Sponsor the DMV Democracy Learning Community

Live and/or work in the Washington, DC region?  Doing democracy-related work?  Want to be more visible, build relationships, learn, and help widen and deepen participation in democracy in the U.S. capital region?  Then become a DMV Democracy Learning Community (DLC) sponsor!

Sponsors have the choice to either donate or receive the following benefits.  Donations are 100% tax deductible in the USA.  DLC sponsors who opt for community benefits instead of a tax deduction, get:

  1. For every $250, free entry for two persons to one of the Democracy Dinners. The Dinners are held in person roughly every two months.
  2. For every $250, free entry for two persons to the DMV Democracy Festival (DemFest).
  3. 25% discount on advertising in the DMV Democracy Dispatch.
  4. Recognition as a DLC sponsor at DemFest.
  5. Listing as a DLC sponsor at the DLC page at Learning Life’s website.

Additional benefits for organizations and individuals engaged in paid or volunteer, democracy-related work:

  1. Free table space at the DemFest democracy market.
  2. Eligibility to be profiled in the DMV Democracy Dispatch, given editor’s determination of available space.
  3. Highlighted listing in a public online DLC database of DMV democracy organizations and individuals, where we share a description of you or your organization, your contact information, and you can submit periodic updates, offers, or other democracy-related information you wish to share.

Individual and organizational sponsors all get the same benefits described above, but pay at different annual sponsorship levels depending on their prior year gross revenue, as follows:

$100,000 or less: $250
$100,001 to $250,000: $500
$250,001 to $400,000: $1,000
$400,001 to $800,000: $2,000
$800,001 to $1,200,000: $3,000
$1,201,000 to $1,600,000: $4,000
$1,601,000 or more: $5,000

Further sponsorship details:

For the Democracy Dinners, please RSVP at least seven days in advance of your chosen Dinner date(s).  Once you RSVP, dinner details will come via email closer to your Dinner date(s).

For Dispatch profiles, here is an example of an individual sponsor profile, and here is an example of an organizational sponsor profile.  In the latter case, profiles can be made to focus strictly on your organization.

Learning Life reserves sole decision-making authority in approving sponsors.  To become a DLC Sponsor, first email us at email@learninglife.info with your interest in sponsoring as an individual or organization.   


“[The DLC] brings together people who are actually living their democratic values.  It’s exciting to see them discover one another.” -Bill Schneider, DLC sponsor, and former CNN Senior Political Analyst.