The Rapid City Sports Council makes it easier than ever to plan your sporting event in our city. The Council, made up of fellow event planners, coaches and players, helps arrange venues, promote events to boost attendance and secure special grant funds.

To discover how the Rapid City Sports Council can help you, contact the Council.

Marketing Grant for Sporting Events

The Rapid City Sports Council and Convention & Visitors Bureau are offering a Sports Event Marketing Grant available only to organizations in Rapid City. If you’ve got an existing event with opportunity to grow or you’d like to start and grow a new event in Rapid City, the Sports Marketing Grant is for you. Grant are awarded twice per year as follows:

• Applications received between August 1^st and January 31^st will be evaluated for award in February.
• Applications received between February 1^st and July 31^st will be evaluated for award in August.

Please keep in mind that the Sports Event Marketing Grant applies only to marketing your event; therefore, event dates should be scheduled a minimum of three months after the award evaluation date to allow for thorough marketing efforts.

DOWNLOADS

• Event Evaluation Report
• Event Grant Criteria
• Event Grant Application
• Event Grant Score Sheet

To apply for the grant you may

1. Download or print the three grant documents.
2. Open and carefully read the Event Grant Criteria document.
3. Complete the Event Grant Application. Note that a proposed budget, schedule, management plan, and sponsor recognition plan must be received in order to process the application.

• Submit application and corresponding materials via email to sports@rapidcitysports.com.
• For questions regarding the Sports Event Marketing Grant, write to sports@rapidcitysports.com.

Submit a Request for Proposal to the Rapid City CVB

• Submit your RFP for a sports tournament or event by e-mail here.

Past Recipients

• Black Hills Fat Tire Festival
• King of the Hills Softball Tournament
• Black Hills Fall Classic Dart Tournament
• Bike MS W.R.A.T.H.
• Black Hills Common Cents Open Tennis Tournament
• Rapid City Kennel Club Cluster Show
• Cougar Classic Basketball Tournament
• Black Hills Gold Rush Disc Golf Tournament
• Blackjack Volksmarch
• Mike Coley Memorial Over 50 Baseball Tournament
• Scheels Cup Soccer Tournament
• Wellspring Stampede 10k Run