B’NAI B’RITH CAMP 2020 IMPACT REPORT

2020, the year of the global COVID-19 pandemic, has been like no other. It has been a year of unprecedented challenges for our world and profoundly affected BB Camp’s service to the community. Despite the challenges, our kehila, our community, staff, and lay leadership came together to provide our children, friends, and neighbors with opportunities to connect and made it possible for us to bridge the gap from losses.

122,000 MEALS SERVED IN LINCOLN CITY

We served tens of thousands Free Grab & Go Meals to Lincoln County’s food-insecure children on our campus and off-site locations, through the USDA Summer Food Services Program. In September, wildfires hit Oregon, courageous firefighters stopped the treacherous Echo Mountain Complex Wildfire just blocks away from camp! As BB Camp turned its attention to post-fire recovery, our commitment and efforts focused on continuing to provide free, delivered meals to food-insecure and hungry children in our local Lincoln County area, as well as to the evacuees from the Echo Mountain Complex Wildfire. As 2020 came to a close, BB Camp prepared and delivered over 122,000 Free Meals to food-insecure and hungry children and the Echo Mountain Complex Wildfire survivors.

PROGRAMMING: BB Camp Pivots to Serve Community

613 DAY CAMPERS

Following COVID-19 mitigating protocols, 613 Campers enjoyed their summer at four BB Camp Programs, including new pop-up programs- BB Middle School Days in Portland and BB Day Camp Seattle, along with the already established BB Day Camp Portland and BB Day Camp Lincoln City.

2,500 VIRTUAL PARTICIPANTS

Over 2,500 Campers, Alumni, and Community Members joined us for virtual programs, which included Shabbat & Havdalah services, camper cabin reunions, Teen Philanthropy, BBYO meetings and events, PJ Library programs, Campfires with 5 decades of song leaders, staff alumni reunions, donor updates, Men’s Camp, ReJewvenation, and most importantly dozens of programs for our campers.

NEW CABINS

BB Camp finished construction of all new ADA accessible cabins on the Northside! BB Camp’s facilities team built a Farm to Fork Garden and Greenhouse. The team utilized the interlude to accomplish many much-needed grounds and building projects to beautify our campus further. The Second Century Capital Campaign is just $1.8 million away from our 10-year goal of $14 million to completely rebuild our campus for future generations. In 2021 we will complete a new amphitheater with a second aquatics area, and we will break ground on our new Fieldhouse/Gym in the fall.

147 BBYO TEENS

The chapters, city, and region are successfully virtually gathering for meetings, events, and conventions. More about BBYO Portland

504 IN PERSON ATTENDEES

On Leap Day, the BB Camp Bash had a safe gala event. And, late summer/ early fall, allowed us to enjoy a few in- person outdoor events, including the annual Golf Tournament and Rosh Hashana in the Parks.

533 PJ LIBRARY SUBSCRIBERS

BB Camp continued facilitating PJ Library and PJ Our Way in Oregon. We provided weekly PJ Our Way books to our Day Campers to take home through BB Reads. After the historic straight-line windstorm and wildfires tore through Oregon, our BB Camp team reached out to 500 PJ Library families around Oregon to check-in, find out how families had faired, and offered resources. Several families had lost their homes, and we helped by providing contacts for disaster relief assistance and replenishing PJ Library books (and fun BB Camp swag) for their children. More about PJ Library

979 SUPPORTERS

GAVE TO BB CAMP

The financial implications of the Governor’s mandated closure of overnight camps were profound for BB Camp. The total lost revenue from the cancellation of BB Overnight Camp, our Youth, Teen, Adult, and Family Activities, and Retreat Rentals was $2.2M. After managing budget cuts, cost-savings of not operating our programs, downsizing our staff by 16%, our net loss was $1.3M.

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