Become a Community Partner

To ensure an effective partnership, we believe that open communication and clear expectations are vital. Our goal in partnering with like-minded organizations is to present Eat Local Week (ELW) as an all-encompassing, community effort. We hope this partnership will allow us to pool resources, share knowledge, expand the audiences we reach, and build positive community partnerships into the future.

Depending on the type of organization, there are various ways to be involved with ELW.

• Become an official sponsor of ELW by providing monetary support 
• Host an event in line with the ELW mission and goals that takes place between Sept. 10-17 (See below Partner Event Guidelines)
• Create awareness of the ELW mission through media, podcasts, articles, social media buzz, etc 
• Create ELW specific related activities at recurring events such as markets (See below Partner Event Guidelines)
• Help promote the Eat Local Challenge through participation and sharing

If you are interested in participating in any of the ways listed above, please contact Tobi at .

Partner Event Guidelines

ELW events should aim to educate the public, promote individual organizations, and serve the collective whole. All events must be directly related to and in support of ELW’s mission and goals.

Additional Event Requirements:

• Event description/summary must be submitted to the ELW Program Manager () by Friday July 29, 2016 for approval
• Event must be open to the public
• Event promotion, and actual event must have a component that includes educational materials about ELW and the Eat Local Challenge
• All marketing materials, announcements, and social media promotion for the event must include ELW’s logo, web link, or social media link (depending on what is appropriate)
• Publicity plans are to be coordinated with ELW Steering Committee* and should follow guidelines provided by ELW Steering Committee.
• Assistance with promotion can be arranged with request, and cross promotion of events and participating organizations will be honored
• Organizing groups must provide 2-4 tickets or entires for Steering Committee to attend the event
• All events details, promotional materials, web links, registration sites or other related information must be submitted in completion no later than Friday, August 5, 2016 in order to be included on the event calendar and ELW promotional materials

Once all event information has been submitted, the ELW Steering Committee will do all of the following (if applicable) in exchange for event partnership:

• Add event details to ELW web calendar
• Help promote event via facebook, twitter, instagram
• Add event details to community calendars
• Communicate with other community partners to help promote all ELW events 

*STEERING COMMITTEE: Each year the ELW Steering Committee will consist of at least one member from Slow Food Utah, Downtown Alliance, and Wasatch Community Gardens. Additional Steering Committee members can be accepted on a rolling basis with approval from all Steering Committee members.

**No organization will be allowed to use the brand 'Eat Local Week', 'Salt Lake Eat Local Week' or 'Eat Local Week Utah' to promote their event, unless the event is approved by the Eat Local Week Steering Committee.