Your Event, Middle Stage – Montrose Lifestyle

If you’re an organizer, enterprise proprietor, or somebody who goals up occasions that gentle up Montrose, we’ve received information value celebrating.

Today, we’re unveiling the 2026 Special Event Advertising Grant Program – created to assist convey your occasion to extra eyes, ears, and hearts.

The program presents grants designed to spice up occasion visibility by promoting on Montrose Lifestyle with featured calendar placement, homepage adverts, social mentions, and extra – all timed to point out as near your occasion as potential. All adverts will run for six consecutive days, beginning at 7 am on Tuesday and ending at 10 pm on Sunday.

A restricted variety of grants can be found on a first-come, first-served foundation. Applications needs to be submitted at the least 60 days earlier than the occasion.*

* If your occasion happens contained in the 60-day window (i.e., February or March occasion), tell us your state of affairs within the remark house offered within the utility. Similarly, if yours is a summer time, fall, or winter occasion that requires a metropolis allow, please tell us. 

 

🎉The Monty Package

Each week, we’ll place as much as 4 grant-awarded occasions within the sidebar of the montroselifestyle.com homepage. Ads will share rotating advert house and obtain equal rotation time. Each advert will hyperlink to its respective occasion publish on the Montrose Lifestyle calendar. Ads have to be 1920 x 1080 px (16:9).

>>> Find out extra concerning the grant bundle and eligibility necessities

>>>See the instance of the advert house and rotation

Rotating adverts shall be above “upcoming events” and above the fold, however we can not assure precisely how excessive they are going to be relative to the highest of the web page.

 

🌟 Take It Further With The Rosie Package

Once your grant is authorized, you’ll have the chance to improve to the Rosie Package for $246.

The Rosie is a premium promoting expertise that features a devoted homepage and calendar web page advert, a pre-event weblog characteristic, prolonged social and radio mentions, plus a post-event “Thank You” advert on the ML bulletin board.

With the Rosie bundle, we’ll schedule a video name to conduct an interview with you to debate your occasion. You shall be required to submit 3-5 photos, which we’ll use within the article we write concerning the occasion.

Events with the Rosie bundle won’t be on the shared rotation advert widget. They may have a single devoted 1080 x 150 px banner advert on the homepage in between the class playing cards (see the scale instance right here) and non-shared featured placement on the calendar web page (see the instance right here). 

They can even obtain advert house on the bulletin board web page to show a “Thank You” message (see the instance right here). The “Thank You” advert shall be a easy, concise, self-contained message.

 

💬 Newsletter blurb, radio, and social media mentions

If you’ve been studying the e-newsletter, you should have seen that we spotlight numerous occasions. Events authorized for grants shall be spotlighted in ML News with a brief excerpt and a hyperlink to the occasion on the Montrose Lifestyle calendar. If you improve to the Rosie bundle, your occasion shall be featured extra prominently within the e-newsletter, with a linked picture and an extended description.

Grant-approved occasions will obtain a shoutout on 94 KIX, whereas those that improve to the Rosie Package shall be talked about with better emphasis.

We will publish grant-approved occasions on our Facebook and Instagram channels in a similar way.

 

🗓 What’s Next

Newsletter readers have recognized about this program. If you aren’t a subscriber, think about signing as much as be among the many first to know after we introduce packages and particular presents.

Ready to shine a highlight in your occasion? Apply now and make 2026 much more memorable for you and Montrose.

 

 We have tried to offer as a lot element as potential so you understand what to anticipate. If we’ve missed one thing, we’ll do our greatest to make issues proper. If you might be unclear about any facet of this grant program, please contact us.