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Anfal Alomar

Budget:

$1,000 for necessities (food and gas)

· Phase One of Construction: $10,000,000.00

· Primary facilities total: $7,100,000.00

· Landscape Site Improvement: $335,000.00

· Civil Sit Improvements: $2,935,000.00

· Phase one grand total: $10,370,000.00

· Phase Two of Construction: $2,500,000.00

Camp Blessing’s staff and volunteers will go out to specific organizations (local churches, home good stores, hardware stores, large successful companies, etc.) and try to convince them to help with the growing transition.

Timeline:

· October-December 2015 is marketing and getting sponsors to start building process

· January 2016-May 2017 is building the camp

· May 2017 camp is fully open and running

2013:

· 72 acres was donated

Fall of 2014:

· Architect was hired to design master plan

· Capital Campaign advisory firm hired

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October 2015:

· Week 1: first meeting between staff and volunteers to discuss job descriptions and full plan of what Camp Blessing is trying to accomplish

· Week 2: every member is divided into even groups (teams) and given their “area” they will try to promote from

· Week 3: teams get their information together that they will be presenting to the organization

· Week 4: teams go out to their first organization listed to promote Camp Blessing’s goal

November 2015:

· Week 1: all members meet back to see if any success has been gained

· Week 2: discuss what teams could have done better to get the message out

· Week 3: teams go out to second organization on their list

· Week 4: all teams meet back at camp to see if Camp Blessing gained anymore support

December 2015:

· Week 1: team should make sure every detail of plan is accurate and due

· Week2: every team should work together to make-up for mistakes that were made

· Week3 : teams will go out to third organization on their list for the final attempt to gain sponsorships

· Week4: all the staff will meet back up and discuss the concluding and future plans

January 2016:

· Week 1: all members involved with Camp Blessing will meet to ensure that future plans are being met

· Week 2: engineering work is completed; land is cleared and construction begins

· Week 3: construction continues

· Week 4: construction continues

February 2016:

· Week 1: staff meeting to discuss all plans for Camp Blessing; construction continues

· Week 2: construction continues

· Week 3: construction continues

· Week 4: construction continues

March 2016:

· Week 1: staff meeting to discuss the construction phase and the decorations that will need to take place; construction continues

· Week 2: construction continues

· Week 3: construction continues

· Week 4: construction continues

April 2016:

· Week 1: staff meeting to discuss every person’s job description on decorating; construction continues

· Week 2: staff begins to think of decorations needed for camp; construction continues

· Week 3: staff continues to think of decorations needed; construction continues

· Week 4: staff continues to plan for decorations needed

April 2016-April 2017:

· Construction continues throughout this 12 month process

May 2017:

· Week 1: we host the “open-camp” day to all donors and potential donors

· Week 2: staff meeting to make sure every detail is completed

· Week 3: CAMP STARTS FOR SUMMER AT OUR NEW HOME!