Sponsorship

Colorful, creative events and placemaking activate open spaces in Downtown Bridgeport!

The Bridgeport DSSD is proud to offer marketing services and sponsorship opportunities to help businesses market to the neighborhood and beyond. Take advantage of our robust marketing channels, events, perks, and sponsorship packages to promote your business or organization throughout Downtown Bridgeport.

Neighborhood Banners

The banners on each light pole welcome visitors to Downtown, and provide businesses the opportunity to promote their enterprises. 

Colorful Crew: Beautification

Join the Colorful Crew and beautify the planters and tree beds that line the streets of Downtown Bridgeport .

Color It In: Public Art

Local artists can customize murals and utility boxes with designs that serve to beautify Downtown Bridgeport and feature your logo/business name.

In Living Color: Virtual Marketing

Local creators produce engaging content sharing what they do best. Sponsor logos and a “Brought to you by…” message accompany each segment.

Colorful Conversations

Host an event that brings together your customers, colleagues, and neighbors.

Colorful Eats: Bridgeport Bucks

Sponsor fresh produce coupons at the Downtown Farmers Market, our most popular seasonal food event.

EVENT PARTNERSHIPS

Downtown Bridgeport is a commercial area that represents and serves a diverse tapestry of the wider Bridgeport community. It’s our public parks, independently owned restaurants and shops, and the vibrant arts and culture offerings in the neighborhood that create connection points and foster the sense of community so special to the Downtown and the city.

The Bridgeport DSSD’S cultural programming provides an array of diverse activities that encourage our small businesses, residents, office workers, and visitors to connect and add vibrancy to the Downtown neighborhood, and drives customers to explore and shop Downtown. The connections forged through attendance at these events serve to increase feelings of belonging and pride in the neighborhood.

Each year, we partner with local event producers to enhance our ability to achieve those outcomes. If your organization or group would like to partner with the Bridgeport DSSD to host an event in Downtown Bridgeport, we invite you to fill out this form with a description of the event, and what types of partnership you are seeking. Note: the form does not allow you to save your answers. Review the questions here that you will be asked to submit with your application. Required questions are indicated with an “*”

Partnership requests are due by 11:59 p.m. on Thursday, February 29, 2024, via the application form. The Bridgeport DSSD Board of Commissioners will review the applications and decide on which partnerships to approve by May 8, 2024. Partnership requests that include funding will be available for events that take place from July 1, 2024, through June 30, 2025. All applicants will be notified by May 8, 2024, whether the event partnership request was approved or not.

 

Thank you to our sponsors!

The Bridgeport DSSD is grateful for the following partners and sponsors who through their funding recognize the importance of investing in Downtown Bridgeport. Each company’s contribution ensures that the sense of culture and community is bolstered with bright and vibrant placemaking activations all around Downtown Bridgeport’s commercial district.

City of Bridgeport
City of Bridgeport
City of Bridgeport
City of Bridgeport
City of Bridgeport
City of Bridgeport
City of Bridgeport
City of Bridgeport
City of Bridgeport
City of Bridgeport
City of Bridgeport
City of Bridgeport
City of Bridgeport

Thank you to our sponsors!

The Bridgeport DSSD is grateful for the following partners and sponsors who through their funding recognize the importance of investing in Downtown Bridgeport. Each company’s contribution ensures that the sense of culture and community is bolstered with bright and vibrant placemaking activations all around Downtown Bridgeport’s commercial district.

City of Bridgeport
City of Bridgeport
City of Bridgeport
City of Bridgeport
City of Bridgeport
City of Bridgeport
City of Bridgeport
City of Bridgeport
City of Bridgeport
City of Bridgeport
City of Bridgeport
City of Bridgeport
City of Bridgeport