Empower SCI Gala 2017
Event Information
Description
Mark your calendars and purchase your tickets! Back by popular demand, Empower SCI will host its Second Gala. As promised last year, we are surging forward towards a decade of changing lives. Empower SCI hosted its 6th summer program this July. We are proud of the past 6 years of successful programming and changed lives. We are compelled to bring this program to 12 more individuals and have decided to head West to open a second program. This year's Gala will help fundraise for this program projected to launch in the Summer of 2018.
We've booked the Marriott in Downtown Providence for our Gala. Dress is black tie optional. All past participants, volunteers, and supporters of any kind are welcome to join us for a night of recognition, celebration, dancing, exceptional eats, raffles, and other surprises. Ticket prices are $100 per person. More details to follow via our website, social media, and our newsletter. #EmpowerHeadsWest
Please indicate your desired meal preference on the ticket order form. If you are attending as a group of two or more, please purchase tickets together in order to be seated at the same table.
Sponsorship Information
There are a variety of tickets that can be purchased for this event including individual tickets, event sponsorship, and sponsorship of a past participant who may have limited personal funds to attend the Gala. To avoid second party fees, sponsorship can also be purchased by mailing a check to
PO Box 8631
Boston, MA 02114.
*Mailed checks must be received by 11/1/17. Please include 2017 Gala Sponsorship in the memo section of the written check.
Please see below descriptions for sponsorship options:
Diamond Headline Sponsor $4,000
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10 Complimentary Tickets with reserved company table
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Logo and Name in Biannual Newsletter for 1 year
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Logo and name on Empower SCI Homepage
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Monthly Facebook recognition 1 year following event
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Name and logo on event program
Platinum $2,500
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8 Complimentary Tickets
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Name Empower SCI Homepage
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Company Name on biannual newsletter for 1 year
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Company Recognition at Gala
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Facebook recognition 6 months following event
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Name on event program
Gold $1,000
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6 Complimentary Tickets
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Company Description and link on website
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Company Recognition at Gala
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Facebook Recognition for 3 months following event
Silver $500
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4 Complimentary Tickets
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Company Description and link on website
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Company Recognition at Gala
Bronze $300
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2 Complimentary Tickets
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Company Recognition at Gala
Past Participant Gala Attendance Sponsorship $250
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Our past program participants are living proof of Empower SCI's impact, although the cost of living related to SCI continues to be high. Please consider sponsoring a participant's attendance to the Gala including hotel room in order to minimize his or her personal cost of attending.
Media Release
By purchasing this ticket, you agree to the following media release:
I hereby authorize and give my full consent to Empower SCI, Inc., to copyright and/or publish any and all photographs, digital recordings, videotapes and/or film in which I appear while attending this Empower SCI, Inc. event. I further agree that Empower SCI, Inc. may transfer, use or cause to be used, these digital recordings, photographs, videotapes, or films for any exhibitions, public displays, publications, commercials, art and advertising purposes, television programs, and internet without limitations or reservations.
Organizer Elizabeth Lima Remillard, Co-founder of Empower Spinal Cord Injury, Inc.
Organizer of Empower SCI Gala 2017
Empower SCI is a non-profit corporation established to enable individuals with spinal cord injuries to lead happier, more meaningful and more independent lives. Empower SCI seeks to fill the gap in the rehabilitation industry that has been created by a decrease in length of stays at rehabilitation hospitals and outpatient services during the recovery from a spinal cord injury.
Empower SCI, Incorporated is a residential program catered to individuals who have had a spinal cord injury. The program focuses not only on the formal physical therapy, occupational therapy, and recreational therapy; but more importantly peer mentoring, rehabilitation counseling and informal knowledge-sharing between individuals who are going through similar experiences and challenges. The yearly two week program will consist of a combination of individual and group therapy sessions. Each program will be catered to the unique needs of the client, with client-developed goals to maximize the client’s ability to lead a happier, more meaningful and more independent life. It is our focus at EmpowerSCI, Incorporated, to allow individuals with spinal cord injuries the opportunity to participate in successful rehabilitation, in a time in their lives where they are motivated, healed (both mentally and orthopedically) and have the potential to succeed.
Elizabeth Lima Remillard is the treasurer and co-founder of Empower SCI. Better know as "Liz Lima," she is a graduate of Boston University and currently lives in Rhode Island with her husband and three children. She has 8 years of experience working with the spinal cord injury population and an additional 10 years of acute rehabilitation experience in working with individuals with a variety of neurological impairments. She is the Academic Fieldwork Coordinator for the Occupational Therapy Assistant Program at the New England Institute of Technology and currently works as a per diem inpatient Occupational Therapist at Southern New England Rehabilitation Center. She co-leads the only Spinal Cord Injury Support Group in the state. She is an active member of the occupational therapy community and is the past volunteer chair and a conference committee member for the Rhode Island Occupational Therapy Association. She has had the unique experience of working as House Director at a rehabilitation summer camp with a similar mission as Empower SCI. In 2015, she was the recipient of Boston University's Emerging Leader and Occupational Therapy Alumni of the Year Awards.
