Camp ended and we sat around doing nothing for 2 months
(well not nothing, we planned a wedding!). And then at the end of October, the
board agreed to let me save camp and it began a whirlwind of nonstop activity.
Typically, early bird registration ends October 31. We
hadn’t even announced that camp would be open at that time this year. So we got
down to business and planned everything that needed to be planned and I met
with a bunch of people and sent literally a million emails and tried to
reassemble a board of directors from scratch.
We had a “goodbye” party for our old board in December and a
few days ago, had a “brainstorm day” for prospective board members and friends
of camp. Considering that I started this whole adventure with the plan to burn
down a building, I’ve made a lot of progress.
The future is still completely uncertain. The board
president ‘J’ helped me renegotiate the terms of our loan and essentially
“bought” me two years.
Two years.
I should be able to get my shit together in two years,
right?
By “get my shit together” I mean rebuild a board, come up
with a strategic plan, figure out how to triple our annual fundraising, and
continue to run the organization on a day to day basis.
I spend a lot of days thinking about climbing under my desk,
but I’m also making a lot of progress. I had 15 people at the brainstorm day.
Not all want to be board members, but everyone had a LOT of great suggestions,
were incredibly supportive and surprisingly, didn’t think I was as insane as I
feel. I’m making new connections every day and I am starting to put details
under the to do list heading of “fix camp”, which is sort of a big “to do”
item.
Two years.
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