*** Coronavirus impact on camp ***

Our camp is preparing for the worst. Almost all groups have canceled or postponed their events through April and the trend is likely to continue further into spring, we are taking steps to plan for an enormous financial impact.

As many of you know, we do not have frequent weekly and monthly offerings and we rely on 1-time per year interaction with most of our guests. We don’t have regular online giving and our budget is based off 90-95% user group income.

Without our user group income...

• we cannot pay our electric and propane bills.

• we cannot pay our insurance premiums.

• we cannot repair anything that breaks.

• we cannot pay our staff.

We are taking steps to lower our payroll costs by reducing the salary for the Camp Director, cutting our Food Service Director's hours to a minimum and furloughing the remaining team members including housekeeping, kitchen assistants and seasonal facility assistants.

We have some reserves to make it through the next 4-6 weeks, but we need as much help as we can get. We want to work. Our staff are not the type to sit on the couch and wait it out. There are plenty of projects that can be worked on alone or by following social distancing rules to keep us busy.

If you would like to help put some of our team get back to work and help our staff receive income during these uncertain times, we would greatly appreciate it.

Let us earn it. Here are some ideas of projects we can put our staff on while we wait for our groups to return to camp.

• New Stairs for our Upper Shop to Replace Old Unsafe Stairs | Project Materials: $1,500 | Staff Hours Allocated (60) = $700-1000

• Paint Upstairs Retreat Center | Project Materials: $1,000 | Staff Hours Allocated: 40 = $540-$700

• Split Firewood for Camp | Project Materials: $20 Gas | Staff Hours Allocated (we will never have enough and if we do we can sell it)

• Dig Out Fire Pit Areas and Add Rock/Mulch | Project Materials: $500 Rock | Staff Hours Allocated 75 = $1,000-$1,500

• Remove Clutter, Clean Upstairs of Shop, Add Insulation, Fix Leaks | Material Costs $0-$1,000 Insulation | Staff Hours Allocated 100 = $1,100-$1,800

• Landscaping, Beautifying, Preparing for Summer | Project Materials $0.00 | Staff Hours Allocated 100-300

  • We have to spread mulch (which we already have) all over our trails. We can spread manure (which we already have) all over our fields and get our grass looking like grass. We have trails that can be trimmed back and plenty of mowing and weedwacking that can take place. We have burn piles to take care of and plenty of firewising to accomplish.

• What do you have in mind? We welcome ideas and plans for the upcoming months. It is about to get warm outside which opens up a lot of time and availability.

If you have any questions or would like to speak to us directly, please reach out.

Kevin Eichhorn | Camp Director

509.304.9541 | director@campkoinonia.org