Sponsorship & Advertising Opportunities
“We can customize a sponsor or advertising agreement that meets your needs and ROI”. We want to collaborate with your firm and associate you with honoring and growing lacrosse.
Ways you can support us and increase your brand awareness & positive association with the sports (70,000 + member lacrosse community).
* Advertise your firm (products/services) on our website, social media and email campaigns, with your existing print & tv ads. We strongly suggest our $300 Award Ceremony Table sponsorship as a great inexpensive high value, low cost option.
* Send a representee from your firm speak and hand out promo material at our the awards ceremony banquet or other events.
* Donated product or services to our silent and live auctions for huge online exposure and at our awards banquet.
* Retailers can Run a Round Up Program…donate the amount of change from every transaction for a month at your registers. This creates brand loyalty and awareness for your business from the lacrosse community
* Become an event sponsor, advertiser,r Founders Club donor or volunteer.
* Offer to be a Peer to Peer Amplifier…make a few introductions to other business owners, friends, former teammates,, and co-workers who might want to support our mission.
The Minnesota Lacrosse Hall of Fame offers many opportunities for individuals and companies to sponsor and market their products and services to target the Minnesota lacrosse community and our event participants. Here are the events we run and the benefits of your support for our organization. We also need volunteers to help run the events, so giving your time to support our mission is just as important as a financial contribution.
To advertise or sponsor talk with Hall of Fame president, Mark Hellenack to customize your sponsor or advertising. Contact him at 952-457-4515 or mnlaxhalloffame@gmail.com
Charitable Giving EIN # 20-1956993
Who Do We Reach & How:
Our website is new, but we expect it to be a great resource for the Minnesota lacrosse community to learn about the history of the sport, our list of inductees and the events we run. The real value is in the social media and the many emails we send out to email lists totalling around 70,000 youth, high school, college and club lacrosse players, coaches, referees and parents. We also anticipate 90-100 attendees at our awards banquet, not to mention all the other events we are planning.
Estimated Total Lacrosse Participation in Minnesota
- HIGH SCHOOL: Presently their are 83 boys HS and 86 Girls HS programs competing in the MSHSL. The average is 60 players per JV/varsity team.. Total HS players 10,140
- YOUTH: Presently there are 86 youth boys and girls programs in ages U10-U14 levels in Minnesota The average is 60 boys and girls players per organization. Total youth players 5,160
- COLLEGE: 5 Upper Midwest Lacrosse Conference and 7 Men’s club teams,. 4 NCAA Div 2 teams & 4 (MWLC) Div III and 7 Women’s club teams. The average is 25 per team. Total college players 945
- REFEREES: Men’s & Women’s Youth. HS and Colleges Total referees 1,500
COACHES: Men’s & Women’s Youth. HS and Colleges Total coaches 2,500 - FANS/PARENTS: We estimate our total number of number of fans to be 52,050 ( based on the number player x 4 family members attending games to support their sons and daughters passion for the sport). Total fans: 52,050
Total estimated number of lacrosse participants, fans & family members: 72,295
What Do We Hope To Accomplish:
The outcomes of our mission as a nonprofit is two fold. We want to be a resource as keepers of lacrosse history and culture in Minnesota and recognize those who have played, coaches or refed at a high level or contributed to the growth and development of lacrosse in MN. We also want to impact change in how we as a community grow and improve the sport we all love through coach and referee training, equipment and participation access grants. we want to remove financial barriers to entry so more kids can put lacrosse sticks in their hands, and make ua all feel good about it!.
Please Help Us With our Mission!
GREAT DEAL…For advertising exposure at a reasonable price, you can advertise on our website’s paid ad section on the Lacrosse Affiliated Business Directory page of this website and get a print ad in our award ceremony program as well. All for $60.
Ad Buying Options…
$60 Ad gets your business
a 1/2 page business listing (Bus Directory page)
a 1/2 page color print ad in our Awards Ceremony printed program (Sept 27).
$100 Ad gets your business THIS IS A GREAT DEAL!
a 1/2 page business listing (Bus Directory page)
a listed as a supporter on our website front page
a full page color ad in the Awards Ceremony printed program (Sept 27).
FOR MORE DETAILS CONTACT…Please contact Mark Hellenack at 952-457-4515 to discuss details (payment, Ad copy and deadlines).
SPONSOR & ADVERTISING OPTIONS…
Sponsor the 2026 Hall of Fame Awards Ceremony Benefit.
Our 2025 inaugural Awards banquet wasa great event held on Sun., Nov 2nd from 3-6pm at the O’Shaughnessy Distillery in Minneapolis and sponsored by Alliance Bank of St Paul. We had a capacity crowd of 100.
2026 Format: we are looking for a larger venue (150-200 capacity) and a more casual less expensive cash bar and a diner entree with table seating for all.
Date: Sun, Sept 27th
locations considered: Rush Creek, Dellwood CC, Wilds CC and Mystic Lake Casino Banquet Center.
1. Title Sponsorship
2. Supporting Sponsorship
3. Videoing of Acceptance Speech Sponsor
4. Donated Silent & Live Auction Items
5. Purchase Ad in program
6. Sponsor Award Plaques
7. Sponsor a Table of 6
Help us achieve the Awards Ceremony Gala fundraising goal of $6,000
You reach the MN lacrosse community (players, parents, coaches and refs at all age levels) via our social media and email awareness campaigns. You reach the expected attendance 150-200 guests…
This is both a fundraising Gala and awards ceremony. Sponsorships help pay for a meals for each inductee and a guests, banquet deposit, award plaques, ads in the printing program, sponsor signage, acceptance speech videos and slide-show production. We raise money through registration fees, donations, sponsors, silent and live auctions and a raffle. Money left over is used to fund the grow the game grants, website and other beneficial programing and events we run.
Both the title and supporting sponsors will have their logos on the website and included in any social media, emails and printed material associated with the banquet. The tables you sponsor will have a two-sided ad (8.5 x 11) in a plastic stand with your company logo & ad on it. The title sponsor’s logo and a full page color ad will be included in the program along a table for 8 inductees. Supporting sponsor’s will receive 1/2 page ad along with a table of 4 inductees. NOTE: sponsors can invite guests or donate the table to hall of fame inductees. Ad copy. and logos need to be submitted 1 week prior to the banquet.
Video Sponsors will have their logo and video ad on the video acceptance speech videos, plus a 1/2 page ad in the program. Printed program ad copy needs to be submitted 2 weeks prior to the awards ceremony.
Award Ceremony Program Advertising
Full Page Ad $100/ ½ Page Ad $60
Reach 150-200 plus guests…Most inductees have family members, associates from work and former teammates purchase ads. Ad copy needs to be submitted 1 week prior to the banquet. We also post your ad on the website for additional exposure after the event is over.
Please contact HOF president, Mark Hellenack to discuss your sponsorship options at 952-457-4515 c or use the form below to purchase sponsorship & advertising
Donate products & services to our Silent & Live auctions and raffles
Donations of event tickets, sports equipment and memorabilia, airfare & vacations, art, gift baskets & certificates, service or other products helps fund our annual awards banquet, scholarships and grant programs. Our silent auction items will be available to over 70,000 people.
Please use the above auction item donation form above and send a photo of your item(s) to HOF president, Mark Hellenack at MNlaxhalloffame@gmail.com. Call to to discuss the pick-up of the item(s) at 952-457-4515 c.
Sticks For Kids Used Equipment Drive We are looking for a for several sponsors, ideally sporting Goods retailers who sell lacrosse gear to be collection points for parents to drop of used lacrosse equipment of all kinds, so we can give it to new youth programs who use our New Youth Program Builder Grant. Estimated cost is around $1,500 and mostly covers the costs of picking up, sorting, refurbishing and storage rental for the equipment.
Pull Tabs or Retailer Round Up Program for Charity...
Ask customers to round up their purchase to a dollar and donate the change from every transaction to the Hall of Fame. The best part is it does not cost your business anything, promotes brand awareness and loyalty with lacrosse community and is incredibly impactful for us. Pull Tabs is a great option too.
MN Lacrosse Hall of Fame “Future Legends” Club Concept…
What do you think of this idea…
We want to involve youth, high school and college lacrosse players and their families in the push to grow the game, and do good in their community, so we are toying with the concept of starting a “Future Legends” donor level campaign aimed at this audience and furfure pool of lacrosse Hall of Famers. This would require a $50 annual donation and parent would sign up the younger player, while the high school and college players should be able to sign up on their own.
They would receive a Future Legend t-shirt with a cool looking Hall of Fame logo on it. Plus, we would stay in touch with emails, texts on social media with things they can participate in or volunteer for to help a charity or help grow the game. We would also partner with an app called Starfish that connect parents and young adults to charities they can volunteer for. We hope to offer things like discounts for camps, clinics, tournaments. Donors would get points for community service and we could make it a contest to see who get the most points and award 1st-3rd place winners each year by age levels. Here are some examples of community service:
* Help coach or teach new kids how to play.
* Play in a Native stickball exhibition games with Twin Citie Native Lacrosse.
* Mow an old person’s lawn or help them with a chore they can’t do.
* Reach out to find kids from other towns/school s that want to start lacrosse and let them know about the grants we have to help start a program in their community.
* Be a volunteer for a local charity for a day.
* Be an end line ball boy or girl at a high school or college game/tournament.
* Help out at the concession stand.
* Help fundraise for a charity. (lemonade stand, GoFund Me, etc)
* Sell raffle tickets at a hall of fame event.
Basically be a volunteer with your family and other legends at fun lacrosse and non lacrosse related events, get cool swag, make new friends, do kind deeds, learn about being responsible and give back to the game and community.
Let me know what you think. Shoot a text to Mark at 952-457-4515 or email at: mnlaxhalloffame@gmail.com
Sponsor the Annual Referee Appreciation & Recruiting week campaign & Coaches, Official’s and Umpire’s Choice Awards
1. Title Sponsorship
2. Restaurant sponsor (diner for two)
You reach 70,000 lacrosse players, parents, coaches and refs…
Sponsors who donate receive logo recognition on the website in all social media and email correspondence associated with the Ref Appreciation campaign. We will be sending info io the entire lacrosse community. This event encourages players, coaches and fans to show appreciation for officials by thanking them and even presenting them with note cards or even gift certificates. We also use the week to recruit new officials. Our goal is 20 new official and 20 umpires. We also have the end of spring season voting for the Coaches, Officil’s and Umpire’s Choice Awards where in a unique twist the men’s and women’s coaches at all levels vote for the Umpire and Official of the Year and vica versa, The award uses the criteria of Sportsmanship, charather, kindness and excellence.
Choice Awards New this year we will be giving out 4 Choice awards that will, in a unique twist and show of mutual respect, be voted on by coaches for the Umpire and Official of the year, while the umpires and official vote for the women’s and and men’s coach of the year.
When you sponsor the Referee Appreciation & Recruiting Week These awards are included i the agreement. Here are the awards:
1 Umpires Choice for Women’s Coach of the Year
2. Officials Choice Award for the men’s Coach of the Year
3. Men’s Coaches Choice Award for the Official of the Year
4. Women’s Coaches Choice Award for the Umpire of the Year
Sponsor the Minnesota Lacrosse Hall of Fame Foundation Website, Social Media and Email announcements.
Website, Email & Social Media Sponsorship
Sponsors who donate receive logo recognition on the homepage of the website as a sponsor of the organization and all that we do. Your logo will be included in all social media and email correspondence associated with the organization. We will send info to all 72,000 plus youth high school, college and club players, refs, coaches, parents and fans in Minnesota.
Call HOF president, Mark Hellenack to discuss all the benefits and options at: 952-457-4515 or email mnlaxhalloffame@gmail.com
Sponsor the Hotdish Classic Sixes Tournament fundraiser…
1. Title Sponsor
2. Supporting
3. Awards Sponsor (Glass engraved casserole Hotdishes)
Help us achieve the Tournament fundraising goal of $4,500
Date: Saturday, either Aug 15 or 22
Location: McMurray Field complex turf fields, St Paul.
Expected # of teams: 10 + men;s and 10 + womens . 20 + total.
Please contact HOF president, Mark Hellenack to discuss your sponsorship options at 952-457-4515 c.
You’ve Built Wealth, Now build A Legacy…Pick one or a combination of grants, events and awards and put your name on them as a Legacy Donor or Sponsor.
Here is a list of the Grants, & Awards you can sponsor or donate to…
GRANTS…
$1,000 Youth Program Builder Grant (supplies equipment, coach training and intro Clinic for players) Goal 5 grants: Total Needed $5,000
$100 Youth Camp & League Low Income Participation Grants (supplies youth players in financial need with a grant)
Goal 10 grants: Total Needed $1,000
AWARDS…
$500 will sponsor all 4 of the awards we give out each year at our Awards Ceremony.
The Hall of fame awards. The Hall of fame award is meant for men and women who have impacted the game with their outstanding skill achievements, and devotion as a player, coach, referee or administrator.
The Unsung Hero awards is meant for those who have impacted the growth or development of the sport in Minnesota. The Janet Holdsworth Unsung Hero Award is given a deserving female. While the Howard Rogers Unsung Hero award is given to a deserving male.
The Dr. Dan Ninham “Indigenous Lacrosse Award” is for outstanding native players, stickmakers and those who have promoted the traditional wood stick game in the Midwest.
The Art Ayers “Grow the Game in Outstate MN Award” is for those who have been instrumental in starting a lacrosse program in Outstate Minnesota.
Endowment Fund
We would love for you to considering investing in an endowment fund as a means to support our annual awards banquet , awards and Grow the Game Grants. Your donation of a large sum will be invested and the interest/dividends used to fund the the event, grant, or award on an annual basis in perpetuity, while keeping the principal amount in the endowment intact.
Legacy Fund
You can also attach you name, a loved one’s name or company’s name to an event, grant, and award with an annual donation. We are happy to discuss and share more information about how to support the sport and preserve your legacy.
