sponsorship

Colorful, creative events and placemaking activate open spaces in Downtown Bridgeport! The Bridgeport DSSD is proud to offer marketing services and sponsorship opportunities to help businesses market to the neighborhood and beyond. Take advantage of our robust marketing channels, events, perks, and sponsorship packages to promote your business or organization throughout Downtown Bridgeport.

Color Walk Sponsor: $150

Your logo will be featured in our printed Downtown Public Art Walking Tour guide, used year-round by residents, visitors, students, and arts organizations. Sponsors receive ongoing visibility, with additional copies available for your own distribution.
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Local Love Sponsor: $200

Your logo will be featured on the Colorful Bridgeport website under our Local Love section for one year. Your support helps fund ongoing efforts in beautification, public art, placemaking, community engagement, and content creation throughout Downtown.
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Banner Sponsor: $250

Your logo will be featured on decorative light pole banners that brighten Downtown while promoting local businesses to residents, workers, students, and visitors. Displayed for one year, these banners line Main Street, Broad Street, Fairfield Avenue, and McLevy Green.
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Monthly Mosaic Social Sponsor: $250

Your logo will be highlighted in our next Monthly Mosaic social post, featured prominently at the end of the carousel. This sponsorship positions your business as a key supporter of Downtown storytelling and community-focused content.
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Top 5 Reel Sponsor: $300

Your business will be named and your logo featured in our next Top 5 Reel, appearing at the end of the video. This one-time sponsorship offers high-visibility placement within one of our strongest-performing content series.
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Newsletter Sponsor: $350

Your logo will be placed at the top of one Colorful Bridgeport newsletter, delivering prominent exposure to our engaged subscriber base while supporting the sharing of local business highlights, events, and community news.
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Colorful Crew Sponsor: $500

Enhance Downtown Bridgeport’s charm by sponsoring its pocket parks, planters, and tree beds! These streetscape elements bring vibrancy to the city, benefiting businesses, residents, and visitors alike. Depending on the location, your sponsorship can include signage to showcase your support.
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Most Colorful Sponsor: $1,250

Become our MOST Colorful Sponsor and receive the signature highlights of the Color Walk, Local Love, Downtown Banner, Monthly Mosaic Social, Top 5 Reel, and Newsletter sponsorships, at a special packaged rate. This top-tier sponsorship highlights your commitment to a vibrant, creative, and thriving Downtown Bridgeport.
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Color It In Public Art Sponsor: Variable

Local artists can customize murals, utility box designs, or other installation locations, that serve to beautify Downtown Bridgeport and feature a company or organization’s logo and/or business name. Public art adds great vibrancy and vitality to the district, by adding color and character to the street level experience.
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event partnerships

Downtown Bridgeport is a commercial area that represents and serves a diverse tapestry of the wider Bridgeport community. It’s our public parks, independently owned restaurants and shops, and the vibrant arts and culture offerings in the neighborhood that create connection points and foster the sense of community so special to the Downtown and the city.

The Bridgeport DSSD’S cultural programming provides an array of diverse activities that encourage our small businesses, residents, office workers, and visitors to connect and add vibrancy to the Downtown neighborhood, and drives customers to explore and shop Downtown. The connections forged through attendance at these events serve to increase feelings of belonging and pride in the neighborhood.

Each year, we partner with local event producers to enhance our ability to achieve those outcomes. If your organization or group would like to partner with the Bridgeport DSSD to host an event in Downtown Bridgeport, we invite you to fill out the application form linked below with a description of the event, and what types of partnership you are seeking. Partnership requests that include funding will be available for events that take place from July 1, 2026, through June 30, 2027.

Partnership requests are due by 11:59 p.m. on Thursday, February 26, 2026, via the application form. The Bridgeport DSSD Board of Commissioners will review the applications and decide on which partnerships to approve by May 13, 2026. All applicants will be notified by May 16, 2026, whether the event partnership request was approved or not.

Event Partnership Application

our achievements owe everything to the support of our community.

thank you to our sponsors

The Bridgeport DSSD is grateful for the following partners and sponsors who through their funding recognize the importance of investing in Downtown Bridgeport. Each company’s contribution ensures that the sense of culture and community is bolstered with bright and vibrant placemaking activations all around Downtown Bridgeport’s commercial district.