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Sponsored by: Ferry Beach Retreat & Conference Center
Updated: September 28, 2020 2020 Giving Guide

Ferry Beach Retreat & Conference Center

Who We Are

Ferry Beach is a retreat and conference center located on the coast of southern Maine offering engaging programming in the areas of arts & culture, education, spirituality, sustainability, personal growth and social justice & action. Our beautiful 32-acre beachfront campus features many meeting and celebration spaces, a variety of lodging options, wide porches and outdoor gathering spaces, an art studio, an outdoor chapel, a performing arts space, and a wonderful dining center. It is a place of renewal and rejuvenation for families, couples, and individuals and a safe haven for those in minority communities. Ferry Beach embraces radical welcome, ensuring that everyone is able to participate and engage in our events and activities.

2021 Goals

  • Develop & enhance activities to draw in more local community members.
  • Partner with local and regional entrepreneurs, the business community and other nonprofits to create events, activities, programs and fundraisers throughout the year.
  • Develop a master plan for the facility improvement and modernization needs and partner with corporate sponsors and donors to raise funds to enhance our facilities.
  • Intensify shoreline protection measures and continue to lead our community in that effort.
  • Diversify our board of directors and expand leadership development opportunities.

Fundraising Events/Opportunities

The Ferry Beach fund supports our general operational and maintenance needs throughout the year. Friends and Members support Ferry Beach through annual membership fees, one-time gifts, sustaining donations, year-end giving, capital campaign donations and with legacy and memorial giving. Donations to our scholarship fund help us share youth and family camps to struggling families.

Annual capital fundraising campaigns help Ferry Beach work toward improvements and modernization of the buildings on our 119-year-old campus. Recent capital campaigns brought heating and cooling into our theater building and helped us build an ADA compliant boardwalk to our beach.

Annually, Ferry Beach holds our “Fall Festival” silent auction with items donated from our membership and the local business community. Funds raised at this event are used to help with our operational and maintenance needs.

Photo / Courtesy Ferry Beach Retreat & Conference Center
Our 2020 staff team are all smiles under these masks.

Giving Opportunities

Corporations may support our facility maintenance and modernization needs by providing monetary or in-kind donations, sponsoring and supporting our events and activities, participating in vendor give-back donations, and by holding corporate events & programs at our facility. We are always seeking volunteers to help donate their time and talents by serving on our board.

Supporting Ferry Beach can provide us with more opportunity to partner with other nonprofits by creating programming and events in aligned areas of focus. Supporting Ferry Beach also helps us bring our mission out to our local community and the southern Maine region.

Keep in touch with us to learn about our current giving and volunteering opportunities at www.ferrybeach.org/corporate

Volunteer Opportunities

  • Beach Keepers are very special volunteers who donate their time, talent and treasure to help sustain and improve Ferry Beach. Sustaining Donors of at least $180 per year also donate at least 12 hours of service annually to the organization.
  • Shoreline Preservation Volunteers help support erosion prevention activities by maintaining the dune system at Ferry Beach
  • The Ferry Beach Garden Club maintain and support the several gardens around campus as well as develop and manage community involvement projects related to gardening to teach others about growing their own food.
  • Event and Administrative Support volunteers help Ferry Beach with clerical and administrative tasks related to operations and events.
  • Facility and Maintenance volunteers help support the Ferry Beach maintenance needs throughout the year.

Leadership

Cathy Stackpole, Executive Director
Marty Burgess, LCPC, Board President: Director, Violence No More, Inc.

Board officers

Caitlin Peale-Sloan, Board Vice President: Senior Attorney, Conservation Law Foundation

Ron Willett, Board Secretary: Senior Policy Advisor (retired), U.S. Department of Labor

Doug Atkins, Board Treasurer: Senior Vice President (retired), Colby-Sawyer College


Board Members

Meghan Chan: Scrum Master II, Liberty Mutual – IT Group

Kathleen Dziadzio: Teacher (retired)

Pam Emery: Marketing Artist (retired), Cape Cod Times

Richard Plumb: Technical Sales Manager (retired), Hingham Bay Corporation

Alan Shepard: Attorney, Shepard & Read

Jesse Washington, MBA, RICP®, ChSNC®: Financial Advisor, New York Life

Deana Wilbur: Knowledge & Content Manager, Starry, Inc.

 

 

At A Glance

Established: 1901
Employees: 6
Annual revenue: $1,325,301

Top funding sources

84.5% Programs
6% Private Donations
5.5% Sustaining Donations & Memberships
4% Revenue from Sales

Contact

5 Morris Ave.,
Saco, ME 04072
(207) 282-4489

ferrybeach.org
facebook.com/FerryBeachParkAssociation
twitter.com/FerryBeach
instagram.com/ferrybeachmaine

Awards/Accolades

Ferry Beach has been nominated as the nonprofit of the year by both the Biddeford + Saco Chamber of Commerce + Industry and the Old Orchard Beach Chamber of Commerce.

Mission Statement

Ferry Beach awakens hearts to explore, grow and renew the spirit of universal love by developing programming and engaging communities in the arts & culture, education, spirituality, sustainability, personal growth and social justice & action.

Service locations

Located in Saco, Maine, Ferry Beach is a membership organization with members from all across the United States. A majority of our membership and outreach efforts are in the Northeast region.