Corporate Sponsorship

Partner with NEC to amplify your organization’s visibility as a corporate sponsor.
The Annual Scholarship Gala is a significant driver of NEC’s ability to award scholarships to deserving students, more than 90% of whom rely on scholarship support to pursue their academic and artistic careers.
Save the Date
Saturday, October 24, 2026
New England Conservatory
Jordan Hall
290 Huntington Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts
For more information, please contact events@necmusic.edu.

We Value Your Partnership
Benefits
NEC’s corporate partnership opportunities offer a range of benefits throughout the year, including brand recognition and visibility to a variety of constituencies served by the conservatory:
- Engagement with 125 community partnerships that impact education, growth, and healing in the city of Boston.
- Visibility to more than 20,000 local NEC concert goers and over 100,000 digital audience members in NEC’s concert programs.
- Corporate logos featured on the NEC website with more than 500,000 unique users.
- Access to a robust network of more than 115,000 followers across all social media platforms.
For more information on engagement and sponsorship opportunities, please get in touch with Jillian Doroni, NEC’s Assistant Director of Advancement Marketing and Events.
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Your sponsorship§ will help award essential scholarships and support NEC’s innovative and educational outreach
- Recognition as presenting sponsor of the Annual Scholarship Gala
- Dinner, concert, and afterparty for 10 guests
- Organization logo and name listed by giving level on the gala program and web page
- Dedicated digital ad in the evening’s collateral
- Year-round acknowledgment in the donor listings of the 2027–2028 Jordan Hall concert programs
- Dinner, concert, and afterparty for 8 guests
- Organization logo and name listed by giving level on the gala program and web page
- Dedicated digital ad in the evening’s collateral
- Year-round acknowledgment in the donor listings of the 2027–2028 Jordan Hall concert programs
- Dinner, concert, and afterparty for 6 guests
- Organization logo and name listed by giving level on the gala program and web page
- Dedicated digital ad in the evening’s collateral
- Year-round acknowledgment in the donor listings of the 2027–2028 Jordan Hall concert programs
- Dinner, concert, and afterparty for 4 guests
- Organization logo and name listed by giving level on the gala program and web page
- Dedicated digital ad in the evening’s collateral
- Year-round acknowledgment in the donor listings of the 2027–2028 Jordan Hall concert programs
- Dinner, concert, and afterparty for 2 guests
- Organization logo and name listed by giving level on the gala program, web page, and evening’s digital collateral
- Year-round acknowledgment in the donor listings of the 2027–2028 Jordan Hall concert programs
- Dinner, concert, and afterparty for 1 guest
- Organization logo and name listed by giving level on the gala program, web page, and evening’s digital collateral
- Year-round acknowledgment in the donor listings of the 2027–2028 Jordan Hall concert programs
- Organization name listed by giving level on the gala program, web page, and evening’s digital collateral
- Year-round acknowledgment in the donor listings of the 2027–2028 Jordan Hall concert programs
Disclaimer:
*The estimated value of each dinner ticket is $350. If you utilize your allotted tickets, your taxable amount qualifies as a charitable contribution, less $350 per ticket.
*Sponsorship payments are due by January 31, 2027.
*New England Conservatory is a tax-exempt organization as described in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code; EIN 23-7225104.
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For more information on engagement and sponsorship opportunities, please get in touch with Jillian Doroni, NEC’s Assistant Director of Advancement Marketing & Events.
Contact usThank you to our 2026 Spring Scholarship Gala Donors and Sponsors!
Virtuosos
Tom and Lisa Blumenthal
Kennett F. Burnes ’22 hon. DM and Barbara Burnes
Anna and David Goldenheim
Eric and Sene Gray
Blair and Jackie Hendrix
Barbara and Amos Hostetter
Harold I. Pratt ’17 hon. DM and Frances G. Pratt†
David W. Scudder ’03 hon. DM
Wendy Shattuck ’75 and Samuel Plimpton
Musical Innovators
Katie and Paul Buttenwieser
Barbara Winter Glauber
Edwin D. Graves, Jr. ’87 MM
Deborah Elfers Haffenreffer ’82
Caroline Rutherfurd, in honor of Robert Glauber
Community Collaborators
Hope Lincoln Baker
Anne and Samuel Bartlett
Enid L. Beal and Alan Wolfe
Joseph L. Bower ’18 hon. DM and Elizabeth Potter
Timothy W. Fulham and Lise M. Olney
Andrea Kalyn
Melody L. McDonald ’70
Murray Metcalfe and Louise B. Packard
Meg and David Nichols
Robert and Barbara Rosiello
Margarita Rudyak
Collegiate Press
EMCOR Services Northeast
Encore Tours
Nixon Peabody LLP
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