Businesses

Common Grove offers businesses several ways to make a difference. By sponsoring Common Grove stewardship forums, events, and projects, your business can engage customers, clients and employees in programs to help reduce their carbon footprints. Common Grove provides opportunities for sponsors to get directly involved by making specific CO2 offsetting investments with their customers and employees that can be promoted regionally and nationally.

Sponsorship levels include:

Grove Starter Kit ($1,000-5,000):

  • A company is listed alphabetically on CommonGrove.com with a live link that directs a site user to a chosen page on the sponsor’s website. A tailored program can be developed for a sponsor’s employees and customers to choose CommonGrove.com when offsetting their Carbon Footprint.

Think Global/Act Local: ($5,000-15,000)

  • Local companies (10-25 employees); in addition to the Starter Kit receives a Promo Kit (posters, window decals, and displays) to promote its sponsorship and involve its customers and employees.
  • Opportunities to help set up Local Educational/Non-Profit Partner programs, or offer EnviroCamp Scholarships.
  • Web promotion includes a live link on CommonGrove.com with a company bio. Local publicity includes Press Releases with follow-up.
  • Promo Kits contain an array of materials to pick and choose from for your sponsorship; choice of: window decals, magnets, posters, and counter displays.

Think Global/Act Local² ($15,000-50,000)

  • Larger local companies (25-500 employees) also sponsor Local School or Non-Profit Partner programs with additional opportunities for volunteer employee involvement and web and local-promotion.
  • Includes programs for employees and customers to offset their carbon footprint with Common Grove.
  • A local carbon offset investment is determined where its employee/customer offset funds go towards. They can also help sponsor its regional Environmental Camp, or provide local scholarships.

Love Where You Live! ($50,000-$150,000)

  • Regional or National companies get Promo Kits for all company sites; sponsorship of web-based National Educational Program, In-school CO2 Manuals and DVD’s and Take Home materials; direct Promotion though CommonGrove.com and Earthseeds websites.
  • Sponsor chooses a Common Grove Non-Profit partner to have 10% of its employees and customers offset fees paid to.
  • Sponsors can also help set up and promote the system of regional Environmental Camps.

Planetary Partner ($150-250,000)

  • Includes all of the above, plus name and logo on all Promo Kits and choice of a Common Grove investment (or its own specially designed CO2 Investment) that its employee and customer’ fees can go toward.
  • This is meant to be an individualized program developed with each sponsor, with a varying sponsorship fee, beginning at the above levels, and based on the project, program, or event decided on.
  • Sponsor/Partner in the Eco-Parks, Scrap Tire Program, and EnviroCamps are individually tailored.

Each of these benefits has their own price, and sponsorship levels can be individually tailored. Common Grove can offer tailored sponsorship packages at every level of participation. For more information please contact Chris Martin at or 1-866-964-7683.