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Get Creative!

Learn alternative funding sources for camps, success stories, challenges, lessons learned, and unique fundraising ideas. Presented by industry experts. Connect with mentors for further guidance.

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Get Creative!

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  1. Get Creative! Tapping Into Alternative Funding Sources for Camps May 22, 2012 Natasha Dresner Mentor Grinspoon Institute for Jewish Philanthropy

  2. Get Involved A  A) Grab Tab – Click red arrow to open/close Control Panel. Click square to toggle Viewer Window between full screen/window mode. Click mic icon to mute/unmute your audio. B) Audio Pane – Select audio format. C) Questions Pane –Type your question or comment and click Send to submit it to the organizer. B  C 

  3. What’s Today All About? • Presentations • Other ideas • Resources • Q&A

  4. Habonim Dror Camp Moshava – Street, MD Gene MeyerPresident Rick Glaser Vice-President for Facilities

  5. Camp

  6. Master Plan

  7. Camp Facilities

  8. Conservation Easement Programs • County $ From Real Estate Transfer Taxes • Dried up in recession • Maryland Department of Agriculture $ from Real Estate Transfer Taxes • Rural Legacy Program • Maryland General Assembly to the State’s Dept. of Natural Resources

  9. Harford County, MD agricultural preservation program administrator presents Rural Legacy check for $1,326,000 to HabonimDror Camp Moshava

  10. Challenges • Paperwork! • Proposals are lengthy and require backup documentation • Consider restrictions on future of camp • Received assurances we could continue our Master Plan • Can’t foretell the future • Will our successors rue this decision?

  11. Bath House

  12. Lessons Learned • Needed staff (Executive Director) to complete applications • Apply early • Additional money was available in a stronger economy • Pursue all possible options • Farmland Information Center • http://www.farmlandinfo.org/

  13. Camp JORI – Wakefield, RI Michael Schuster Finance Committee Chair Rob Stolzman Board President

  14. 1909 - Founded as the Jewish Orphanage of Rhode Island 1937 - Camp opened in Narragansett 1943 - Orphanage closed 1998 - ACA accreditation 2003 - New camp facility opened in South Kingstown

  15. JORI Almanac JORI’s mission is to provide a quality overnight Jewish camping experience, while holding true to our core values that “no child will be denied an opportunity to attend due to an inability to pay” and that the camp be affordable to full-paying families Number children served: 400 Budget: $ 1,100,000 Scholarship assistance: $ 253,000 Endowment: $ 1,300,000 Assets: Land, Buildings, Infrastructure $17,200,000

  16. The Jewish Experience • Jewish experience appeals to: • Reform • Conservative • Reconstructionists • However, JORI is not exclusively Jewish: • interfaith • nonaffiliated • non Jewish children

  17. Total Funds Raised Raised Spent *Includes profit from sale of waterfront property

  18. Funds Raised From Outside RI Jewish Community

  19. Non-Traditional Fundraising • Strategic & master planning anticipated off season uses • Leverage Nature Conservancy partnership and NC brand to seek environmental support • Leverage serving economically disadvantaged population. Stress scholarship support • Leverage disabled population • Aggressively look for eligible government programs • Stay connected to donors by reporting currency

  20. JORI Successes 1995-2011 • Camp saved from closing • 133% increase in enrollment • Six-fold increase in scholarship assistance • Substantial enhancements in Jewish content • Record enrollment and record scholarships Annual Campaign is up 250% Quality management process ACA accreditations Program improvements in athletics and the arts New camp opens on time to record enrollment

  21. Other Ideas for Alternative Sources of Funding • Gifts in Kind • Local Community • Volunteers • How You Do Business • “Growing” your Board • Be Creative! • Forest thinning • eBay www.ebaygivingworks.com/nonprofit-info.html

  22. Want To Connect Further? Robert I. Stolzman, Esq.Board President Camp JORI rstolzman@apslaw.com Phone 401.274.7200 (work) Michael H. Schuster, J.D., Ph.D.Finance Committee Chair Camp JORImschrs@cox.net 401-789-3498 (work) Gene MeyerPresident Habonim Dror Camp Moshavagene.meyer64@gmail.com Rick Glaser Vice-President for Facilities Habonim Dror Camp Moshava rickglaser@aol.com 410 876-2179 (work) Natasha Dresner Mentor, Grinspoon Institute for Jewish Philanthropy natasha@hgf.org 413-439-1961

  23. Resources on our Knowledge Center • Webinar Archives – www.gijp.org/Webinars • Presentation and Recording of Today’s Webinar • How Was This Letter to Harold Grinspoon Different from Other Letters?!? (Includes link to Camp JORI Letter to Harold) • http://gijp.org/Knowledge-Center/Fundraising/Cultivations-and-Stewardship/How-Was-This-Letter-to-Harold-Grinspoon-Different-from-Other-Letters.aspx • You can find additional resources on Fundraising, Governance, Strategic Planning, and Technology in our Knowledge Center • www.gijp.org/KnowledgeCenter Google Group – Jewish Camp Professionals and Lay Leaders Share Expertise: https://groups.google.com/group/jewishcamps

  24. Discussion and Questions

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