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CLAW and Leather Thanksgiving Sponsorships

CLAW (Ohio) • April Annually • Leather Thanksgiving (Los Angeles) • Thanksgiving Annually

Sustaining Sponsorships

$1500
one event/6 months

6-month Sustaining

$2200
both events/year-round

12-month Sustaining
* Not sold separately: this is an exclusive benefit of Sustaining and Master Sponsors
Advertising/Networking Benefit One Event ($1500) Both Events ($2200)
Your logo/link (100x100) on all CLAW e-blasts* 6 months 12 months
Your logo/link (100x100) on clawinfo.org web pages* 6 months 12 months
Your banner ad (600X125) in CLAW e-blasts 3 e-blasts 7 e-blasts
Your feature ad in body of CLAW e-blast 600x600; 1/year 600x1000; 2/year
Your banner ad (940x200) on clawinfo.org homepage 6 months 12 months
Leather Getaway 24/CLAW 24 Package (transferable) One event Both Events
Sponsorship thanks in print and over microphone One event Both Events
Invitation to Fetish Alliance VIP Party (includes your guests) One event Both Events

Master Sponsorships

$5000
one event/6 months

6-month Master

$7000
both events/year-round

12-month Master

Includes all Sustaining Sponsorship benefits plus:

 

Enhancements

  • Double sized logo/links on CLAW e-blasts and web pages
  • Logo/links placed at the top of e-blasts and web pages
  • E-blast banner ads -- One event: 10 e-blasts (instead of 3); Both events: 24 e-blasts (instead of 7)

Additional Advertising Benefits

  • Your name/link in signature line of all emails sent by CLAW President Bob Miller
  • Master Sponsors logo placement in national, international and local advertising
  • Master Sponsors included in most press releases
  • Tailored ad benefits: we work with you to maximize your advertising investment

Master Sponsor Benefits

  • Personalized, Collaborative Content in the events schedule
  • Leather Thanksgiving/CLAW Event Sponsorship (up to $2000 value)
  • Complimentary Vendor Space: Leather Thanksgiving (10'x10'); CLAW (8'x8')
  • Two tickets and VIP reserved seating at the International Leather Family Dinner

BLACK Tier Sponsorship Opportunities – $2,000

Exclusive and Customizable: One sponsor for each event. Sponsors determine the contours of their sponsorship.
Options include banners, giveaways, direct involvement, announcements, etc.

Sponsorship Opportunity Details
Dionysus Dungeon The All Gender BDSM Play Space.
Hercules Dungeon The BDSM Play Space.
Skills & Education Workshops Support the world’s most extensive curriculum of men’s leather, kink, and BDSM education.
International Leather Family Dinner Branding and program opportunities at our fancy reception and plated dinner.
Registration Your banner or ad is the first thing people see when they arrive at registration. Includes lanyard rights.
VendorMart Signage and ads throughout the Vendor Mart and pre-event advertising. Includes first pick of vendor space location.
Kinky Art Show Featured online and in eblasts. Option to provide a juror.
Boots & Cigar Deck Signage and party naming rights in this outdoor space where the old guard lives.

GOLD Tier Sponsorship Opportunities – $800

Exclusive and Customizable: One sponsor for each event. Sponsors determine the contours of their sponsorship.
Options include banners, giveaways, direct involvement, announcements, etc.

Sponsorship Opportunity Details
Speed Dating Over a dozen sessions of guys meeting guys in a fun, high-energy setting.
Bound & Beautiful: Live Muscle Gallery Spectacular display of elaborately bound muscle. Most photographed event of the weekend. Logo on bid cards.
Cigar Deck Old guard style leather party all weekend long. Signage and branding rights.
Saturday Night Dance Party Iconic dance party for bears and admirers. Brand featured in event promotions.
Pet Mosh Friday Friday afternoon play party for pets and handlers. Many branding and participatory opportunities.
Pet Mosh Saturday Saturday afternoon play party. Same format as Friday with full sponsor exposure.
The BLUF Dinner Strict dress code leather dinner and social. Premium branding at a signature formal event.
Titleholders’ Cocktail Party High cow cocktails, microphones, and hundreds of cameras. Perfect for logo exposure and speeches.
Drag Brunch Intimate seated and catered drag brunch with unique sponsorship and visibility opportunities.
Kinky Kabaret Pre-show Cocktails Host and brand the social hour leading into the CLAW finale. High visibility in an upbeat setting.
Kinky Kabaret The fabulous CLAW finale. Emcees acknowledge sponsors on stage. Advertised and memorable event.

BLUE Tier Sponsorship Opportunities – $400

Exclusive and Customizable: One sponsor for each event. Sponsors determine the contours of their sponsorship.
Options include banners, giveaways, direct involvement, announcements, etc.

Sponsorship Opportunity Details
CLAW Volunteer Hospitality Suite Literally feed hundreds of magnificent, grateful volunteers. Meals, snacks, dessert and lots of non-alcoholic beverages, all weekend long. Signage and other advertising available upon request.
Online Auctions A big part of CLAW since year one—now digitized for the first time. Includes logo on auction signage. Merchandise donations of $500 or more required in lieu of cash sponsorship.
Non-Profit Alley Connect Leather Getaway attendees to local community non-profits. High-traffic daytime location with visibility and engagement.
12 Step Meetings Due to the nature of the 12 Step Program, no specific advertising permitted. Meetings take place daily at 10 am and 10 pm.
CLAW Body Spa Signage and other branding opportunities in this healing space.
Parade of Colors and Circle of Life Help us recognize the organizations in attendance and the memories of those recently passed. A solemn and powerful CLAW tradition.
Friday Night Game Show Sponsors acknowledged in advance ads, by the game’s emcees, and long after the weekend is over. Send your 30–45 second commercial! Event will be broadcast and recorded for future viewing.
Saturday Night Game Show Sponsors acknowledged in advance ads, by the game’s emcees, and long after the weekend is over. Send your 30–45 second commercial! Event will be broadcast and recorded for future viewing.

Leather Heart Package - $250

helping community members to attend

Since the beginning, CLAW has been creating ways for people with limited financial resources to attend: discounted packages for volunteers, complimentary food and drinks in the Volunteer Hospitality Suite, and even some free shared hotel rooms for super-volunteers who work 8+ hours/day at the event. These things have allowed thousands of people to attend, many of them staying with friends or sharing a hotel room with three others. But many others still aren't able to attend because of financial concerns.

The Leather Heart Package, named in homage to one of our community’s most important and cherished organizations, the Leather Heart Foundation. The Leather Heart Package is a way for you to help these community members – these friends of yours and of ours – continue to be part of CLAW.

When you buy your Weekend Package, please consider adding a tax deductible Leather Heart Package to your cart before checking out. At $250, it’s like bringing a new friend to CLAW or paying it forward to help support the next generation of community leaders.

A single $250 Leather Heart Package is enough to cover:

  • the host hotel housing costs of a Super Volunteer for four nights
  • the transportation cost (or the essential discount needed to afford transportation) to/from Cleveland for someone for whom travel costs are the hurdle
  • 10 extra large pizzas to help feed the CLAW volunteers in the Volunteer Hospitality Suite

The joy of being at CLAW is monumental, and the experiences are life changing. We have the emails and testimonials to back that up. Nothing is more gratifying than that. With the Leather Heart, you’ll be a direct contributor to bring that joy to another.

To sponsor multiple Leather Heart Package, you can make a donation in any amount on the donate-to-CLAW page and let us know you want it to support Leather Heart Packages. Thank you for that beautiful heart of yours, from the bottom of ours.


Volunteer Bridge - $500

change lives

The vast majority of CLAW's 1000+ volunteers cannot easily afford to attend any of the banquets at CLAW. Indeed, many of them eat every meal from the Volunteer Hospitality Suite all weekend in order to afford being at the event at all.

Our volunteers are what makes CLAW possible in two important and distinct ways: (1) they’re the manpower that produces and manages 200+ events, and (2) they’re the critical mass that creates our exhilarating sexual environment. Volunteers are very happy to be at CLAW, and most of them don't think much about missing out on banquets. Very few ever say so to us, but some volunteers do think about it. Some of them even tell us how much they’d like to be in that room with us, seated at one of the round tables for two hours… getting to know their table mates, and becoming known. They yearn to be part of our community networks.

Introducing the Volunteer Bridge. Each bridge purchased covers CLAW's out-of-pocket cost for all banquets on our schedule. We will carefully choose volunteers that we know will appreciate the chance to enjoy the special moments and delicious food with us and with our friends – volunteers that will make an enduring impression on the people who get to know them in that environment. In most cases we will split your donation between multiple volunteers. If there is a specific volunteer that want to sponsor, we'd love to hear about them. If you'd like to be introduced to or seated at the same table with the volunteers you sponsor, please let us know.

Thank you for considering the opportunity to create and to be a Volunteer Bridge. If you would like to underwrite even more of these opportunities for our volunteers, you may do so in any amount on the donate-to-CLAW page and letting us know you want your donation to support Volunteer Bridges.

Community Sponsorships Leather Thanksgiving

Event Event Date Individual Price Register
L25 Volunteer Bridge
The vast majority of CLAW's 1000+ volunteers cannot easily afford to attend any of the banquets at CLAW. Indeed, many of them eat every meal from the Volunteer Hospitality Suite all weekend in order to afford being at the event at all.
Wed 11-26-2025 9:00 am $500.00

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L25 Leather Heart
The Leather Heart Package, named in homage to one of our community’s most important and cherished organizations, the Leather Heart Foundation. The Leather Heart Package is a way for you to help these community members – these friends of yours and of ours – continue to be part of CLAW.
Wed 11-26-2025 9:00 am $250.00

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Master Sponsors

Sustaining Sponsors

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