on the Festival website and in the printed program |
| Benefactor | $100+ | Gift acknowledgement, donor listing on the Festival website, and donor listing in the Festival program. Other benefits available as requested:
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| Workshop or Booth Sponsor | $250-500(depends on venue cost) | Gift acknowledgement, donor listing on the Festival website, and donor listing in the Festival program. Other benefits available as requested:
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| Patron | $500 to $1000 or more | Gift acknowledgement, donor listing on the Festival website, and donor listing in the Festival program. Other benefits available as requested:
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| Stage Sponsor | $1,000 per stage | Gift acknowledgement, donor listing on the Festival website, and donor listing in the Festival program. Other benefits available as requested:
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| Festival (Multiple Stage Sponsor) | $3,000+ | Gift acknowledgement, donor listing on the printed program and website. Other benefits available as requested:
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(Our Festival staff will do our best to be flexible and work closely with you to maximize the value of your gift or sponsorship.)
For custom sponsorship packages or questions about how to sponsor a Festival event:
Contact sponsors@abqfolkfest.org, or (505) 710-9641
Program Ads and Tent Sponsorships
The Albuquerque Folk Festival Program reaches 2,000- 3,000 Festival participants. Your ad will be placed opposite schedule and other information used by Festival goers continuously as they navigate the Festival and decide on what venues to visit, thus ensuring high visibility for your ad.
You may also choose to sponsor one of our venue tents.
For ad sizes and rates, see here: ProgramAdvertising.pdf
For tent sizes and rates, see here: TentSponsorships.pdf
Another alternative: Sell or buy musical instruments.
Do you have some musical instruments that you aren't using? Help the Festival, help yourself, and declutter your instrument collection: bring those instruments to the Festival to sell at our consignment sales table (nothing over $500). You get 80% of the proceeds, you get to donate 20% to the Festival, and you'll have room for new instruments!
You can also donate instruments to be sold at the consignment sales table, so 100% of the proceeds go to the Festival. Remember, the Festival is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, so the donation is tax deductible.
OR, are you looking to buy an instrument? Be sure to check the consignment sales table! You might find a great deal and you'll be helping the Festival: 20% of the sales price is donated to the Folk Festival. All sales are cash only. Please pick up your instruments or proceeds by 5 pm on Saturday.
Another alternative: Come to the Festival and enter our fundraising raffle
Every year, you can buy tickets and attempt to win some enticing prizes. We usually raffle off a handmade quilt donated by Trylla Esherick, a musical instrument donated by Stan Burg of Guitar Vista, and often other prizes. Check out our fundraising page to see what you could win this year!
References
- Guidestar: The Albuquerque Folk Festival
