Partnerships with purpose
Families may come for barbecue, music, and fun—but they will remember the community partners who chose to invest in Longview and help everyone feel included.
This is bigger than advertising
Sponsoring East Texas Smoke & Soul Festival places your organization inside a locally rooted experience where families laugh, small businesses are discovered, food makers share their craft, and neighbors feel connected.
Your partnership also strengthens the mission of Kidd Camp Inc.—helping create friendships, inclusive opportunities, employment pathways, and developmental support for individuals with special needs.
Founding sponsor opportunities are openInaugural partnership levels
Each level creates a clear path from local support to festival-wide leadership. Final benefits, exclusivity, and payment terms are confirmed in a signed sponsorship agreement.
1 available
Tailored proposal
The festival's singular anchor partnership, built around festival-wide naming recognition, a carefully defined category position, meaningful activation, hospitality, community impact, measurement, and a first opportunity to renew.
Express interest →Limited availability
Tailored proposal
A customized leadership partnership for organizations seeking prominent visibility, a substantial on-site presence, hospitality, and a measurable connection to the festival's community mission.
Express interest →Limited availability
From $7,500
Naming recognition for an approved festival experience, with benefits tailored to the location, audience, and level of investment.
Express interest →10 available
$5,000
A high-value local partnership for banks, healthcare organizations, employers, auto dealers, real estate firms, and other community-facing businesses.
Express interest →20 available
$2,500
An approachable visibility package for restaurants, contractors, retailers, professional services, and growing local businesses.
Express interest →Open availability
$1,000
A welcoming entry point for small businesses, family-owned companies, civic groups, and organizations that want to help launch a new East Texas tradition.
Express interest →Major partnerships are built—not pulled from a price list
Founding Title and Major Festival Partner investments are discussed privately after the festival understands the organization's objectives, activation needs, hospitality plans, category considerations, and desired community impact.
A clear explanation of what the partnership helps fund and the festival experience or community outcome it makes possible.
Organizer-controlled recognition and any narrowly defined category protections are documented in the agreement. Only one Founding Title Partner will be selected.
A useful, welcoming guest experience sized to the final site plan—not simply a logo placement.
A scheduled promotional plan, appropriate website recognition, guest credentials, and hospitality designed around the sponsor's goals.
An agreed program connecting the sponsor to local enterprise, inclusion, families, or another mission-aligned outcome.
A post-event report using actual results and a defined first opportunity to discuss the following year's partnership.
A tailored proposal is an invitation to negotiate, not a reservation or guarantee. Every benefit, investment, exclusivity provision, placement, deadline, and renewal term must appear in a signed sponsorship agreement.
What sponsors are really buying
A sponsorship is a public choice to stand with families, local enterprise, inclusion, and the future of Longview. The visibility matters—but what that visibility says about your business matters more.
The kind earned when families see your business investing in a day that belongs to the whole community—not simply placing its name beside it.
Recognition woven into meaningful festival moments, where people are already gathered, engaged, and ready to remember who helped make the experience possible.
A welcoming place to thank employees, strengthen client relationships, host community partners, and share something memorable beyond the boardroom.
A visible investment in local makers, food businesses, nonprofits, creative talent, tourism, and the people working to move East Texas forward.
The opportunity to help build a beloved Longview tradition from its beginning—and be remembered as one of the businesses that believed in it first.
Visible where memories happen
Destination partnerships connect your organization to a place guests can see, enter, enjoy, and remember. Benefits may include naming recognition, on-site signage, activation space, digital visibility, and hospitality.
Explore festival areasNamed experience opportunities
One primary sponsor is planned for each named experience unless otherwise stated. Availability and benefits are subject to the final sponsorship agreement.
Custom community partnerships may also be developed when there is a strong fit between the sponsor, the guest experience, and Kidd Camp Inc.'s mission.
Ready for your leadership team
Download the 2027 founding sponsorship packet, share it internally, then submit the interest form when your organization is ready to explore a level or named festival experience.
A clear path to partnership
No sponsorship is reserved by a conversation or form submission alone. The process protects both the sponsor and Kidd Camp Inc. by documenting every commitment.
Complete the sponsor-interest form and identify the level, experience, community outcome, or activation that matters most.
The festival team reviews availability, category considerations, proposed benefits, activation needs, and the organization's primary contact.
Both parties sign a written sponsorship agreement detailing the investment, benefits, recognition, deadlines, payment schedule, and cancellation terms.
Kidd Camp Inc. provides an invoice and secure payment instructions. The sponsorship is reserved only after the signed agreement and required payment are received.
The sponsor supplies approved logo files, brand guidance, guest names, and activation details by the production deadlines stated in the agreement.
Sponsorship availability and benefits remain subject to the final written agreement. Organizations should consult their own tax advisors regarding deductibility.
Longview will notice who showed up
Availability is limited. A sponsorship is reserved only after the benefits, category exclusivity, payment schedule, and recognition terms are documented in a signed agreement.
Founding partners become part of the story
Choose a partnership level or create a custom activation aligned with the people, places, and purpose your organization cares about most.
