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DelURide 2015 Benefiting the Chase Your Dreams Foundation DelURide is a 2,000+ mile charity bike ride from DelFest in Cumberland, Maryland, to the Telluride Bluegrass Festival in Telluride, Colorado, aimed to raise funds & awareness for the Chase Your Dreams Foundation, a disability-oriented non-profit based in New Orleans, Louisiana. Sponsorship Proposal April 2015
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DelURide 2015Benefiting
the Chase Your Dreams Foundation
DelURide is a 2,000+ mile charity bike ride from DelFest in Cumberland, Maryland, to the Telluride Bluegrass Festival in Telluride, Colorado, aimed to raise
funds & awareness for the Chase Your Dreams Foundation, a disability-oriented non-profit based in
New Orleans, Louisiana.
Sponsorship ProposalApril 2015
Table of ContentsGoals for Sponsors..............................................................................................................2About the DelURide and the Chase Your Dreams Foundation...............................................2
The DelURide..................................................................................................................2The Chase Your Dreams Foundation................................................................................3
The Organizers....................................................................................................................3Chase Treadway, founder of the Chase Your Dreams Foundation.....................................3Jeffrey Steckler, co-founder of The DelURide...................................................................4Charlie Wildman, co-founder of The DelURide................................................................4
Fundraising Goals and Usage of Funds................................................................................5Sponsorship Opportunities..................................................................................................5Current Sponsors and Partners............................................................................................5Advisory Board....................................................................................................................6
Goals for SponsorsIt is the goal of the DelURide Crew, the Chase Your Dreams Foundation, and the associatedadvisory board that we collectively exhaust the extent to which we promote yourbrand/organization. You are helping us achieve our goal and dream, and to thank you foryour support, we want to support your brand/organization as much as you support us. As asponsor of the DelURide, your brand/organization will be publicized via our website,social media outlets, word of mouth, and DelURide branding. In supporting us, you gainpositive praise and notoriety as a brand/organization that supports charitableorganizations, the disabled community, grassroots charitable causes, alternative forms oftransportation, and kick ass music. All good things! We hope you'll come along for TheRide!
About the DelURide and the Chase Your Dreams Foundation
The DelURide
The DelURide is a 2,000+ mile charity bike ride (and manifestation of our dream) fromDelFest in Cumberland, Maryland, to the Telluride Bluegrass Festival in Telluride,Colorado, aimed to raise funds and awareness for the Chase Your Dreams Foundation. TheDelURide is the brainchild of co-founders Jeffrey Steckler and Charlie Wildman. Firstintroduced to one another in 2005 at the University of Mississippi, Steckler and Wildmanhave maintained a close friendship since being introduced. At the heart of this friendshipis an annual trip to the Telluride Bluegrass Festival that Wildman and Steckler beganattending in 2009. During brunch in Telluride in 2013, Steckler and Wildman begandiscussing long distance bike rides. Steckler was eyeing the Pacific Crest Trail, 2,500 milesfrom Vancouver to Tijuana, while Wildman was intrigued with the idea of going frombluegrass festival in the east to bluegrass festival in the Rockies. The two began to explorethe feasibility of what was quickly dubbed The DelURide. Not only did they think it waspossible, but Wildman and Steckler realized that the DelURide could be much bigger thanoriginally anticipated, and it was when Wildman and Steckler approached the Chase YourDreams Foundation that the DelURide began to take shape.
The Chase Your Dreams Foundation
The Chase Your Dreams Foundation (CYDF) is a non-profit organization founded by ChaseTreadway based in New Orleans, Louisiana, that attempts to make better the lives of thosethat have lost mobility or motor skills by means of an acquired disability or illness.Modeled after the Make A Wish Foundation, the CYDF strives to be a positive andreaffirming voice for the disabled by mentoring, providing a network of support, andproviding funding and opportunities for motivating experiences for the recently disabled.
The foundation has been integral in providing guidance to local schools during AbilityAwareness Days at greater-New Orleans area middle and elementary schools.Additionally, the CYDF assists the LSU Health and Sciences Center occupational andphysical therapy programs with spinal cord injury labs. Contributions made by thefoundation have included monetary support for prescriptions, repurposed wheelchairsand accessories, and financial sponsorship for educational and enrichment courses.Mentoring is focused to the Touro Hospital Spinal Cord Injury Ward in New Orleans.
The Organizers
Chase Treadway, founder of the Chase Your DreamsFoundation
Born on an American Air Base near Madrid, Spain, Chasegrew up in a military family and has lived throughoutEurope and the U.S. He graduated from St. StanislausSchool in Bay St Louis, Mississippi, and attended theUniversity of Mississippi where he joined Delta KappaEpsilon social fraternity. Upon graduation in 2008 hejoined DKE International staff serving as SouthernChapter Consultant.
Over the 4th of July 2009, Chase suffered a severe swimming pool injury, resulting in aburst fracture to his C6 and C7 vertebrae and subsequent quadriplegia. He spent over 4months at the Shepherd Center in Atlanta, Georgia, where he began a long recovery.Chase and his family then relocated to Covington, Louisiana, and following years ofdepression, he began a new path toward rehabilitation and recovery. He found thatmotivating events like skydiving provided an uptick in spirit, and that regaining someindependence he also regained some dignity. He then, through founding the CYDF,repurposed his life to be a positive and uplifting mentor and advocate for the recentlydisabled.
Today, Chase is living life to the fullest! He recently got engaged and is supremely excitedfor the future. The Chase Your Dreams Foundation is Chase’s way of bringing hope to thosewho have suffered disabilities and continue to search for strength & motivation every day.
Jeffrey Steckler, co-founder of The DelURide
Jeffrey Steckler is a renaissance man in the truest sense of the word. Originally from Evansville, Indiana, Jeff relocated to Oxford, Mississippi, to be the janitor at the DKE house in 2005. It was there that he befriended Wildman and Treadway. Jeff has since worked as a nanny, a food truck operator, a liquor store manager, and as the taproom and events manager at Equinox Brewing Company in Fort Collins, Colorado. He established residencein Colorado following his first trip to the TellurideBluegrass Festival in 2009 and has been there eversince.
Jeff currently works at The Gearage Outdoor Sports inFort Collins. He is our marketing and publicity leadfor the DelURide, as well as our chief technical officer.He is an incredibly talented guitarist and vocalist andhas a supremely sweet lab named Carter that joins usfor our jaunts in Telluride.
Charlie Wildman, co-founder of The DelURide
Charlie is a Saints fan. He grew up in Lafayette, Louisiana, and his family relocated toPrattville, Alabama, shortly before Charlie went to high school. He then attended andgraduated from the University of Mississippi with a degree in geological engineering. AtOle Miss, Wildman excelled in academics, played club soccer and hockey, frequentlyplayed upright and electric bass in Oxford's vibrant music scene, and was involved in anumber of scholastic and social organizations, including Delta Kappa Epsilon where heand Chase pledged together.
Upon graduation, Wildman found work with the civil engineering firm ParsonsBrinckerhoff in Dallas, Texas, working on dams, levees, tunnels, highways, and largebuilding foundations in Texas and in the Metro-D.C. area. He relocated to New York City towork underground as an onsite geologist and engineer for NYC's 2nd Avenue Subwayproject on the upper east side of Manhattan.
While in New York, he proved to be one of the premierhomebrewers in the greater NYC region, as his Sweet Porter,American Pilsen Ale, and Smoked Imperial Stout wererecognized “Best in Show” at three separate brewing galas.This led to a job offer Wildman accepted with Beerly LegalRestaraunt Group, LLC., as chief recipe developer andbrewery engineer for their brewery-in-planning in LongIsland City, New York. Wildman then relocated to Frederick,Maryland, as a brewer and cellarman to work for Flying DogBrewery, and was with them for just over a year.
Wildman is the chief executive for the DelURide. He bikes,brews, swims, plays some funky bass guitar, and readsWinston Churchill fiction novels. He will attend the Universityof New Orleans in the fall to pursue a Masters degree in civilengineering, focusing on coastal engineering and planning.
Fundraising Goals and Usage of FundsThrough corporate sponsorship and individual contributions, we have set a goal to raise$20,000 for the Chase Your Dreams Foundation via the DelURide. Thus far we havecollected roughly $4,200 through our contribution webpagehttp://youcaring.org/thedeluride . This has been achieved mostly through friend andfamily contributions. We have not yet approached corporate sponsors, but we intend tooffer special publicity and branding for those contributing over $500 to the ride. We arealso receptive of corporate partnership where we publicize brand or product in return forsaid product, ie bicycle tires, tools, clothing, etc.
All of the funds raised will go directly to the Chase Your Dreams Foundation. Incidentalsalong the ride – lodging, meals, bicycle parts, etc. - will be paid for by the CYDF, and alloverages following the completion of The DelURide will be maintained by the Chase YourDreams Foundation to further the cause of mental, physical, and emotional rehabilitationfor those with acquired disabilities.
Sponsorship OpportunitiesThe DelURide is an opportunity for your brand/organization to contribute to a 501(c)(3)charitable organization and help support our dream while gaining positive publicity andnotoriety in the sectors of non-profits, outdoor enthusiasts, the disabled community, andmusic lovers. This is not just an opportunity leading up to and during the ride, but withpost-ride press already slated, this publicity and notoriety will not be short-lived. We lookforward to your contributions, partnerships, and to working with you. We're a fun groupwith whom to work!
Current Sponsors and Partners
Advisory BoardWe are extremely proud of and thankful for the individuals that have agreed to help make the DelURide happen. We've put together some of the best individuals in their respective fields, and cannot thank them enough for the love they show us.
youcaring.org/theDelURide
Organizers facebook.com/TheDelURide
Charlie Wildman Jeff Steckler Chase Treadway
Frederick, MD Fort Collins, CO New Orleans, LA
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 662.801.5748 812.449.2555 808.542.1585
Director of Financial Management Director of Logistics and Efficiency
Mr. T. Vincent Chamblee Mr. Colin B. Reid
Vice President Operations and Logistics Manager
Diversified Trust, Inc. Uber Technologies, Inc.
Memphis, TN Washington, D.C.
[email protected] [email protected]
662.397.4978 571.206.8643
Marketing and Public Relations Director of Investor and Partner Relations
Ms. Jessica D. Charlton Mr. B. Drew Howard
Brand Manager International Account Manager
Loveless Cafe, GP United Parcel Service
Nashville, TN Jackson, MS
[email protected] [email protected]
615.390.9905 318.518.1243
Director of Fundraising Legal Adviser
Mr. Micah L. Bozeman Mr. James A. Boyd, Jr., Esq.
Associate Project Manager Associate
Public Art Fund Murphy Orlando, LLC
New York City, NY Jersey City, NJ
[email protected] [email protected]
334.391.6477 732.421.5861
Chief Technical Adviser Creative Director
Mr. John R. Scarbrough Mrs. Stephanie M. Hyder
Director of Acquisitions Owner/Artist
TowerPoint Capitol Unicorn Nature Creative
Atlanta, GA Frederick, MD
[email protected] [email protected]
404.275.3844 410.507.8640
Director of Sustainability Director of Health and Fitness
Mr. J.J. Vandette Ms. Caroline Morris
Strategic Planning Manager Nutritionist
Vermont Energy Investment Corporation Whole Foods Market, IP, LP
Burlington, VT Fort Collins, CO
[email protected] carolinemorris777
603.548.0924 970.420.0200
General Council Mountain Dog
Mr. Eben D. Finney IV Carter :)
Sales Maverick
Flying Dog Brewery
Frederick, MD
443.904.2785
DelURide is a 2,000+ mile charity bike ride from DelFest in Cumberland, Maryland, to the Telluride Bluegrass Festival in Telluride, Colorado, aimed to raise
funds & awareness for the Chase Your Dreams Foundation,a disability-oriented non-profit based in
New Orleans, Louisiana.
