POLAR BEAR INFO
SPONSORS
RESTAURANTS
VOLUNTEERS
We appreciate our incredible 2009 sponsors. Your support enables the Kansas City Zoo to feed and care for more than 1,000 animals who call the Zoo home. The animals thank you!
EXCEPTIONAL ELEPHANT - $25,000
34 patron tickets, 17 VIP/valet parking passes and 64 individual tickets
Polar Party for 30 guests (two-hour cocktail party in the brand new Polar Bear Exhibit – between July 2010 and April 2011)
One-year naming right for Kansas City Zoo animal (upon approval by Kansas City Zoo management)
Publicity and recognition on Zoo grounds throughout the year
10 family memberships to Friends of the Zoo Kansas City
(patron tickets only option – 64 patron tickets)
Kansas City Star / Spaces Magazine*
Liquid 9*
Lockton Companies
Service Management Group
The Independent Magazine*
BIGHEARTED BABOON - $15,000
20 patron tickets, 10 VIP/valet parking passes and 38 individual tickets
Publicity and recognition on Zoo grounds throughout the year
6 family memberships to Friends of the Zoo Kansas City
(patron tickets only option – 38 patron tickets)
DST Systems, Inc.
KC Impact Fund
Ryan W. Sayles Foundation
Sprint
LAUDABLE LION - $10,000
12 patron tickets, six VIP/valet parking passes and 24 individual tickets
Recognition on Zoo grounds throughout the year
4 family memberships to Friends of the Zoo Kansas City
(patron tickets only option – 24 patron tickets)
435 South*
Coca-Cola/Glaceau*
Custom Limosine*
Davis, Bethune & Jones, LLC
Garmin International, Inc.
Helzberg Diamonds*
J.E. Dunn Construction Co.
Jean & Don Wagner Charitable Foundation
Kendal King Group*
Liberty Fruit Company
Major Brands Premium Beverage Distributors*
Marshall & Jill Dean
Muriel McBrien Kauffman Foundation
Shirley & Barnett Helzberg Jr.
Donor Advisory Board
Swank Audio Visuals
Swiss Reinsurance
Wilks Group - Q104, Star102 and Mix93.3*
GENEROUS GIRAFFE - $5,000
6 patron tickets, 3 VIP/valet parking passes and 12 individual tickets
2 family memberships to Friends of the Zoo Kansas City
Recognition on Zoo grounds throughout the year
(patron tickets only option – 12 patron tickets)
360 Architecture Inc
All Packaging Company*
Anheuser-Busch - United Beverage*
Arvin Gottlieb Charitable Foundation
Bank of America
Bartimus Frickleton Roberston & Gorny
Berry Plastics*
BKD, LLP
Block & Company
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City
Boulevard Brewing Company*
Burns & McDonnell
Central States Beverage Company*
DLR Group
Entertainment Properties Trust
Farmland Foods
Halls Kansas City
Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP
Isle of Capri
J2 Printing*
Jerome & Jeanette Cohen Foundation
JMW Associates
Kansas City Homes & Gardens Magazine*
Kansas City Power & Light
Kansas City Royals
Key West Technologies
M&I Bank
Morgan Family Foundation
Perry H. Bacon Charitable Corporation
PGAV Architects
Power Group Companies
Restaurant Guide of Kansas City*
Robert E. Miller Insurance Agency
The Intercontinental Hotel*
The PITCH Kansas City*
The Raphael Hotel Group
Turner Construction
Walton Construction Company
KARING KANGAROO - $3,000
8 patron tickets
4 VIP/valet parking passes
Andrews McMeel Universal Foundation
Argosy Casino Hotel & Spa
Ash Grove Charitable Foundation
Cemrock
Copaken, White & Blitt
DeBruce Companies
Desco Coatings, Inc.
Dimensional Innovations
Emily & Rick Boeshaar
Ericsson Inc
Greg Orman
Jamie & Bush Helzberg
Kansas City University
of Medicine & Bioscience
Lakehomes Magazine*
MarTech
PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP
QC Holdings
Rae Vile Block
Shook Hardy & Bacon
The Allen Group
The R.H. Johnson Company
Union Broadcasting -
Sports Radio 810 WHB*
Walter P. Moore
CHARITABLE CHIMP - $1,500
4 Patron Party (early admittance) tickets
2 VIP parking passes
Advanced Net Providers Inc.
AMC Entertainment
Atterbury Family Foundation
Atwood & Palmer Inc.
Bank Midwest
Belfonte Foods
Bonnie & Herb Buchbinder
Bonnie & Herb Buchbinder
Brandon and Doreen DeBruce
C&C Group
Carol & Allan Hallquist
Carolyn & Ford Nelson
DeeDee King
Elaine Polsky
Erika & Dylan Wetherill
Ernst & Young
Flourish! Magazine*
Gayle & Bruce Krigel
George K. Baum & Company
Hartsook Companies
Henry Wurst, Inc.*
Illusions Unlimited Productions, Inc.
Inergy L.P.
Jackie & Lynn Johnson
Jan Armstrong
Jean Corbett
Jean Corbett 2
Jeanette Nichols
Johnson County Graphics*
Kristen & Dan Fromm
LaDonna & John Marietti
Larson Binkley Inc.
Linda & Jeff Johnson
Linda & John Hoffman
Marsha & Chris Wilson
Mary & Carol Privitera
Mary Lou Greene
Missouri Employers Mutual
Musselman & Hall Contractors, LLC
Nancy & Rick Green
Payless Shoesource
Peter G & Elizabeth Torosian Foundation
Qwest Communications
Roberts Dairy
Ryan McQueary & Mike Schultz
Soli Printing*
Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, LLP
Sound Products, Inc.
The Merrill Companies, LLC
The New Theatre Restaurant
UMB Bank, n.a.
Vicki & Bill Reisler
Western Extralite
White Goss Bowers Schulte & Weisenfels