Centennial Priorities Report Progress Overview Winter 2022-2023

Thank YOU for all you’ve helped us accomplish so far!

In our Centennial Plan, finalized in 2014, we committed to achieving several priorities by our 100th-year birthday in 2027. Since our community planning discussions in 2013, where we gathered in cities around the country, through these last couple of years YOU have helped ENF accomplish so much. We continue to fully live into our mission and to respond to changes in the world around us, thanks to you.

Sharing Our Story

• New promotional videos for Camp and OA

• Initiated targeted marketing with professional consultants

• Hosted in-person alumni gatherings

• Created ENF Zoom Room to accommodate outside speakers and blended in-person and virtual meetings

• Continued in-person, pandemic–conscientious programming for OA and Camp

Empowering Our Community of Educators

• Continued discussions on board and administrative structure, succession planning, and future growth needs

• Reinitiated annual employee satisfaction survey

• Salary Benchmarking study moved to final stages and initiated first phases of adjustments

• Introduced non-gendered Kindred groups

• Anti-racism training for all staff and faculty

• Mental Health First Aid training for all faculty and camp administration

• Implemented a human-resources recruiting, hiring, and onboarding platform to assist in building a diverse and robust staff

Cultivating & Celebrating Our Place

• Sustainability Plan: revamped ENF gardening program

• Conducted a solar study and a preliminary energy audit; upgraded all lighting to LED; began Energy Plan for ENF

• Purchased property on Crab Creek Road, which provides two housing units and additional building sites for year-round staff and faculty

• Began wastewater construction, survey, and design for additional staff and faculty housing at Berry Patch

• Refined Bridge curriculum at OA

• Removed gender as a means of sorting for Camp Kindreds, while maintaining traditions of reflection, belonging, and recognition within community

Building Financial Resiliency

• Met and exceeded fundraising goals

• Continual study of financial capacity within context of COVID-19 pandemic and related impacts

• Outsourced payroll functions for the organization

• Applied for and received Employee Retention Tax Credit (ERTC)

• Reconfiguring ENF Financial Resiliency Plan for a post pandemic economy

For more information on ENF’s Centennial Priorities please visit www.enf.org/enf-centennial-update