McGoldrick Center for Career & Student Success

Fostering innovation, opportunity, and career success


The University of Southern Maine has proudly partnered with the business community throughout its history. As a McGoldrick Center Founding Sponsor, you’ll have the opportunity to align your brand with one of Maine’s most talented, innovative, and entrepreneurial university student populations, and to make connections that will help build future workplace opportunities.

The McGoldrick Center, home of USM’s Career & Employment Hub, is the dynamic center of community engagement on our Portland campus. In this shared space, the our students and the employer community can create career goals and pathways that support both USM and our partners’ values.

The benefits of McGoldrick Center sponsorship

  • High visibility at the heart of USM’s transformed Portland campus
  • Opportunity to embed your business or organization within the USM community
  • Prominent recognition at the hub of student and employer engagement
  • Exposure to 1,500+ student participants in presentations and workshops each year
  • Proximity to nearly 600 students in the adjacent Portland Commons Residence Hall
  • USM’s social media reach—over 40,000+ strong
USM Job Fair sign

At the center of it all

The three-story McGoldrick Center is home to an expanded Career & Employment Hub, dining hall and café, student government offices, and a wide range of gathering spaces. Sponsorship opportunities range from the 4,500 SF multi-purpose event room to meeting rooms, and private spaces where employers and students can engage.

Talk with us about the many opportunities for sponsorship within the McGoldrick Center and how this partnership with USM can benefit you.

Choose your sponsorship level

Two levels of sponsorship benefits are available to our McGoldrick Center Founding Sponsors, who will have their names and brands prominently featured on sponsored spaces and rooms.

Five-year sponsorship term with a first option for renewal
Recognition on a “Founding Sponsor” plaque in the McGoldrick Center
Promotion through social media, press announcements, newsletters, collateral materials, and the Career Hub website
Early access to Career Hub events and programs, including on-campus recruiting events and job and internship fairs
Waived registration fees for job and internship fairs
Invitations to participate in other special University of Southern Maine and University of Southern Maine Foundation events

50% off registration fees for job and internship fairs
Promotion through social media, press announcements, newsletters, and collateral materials
Recognition on a plaque within the McGoldrick Center
Invitations to participate in other special University of Southern Maine and University of Southern Maine Foundation events

Let’s continue the conversation.

Contact Erin Macey, Executive Director of Development:

Phone: 207.780.4408 or Fax: 207-780-4778

Email: erin.macey@maine.edu

Mail: Make your check payable to University of Southern Maine Foundation and addressed to Erin Macey, USM Foundation, P.O. Box 9300, Portland, ME 04101-9300

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