We’re Proud To Support Our Community

As a player in the user experience, information architecture, programming and design field, we are proud to support those individuals who are helping others rid the world of bad software.

We support the resources below for the simple reason that we want them to continue to be successful, for the benefit of our whole community.

Our policy for choosing what to sponsor is simple: don’t pitch to us, just focus on being so good that we’ll want you to be successful. Find out more about our approval and selection process.

If you know of something you think we’d be happy to support send us a link to it and we’ll start following its blog and Twitter stream for a while.

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Sponsorship Approval Process#

Mission

Support people who are helping others rid the world of bad software because we want them to continue to be successful, for the benefit of our whole community.

Approval Process (Read this first!)

We choose events based on how they fit with our sponsorship mission. We generally sponsor at a maximum of $USD 400, with the exception of one or two events we select each year for larger contributions. Here are some things we consider when looking at events.

  • Relevance to our mission
  • Reputation of speakers
  • Reputation of organizers and host organization
  • History of the event

We like the packages that require little from us.

We list the information and assets you can use in your materials.

We don’t need to distribute collateral materials. If that’s a benefit of your sponsor package, we’d prefer a reduction in fees for us to NOT include collateral materials in your welcome package and swag bags. Use of our logo and company/product information is sufficient.

We usually don’t need tickets to the events for ourselves. If a ticket is part of the package, we’ll be happy to raffle it off to one of our customers.

Apply

If you read the process above, here’s what we suggest to help ease the process along.

When you write your first email to us include all of the following information:

  • Your name, title, company/organization
  • Name of your event
  • Location and date of event
  • Description of event

You can contact us via this form to start the process, or email us if you prefer.

If We Sponsor Your Event#

We will need an invoice.

With your invoice please send us information on how we should make our payment.

If we are paying in US Dollars, please address the invoice to:

Balsamiq Studios, LLC
PO Box 1138
Sacramento, CA 95812

Please email your invoice in dollars to llc@balsamiq.com and mike@balsamiq.com.

If we are paying in Euros, please address the invoice to:

Giacomo Guilizzoni
Balsamiq SRL
Viale Oriani 2
40137 Bologna (BO)
Italia
P.IVA e C.F. IT 02921031205

Please email your invoice in Euros to srl@balsamiq.com and mike@balsamiq.com.

Payment information

Please send us information on were we should send our payment.

For sponsorships in US Dollars, we prefer to pay by PayPal or credit card.

For sponsorship in Euros, we like to do wire transfers.

If you need graphics

We have logos and company/product descriptions available here, including high resolution and EPS versions: http://www.balsamiq.com/company/press#logos

If you need company or product info

If you need some copy about the company or product, we have a few blurbs that you can copy from here: http://www.balsamiq.com/company/press#copy

Legal Paperwork

If there are any agreements you need us to sign, send them on over and we’ll email a signed and scanned agreement back to you.

Promotion Assistance

If there’s anything you’d like us to do to help promote the event, via Twitter for instance, let us know.