2025 End-of-Year Newsletter
Raise your glass! Here's to doubling the impact of year-end operational gifts and a resolution to complete the Energy Retrofit in 2026!
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NOTES FROM THE DIRECTOR
What a year it has been here at the Methow Valley Community Center! From the amazing events and classes to the massive building-wide Energy Retrofit Project currently underway, there is so much to be grateful for. In a time when so much is uncertain, it is important to have places where we all can gather and connect.
If you also believe this is true, and have the means to, a year-end donation to support the work of your Methow Valley Community Center will have twice the impact. Thanks to the generosity of an anonymous donor all gifts to support annual operations that we receive between now and January 9th will be matched up to $10,000! Here is why this supporter chose to make this meaningful gift to the Methow Valley Community Center:
"The Methow Valley Community Center is a magnet with doors open to people of every age and from every walk of life. It is a place where anyone can find refuge, a place of learning and play, a gathering place for concerts, classes, and celebrations of all sorts. As the valley has grown and changed, so too has the center grown and changed."
So much has changed over the years, and the Methow Valley Community Center is now in the midst of its next great transformation. The Energy Retrofit Project is about generational stewardship of a critical community resource that receives about 35,000 visits each year. It is about putting in a modern heating and cooling system that will allow the community center to serve as a clean-air facility year-round and in times of crisis. It is also a project to improve the health of our community by eliminating the burning of 6,000 gallons of oil annually by retiring Bertha, our 80-year-old waste oil burning boiler.
The same significant upgrades that have successfully been completed in the gym will now take place in the three-story side of the building, home to the Twisp Library and the classrooms. YOU will have the opportunity to help us complete the Energy Retrofit Project when we launch our community-wide effort to raise the remaining funds in February at our Methow Valley Community Center Valentine's Fundraiser.
Throughout all the changes at the center, its heart -the people of the Valley- have brought life into these walls and enriched our community through the services and events offered here on a daily basis. THANK YOU from all of us at the Methow Valley Community Center, the heart of our Methow Valley.
Happy Holidays,
Sarah Thomas, Executive Director
UPCOMING EVENTS!
Puzzle Palooza! - January 25th, 1 - 5 PM
Valentine Party Fundraiser - February 14th, 6 - 9:30 PM
ENERGY RETROFIT UPDATE
The Gym is finished & open!
New HVAC equipment was installed on the roof.
Our Christmas bazaars in the new gym were bright and cozy.
Improved acoustics in the gym was appreciated by all.
The gym is open through February for rentals and events. After that, there may be times when tenants need to relocate temporarily into the gym for lessons and classes, while their floor of the building is being retrofitted. At those times the gym will be closed for rentals and events.
Please check our online calendar for gym availability and updates.
2024 Financials
EXPENSES
Energy Retrofit Expenses 9.8%
Admin 8.3%
MVCCA Events 2.4%
Utilities 7%
Repair and Maintenance 11.2%
Payroll Expense 57.2%
INCOME
MVCCA Events 6%
Operational Donations 12.4%
Contracted Rentals 18.6%
Gym Rentals 4.6%
Energy Retrofit Donations 56%
MVCCA Board of Directors
Bob Elk - President
Carolyn Sullivan - Vice President
Peter Arneil - Treasurer
Lynne Wasson - Secretary
Directors
Charlene Burns
Gina McCoy
Richard Murray
George Schoenfeld
Amber Stokes
