In early 2020, the Montclair History Center launched its popular History at Home series to virtually engage the public when in-person programming was not possible. This online initiative is here to stay as its popularity continues to grow! The History at Home programs are offered once a month in the evening where a historian/researcher presents on a topic such as famous residents, local lore, Italian immigrants, African American history, architecture, and more. This past year we reached over 1,800 constituents with a significant impact to Montclair and surrounding communities– even national and international viewership. All programs are free to the public, recorded, and placed onto our YouTube channel that engages 660 subscribers (and rising daily) and saw over 7,500 video views since 2020. The MHC was awarded a 2022 Preservation Service Award by the Montclair Historic Preservation Commission in recognition of this programming initiative for the public.

Level 1 Sponsorship: $250: (1 Program)
- Website recognition with your logo
- Event recognition (verbal acknowledgement)

Level 2 Sponsorship: $1,250 (5 Programs)
- Level 1 Benefits
- E-Blast Recognition to over 5,500 constituents
- Recognition on YouTube recording

Level 3 Sponsorship: EXCLUSIVE $2,500 (10 Programs Full Year)
- Level 1 + Level 2 Benefits
- Collaborative social media post

Our history walking tours are held in various locations throughout Montclair and usually touch on the cultural, social, and architectural history of each area. Examples include walking tours of the Watchung Plaza area, Rosedale Cemetery, Montclair Center, the Upper Montclair business district, and more.

Level 1 Sponsorship $350: (1 Program)
- Website recognition with your logo
- Event recognition (verbal acknowledgement)

Level 2 Sponsorship: $10,50 (3 Tours)
- Level 1 Benefits
- E-Blast Recognition to over 5,500 constituents
- 1 free ticket to attend a tour

Level 3 Sponsorship: EXCLUSIVE $2,100 (6 Tours Full Year)
- Level 1 + Level 2 Benefits
- Collaborative social media post
- 2 free tickets to attend a tour

These popular three-hour history and food tasting tours are held in Spring, Summer, or Fall seasons in partnership with up to 6 local restaurants. Guests enjoy a food tasting at each spot and a historical narrative along the way. We have tours for different sections of Bloomfield Avenue as well as Upper Montclair. Additional tours are in the works.

Level 1 Sponsorship $475: (1 Program)
- Website recognition with your logo
- Event recognition (verbal acknowledgement)

Level 2 Sponsorship: $1,425 (3 Tours)
- Level 1 Benefits
- E-Blast Recognition to over 5,500 constituents
- 1 free ticket to attend a tour

Level 3 Sponsorship: EXCLUSIVE $2,850 (6 Tours Full Year)
- Level 1 + Level 2 Benefits
- Collaborative social medis post
- 2 free tickets to attend a tour

The Hometown History Bus Tour is a fast-paced, comprehensive tour from one end of Montclair to the other, highlighting Montclair’s history, people, neighborhoods, stories, and architecture. This is the grown-up version of the third-grade history bus tour. Light refreshments included during the approximately two-hour ride.

Level 1 Sponsorship $625: (Partial Tour Sponsorship
- Website recognition with your logo
- Event recognition (verbal acknowledgement)
-E-Blast Recognition to over 5,500 constituents
- 1 free ticket to attend the bus tour

Level 2 Sponsorship: EXCLUSIVE $1,250 (Full Tour Sponsorship)
- Level 1 Benefits
- Collaborative social media post
- 2 free tickets to attend the bus tour

In 2015, the Montclair History Center launched its annual Price of Liberty film and discussion series on race, segregation, integration, and civil rights. Each film, screened at Montclair Film’s Cinema 505 location at 505 Bloomfield Avenue, is introduced by a humanities scholar who then leads an audience discussion after the film.

Level 1 Sponsorship $810: (Partial Series Sponsorship)
- Website recognition with your logo
- Event recognition (verbal acknowledgement)

Level 2 Sponsorship: $1,625 (1 Film Screening)
- Level 1 Benefits
- E-Blast Recognition to over 5,500 constituents

Level 3 Sponsorship: EXCLUSIVE $3,250 (Full Series Sponsorship)
- Level 1 + Level 2 Benefits
- Collaborative social media post

A Montclair tradition — the annual herb and heirloom tomato sale — dating back more than 45 years. Guests shop unique herbs, heirloom tomato varieties, a selection of native plants, and container gardens that you won’t find at your local garden center or big box store. All proceeds support our mission in preserving and sharing the stories of Montclair’s rich history.

Level 1 Sponsorship $100

- Website recognition with your logo
- Signage at event reaching over 600 shoppers

Level 2 Sponsorship: $250

- Level 1 Benefits
- E-Blast Recognition to over 5,500 constituents

Level 3 Sponsorship $500
- Level 1 + Level 2 Benefits
- Acknowledgment on our social media event posts on Facebook/Instagram tagging your organization reaching over 8,500 followers

Join the Montclair History Center & Montclair Community Farms as we celebrate the end of the harvest season at Fall Fest! Enjoy a fun-filled day for all ages full of delicious food and fall activities all around our beautiful gardens and property. Taste food and drinks from local vendors, shop naturally sourced products from local artisans and creators, meet farm animals from around Essex County, and jam out with live music from Montclair’s own School of Rock! Bring the whole family and a picnic blanket to join friends and neighbors from across the community in supporting our first annual Fall Fest Fundraiser.

Level 1 Sponsorship $250
- Website recognition with your logo
- Event recognition with signage
- 1 free event ticket

Level 2 Sponsorship: $500
- Level 1 Benefits
- E-Blast Recognition to to over 5,500 combined constituents
- 2 free event tickets

Level 3 Sponsorship: $750
- Level 1 + Level 2 Benefits
- Verbal acknowledgment at the event
- 3 free event tickets

Level 4 Sponsorship: $1,000
- Level 1 + Level 2 + Level 3 Benefits
- Acknowledgment on our social media event post on Facebook/Instagram to over 10,000 combined followers
- 4 free event tickets

Each year the Montclair History hosts cultivation events for donors, members, and community partners at our grounds and museum at 108-110 Orange Road. This is an opportunity to meet civic-minded individuals from Montclair and share ideas for partnerships.

Sponsorship $550: (1 Event)
- Website recognition with your logo
- Verbal recognition at the event
- Attend the event

Sponsor the Montclair History Center’s float in Montclair’s 4th of July parade. Over 10,000 community members attend this iconic, yearly event, and your sponsorship will have great reach!

Level 1 Sponsorship $250

- Website recognition with your logo

Level 2 Sponsorship: $500

- Level 1 Benefits
- Signage on the float

Level 3 Sponsorship: $1,000

- Level 1 + Level 2 Benefits
- E-Blast Recognition to over 5,500 constituents

Level 4 Sponsorship $1,500 EXCLUSIVE (Cost of float & driver for event)
- Level 1 + Level 2 + Level 3 Benefits
- Acknowledgment on our social media event post on Facebook/Instagram

Each year the Montclair History Center hosts Holiday House Tours in the month of December with beautiful period decorations by the Garden Club of Montclair. In 2020, USA Today readers voted the Crane House and Historic YWCA’s Holiday House Tour #4 IN THE NATION. In December visitors enjoy self-guided tours through this 227-year-old home at your leisure, learn about holiday food traditions in the hearth, and access to the Museum Store in the historic Nathaniel Crane House.

Level 1 Sponsorship $600: (Give the gift of free admission during our Holiday House Tours for visitors)
- Website recognition with your logo
- Onsite recognition with signage

Exclusive Sponsorship: $1,200 (Give the gift of free admission during our Holiday House Tours for visitors and sponsor the cost of the holiday decorations)
- Level 1 Benefits
- E-Blast Recognition to over 5,500 constituents
- Social media post collaboration

The Nubian Heritage Quilters Guild will celebrate their 30th Anniversary with a June-July 2025 exhibit in the Crane House and Historic YWCA Museum. The Guild has been exhibiting works with the Montclair History Center for over 20 years. Last year’s exhibit was the first at the Museum since the 2020 shutdown. The Guild’s quilt and artworks celebrate African American heritage, culture and quilting within a space once home to a segregated YWCA for Black women and girls from 1920-1965. Details regarding the 30th anniversary exhibit will be updated in early 2025.

Sponsorship levels include opportunities to underwrite the cost for a one-month quilt show with free public admission, an artist lecture on zoom, and materials costs for quilters to make their works of art.

Explore the 2025 exhibit here: www.montclairhistory.org/nhqg2025-1

Virtual Lecture Sponsorship $350
- Website recognition with your logo
- Event recognition (verbal acknowledgement)
- Slide with your logo on permanent presentation recoding on our YouTube channel @montclairhistorycenter

Quilt Material Sponsorship: $750
- Website recognition with your logo
- Onsite recognition with signage
- E-Blast Recognition to over 5,500 constituent

Free Public Admission Sponsorship: $1,600
- Website recognition with your logo
- Onsite recognition with signage
- E-Blast Recognition to over 5,500 constituent
- Social media post collaboration