Annual Fund Coordinator

Annual Fund Coordinator
Each Conference has an Annual Fund Coordinator who is responsible for educating conferees about the importance of the Annual Fund and ensuring that our Conference has 100% participation. While the actual dollar amount of the donation is important, it is more important that we have a contribution from each individual. Reaching 100% participation makes Arts and Star Island more eligible for federal grants.

The Annual Fund goes to directly supporting the Island and its capital and improvement campaigns, while contributions to Social Hour and the Arts auction go to the Star Arts scholarship fund.

The cost of attending a conference does not cover the Island's expense of hosting an individual. No conferee, therefore, pays the full price of conference attendance. Because of this, combined with the constant need for repairs, maintenance, and improvements (environmental, especially), Annual Fund Coordinator is a very important position.

Annual Fund Coordinators must take part in a conference call with Pam Smith, Director of Development for the Star Island Corporation, prior to the start of the conference season.

Once on-Island, you will be provided with donation envelopes for all conferees.

It is very highly recommended that you assemble a team of conferee volunteers, ideally before you arrive to Star, to help with soliciting donations. Each team member can be responsible for soliciting a specific group of conferees.