Hello from central Texas!
On behalf of the administration of Camp Oak Hallows, I’m reaching out as President and Founder inviting you to join the Construction Coalition, a mission-oriented project team comprised of powerful forces for change. Your work caught our eyes as the impressive kind of passion for action that we need in the Coalition for this limited run. Partners and sponsors who elect to participate commit to just under 30 months of collaboration and dedication on a strict timetable, with a clear end in sight.
What is COH, and what are we doing? Since inception in 2017, Camp Oak Hallows has produced accessible and free K12 educational materials, across platforms. We believe that going beyond the traditional scope of classroom subjects into trade and life skills is essential to serving our Campers on their way to adulthood. Now, it’s time to realize our big dreams of becoming the first school of our kind, opening a campus as accessible and sustainable as possible, through critical innovation and unprecedented networking. To open our gates by the spring of 2024, we’ll need all the help we can get, from groups large and small, and anyone with even a remote interest in seeing COH succeed in advancing education.
What do Partners bring to the cause? Your audience and reach are things COH doesn’t have. We can’t amass the kind of public awareness and interest necessary for this project without the help of generous folks who know they have the gift of an engaged following. Through targeted and strategic efforts, we can garner the support of industry professionals, university students and engineering departments, television media outlets, and social media influencers to put donor contributions to good use. Roundtabling as many strong minds and hearts as we can, COH can meet the goal of premiering an operational campus in time for the next total solar eclipse in April of 2024, which will pass directly over our intended site.
What kind of sponsorship is needed? Each Partner is asked to choose a focus project to fund, or partially fund, and identify remaining funds from other sources. Utilizing collective influence, costs can be kept down by recruiting volunteers, Scout groups, and philanthropic organizations or businesses looking to have their hand, and name, in the press releases. Such focus areas include the main Intake offices, lovingly named Haven II in tribute to my parents. Also on the list are The Hearth (primary kitchens and dining), Compass Lake (man-made water recreation area with water reclamation functions), the Agricultural Sector (barns, gardens, and processing machinery), or any of the themed residential Neighborhoods (Renaissance Village, Treehouses, Condos, Lincolnville…)
How will donors be honored? As a 501c3, contributions of all sizes are tax-deductible. Individuals giving as little as $8 will be memorialized in engraved pathway bricks, while gifts of at least $10,000 can land your name on a wing, or entire Academy of programs. All contributors will be invited to attend at least one special event during the first year of operations, such as the Solar Eclipse Viewing Party, or the first ever Winter Ball, a charity gala on the Solstice in December. The first contributors will be offered their choice of events, especially the planned Opening Weekend Festival to celebrate the friends and family who made it all happen. After the first round, later bursts of construction will be fit into the seasonal schedule of operations to not interrupt campus life too drastically. Less “essential” projects, like a ‘State-of-the-Fine-Art’ center and amphitheater, or on-site wind farm are on the table for development. Partners are welcome to stick around and keep up the good work with us well beyond this initial commitment.
By the end of 2022, COH needs to have secured at least $2,000,000 in funds from donors and Early Bird registrations for future Campers. In the next year, an additional $8,000,000 will need to be identified, as this is the year we purchase land and break ground together.
The start of 2024 will see the walls rise on the first buildings, the first solar panel installations, the first rainwater collections in the lake for retention. At the time of opening, COH’s campus should support a population of at least 250 across the desired 500-600 acres (although more wouldn’t be turned away!) in the Cameron-Mexia-Madisonville area north of College Station, Texas.
By 2027, a population of at least 1000 should be more than comfortable, with the property at least self-sustaining, if not exporting power and site-made goods.
If the concept of universal accessibility intrigues you, prepare to wrap your head around the notion of a campus with no stair steps or elevators, while having three-storied buildings (including one subterranean.) Consider the prospects of micro-transit above and below ground for the easy movement of people and Campers across the expanse of the facility. Contemplate the marvel of designing structures unrecognizable from satellite, effectively camouflaging the grounds with greenroofing and bee-loving arboriculture. Take a moment to think on the impact of proving how a pocket community like this can survive and flourish in a meaningful way.
Ready to sign on? Got questions?
Interested parties should contact [email protected] (cc: [email protected]) with questions, or an outline of their intent to Partner and a description of their participation capacity. Visit CampOakHallows.com for more information about who we are, and to read blogs on our goals and ideas for COH.
Thank you for your time, I hope to hear from you soon. For now, the administration will continue our efforts of writing and converting learning and study content into multiple formats online, helping families homeschool their children, and filling in resource unavailability gaps for students who are not being best supported in their school environments. Everyone deserves a proper education, so schools must be as unique as their students. We’re working on it. Will you, too?
Headmaster of Serenity House
President and Founder, Camp Oak Hallows
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