The nonprofit Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust is looking for partners to help build and enhance the scenic, historic, recreation corridor along Interstate 90 from Central Washington to Seattle. You can help by sponsoring outreach efforts or a specific volunteer event in the Greenway. Partners and sponsors are recognized in a variety of ways:

 

• In promotion before and during events
• In the Greenway newsletter, mailed to over 10,000 households and companies
• In person, at the annual Greenway achievements dinner each December, attended by major donors, elected officials and regional civic leaders

Below are suggestions for partnership opportunities. If you have specific ideas about another way you would like to help protect the Mountains to Sound Greenway, please don't hesitate to contact us.

Greenway Days

Greenway Days, an annual weekend festival each June, brings hundreds of local community events and attractions together in one celebration in all nine towns in the Greenway. Events include the 100-mile Mountains to Sound Relay, Greenway Challenge and many more.

We are seeking sponsorships for a publicity campaign each year that will help make the protected landscape that is the Mountains to Sound Greenway a "household word" and attract people to hundreds of community events on one weekend each June.

Tree Planting

Each fall, the Greenway kicks off the tree planting season with a major volunteer event. Restoration work in the Greenway helps to restore native vegetation and improve water quality . Hundreds of volunteers remove invasive plants, plant native shrubs and trees, and restore riparian habitat.

• Co-sponsorship of $1000 per event will cover some event expenses.
• Sponsorship of $2500 for the spring event will cover direct expenses for the event, including tools, field materials, transportation, food and drink to support volunteers.
• Sponsorship of $5000 for the fall event will cover all expenses to run the event, including planning, volunteer recruitment and crew leaders to train and lead volunteers. It will also cover native plants, grown in the Greenway tree nursery, to restore and re-vegetate the site.

Sponsoring organization(s) will be promoted on the Greenway Trust web site, in local news media, in the Greenway Trust newsletter and the email alerts. Banners will be displayed at each event.

Annual Celebration Dinner each December

Each December the Greenway Trust holds a dinner and celebration that showcases accomplishments in the Mountains to Sound Greenway throughout the year. Past Masters of Ceremonies include the King County Executive, the Commissioner of Public Lands and two Secretaries of Transportation.

Sponsoring organizations or individuals will be listed prominently in the invitation, event program, on large signs at the event, and during the presentation.

Greenway Summer Camps for Youth

Each summer, dozens of young people  venture into the Cascades for trail maintenance, ecological restoration work, environmental education and fun. Volunteers improve recreation sites and protect sensitive wildlife and salmon habitat while meeting new friends and learning about trail construction and environmental restoration. The program is free to volunteer participants, and is promoted through youth organizations and the Greenway Trust web site, newsletters and email newsletter.

Sponsoring organizations will be promoted on the Greenway Trust web site, in local news media, in the Greenway newsletter and the email newsletter.

Maintenance of a specific site in the Mountains to Sound Greenway

As the public flocks to the parks and trails in the Greenway, these natural facilities must absorb more human impacts. Good maintenance prevents environmental damage and demonstrates the ethic of community care to all who use the facilities. Adopt-a-site or adopt-a-trail opportunities are available for long-term care of a specific site.