MCJ New Orleans 2018 Wrap-Up

Greetings MCJ, hope everyone made it safely back home and recovered from our big blowout! Wow, too much fun, you guys really know how to have a good time! Love was in the air all weekend and everyone is looking forward to next year in Virginia Beach. Btw, we've been in touch with family members there and are praying for their safety as Hurricane Florence heads in their direction.

We've been getting rave reviews on our little soiree in New Orleans, thank you all for enjoying our hospitality and for doing your part to make the weekend more successful and fun. Well, it gets even better because we're pleased to present our final report which puts even more icing on the cake. I have several excel files containing the financials of various parts of the overall reunion if anyone has further questions. However, the report is more digestible by simply giving the bottom line figures along with some narrative for context.

Our goal is to be transparent and to set a standard for good stewardship of the family's resources. If I left anything out or had any errors, please bring this to my attention.

Total Registered/Dues Paid Family Members --202 (rates range from adult, senior, student, child or single event). We continue to work toward 100% participation and we're pleased to report that we came very close.

Reunion Dues & Seed Money - This consists of payments of reunion dues from individuals and city groups that sent in seed money.

City Groups

Arizona - 200.00

Chicago - 200.00

Virginia - 160.00

O.V. Johnson - 100.00 (Scholarship Seed)

Individual Dues - 11,668.95 (3 people paid for future years Benny & Joe (2019) Ann (2020)

Total Dues and City Seeds - 12,328.95

On Site Fundraising - This consists of all sources of income from tee shirts, photo booth, challenge of the cities, scholarship seeds, 50/50 raffle and auctions (silent and live). Here are the sources and amounts.

Cities Challenge/Scholarship Seeds

Brian & Tamika Collins - 300.00 (In honor and remembrance of Earnest Collins)

Lee Collins (Tee Shirts & Photo Booth) 500.00

New Orleans - 300.00

Chicago/Indiana - 650.00 1st Place Champions Yay!

Memphis/Nashville - 325.00

DMV/Milwaukee - 646.00

Dayton - 200.00

Kansas City - 463.00

Arizona - 450.00

50/50 Raffle 180.50

Auctions 695.00

Total Fundraising 4,709.50

Total Revenue 17,038.45 (from all sources including dues, seed money, fundraising, auctions, raffle)

Disbursements

Scholarship Awards - 3,330.00 (awards spreadsheet will be available on website)

Reunion Costs - 11,745.45 (inclusive of all events, food, materials, reimbursements, buses, bands, security, shuttle van, website)

Bereavement Committee - 300.00 (money order being sent to Myzella)

MCJ 2019 Hosts Seeds - 1663.00 (1,000.00 sent so far, balance will be forwarded soon)

Total Disbursements 17,038.45

There you have it, we started with zero, and we'll end with zero. No deficit, no bills unpaid. Plus, we feel very good about having a surplus ($1,663.00) to turn over to our next hosts. They'll need this and a lot more because things simply cost more in certain markets than others. So, I'm encouraging everyone to send those dues in early! We'll contact you soon with the first newsletter explaining where and how to send dues and make hotel reservations. That's all for now from your New Orleans host committee.

Much Love,

New Orleans Host Committee