Friends Impact Partnerships
Help us keep the beacon shining.
Your sponsorship does more than place your name on an event. It helps the Friends of the North Carolina Maritime Museum in Beaufort respond to real, tangible needs that strengthen the Museum, the Watercraft Center, and the experiences we provide to our community.
Our Symbol of Impact
A lighthouse guides, protects, and keeps watch for generations. The beacon represents what partnership makes possible — steady support that helps preserve our maritime heritage, meet important needs, and strengthen the Museum for those who come after us.
Throughout the year, the Museum and Watercraft Center encounter projects, repairs, improvements, equipment needs, and program opportunities that require resources beyond normal operating support.
Impact Partnerships give businesses, organizations, families, and individuals an opportunity to help move those priorities forward — and to see what their investment helps accomplish.
Where Your Support Can Make a Difference
Preservation
Help preserve and repair this distinctive architectural feature of the Museum, protecting an important part of the building and ensuring it remains part of Beaufort’s maritime landscape for years to come.
Waterfront Access & Facility Protection
Support two important improvements to the Harvey W. Smith Watercraft Center: replacing aging docks that provide safe, reliable waterfront access and replacing the Center’s doors to better protect the boats, tools, equipment, and maritime craftsmanship housed within.
Together, these improvements help safeguard the Watercraft Center while supporting the educational programs, demonstrations, traditional boatbuilding, and hands-on experiences that bring our maritime heritage to life.
Opportunities Throughout the Year
Additional partnership opportunities may support exhibits, educational programming, preservation work, equipment, facility improvements, special programs, and other priorities identified in partnership with the Museum.
Choose Your Level
Choose the level that best represents the impact you or your organization would like to make.
| Platinum | $10,000 |
| Gold | $5,000 |
| Silver | $2,500 |
| Bronze | $1,000 |
| Copper | $500 |
Ready to Make an Immediate Impact?
Select a current Friends event or program below to view available sponsorship opportunities and put your partnership to work right away.
HOLIDAY FLOTILLA SPONSORSHIPSImpact Partners may receive recognition connected to Friends events, programs, campaigns, digital communications, signage, and other opportunities based on partnership level.
But the most important recognition is knowing that your support helped make something real happen.
Your Impact Can Be Personal
Some of the most meaningful partnerships begin with a conversation.
If you have a particular area of the Museum’s work that matters to you, are interested in funding a specific need, or would like to explore a custom partnership for your business, family, or organization, we’d love to talk with you.
BOOK TIME WITH USLet’s talk about how your support can make a tangible difference.
Every Partnership Adds Light
Whether your partnership is Copper, Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, or a custom investment in a specific Museum priority, your support helps move something meaningful closer to completion.
Make an impact you can see.
Light the Way. Fuel the Mission.
Friends of the North Carolina Maritime Museum in Beaufort