Donations
Gifts & Donations
MBC has since its inception relied on the generosity and good will of its members and the community or its financial viability. Operating costs rely on rental income. Our rentals are about one half of the fair market value comparisons so that our space can be affordable to various tenants from our community. Our office manager, Carol Snyder, is our only full time employee. Our custodian is part time. Everything else that happens is through volunteer activity. The need for a manager/director for the centre is increasingly apparent. We have had various efforts at fundraisers and some government grants through the years to help pay for various projects.
These efforts need to continue and expand in order for there to be enough revenue for the centre to continue to be viable and to improve.
Acknowledgments
Anticipating our major improvements coming this year at MBC, a mail out appeal was made to MBC membership and to the community in December 2008. We acknowledge, with deep gratitude, the contributions of the following persons to this appeal.
- Janet Barkhouse
- Raymond and Pam Creery
- Margaret Busche
- Paul and Susan Seltzer
- Ted and Sherry Hobson
- Darryl and Barbara Haley
- Janet and John Meisner
- Mimi Findlay
- Roy Broadbent
- Andrew Watson
- David Houston
- Mark Belair
- Darrell Dawson and Hedy Redeker
- Angela Luetzenrath
- Dennis and Hazel Zwicker
- William Barclay
- Charles Maginley
- Keith Towse
- Joan Wallis
- Ron and Aileen Lewis
- Robert and Heather Weld
- Paul Ernst
- Don Himmelman and Grace McKnight
- David and Mary Walmark
- Norman and Laurel Haslett
- Nan and Paul Mariner
- Sue Bookchin
- Joanne Fisk
- Bernard Rogers
- Tom Koelbel
You are invited to add your name to this list as a current supporter of our efforts to improve our centre.
To receive a tax receipt your cheque should be made out to the Town of Mahone Bay Athletic and Cultural Fund and sent to the centre. The town then makes a grant to the centre from monies received in this way. If you do not need a tax receipt you may make your cheque out to The Mahone Bay Centre. THANK YOU!
A GRANDER OPPORTUNITY FOR SUPPORT and improvement is available through our on going DONOR RECOGNITION program. You can have your name, or the name of a loved one or business permanently placed on a part of our heritage facility. An attractive marker will be attached to a wing, room, window, step, table, chair, as a continuing reminder of how you have given back, as you are able, to this building at the heart of our wonderful community which nourishes us lavishly with its gifts. CONSIDER:
- The newer building - $ 100,000
- The gymnasium - $75,000
- A room- $5000
- The old building -$100,000
- A window - $ 1500
- A step - $500
- A table - $150
- A chair - $75