Co-sponsors help OACC meet new challenges

Co-sponsors play an important role in creating the yearly OACC gathering. We are grateful for the care and support for a lifestyle aligned with our Ozark bioregion. We hope you’ll join us.

This year, we are experimenting with new ways to maintain a financially stable yet accessible event. Our venue for many years, Hammond Mill Camp, has significantly increased fees. It is still the best venue for the price, so we’ve given much thought and discussion on how to cover costs without stressing our participants.

In response to the increase of camp fees, our planning group has decided to undertake a bold experiment for the coming year. Our long-time registration fee has been $50 for full weekend adult attendance; this covered the $40 camp fee per person, leaving $10 for everything else. With Ozark ingenuity and the support of our cosponsors, we made that work and also gathered a nest egg. However, now, Hammond Mill has increased the price to $67 for every adult staying the whole weekend, leaving a net loss $17 per adult registrant. That makes our previous $50 registration no longer workable.

Yet, for some participants, even our low $50 registration fee can be a deterrent. We are concerned that situation could worsen, considering price increases in these challenging times. The experiment this is year is to make our registration fee simply “pay what you can, but please consider our costs.” We anticipate that overall costs will average $80 per person (higher for those staying the weekend, but lower for those coming Saturday only).

Co-Sponsors are the key to us being able to offer this "pay what you can" model for the event, covering the gap between the event cost and the amount raised by registrations. Please join the forward-thinking group of OACC co-sponsors and help us keep our registration rates affordable, by becoming one.

What are Co-Sponsors?

Co-Sponsors are individuals, groups, and businesses who support our efforts to realize an ecologically sustainable bioregional economy. Co-sponsors provide a financial foundation for OACC's continuity.

Being a Co-Sponsor means making a $160 contribution. In appreciation you will receive:

• 2 adult admissions for this year’s OACC & exhibit space at the event
• Recognition in the high-quality 3-color printed brochure which is widely distributed to people and places who value ecologically-sound lifestyles. (To be included in the printed brochure, we must receive your reply BY AUGUST 5)
• Recognition on all of our online social media as a Co-Sponsor, including your own dedicated page on our website; thank-you posts on our highly visited Facebook page; and listings in OACC email updates between now and the event
• Recognition  at the yearly OACC gathering

All of this gives you and your business or organization wide exposure and recognition.

You can apply for and pay for co-sponsorships

• by registering and paying online
• or by printing and filling out this form and sending it along with your payment by check to the Co-sponsor Coordinator. The address is on the form.

Co-Sponsorship applications are accepted at any time. However, to be included in the printed invitations, we must receive it by our annual deadline, which this year is August 5. Fortunately, if you miss that date, you will still be listed on the website and in email updates between now and OACC as soon as we receive your co-sponsorship. Please feel free to contact us with questions by email at Oaccleaf@gmail.com

Many thanks to our OACC 46 Co-sponsors!

Alford Forest, Brian Haenke, Bryant Creek Watershed, MO
Ayana Mayes, Macomb, MO
Barbara Fredholm, Lee's Summit, MO 
BioHarmonic Solutions, LLC, Goodman, MO
Building Integrity, LLC, Columbia, MO
Buffalo River Watershed Alliance, Jasper, AR
David Haenke, Bryant Creek Watershed, MO
Deb Cook, Doniphan, MO
Dianna Bryant, Knob Noster, MO
Divine Earth Gardening Project, Kelda Lorax, Fairland, OK
Doug & Cathy Strubel,  Little Mulberry River Watershed, Oark, AR
Golden Light Center, Sasha Daucus, Fourche Creek Watershed, Ripley County, MO
Hawk Hill Community Land Trust Residents, Brush Creek in the Bryant Creek Watershed, Douglas, County, MO
In Memory of Jamie, Thomas Hubbard, San Francisco, CA
In Memory of Jay Jacobs, Linda Stoffel, Dora, MO
Joyce McMurtry, Amelia Johnson, & Olive Alluisi, Mountain Grove, Clever & Macomb, MO
Karie Crisp, San Mateo, CA
L-A-D Foundation, Salem, MO
Martin Turner, Columbia, MO
Mid-MO Peaceworks / PeaceNook, Columbia, MO
Midwest Forest Farming Coalition, Ezra Houston, Jefferson City, MO
Noelle Callaway, Springfield, MO
Owlettes!, Dora, MO
Ozark Back-to-the-Land Project, Denise Henderson Vaughn, Jack's Fork Watershed, Mountain View, MO
Ozark Land Trust, Columbia, MO
Ozark Vitality, Farmington, MO
Planet Drum Foundation, Shasta Bioregion, CA
Regenerations Intellotech, LLC, Newkirk, OK
Renaissance Books & Gifts, Springfield, MO
ScumSucker, LLC, Mountain Grove, MO
Sierra Club Missouri Chapter, Springfield, MO
South Side Junk + Disorderly, Mountain Grove, MO 
Southern Stars, San Francisco, CA
Sweetwater Community Land Trust, Mansfield, MO
Tall Oak Productions, Stan Slaughter & Linda Chubbuck, Lee's Summit, MO
Tim and Chris Roehl, Cabool, MO
University of Arkansas Libraries, Special Collections, Fayetteville, AR

GREAT THANKS TO OUR WONDERFUL CO-SPONSORS!