Brigadoon Children’s Camp Society is a not-for-profit organization with a goal of developing and managing an exceptional year-round facility for residential camps/programs for children and youth living with chronic illness. Brigadoon is recruiting its Programs Director to join its highly motivated team in preparing for Brigadoon’s opening in 2011.

Reporting to the Executive Director, the Programs Director is accountable for working with charities and organizations that will use Brigadoon’s facilities to host their annual camps to secure their commitment to Brigadoon’s facility and to develop, plan, manage, execute and evaluate Brigadoon’s programming. As a member of the Brigadoon Team, the Programs Director is also accountable for the planning and execution of Brigadoon’s annual and long-term goals and objectives as they relate to Brigadoon’s mission: to assist in the betterment of the lives of children, youth and families living with chronic illness through experiential learning, teaching, research and exceptional fun.

As the ideal candidate, you have a working knowledge of experiential based learning, education and sustainable program development and a minimum of 3-5 years experience in a senior programming/education role and some experience working with not-for-profit or charitable organizations. A detail oriented, highly organized multi-tasker, you work well as part of a collaborative team. Your exceptional interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills are necessary to obtain success in this role. You are innovative, driven and tenacious. You understand partnerships and are devoted to our future users of Brigadoon.

If you are interested in being a part of Brigadoon’s exciting future, please forward a letter outlining why you are the right Programs Director and your resume (MS Word format), including salary expectations, to:

Sally Banks, Administrative Coordinator
Brigadoon Children’s Camp Society
c/o sally.banks@brigadoonvillage.org
Deadline: July 21

Brigadoon was excited to attend the Association of Fundraising Professionals annual Philanthropy Awards dinner on April 22nd at Pier 21. This year, for the first time, Brigadoon had nominated two fundraising groups, and two individuals for awards. Congratulations to the Rotary Club of New Minas Sunrise who received thunderous applause as their nomination plaque was presented to them for recognition of the many causes they support worldwide and their leadership gift of $250,000 to the Building Brigadoon Capital Campaign. Joining them in the category of outstanding fundraising group was our Brigadoon Capital Campaign Cabinet. Our deserving individual nominees who we are proud and thankful to have volunteering with Brigadoon were Roger Sinclair, our Campaign Chair and Ruby Blois, Campaign Vice Chair, for Outstanding Individual Fundraiser awards.

Congratulations to all the nominees and winners of philanthropy awards- it was an honour to be in the company of so many generous community members!

After 10 years of planning…we have finally arrived on the eve of building Brigadoon. We will be sending you an invitation to our Ground Breaking Event in late June. Highlights over the past 3 months include hiring an Administrative Coordinator and Construction Manager; the signing of an MoU with the Learning Disabilities Association of Nova Scotia; launch of an evolved Brigadoon website and an additional $100,000 to our capital campaign with numerous additional proposals made.

Our 2nd quarter will see the start of recruitment/advertisement for the Brigadoon Programs Director position (anticipated start date in October), enhanced community relations (both locally and regionally), ground breaking and commencement of construction, continued efforts to finalize a number of pending MoUs not to mention continued efforts on the capital campaign!

Thank you for the faith, patience, support, guidance and interest in the Brigadoon project. This is going to be a thrilling year…please know you are welcome to join the ride.

Peace and Good Health…and hold on…

Dave

Volunteers

We are always thankful for so many wonderful people offering to help out in many different ways- Brigadoon’s success depends on the hard work of our many volunteers. On April 28th, we are holding a volunteer orientation session at our office on Gottingen Street at 6:00pm. It will be a chance to meet the staff, learn more about potential volunteer opportunities, and fill out a volunteer registration form. Please RSVP to sally.gionet@brigadoonvillage.org if you plan to attend.

Welcome Sally!
As always, things are moving quickly at Brigadoon and we are excited to welcome our newest staff member, Sally Gionet, to the team. As our Administrative Coordinator, Sally will keep everyone and everything at Brigadoon organized and running smoothly! Ad administrative guru with a great enthusiasm for all we do at Brigadoon, Sally will be a tremendous asset to the team- WELCOME SALLY!

The Great West Life / London Life Key to Giving Committee is holding the 3rd annual Black Tie Bingo in support of Brigadoon this May 15th at 8pm. An evening of bingo, dancing, and live music has never looked better! Tickets are selling fast so please contact Jenn Ross for your tickets today: jenn.ross@brigadoonvillage.org ($100 each or $750 for a table of eight)
Make a night of it: Present your ticket at Elements Restaurant in the Westin Nova Scotian the night of the event and receive 25% off your dinner!

Brigadoon at the Trail Shop
The Trail Shop and The North Face have paired up again to offer new Brigadoon gear! The results this time are some awesome North Face/Brigadoon fleece tops. Women’s and men’s sizes are available at both Trail Shop locations: Halifax and Wolfville. Cost is $50 each with proceeds benefitting Brigadoon. Thank you to The Trail Shop and The North Face for another amazing product!