Supporting the Hurley
Community support makes the Hurley’s success possible. Here’s how you can help.
For Individuals:
Join the conga line of individuals supporting the Hurley. You can help this innovative public school by purchasing tickets to ¡TropiCaliente!, making a donation, inviting your friends, or asking your employer to purchase an ad in the program book.
For Businesses:
Promote your business or goods the TropiCaliente way! Your establishment will be noticed by 350 urban professionals at our event, plus thousands more through posters, the web, and e-mail.
To support the Hurley through Club ¡TropiCaliente!, download the sponsorship, auction donation, & ad package, and mail or fax the appropriate form to us before Tuesday, March 12.
Your business can support the Hurley School through Club ¡TropiCaliente! in the following ways:
Sponsorship
Sponsors underwrite the event and receive recognition in all promotional materials, an ad in the program book, tickets to the event, and many other benefits. The following levels of sponsorship are available:
- Tito Puente, $10,000
- Celia Cruz, $5,000
- Desi Arnaz, $2,500
- Xavier Cugat, $1,000
Advertising
Each of the 350 guests at Club ¡TropiCaliente! will receive a program book, which will include ads from businesses supporting the Hurley. Ads are available in four sizes:
- Full page color (5"w x8"h), $750
- Full page black & white (5"w x8"h), $400
- Half page black & white (5"w x3.875"h), $200
- Quarter page black & white (2.375"w x3.875"h), $100
For questions about sponsorship or advertising, e-mail Alice O’Neill, Sponsorship Coordinator.
Auction
A donation of goods, services, or a gift certificate to our silent auction will create visibility for your business at the event while enhancing the value of the auction, which is the bread and butter of the event. If you have questions about a donation of goods or services, contact Auction Co-Coordinator Pamela Butz.
Hundreds of party-goers mingle and peruse the silent auction offerings at NPHS’s 2009 event
Hurley School Principal Marjorie Soto with Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino at ¡TropiCaliente! 2009
Special Thanks To:
- Celia Cruz Sponsors
- Beacon Hill Hotel & Bistro
- Steven Cohen, Keller Williams Realty
The Law Offices of Lynn Deitzer
Joe Smith, Bank of America Home Loans
Jim Brock, Boston Home Inspectors - Desi Arnaz Sponsors
- Hingham Institution for Savings
- Eaton Vance
- Xavier Cugat Sponsors
- Sprogis & Neale
- VinCo Properties
- Wells Fargo Home Mortgage
- Bar Donations
- Absolut
- Classic Wine Imports
- DonQ Rum
- Harpoon Brewery
- Horizon Beverage
- Masciarelli Wine Company
- Ruby Wines
- Graphic Design Donation
- Mary Owens Design
- Web Design Donation
- BrightBold
- Printing
- BFS Business Printing
- Catering
- Above & Beyond Catering
- Venue
- Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción






