Since 1993, Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST) has presented a lecture series in honor of the late author, teacher and environmental activist Wallace Stegner. Designed to educate and inspire, the series explores important issues about land, nature and sustainability. As we celebrate 20 years of bringing distinguished speakers to the Peninsula, we also celebrate Wallace Stegner’s far-reaching influence and timeless legacy of conserving the West’s wild places.

Become a Lecture SponsorYour sponsorship of POST’s Wallace Stegner Lecture Series provides you with

exposure to an audience of highly educated, affluent individuals with deep ties

to the communities of the Peninsula and South Bay. Many of these individuals

are supporters of POST, a leader in local land conservation since our founding

in 1977.

The lectures help POST connect with the public at large in the centrally

located, 630-seat MainStage of The Mountain View Center for the Performing

Arts. Sponsorship gifts are tax deductible to the full extent of charitable gift

rules.

Founding Series SponsorsThe late Ambassador Bill Lane and his wife, Jean,

helped establish this series, and we are deeply

grateful to Jean, whose support continues as a

tribute to Bill.

Our MissionPOST is a private, non-profit land trust whose

mission is to protect and care for open space, farms

and parkland in and around Silicon Valley.

20th anniversary

Bill and Jean Lane

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Peninsula Open Space Trust

222 High Street

Palo Alto, CA 94301

Phone: (650) 854-7696

Fax: (650) 854-7703

Sponsorship Levels$6,500 per regular lecture$5,000 for the bonus lecture (Exclusive for Stegner and Patron subscribers.)

Sponsorship BenefitsYour sponsorship is recognized through the display of your logo/name on the following:

• Two-page advertisement for the lecture series in POST’s Annual Report, which mails in December 2012 to 8,000 POST donors.

• Lecture series brochure, which mails in January 2013 to 8,000 POST donors and is also distributed to previous ticket buyers and partner organizations.

• POST’s web page dedicated to the lecture series, as well as e-mail blasts and Facebook entries promoting the event to POST donors and friends.

• Print and web advertising for the series, including newspaper ads through our media sponsor, Embarcadero Media, publisher of The Almanac, Mountain View Voice, Palo Alto Weekly and Palo Alto Online, with a print circulation of 65,000.

• Promotional event posters distributed throughout the Peninsula and South Bay and displayed at local businesses.

• Press releases and PSAs plus calendar listings for local print, radio, broadcast and cable television outlets.

• Lobby displays, programs and pre-lecture slide show.

In addition, sponsors receive:

• Four complimentary tickets to each lecture with preferred seating.

Contact Us For More InformationFor more information about sponsorship opportunities contact Michelle Mellon, mmellon@openspacetrust.org or (650) 854-7696 x341.

For information on last year’s lecture visit: www.openspacetrust.org/lectures

Peninsula Open Space Trust

222 High Street

Palo Alto, CA 94301

Phone: (650) 854-7696

Fax: (650) 854-7703

2013 Series SpeakersThe Wallace Stegner Lectures have consistently featured dynamic influential speakers on a broad range of topics. Past events include Jane Goodall, Al Gore and Robert Redford, among many others. We are fortunate to celebrate our Twentieth Anniversary Season with the following speakers:

Will Allen, February 11, 2013 Founder and CEO of Growing Power, a farm and community food center in Milwaukee. Allen applies old-fashioned farming principles to vacant city lots and commercial buildings.

Bonus lecture exclusively for our Stegner and Patron subscribers

Timothy Egan, March 18, 2013 New York Times columnist, and award-winning author, whose

works include The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of

Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl and The

Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America.

Jeff Goodell, April 8, 2013 Journalist, author and contributing editor at Rolling

Stone. His most recent book How to Cool the Planet:

Geoengineering and the Audacious Quest to fix Earth’s

Climate offers a new perspective on energy and climate

change.

Cheryl Strayed, May 13, 2013Author of the best selling book Wild: From Lost to Found on

the Pacific Crest Trail, which details her journey of recovery

as she backpacks alone for 1,100 miles from California to

Oregon.

Peninsula Open Space Trust

222 High Street

Palo Alto, CA 94301

Phone: (650) 854-7696

Fax: (650) 854-7703