Steering Committee Sponsors

ESA sponsorship is structured to make Gold Sponsorship and Steering Committee membership accessible to SMEs as well as large firms. The following section explains how this works.

Members not on the Steering Committee

Sponsorship amounts for Members are given in Table 1 following.

**Table 1: Sponsorship amounts for ESA Members not on the Steering Committee.**
Member Category	Annual Cash	Steering Committee Eligibility
Gold Sponsor	$10,000^[1]	Eligible for automatic appointment to Steering Committee.
Silver Sponsor	$5,000	Eligible for election to the Steering Committee.
Bronze Sponsor	$1,500	Eligible for election to the Steering Committee.
General Members and Other^[2]	$0	Eligible for election to the Steering Committee as an advisor with no voting rights.

[1] A Gold Sponsor who chooses to be on the Steering Committee may be able to contribute less cash in accordance with section "Members on the Steering Committee" below.

[2] ‘Other’ refers to non-members who may be elected to the Steering Committee as advisors, e.g. representatives of government or industry associations.

Members on the Steering Committee

General Members and Sponsors who are on the Steering Committee are also expected to provide both cash and in-kind support to ESA to the amounts given in Table 2 following. [Note that Silver and Bronze sponsors must first be elected onto the Steering Committee.]

**Table 2: ESA Steering Committee commitments.**
Member Category	Annual Cash	Annual In-Kind	Total Cash and In-kind Contribution
Gold Sponsor	Scaled^[3]	Scaled	$20,000
Silver Sponsor	$5,000	$5,000	$10,000
Bronze Sponsor	$1,500	$1,500	$3,000
General Members	$0	$1,500	$1,500

[3] See Table 3.

In order to make the Steering Committee more accessible to smaller companies, the minimum cash contribution to be a Gold Sponsor (on the Steering Committee) is based upon a sliding scale (see Table 3) however the ‘Total Cash and In-Kind Contribution’ of $20,000 (Table 2) remains the same for all Gold Sponsors.

**Table 3:** **Minimum cash contribution for Gold Sponsors on the Steering Committee.**
FTE No. of Staff	Minimum Cash Contributions Gold Sponsor
1–25	$1,500
26–50	$2,500
51–100	$5,000
101+	$10,000

Cash Contributions

Cash contributions pay for the remainder of the current calendar year 1st Jan to 31st of December.
Sponsors who join late in a calendar year may have their sponsorship contribution reduced at the discretion of the Steering Committee.
Cash contributions are not refundable.

In-kind Contributions

In-kind contributions can come in several forms including:

the professional services of the members employees, contractors and consultants;
training and development services; and
the provision of administrative and support facilities including laboratory and office access and access to technical and other equipment.

In-kind contributions are expected to be made in good faith for the purposes of furthering the Mission, Goals and Objectives of ESA.

In-kind contributions are valued at approximately market rates (excluding overheads) subject to the discretion of the Steering Committee.