A donation from Baron to the club...
Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2017 1:05 pm
Y'all. Blown away. This is amazing...
The club got the nicest e-mail from Clay Shafer, the general manager at Baron. In appreciation for our club's service to the community, Baron is giving the KC MINI Club $500 to use as our club sees fit.
So we need to chat about this. $500. In appreciation for our community service. Here's what that has looked like in the last few months:
628 pairs of underwear, a bucket full of cash, donated shipping to get it all to Texas in September.
$2585 raised at Coopers & Coffee for KC Pet Project and Harvesters in October.
A mountain of toys for Toys for Tots in December.
^^All of that? Our club could write the guidebook for MINI Motoring Hearts.
Let's talk about what we could do with $500. I'm going to include a few details below for background as well.
Our club has annual expenses averaging less than $50. We need $11 a year to pay for our web domain registry. It's paid through 2019. We spent $109 last year on postcards and spotter cards and have enough to last at least a couple of years. Those have been our only major expenditures for several years. (Details are on the Forum if you'd like to peruse.) The funds we have came from passing the tea tin to collect $ (always more than we needed) and selling club stickers. The club currently has $735 between the club kitty and the sticker proceeds. There are no annual membership dues collected and our funds far exceed our expenses.
What would you like to see the club do with the generous $500 gift from Baron?
The club got the nicest e-mail from Clay Shafer, the general manager at Baron. In appreciation for our club's service to the community, Baron is giving the KC MINI Club $500 to use as our club sees fit.
So we need to chat about this. $500. In appreciation for our community service. Here's what that has looked like in the last few months:
628 pairs of underwear, a bucket full of cash, donated shipping to get it all to Texas in September.
$2585 raised at Coopers & Coffee for KC Pet Project and Harvesters in October.
A mountain of toys for Toys for Tots in December.
^^All of that? Our club could write the guidebook for MINI Motoring Hearts.
Let's talk about what we could do with $500. I'm going to include a few details below for background as well.
Our club has annual expenses averaging less than $50. We need $11 a year to pay for our web domain registry. It's paid through 2019. We spent $109 last year on postcards and spotter cards and have enough to last at least a couple of years. Those have been our only major expenditures for several years. (Details are on the Forum if you'd like to peruse.) The funds we have came from passing the tea tin to collect $ (always more than we needed) and selling club stickers. The club currently has $735 between the club kitty and the sticker proceeds. There are no annual membership dues collected and our funds far exceed our expenses.
What would you like to see the club do with the generous $500 gift from Baron?