Sponsor Packages
Our retreat runs on a sponsorship model, ensuring deserving nonprofit leaders have access to retreat experiences like this one.
Our 2027 cohorts will bring together leaders from institutions across the country. VPs, CMOs, and executives who shape how their colleges and universities show up in the world.
Spring 2026 partners: Snap Inc., Squiz, Kanahoma, OnDeck Marketing, 5Tool Productions
Fall 2026 partners: Squiz, GMB, Mammoth, Element451, SimpsonScarborough, VisionPoint Marketing, OnDeck Marketing
Presenting Partner
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Experience Partner
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Wellness Partner
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Full Retreat Buy Out
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Presenting Partner ✳︎ Experience Partner ✳︎ Wellness Partner ✳︎ Full Retreat Buy Out ✳︎
Why Sponsor
You know the traditional conference math. Drop $40K, collect badges, chase ghosts.
Let's Go Upstate is the opposite. Your team sits next to CMOs at dinner, joins panels with VPs, and takes morning walks with the cabinet-level leaders shaping the work you sell into.
Because this retreat is peer-driven and wellness-forward, sponsors show up as hosts, not vendors. That's a role attendees actually welcome and the relationships that come out of it tend to outlast the weekend.
Thirty senior higher ed leaders. Three days in Saratoga Springs. Zero booths.
Every partnership includes full attendee access for your team, including: meals, programming, premium rooms, everything the cohort gets.
You're not the vendor at this retreat. You're the person who made it possible.
2026 Sponsors share why LGU is different.
The whole retreat, with your name on it.
Email for 2027 rates
One partner and 30 senior higher ed leaders in Saratoga Springs. A buyout makes your brand the sole host of the retreat from check-in to checkout. You help shape who gets invited, we build the program around the conversations your team wants to be part of, and every attendee leaves knowing who brought them upstate. Of all the packages, this is the one that turns a weekend into a relationship with an entire cohort.
Exclusive partnership
Full retreat access for up to six guests (your team, prospects, and clients)
Three nights in garden suites and luxury guest rooms
All meals, wellness programming, and evening experiences
Two featured sessions, built with us
One signature attendee experience plus the full wellness program, co-designed with your team
Host of Monday night small-group dinners
Nominate leaders from your network for the cohort
Custom indoor and outdoor lighting at the hotel in your brand colors
Logo on signature Upstate swag
Pre-retreat attendee roster and intros
Available for one 2027 retreat or both
For the brand ready to anchor the conversation.
Email for 2027 rates
Presenting partnership is the most visible seat at the retreat. and defines the experience. Your brand is in the room from the moment attendees arrive. Your team shapes two sessions the cohort will reference for the rest of the year, and your brand becomes the one attendees associate with the event itself. The follow-up conversations start before anyone leaves Saratoga.
Full retreat access for up to three guests (your team, prospects, and clients)
Three nights in garden suites and luxury guest rooms ($6,600 value)
All meals, wellness programming, and evening experiences
One featured session
Logo on signature Upstate swag
Custom indoor and outdoor lighting at the hotel in your brand colors
Pre-retreat attendee roster and intros
Own the moments attendees talk about for months.
Email for 2027 rates
Experience partners create the signature moment of the retreat. The pizza class that ended up in everyone's year-end recap. The dinner the group still texts about. These are the stories attendees bring home and the brand association that comes with them.
Full retreat access for two team members and one client guest
Three nights in luxury guest rooms ($6,600 value)
One signature attendee experience, designed with us
Host of Monday night small-group dinners
Pre-retreat attendee roster and intros
The thread that runs through the whole weekend.
Email for 2027 rates
Higher ed leaders arrive at this retreat tired. Wellness partners own the quieter parts of the weekend. The sunrise walk where someone finally says what they've been sitting on at work. The breathwork class that turns into a two-hour conversation. Higher ed leaders leave restored and they remember who made that possible.
Full retreat access for two team members and one client guest
Three nights in luxury guest rooms ($6,600 value)
Up to four wellness activities, co-dseigned with your team
Pre-retreat attendee roster and intros
Put a deserving leader in the room.
Offered as available. Email to ask.
Some of the best people for this retreat work at institutions without a budget line for it. Scholarship sponsors fund a seat for a campus leader and send one person from their own team alongside them. When the recipient gets the news, your company is named as the reason they’re coming.
Full retreat access for one member of your team
One funded scholarship seat for a campus leader
Accommodations, all meals, wellness programming, and evening experiences for both guests
Named in the recipient’s scholarship announcement
Recognition as a Scholarship Sponsor across retreat materials and LGU channels
Get in touch
If you're interested in partnering with us, complete the form with a few details about your company. We will get back to you and share our detailed proposal within 48 hours.
Questions first? Email mallorywillsea@gmail.com