Companies supporting dance4life

dance4life offers your company the chance to improve the world you trade and live in, either locally or globally – in short to become a corporate citizen.

Here are some reasons why your company should support dance4life :

• Be responsible for the world that you, your employees, your community, your existing and potential clients live in, whether you are a small company or a large multi-national. In fact, running your company ethically is expected by most clients and customers these days.
• By associating with dance4life you take responsibility in making a global impact on the HIV and AIDS pandemic. dance4life will improve your company's reputation, public image and brand with youth and the general public. It will set you apart from your competitors and dance4life's positive message will speak to your clients. And we will offer your brand visibility on our website.
• Recruitment of good staff is competitive, so by taking responsibility for today’s generation of young people and by involving your staff in supporting dance4life , potential new staff will have a positive perception of your company.

Your company can support dance4life either:

• in the form of (annual) donations
• by making dance4life the beneficiary of your next corporate event
• by donating in-kind services.
• by giving your employees and/or your clients the opportuntiy to support dance4life.

Please contact Rupert Springfield, Fundraising Manager at dance4life International, to discuss a possible collaboration. We can create a Memorandum of Understanding which will detail what our shared goals are and what we will both do to achieve them.

Current corporate sponsors:

Les Mills is the world’s biggest producer of branded group fitness classes, based in New Zealand, currently running in more than 70 countries, and in more than 11,000 clubs. In 2008 Les Mills is supporting Dance4Life for a second time, and has incorporated the Benjamin Bates "On My Feet" Dance4Life track in the BODYJAM™ 43 class. They involve their trainers and clients in fundraising for Dance4Life, and the response we have had from all around the world has been fantastic. Gold's Gym in Boise, Idaho has already announced that they have beaten the $3000 they raised last year - this year it's $4000!

The BODYJAM™ 39 fundraising campaing for Dance4Life in 2006-2007 raised around €20,000 for Dance4Life - supporting us in informing, empowering and actively informing young people to push back HIV and AIDS.

Les Mills Marketing Director Vaughan Schwass says Les Mills is delighted to have the opportunity to support Dance4Life with BODYJAM™: “Dance4Life is an innovative project that enables young people everywhere to become more actively involved in pushing back HIV and AIDS. Dancing is healthy and is already connecting young people all over the world and Dance4Life now gives them a chance to dance for a cause."

Lost Boys supported Dance4Life when they offered their clients a free Christmas t-shirt. For every client who ordered one, Lost Boys donated €2 to Dance4Life. In total €796 was raised!

The Challenge Company has chosen Dance4Life as one of the charities that their teams raise money for on their adventures to Dakar and Peking.

Bid2aid, an online auction raising money for charities, has also chosen Dance4Life to be one of it's beneficeries.