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Here’s a presentation developed for a virtual content marketing conference. It’s a story about the partnership between the Golden State Warriors and PG&E which involved extensive community engagement and volunteering. We facilitated extensions that took place out in the community via social service, beautification and sustainability programs with involvement of client execs, Warriors players and…

It’s redeeming to see a wave of corporate brands, professional sports teams and mainstream media outlets embrace the wide array of social causes amplified due to the varied crises humanity is currently experiencing. Whether it’s Black Lives Matter, gender equality, environmental action or social media advertising scrutiny, leaders within some of the country’s most prominent…

With last week’s 50th anniversary of Earth Day, there were many ways to explore new climate-related information provided by some of the world’s environmental leaders. After absorbing many of these talks and the accompanying information, I wanted to share some observations and common themes. Collective Considerations First off, the current virus crisis has opened the…

A few years ago, I changed my business name from Sponsorship Strategies to Bartram Partnerships. I did this out of an innate belief that, while sponsorship in its truest form was still vital and appropriate for certain sectors such as sports, entertainment and the arts, partnership is what the world truly needs. I saw a…

When starting a sponsorship program for a venue, event or cause, an organization needs to have an idea of where it wants to end up—target revenues, types of partners, priority industries or companies and, of course, a plan for how to attract the new partners, negotiate agreements and manage activation. As important as any of…

We’ve all seen it before—a venue name change with a new corporate name applied that receives a tepid public response at best and is unsupported at worst. The name change process is nuanced and can end up greatly influencing the degree of success experienced by the property and its new naming partner. Through solid, strategic front-end thinking,…

While considering the plight of our country and the decorum of the current election, it is easy to be discouraged and to wonder how we will ever come together as a society. The reaction by some to the ever-increasing diversity and needs of our population leads to resentment and resistance and we wind up paralyzed…