GBN’s mission is to create more vibrant and beautiful communities by sharing gardens.
Your organization can be part of that.
Gardens Buffalo Niagara creates more vibrant and beautiful communities while fostering environmental stewardship, neighborhood revitalization, regional tourism, and community pride. By connecting neighbors, supporting local gardeners, inspiring creativity, and enhancing public spaces, we strengthen neighborhoods, attract visitors, and generate lasting social, ecological, and economic impact across the Buffalo Niagara region.
Sponsors of Gardens Buffalo Niagara events have the opportunity to introduce themselves to an enthusiastic audience of people who believe in gardening and love the region. Sponsorship packages are accepted year-round and range from $250 to $10,500. Gardens Buffalo Niagara is always looking at ways of creatively presenting your product or service to its gardeners, volunteers, and event participants. Only sponsors distribute the Garden Walk Buffalo maps ahead of the Walk, if they’re able. It is a reliable traffic-builder for retail locations. Maps will be available to distribute to a sponsoring organization’s employees if desired.
SPONSORSHIP LEVELS
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EXCLUSIVE TO ONE SPONSOR
Premium Placement
Back cover of Open Gardens Guide
Logo on all organization maps, guides, and printed newsletters
Logo on headquarter signage at all events
Garden Walk Buffalo plaque mounted poster
Exclusive privilege to distribute Garden Walk Buffalo maps
Digital Marketing
Website logo and link placement at the bottom of all webpages
Social media recognition
Logo placement at the bottom of eNewsletter for one full calendar year
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Sponsor Placement
Inside front cover of Open Gardens Guide
Logo on all organization maps, guides, and printed newsletters
Logo on headquarter signage at all events
Garden Walk Buffalo plaque mounted poster
Exclusive privilege to distribute Garden Walk Buffalo maps
Digital Marketing
Sponsor webpage logo and link placement
Social media recognition
eNewsletter inclusion
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Sponsor Placement
Inside back cover of Open Gardens Guide
Logo on all organization maps, guides, and printed newsletters
Logo on headquarter signage at all events
Garden Walk Buffalo plaque mounted poster
Exclusive privilege to distribute Garden Walk Buffalo maps
Digital Marketing
Sponsor webpage logo and link placement
Social media recognition
eNewsletter inclusion
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Sponsor Placement
Full page ad in Open Gardens Guide
Logo on all organization maps, guides, and printed newsletters
Logo on headquarter signage at all events
Garden Walk Buffalo plaque mounted poster
Exclusive privilege to distribute Garden Walk Buffalo maps
Digital Marketing
Sponsor webpage logo and link placement
Social media recognition
eNewsletter inclusion
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Sponsor Placement
Half-page ad in Open Gardens Guide
Logo on Garden Walk Buffalo map, East Side Garden Walk map, and Open Gardens Guide.
Logo on headquarter signage at all events
Garden Walk Buffalo plaque mounted poster
Exclusive privilege to distribute Garden Walk Buffalo maps
Digital Marketing
Sponsor webpage logo and link placement
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Sponsor Placement
Quarter-page ad in Open Gardens Guide
Logo on Garden Walk Buffalo map, East Side Garden Walk map, and Open Gardens Guide.
Logo on headquarter signage at all events
Garden Walk Buffalo plaque mounted poster
Exclusive privilege to distribute Garden Walk Buffalo maps
Digital Marketing
Sponsor webpage logo and link placement
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Sponsor Placement
Eighth-page ad in Open Gardens Guide
Logo on Garden Walk Buffalo map, East Side Garden Walk map, and Open Gardens Guide.
Logo on headquarter signage at all events
Garden Walk Buffalo plaque mounted poster
Exclusive privilege to distribute Garden Walk Buffalo maps
Digital Marketing
Sponsor webpage logo and link placement
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Sponsor Placement
Listed on East Side Garden Walk Maps
Logo on headquarters signage at all events
Digital Marketing
Sponsor webpage logo and link placement
To become a sponsor, choose one of the following options:
Fill out our Online Sponsorship Form and pay online OR print and fill out the Sponsorship PDF Form and send in with payment. If you prefer to be invoiced, just let us know! If you have any questions, email Sponsorships@GardensBuffaloNiagara.com.
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• Deadline to be listed in the 2026 Open Gardens Guide: February 15, 2026
• Deadline to be listed on both the 2025 Garden Walk Buffalo and East Side Garden Walk maps: May 15, 2026 -
When your organization purchases a Gardens Buffalo Niagara Sponsorship Package, you are committing to:
• Keeping Garden Walk Buffalo, America’s largest garden tour, and the East Side Garden Walk free and open to the public
• Funding beautification projects throughout the City of Buffalo
• Promoting tourism
• Encouraging community-building
• Promoting healthy living
• Supporting horticultural education
• Promoting the many garden tours in the region
• Showing civic pride in the Buffalo Niagara region
• Reaching tens of thousands of people in a most desirable consumer group – upper income, college-educated, household purchase-influencers and decision-makers - through GBN’s summer-long series of events -
Your brand has the potential to educate, entertain, and engage a captive audience on what it is doing to make a difference in the world today. We’d like to help you in that goal!
There are many additional, creative ways to promote your company or organization during GBN events. Past sponsors have offered branded premiums to visitors – pedometers, sunscreen packets, seeds, planting rulers, product catalogs, discounts, and coupons. For many years, a sponsor offered free healthy snacks of sorbet in select neighborhoods at 2 p.m. each day of Garden Walk Buffalo, to the delight of visitors. Another sponsor employed chalk artists to create branded art in major neighborhoods of the Walk.